“A journey of heart-expanding magic and redemption.”
—GLEN HANSARD, singer-songwriter and Academy Award winner for Once
“From our greatest living storyteller, a validation of all that is awe-inspiring and implicit in a world where we are confined by the explicit and banal.”
—IAIN MCGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary
“A book that will help seekers, doubters, and believers alike appreciate faith anew, not by reinventing Christianity, but by retelling its story through the experience of a thousand other stories. Read it . . . then read it again. It will do your soul so much good.”
—JUSTIN BRIERLEY, author of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God
“Here is a rosary of soaring myth, gripping narrative, and deep wisdom, all told with breathtaking verve that enchants and sweeps us along, from first word to last. A superb, inspiring read.”
—GABOR MATÉ, author of The Myth of Normal
“Shaw is a harbinger, a sign of the shift in consciousness that all of us, trapped in our techno-bubbles, so desperately need.”
—MALCOLM GUITE, author of Mariner: A Theological Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Decades of learning, practice, and refinement shine in every line.”
—MARK VERNON, author of Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination
“Martin Shaw is the lost Inkling. He clears the path to God by (paradoxically) rewilding the way that has, alas, become so familiar that we have lost sight of its deep magic.”
—ROD DREHER, author of Live Not by Lies and The Benedict Option
“I loved this tender, honest book for the way it defamiliarizes the well-worn pathways of religion, bringing to life the power within and compelling the reader to take note: Here be dragons, but also grace in almost indecently extravagant abundance.”
—CATHERINE COLDSTREAM, author of Cloistered: My Years as a Nun