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Episode 307: Fr. John Henry Hanson on his book The Fire and the Silence (August 11, 2026)
In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Fr. John Henry Hanson on his book The Fire and the Silence: Prayer, Thought, and the Battle for Inner Stillness.Why is it so hard to pray without distraction? Why does our mind wander to everything except God when we kneel to speak with him? And what do we do with the flood of thoughts that seem to overtake us in the very act of prayer? In this deeply contemplative yet practical book, Fr. John Henry Hanson takes us on a journey through the battleground of the mind, where attention, memory, and imagination often seem like…
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