A Prophetic Word from Kenneth Leech

Kenneth Leech

Again and again, the Anglican theologian Kenneth Leech strikes me as one of the most important voices in contemporary Christian spirituality. Here is a passage from an introduction he wrote to a book, now long out of print, called Three Spiritual Directors for Our Time (by Julia Gatta, published by Cowley Publications, 1986):

The demand for spiritual direction, which has become something of an epidemic in parts of the United States, is an understandable reaction against consumeris...