As Margaret Bendroth argues in The Spiritual Practice of Remembering, modern disengagement from the past puts us fundamentally out of step with the long witness of the Christian tradition. The past tense is essential to our language of faith, and without this essential element, the conversation becomes limited and thin.
In this insightful volume, Bendroth presents a fresh argument for the importance of honoring the past. The Christian tradition gives us the powerful image of a vast communion of saints, all of God’s people, both living and dead, in vibrant conversation with each other. However, this kind of connection with ancestors in the faith, Bendroth maintains, will only be created by the intentional effort to remember. She argues that remembering must become a regular spiritual practice, part of the rhythm of our daily lives as we recognize our world to be, in many ways, a gift from others who have gone before.
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