Although this is a book about Christian spirituality, I warmly invite anyone to its pages who seeks a spiritual path of substance, a spirituality of the heart, soul, and body that engages the reason, but also transcends it and expresses itself as beautiful religion. To some disappointed or even abused by religion, the notion of beautiful religion may sound like an oxymoron. To others, it may come as a surprise that Christianity even offers a spiritual path and is not just a theological system, moral code, self-help plan, or conservative political strategy. Actually, in its primal form,...