Robyn Wrigley-Carr — Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book

Life with God: A Renovaré Podcast

Author Robyn Wrigley-Carr joins Nathan on this week’s episode to discuss Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book.

Show Notes

• Who was Evelyn Underhill?
• Tell me a little bit about her prayer book prior to your visit to the retreat house.
• I’m hearing joy. Was it a joyful process for you?
• She does something bold, taking a prayer from some great Saint and adding her own lines, making her own contribution to it. I found that really special to get to have both people’s prayers together.
• Could you speculate what Evelyn might want people to do with this book?
• One of the things I found exciting is that, a number of the people’s prayers that she quotes I knew the names, but there were a bunch of them I don’t. And you give a little description of them at the end, and I thought, “New friends to explore!”
• Do you keep a prayer book?
• I’ve been collecting prayers for years, my own and others. And I love the idea of curating your own collection, that they all mean something to you.

Resources

• Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book, by Robin Wrigley Carr
• The Spiritual Formation of Evelyn Underhill, by Robin Wrigley-Carr
• Music of Eternity: Meditations for Advent with Evelyn Underhill, by Robyn Wrigley-Carr
• The Letters of Evelyn Underhill, edited by Charles Williams
• Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a Niece, by Friedrich von Hügel
• Pleshy Retreat House