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heidihaverkamp's review against another edition
4.0
A chaotic but lovely gumbo of story, theology, and history written between multiple stays at the Trappist monastery, Gethsemani, in Kentucky, and the three sites of the San Francisco Zen Center, by a passionate searcher, gay man, journalist, and thoughtful critic of the Roman Catholic hierarchy - a man who is searching for faith, and... finds it. He writes about sexuality, suffering, women in the church, some history of Benedictine monasticism, Buddhism in California, Augustine and Cassian, rural Kentucky life (where he grew up), and living in the tension of belief and skepticism. Long (too long?) but good stuff.
katieraegordon's review against another edition
5.0
One of my favorite reads of 2020! A few monks recommended this to me, and it danced between all my favorite categories -- faith and skepticism, history and contemporary commentary, identity and tradition, etc. For anyone interested in monasticism, I highly recommend this.
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