and perseverance, 89–90
and poetry, 95–97
and silence, 92–94, 131
and transformation, 100–101, 115–18
and work, 128–30
being, transcendence and, xvii–xviii
Bell, Luke, 104, 161
Bellah, Robert, 136
Bernard of Clairvaux, 100n23
Berry, Wendell, 92, 147, 150, 163–64, 184. See also Jayber Crow
Bethge, Eberhard, 176
Bible, the
beauty and, 98–101, 131
community and, 138–40
goodness and, 51–53
truth and, 6–8, 25–27, 42
Boersma, Hans, 105
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, xxi, 91, 145, 167–77, 183. See also Christ the Center; Life Together
Books of Homilies, 3, 29–30
bourbon, spiritual formation and, 115–18
Bowling Alone (Putnam), 136
Brooks, David, 35, 40, 84, 148
Brother Lawrence, 104
Bryant, Kobe, 102
Buechner, Frederick, 71
“Burnt Norton” (Eliot), 92
Cain, Abel and, 138–39
calendar, church, 157–61. See also Advent; Christmas; Easter; Epiphany; Lent; Ordinary Time; Pentecost
Calvin, John, 23, 123, 152
Capon, Robert Farrar, 117
cataphatic theology, 93n4
Catholicism, xv–xvii, 25–26, 41, 63, 82, 123, 152
Catholic Worker (magazine), 83
Catholic Worker movement, the, xx, 83–85
Celtic spirituality, 154
Champaigne, Philippe de, 40
Charry, Ellen, 6–8, 28, 74
Chesterton, G. K., xv, 63
Christ. See Jesus
Christmas, 155–56, 158–59
