Author Robyn Wrigley-Carr joins Nathan on this week’s episode to discuss Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book.
Show Notes
[3:50] Who was Evelyn Underhill?
[10:00] Tell me a little bit about her prayer book prior to your visit at the retreat house.
[20:55] She does something bold, taking a prayer from some great Saint and adding her own lines, making her own contribution to it. I found that really special to get to have both people’s prayers together.
[24:44] Could you speculate what Evelyn might want people to do with this book?
[29:45] One of the things I found exciting is, a number of the people’s prayers that she quotes I knew the names; but there were a bunch of them I don’t. And you give a little description person at the end, and I thought, “New friends to explore!”
[30:55 ] Do you keep a prayer book?
[31:35 ] I’ve been collecting prayers for years, my own and others. And I love the idea of curating your own collection, that they all mean something to you.
Resources
Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book, by Robin Wrigley-Carr
The Spiritual Formation of Evelyn Underhill, by Robin Wrigley-Carr
Music of Eternity: Meditations for Advent with Evelyn Underhill, by Robyn Wrigley-Carr
The Letters of Evelyn Underhill, edited by Charles Williams
Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a Niece, by Friedrich von Hügel