Title: Looking In, Looking Out: Musings on Creativity, Spirituality, Poverty, and PeaceAuthor(s) Gerard Straub
Published by: Pax et Bonum CommunicationsLooking In, Looking Out is a touching and poignant collection of Gerry Straub’s writings on creativity, spirituality, poverty, and most important, peace. These essays and articles are taken from his previous books and other published works, written about his exploits to the most poverty-stricken countries in the world. Gerry’s The Sun & Moon Over Assisi was named the “Best Spirituality Hardcover Book of the Year” in 2001 by the Catholic Press Association. The Loneliness and Longing of Saint Francis was a 2015 winner in the Spirituality category of the Association of Catholic Publishers’ “Excellence in Publishing Awards.” Here are endorsements of his latest publication, Reading Thomas Merton and Longing for God in Haiti.
Praise for Gerard Straub and Reading Thomas Merton and Longing for God in Haiti
“Merton would be pleased and humbled to know he accompanied Gerry Straub into the most appalling circumstances of Haiti, and to afford motivation throughout such hopeless daily experiences encountered here with bald honesty and raw faith.”
—Brother Paul Quenon, OCSO, Abbey of Gethsemani, and author of In Praise of the Useless Life
“The power of contemplation and action to beacon hope for our world’s dark journeys shines out in Gerry Straub’s fascinating tale of his adventures in Haiti as the founder of the Santa Chiara Children Center. Merton would have been avid to read the story of this married, secular Franciscan who gave up a New York media career to serve the poor. Gerry’s witness in this book would have mentored Merton on how faith in action can triumph in hiding over despair and violence.”
—Guerric Heckel, OCSO, Director of St. Francis Retreat Center at Mepkin Abbey, South Carolina
ISBN13: 979-8986088822
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