SILENCE AND HONEY CAKES – Archbishop Rowan Williams

Rowan Williams introduces us to that oft-forgotten group of 4th century men and women known as the Desert Fathers and Mothers, who headed off into the Egyptian desert to live lives of uncluttered asceticism and spiritual reflection. One of the fruits of this was a wonderful collection of pithy sayings and aphorisims which still have the power to stop us in our tracks today. The Desert Fathers and Mothers laid the foundations of western monasticism and Archbishop Rowan brings them and their collective wisdom to life in his signature scholarly yet wholly accessible way.