In this spirituality of time, Dorothy Bass invites readers into away of living in time that is alert to both contemporary pressuresand rooted ancient wisdom. The celebrated editor of PracticingOur Faith asks hard questions about how our injurious attitudetoward time has distorted our relationships with our innermostselves, with other people, with the natural world, and with God. As an alternative to the rhetoric of management and mastery,Receiving the Day offers a language of attention, poetry,and celebration. Bass encourages us to reevaluate our understandingof the temporal and thereby to participate fully in the Christianpractice of knowing time as God's gift. Embraced in this way, timeneed not be wrestled with each day. Instead, time becomes thehabitation of blessing.

Author Biography

DOROTHY C. BASS, editor of Practicing Our Faith and a historian of American religion, is director of the Valparaiso University Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith.