Book Review: WSU Professor Lawrence Pintak's 'Lessons From the Mountaintop' Shares Lessons From World Religions

Book review: WSU professor Lawrence Pintak's 'Lessons from the Mountaintop' shares lessons from world religions

Lawrence Pintak’s “Lessons from the Mountaintop: Ten Modern Mystics and Their Extraordinary Lives” is an impressive work of participatory journalism.

Lessons from a holy father

Pope Benedict XVI, our 265th pope, died on Dec. 31, 2022 at the age of 95. During his life, he authored over 60 books and many articles and homilies. Having studied abroad in Rome during his pontificate, I grew to love the wisdom he shares in his writing, the glimmer in his eye, and the warmth of his smile. In honor of the great legacy he has left the Church, we are diving into “The Pope Benedict XVI Reader” (Word on Fire, $29.95). Maybe papal e…