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This article is a review of the book ‘Words to live by,’ a book by Coptic scholar and priest Tim Vivian who shares personal accounts of journeys to present-day monasteries in Egypt and translations of ancient texts that reveal insights that have guided desert monks for nearly two millennia.
Now Benedicta Ward SLG and Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, have joined (or, better, rejoined) the caravan out to the desert--not, fortunately, as tourists but as seekers and translators. Dr. Rowan Williams’ Silence and Honey Cakes illustrates the wisdom Coptic monastic life. Sister...
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