Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern - by James C Harrington & Sidney G Hall (Paperback)

About the Book

In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de León, and Meister Eckhart- three of the greatest mystics of all time-meet for an imaginary conversation that will inspire individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that ev...

Book Synopsis

In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de León, and Meister Eckhart-- three of the greatest mystics of all time--meet for an imaginary conversation that will inspire individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic.

Review Quotes

The reader cannot help but join in the conversation, and not only because it is a conversation and not a treatise, a dialogue, and not a lecture. We join in because the conversation talks to the conditions and issues of today, in part through voices that speak today, in the present tense, and not only those that speak out of some misty distant past.The threads of this volume are woven together in a richly hued, tight, and very readable tapestry. The tapestry is also a doorway--into the warmest of intellectual and spiritual taverns, into which all of us are invited, out of the dark, windy night of the everyday world and its complications. The wise reader will read beginning to end, hardly stopping for breath, inspired.

About the Author

James C. Harrington, a human rights lawyer of forty-one years, is founder and director of the non-profit Texas Civil Rights Project. He was adjunct professor at the University of Texas Law School for twenty-seven years. He is author of Wrestling with Free Speech, Religious Freedom, and Democracy in Turkey. Harrington writes and speaks widely on human rights and civil society.

Sidney G. Hall III, is an activist, ordained minister, and writer. He has served for twenty-seven years as the senior pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church, a progressive congregation in central Austin. Hall is author of Christian Anti-Semitism and Paul's Theology. He is a frequent speaker and workshop leader in the areas of nature-based Christianity, Holocaust studies, and LGBTQ inclusion in the church.