Karen Eifler

Be Still and Know

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Who among us doesn’t yearn for wisdom, peace, order, and love? Patrick Manning’s Be Still and Know offers a practical framework for reimagining and gently restructuring our frenzied days to reap those things. He offers sustainable practices that help readers lean into creating lives that are richly full, but never frantically busy. Reading this book the first time was a soothing, robust conversation with great hearts, minds, and spirits from many centuries and regions, presented in humane, manageable segments of time. I will be revisiting this book often, striving to become a modern contemplative and practicing until I get it right.”

Teaching and Christian Imagination

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Deftly unpacking their three central metaphors for teaching — pilgrimage, gardening, and building — the authors provide catalysts for teachers of any discipline in religious institutions to rethink, reignite, and recommit to their vocation. Wending my way through this text, I found myself invited and equipped to cultivate a hermeneutic of wonder as a bracing, life-giving complement to the hermeneutic of suspicion that tends to dominate so much of the landscape in higher education today.”