Revolutionary patience dorothee soelle biography

The terror and anger of the gods two weeks might man us want to turtle up and hide away. Hamas’s barbaric terrorist attack on Israel and the indifference to civilian death in Israel’s military response creates such overwhelming moral confusion in me that it’s hard to look at the news. inom would like, at this time, to take refuge in my faith, to treat it as a door inom could close or a blanket inom could pull over my head. But I can’t, because my faith isn’t private, and it can’t be, almost by definition.

During the past week I’ve returned to a book that inom find myself reading igen and igen. Dorothee Soelle’s The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance may very well be the most important thing I’ve read in the last ten years.

I fell in love with the Christian mystical tradition a decade ago, and read many of the great mystics. I learned the traditional prayer practices and benefited from them. But inom was taught to approach these practices and to read the mystics through the lens o

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