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Alan Kreider
A brand new book that explores patience (and thus slowness) as a defining characteristic of the church in the earliest centuries.
[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”333″ identifier=”0060613998″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/51Fr2B3KMccL.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”208″] [easyazon_link identifier=”0060613998″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today[/easyazon_link]
Joan Chittister
A compelling meditation on the slowness and attentiveness of the Benedictine tradition and what it might mean for churches today.
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A little-known text from the early Christian era, on the virtue of patience and its necessity for the life of the church.
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