Spirituality

The heart as an image of love is found everywhere in popular culture, yet devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is often dismissed as excessive piety. This rich and deep tradition, that is rooted in scripture and reaches back to the earliest Christian centuries, springs from an understanding of the name and nature of God as love.

At a time of austerity and profound concern for human rights, this book honours the quiet radiance of love, sanctity of existence, and silent background of being. It is based upon the life of Clare Cameron, a gifted English mystic and nature poet at the peak of her creative powers during the exuberant decade of the 1960s.

The renowned Christian preacher and New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching world religions to undergraduates in Baptist-saturated rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.