On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

At some point, every man must deal with failure, darkness, or hurt in his life. Our culture tells men that the way to deal with that pain is to suppress it. The message is loud and clear: Get over the pain and move on. Fr. Richard Rohr contends that men can’t move on until they begin to deal with the pain. In his new book, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men (Loyola Press, paperback, September 2010), Fr. Rohr helps men see that failure and hurt are not inherently bad, but actually serve as one of the primary pathways to wholeness—and even holiness—in their lives.

On the Threshold of Transformation helps men gain a new perspective on pain and shows them, over the manageable timeline of one year, how to transform their pain so they don’t transmit it. The meditations in the book clearly reveal that neither taking a pass on pain nor passing pain along to others is an option. Fr. Rohr insists that every man must be willing to descend into his own vulnerabilities if he is ever to be transformed in a way that leads him to his best self.