
Daniel Grothe — The Power of Place
Pastor Writer: Conversations on Reading, Writing, and the Christian Life
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Saint Benedict - A Vow of Stability
L you have used the phrase a couple of times already, a vow of stability. You write in the book getting that from saint benedict. How did it start to work itself into your life as well? Ye, it hit me early on in my master's programme. I was reading lots of church history and stumbled across the vow of saint Benedict. And i think for us to live convincing lives of faithfulness, we have to be rooted somewhere. We're following saint jesus of nazareth who, when god wants to show salvation coming into the earth, he doesn't sprinkle salvation from the balconies of heaven like fairy does. So this is not the god
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