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Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry was a professor of religion, specializing in early Christianity, at Swarthmore College for seventeen years. He is now executive director of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at Saint John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota. He is the author of The Ironic Christian's Companion: Finding the Marks of God's Grace in the World and co-author with Donald Swearer, of For the Sake of the World: The Spirit of Buddhist and Christian Monasticism.

Books
Benedict's DharmaBenedict's Dharma
The root meaning of the Latin and Greek words translated as 'rule' is trellis. Saint Benedict was not promulgating rules for living; he was establishing a framework on which a life can grow.

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