The following is an excerpt from Lovers in the Wilderness by Stephanie Rutt. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. From the Introduction: The Search for Mystical Unity Mystical unity. Poets dream about it. Scholars analyzed it. Saints and Avatars across faith traditions have lived it. […]
The following is an excerpt from Circling the Elephant by John Thatamanil. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Circling the Elephant repudiates religious isolationism and calls for thoroughgoing vulnerability. If I am truly to be open to the mystery of the infinite, I must be […]
The following is an excerpt from Samaritan Cookbook by Benyamim Tsedaka. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. There are many different expressions of a people’s culture: their history, poetry, literature, tradition and heritage. In addition to all of those, there is one that we must […]
I’m astonished at how much can change in the turn of a season. In late January this year, my mom died. It had been Christmas, just before. But it didn’t feel like Christmas. My mother-in-law had died just two months before; my parents and my children were separated from each other by hours and […]
The following is an excerpt from Caspar Schwenckfeld: Between Tyranny And Anarchy by Alan Olsan. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. There was fire in Caspar’s eyes. He seemed angry and frustrated as he spoke, thinking about all that he had seen and experienced. The […]
