Eye of the Needle

Alistair Venn spent seventy years seeking God. He studied theology, renounced wealth, withdrew to a monastery, wandered into politics, sat alone in a forest for a year and a half. He learned to pray without words. He read the Buddha and Shankara. He gave everything away. And still the thing he was looking for remained just out of reach. Then, in old age, he met a retired plumber named Nicholas — a...