George Herbert (1593-1633) was an Anglican priest, poet and essayist--truly one of the most profound spiritual masters in the English tradition. His spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and Catholic piety.
Half a century later, church historian Garth Rosell began reading these stories to delighted friends and students. Many who heard them at the dinner table, from the pulpit, and in the classroom wanted to share them with others.
Nor can you meet John Springle carrying on his head a skep of bees tied up in cloth , walking all the way from Sparham , nor watch Briton , the Diarist's servant , giving Bread to the Poor at Church ' from Money which he had received ...
A new edition of Herberts most famous prose work - a timeless statement on the nature and calling of a priest, and an exquisite selection of his poetry.
PREFACE God's Country , the Gracewing Rural Life Anthologies , emerged from a sequence of conversations I enjoyed with Tim Cawkwell , Tony Hodgson and Mervyn Wilson , all leading members of the Rural Theology Association , a movement ...
Traveling by Cow Louise West told me this story years ago . Louise had grown up in a very small town in Mississippi . ... What she stepped over was a cow who was lying by the fence in the dark , taking her ease . Now Louise was ...
Taylor, Jeremy. "Clerus Domini or Rules and Advices to the Clergy of the Dioceses of Down and Conner," In The Curate of Souls. 1661. Edited by John R. H. Moorman. London: SPCK, 1958, 1-26. . The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying. 1819.