Robyn Wrigley-Carr — Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book
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
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Robyn Wrigley-Carr
Robyn Wrigley-Carr is Associate Professor in Theology and Spirituality at Alphacrucis College, Australia, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her doctorate, at the University of St Andrews, examined Baron Friedrich von Hügel as a spiritual director. As well as being an academic, Robyn is a spiritual director and retreat leader and she leads retreats in Australia and the UK. Her books include Music of Eternity: Meditations for Advent with Evelyn Underhill (The Archbishop of York’s Advent Book for 2021), The Spiritual Formation of Evelyn Underhill (2020) and Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book (2018, ed.). Robyn is on the Editorial Board and Book Reviews Editor for the Journal for the Study of Spirituality and on the Executive for the “International Network for the Study of Spirituality”
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster is an author and host of Life With God, a Renovaré Podcast. Formerly, he was an Associate Professor of social work and served as the Andrews Chair in Spiritual Formation at Spring Arbor University. He was also a licensed clinical social worker and certified addictions counselor. Nathan has published two books, including The Making of an Ordinary Saint: My Journey from Frustration to Joy with the Spiritual Disciplines.