Engaging Benedict: What the Rule Can Teach Us Today Wood Crosses Ted Lewin's gorgeous sun-drenched paintings

Ted Lewin's gorgeous sun-drenched paintings and Eve Bunting's sensitive text immediately put the reader into another child's shoes in this timely story of a young Muslim immigrant

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Engaging Benedict: What the Rule Can Teach Us Today Wood Crosses Ted Lewin's gorgeous sun-drenched paintingsNearly fifteen centuries ago, Benedict of Nursia wrote a rule for Christians who wanted to live, work and pray together in community. With its core values of contemplation, hospitality, and simplicity, the rule remains as useful and fresh today as it was when Benedict created it in Italy those many centuries ago. But the Rule is not without its difficulties in contemporary practice. Author Laura Swan, a Benedictine Sister, looks at the Rule with a