Conversations with the Crucified [antikvár]

Foreword Charles Péguy, the French Catholic layman and patriot, started it all, and a generation later Father Michel Quoist gave this particular style a worldwide popularity. There is obviously a significant connection between a belief in the age-long suffering of God the Father because he is inexhaustible love, and a form of prayer that is conversational and totally self-revealing. The style has been so overworked by less gifted authors in recent years that one fears to open yet another book of this kind. In this case that fear can happily be laid aside because Reid Isaac, like the two writers I have already mentioned, has wrestled with his theology while he was writing his prayers. The first part of the book, in fact, explores in a series of short chapters the compassion of God and the sufferings of mankind in the light of the Cross of Jesus Christ. I believe that this book will bring comfort and reassurance to many who are struggling to hold fast their faith when some of the older forms of explaining that faith no longer carry conviction. john winton :