I do not remember who recommended to me Rohr’s book. It might have been my friend Chris Heuertz, a well-known specialist in the Enneagram, the same who put me in contact with the author when I fell in love with this book, about ten years ago.

After reading it, I recommended it to my colleagues (I was at the time a member of the Middle East & Eastern Europe team of World Vision International). They loved it too, so I decided to invite fr. Rohr to lead a retreat for our team. The opportunity came when he was invited to lead devotions for a meeting of European prison chaplains, in an Orthodox monastery in Romania. He accepted to meet with me for half an hour after the session. We went to a little lake behind the monastery and we started talking, going on and on around the pond. We clicked from the first moment. I was totally fascinated with this senior Franciscan monk. When we looked at our watches, 90 minutes had passed, and we did not feel it. WE stayed in to...