Stepping Out with the Sacred

This is a masterful and engaging account of how humans through centuries and cultures have engaged and experienced the divine. Our doctor is Muslim our lawyer Jewish our best friend Buddhist a plurality multiplied by global travel and politics. In Like Catching Water in a Net Webb discussed how humans have described the Divine. This companion book looks at how humans have engaged the Divine across religions and centuries through ritual art sacred places language and song. Here Webb includes her own experiences both personal and observed from travel in fifty countries as well as centuries of theology literature and travel writing. She meanders along winding trails talk over the fence and drink wine with a stranger literally and figuratively. To engage the larger-than-description Sacred we need all the stories we can find even if only to remind us the distance still to go and the limitless (sometimes unsuccessful) journey. As a teacher of world religions and art and an artist this will not be a string of anecdotes but a woven together reader-friendly vividly painted theologically reflective whole.