Around this time I am trying to decide which books I have read during the year that still reverberate in my memory in a special way. It is always hard to choose between so many fine publications, but here goes:
The 21: A Journey in the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach (Plough Publishing). This extraordinary story of the 21 Egyptian Coptic labourers, beheaded on a Libyan beach by ISIS terrorists on 15 February 2015, deserves reading and rereading. In it we enter the world of the early Christian Church when martyrdom is a joyful event, Heaven is palpably present and religious faith is deeply embedded within ordinary life.
