Chasing Francis Through the Book Store, and Mystery

As I said in an earlier post, I've just finished reading Chasing Francis for the second time. At least a year ago--maybe more--I had the privilege of reading the manuscript, and I instantly fell in love with the book, and with Francis. (I connected with Ian Morgan Cron through Wes, who knows just about everybody.)

The book includes a fantastic resource in the bibliography that Ian has put together. Anything to do with Francis, as well as issues of theology and post modernity... the leg work's all been done. (Although, for those of us with Amazon addictions this may not necessarily be a good thing...)  Just tonight I tracked down a 1956 edition of G.K. Chesterton's St. Francis of Assisi for about $12. (I found it on Abe Books, not Amazon.)

Another prominent name in the bibliography is Richard Rohr, and he is definitely someone I want to read more of. As it turns out, Richard Rohr was featured on NPR on Monday. He was quoted on the God's Politics blog . Given some of my thinking lately, and some of the conversations I've been mixed up in, this really resonates:

Red Letter Christian Richard Rohr was featured in today's NPR segment, This I Believe. Here's a choice nugget, but you can also read or listen to his entire reflection.

[M]any religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of "faith"! How strange that the very word "faith" has come to mean its exact opposite.

People who have really met the Holy are always humble. It's the people who don't know who usually pretend that they do. People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind. It is a litmus test for authentic God experience, and is -- quite sadly -- absent from much of our religious conversation today.

Comments

[Wes Roberts]

...great comments! Just don't forget what list of mine YOU are on. :)

[bob c]

just finished reading it for the first time

holy shit, that was a sensational book !