Fortress Press

"Benne lays the groundwork for a stimulating and vision-casting conversation with readers. His lively prose assesses how liturgical exercise and the devotional life, Christian education and nature as well as the whole life of the community, personal friendships, and other factors blend with God's callings within daily life to create the Christian's habits of mind and action. . . . [This} thoroughly reworked and updated second edition provides students, laypeople, and pastors with an insightful orientation to living the Christian life at the beginning of the twenty-first century."
— Robert Kolb, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, MO

"The Second Vatican Council speaks of 'the universal call to holiness'—which means all of us. Holiness is the work of God in the everydayness of walking by faith. Ordinary Saints is an accessible guide for the journey, written with spiritual insight and ecumenical sensibility."
— Richard John Neuhaus, First Things

"Robert Benne's wonderful book, Ordinary Saints, has long been a treasure for Christians who struggle to relate worship on Sunday to the rest of their lives. The book provides a compelling vision of the mature Christian life of discipleship, steeped in a traditional Lutheran understanding of vocation as a call to all the saints. In this revised edition, Benne maintains the depth and richness of the original, yet manages to make the work even more accessible for college students and adult Sunday school classes."
— Robert Tuttle, George Washington University Law School