Awkward Spirituality: The Divinity of Ordinary Life

American Christian spirituality is undergoing a great turning, one that will require full on personal and social examination, a quieter contemplative attention, and lifestyle risks that many will find… awkward. In this often lonely adventure of life it’s in the awkward where we’ll find ourselves surprisingly met with the sacred transformative companionship we’re looking for.In his work among Denver’s chronically unhoused and pastoring the lonely among a dramatically shifting culture, Ryan Taylor, invites the reader into a fresh vision of hope. Awkward Spirituality draws on hilariously awkward personal experiences as well as the wisdom of ancient and contemporary wisdom teachers such as Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver to illuminate a more participative and contemplative practice of everyday living.