There is a hunger in the modern world for spirituality. One vast resource of spiritual wisdom comes from the martyrs of the first centuries of Christianity, such as John Chrysostom, Augustine, Benedict, Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure, Bernard of Clairvaux, Meister Eckhart, Hildegard of Bingen, and Julian of Norwich. Charles Ringma gathers the spiritual insights of over seventy men and women of pre-Reformation Christianity on the practices of prayer and contemplation and other topics.