You Never Know Who You’re Going to Run Into!

Today I was at the Ignatius House Retreat Center in Atlanta, just long enough to meet with my spiritual director and talk to a few folks about an upcoming retreat — and who should I run into but Carmen Acevedo Butcher, who’s in Georgia visiting family!

For those of you who do not know, Carmen is a gifted translator who has published several wonderful contemporary English renditions of the writings of the mystics. Her Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church: A Spiritual Reader is one of my favo...