Minnesota Book Tour During Anniversary of 9/11

To Launch their latest book, Radical Hospitality, Daniel Homan, OSB, and Lonni Collins Pratt will be on book tour in Minnesota on the anniversary of 9/11 and participating in memorial events. Radical Hospiality, though not exclusively about the events of September 11, 2001 has a strong link to that tragic event.

Best-selling Authors on Book Tour in Minnesota to Commemorate 9/11 Anniversary

Lonni Collins Pratt, Catholic laywoman, author and journalist, with collaborator Daniel Homan, OSB, Benedictine monk and priest, will be touring in the Minneapolis, St. Paul, and St. Cloud region of Minnesota from September 9 to September 16. They will be participating in memorial events at St. Johns University and St. Johns Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota on September 11.

In addition they are scheduled for numerous book-signing and personal appearances. On Sunday, September 15, they will be discussing issues of trust and hospitality as it relates to the national crisis in a discussion forum at St. Marks Cathedral in Minneapolis.

The authors who delighted readers with Benedicts Way: An Ancient Monks Insights for a Balanced Life, release their new book, Radical Hospitality: Benedicts Way of Love, with the Minnesota book tour. They will be also be touring Chicago and Detroit over the next few months, with further tour plans not yet released. However an East Coast tour and a visit to Toronto are under consideration.

Advance Praise
"Radical Hospitality is a quietly dazzling book, overflowing with small stories, teaching by illustration how to attempt to live the Benedictine Rule."

John McQuiston, II
Author, Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living

"Radical Hospitality revealed something about myself that I did not like very much and helped me on the road to fixing it. The authors held up a mirror for me and I observed in it the negative way I relate to people that I have difficulty liking. They showed me the real meaning of hospitalityBloving and respecting all, especially those who I perceive as different or difficult. And with the wisdom of St. Benedict, they have nudged me to expand my heart to make room for strangers, foreigners, and other marginal people that I used to ignore."
Bert Ghezzi, Author, Mystics and Miracles and Voices of the Saints

"In Radical Hospitality Lonni Collins Pratt and Daniel Homan share a bountiful feast. The way of Benedict is food for the soul. I hope you savor it as I did."

Phil Gulley, Quaker minister and author of best-selling author of Home to Harmony and Front Porch Tales.

For more information please call Jennifer Lynch at Paraclete Press,
508-255-4685, ext. 357