At the age of forty-five, unfit and overweight, Clark Berge, a
professed Franciscan friar, took up running. In his younger life he
had struggled with alcoholism and with his sexual identity. Running
became cathartic not just for his body, but for making peace with
the lingering shame of a troubled past, facing unresolved questions
and coming to a fuller acceptance of who he was. As the elected
leader of a worldwide religious community, the opportunity to run
in widely differing urban and wild places -the English countryside,
wide South African and Australian landscapes, busy cities and
remote Pacific islands - opened up larger spiritual insights into
the nature of religious life, social activism, contemplation, life
on the margins, solitude and community, fear and fortitude,
simplicity and living in harmony with creation, and coming in last
in his first marathon. This unique memoir of running and religion
explores Christian spirituality with a disarming honesty and depth.
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