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Articles > 2012 > 7 September > Reviews > Book reviews >

On a spiritual quest in today’s America

Michael Bourdeaux admires a study by an Orthodox priest

Saints As They Really Are: Voices of holiness in our time
Michael Plekon
University of Notre Dame Press £26.95
(978-0-268-03838-0)
Church Times Bookshop £24.25 (Use code CT976 )

MICHAEL PLEKON is a priest of the Orthodox Church of America, but he focuses his compelling study of contemporary American spirituality mainly on other traditions, especially the Episcopal Church. He writes: ...

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