From the Publisher
Rick Fabian writes with a gracious and winning voice, inviting you to a deeper conversation about the signs of life in our time.
Gordon W. Lathrop, author of Saving Images: The Presence of the Bible in Christian Liturgy
Signs of Life is a true gift, and Rick Fabian's prose moves like the dancing feet at St. Gregory of Nyssa. He leads the conversation with ease a wise, winsome, yet visionary friend versed in scripture, history, theology, liturgy, world religions, literature, and life.
Stephanie Spellers, Canon to the Presiding Bishop for Evangelism, Reconciliation, and Creation Care
In this fascinating, remarkable book, Fabian unpacks the meaning of the many signs, both ancient and new, that reveal God's relationship with God's people. These signs are for real; they are for life,and they are everywhere.
Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion and City of God: Faith in the Streets
"From Fabian’s work I have found a renewed thread of scholarship to help explain my priestly convictions about sacramental mission: a resource which enables me to defend a radical approach to inclusion. He believes, as I do, that 'Churches have good reason to make the Eucharist our formal Christian incorporation rite' and that all of life and community is imbued with sacramental signs of God’s action in the world. The sacraments are not a passive repository of Godliness, but a living action through which God is made manifest. Priesthood is one of the means through which that actions flows into the world and Fabian shows how the liturgy opens the door to these holy mysteries."
—Simon Rundell, The Quarterly Review of the Community of the Resurrection, January 2020