A Kind of Solitude: How Pacing the Cage with an Icon and the Book of Common Prayer Restored My Soul

Six months into a deep personal crisis occasioned by the unexpected end of his marriage Jamie Howison traveled halfway across the continent to Halifax Nova Scotia to engage in a unique and intense five-week contemplative retreat served in the context of the chapel community of the University of Kings College. Immersed in the liturgies of the Canadian Book of Common Prayer mentored in the writing of an Orthodox icon of Christ Pantocrator challenged to confront the hard truths behind his brokenness and laid bare by the hours of silence and solitude Howison discovered something of the power of the ancient spiritual traditions in the restoration of a twenty-first-century soul. A Kind of Solitude tells that story.