Stillness in the West
Thoughts on the contemplative life at the end of the Human Age. "Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” --St. Seraphim of Sarov.
“Beautifully rendered critique of our collective predicament. This writer has an expanded vision of human struggle.”
Susie Kaufman, seventysomething
“Jack is a piercingly articulate writer, and humbly shares his spiritual journey as well as highlights many of the tensions of trying to follow the Way of Christ in our age.”
Mark Kutolowski, Metanoia of Vermont Reflections
“This is from a friend of mine who has joyfully fled the world to live in a hermitage at a Benedictine monastery. I have always appreciated Jack's insight, and now more than ever we could use more voices crying out in the wilderness, so to speak.”
Christopher Whittington, On Love and Longing
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