The Way of the Desert Elders: How the Wisdom of Ancient Christians Sustains Us Today

For all that bewilders and bedevils us, the desert mothers and fathers can help us face our circumstances and ourselves. In The Way of the Desert Elders, Lisa Colón DeLay asks: What if desert elders from more than a millennium ago could walk beside us and nourish our spirits now?

Starting in the fourth century, half a million Christians fled the v...