While Christianity and the collective faith in God was certainly built around, and heavily supported by, a sense of undying and relentlessly faithful community, it is the personal spirituality of exemplary figures such as the four in this book that inspires me (and certainly many others) and gives me the will to push on in my on life. Their search for genuine, authentic spiritual experience (which God faithfully and gracefully gives each of them in their own ways) is something that seemingly gets lost in a lot of big churches, college ministries, and the like.

Intentional communities, too…