In the same format as Holy Companions and the forthcoming Praying with theAnglican Saints, this book includes summaries of the thoughts and spiritualapproaches of the Desert Mothers, along with spiritual practices based ontheir writings. Although scholars have paid attention to the Desert Mothers,general lay audiences have only had access to writings by the Desert Fathers. Unlike most of the scholarly books on the market, this book popularizes thewritings and the thinking of the Desert Mothers of the early Church, and appliesthem to contemporary life.