Jacob Riyeff, author of CONTEMPLATE - a Boswell event

Boswell Book Company welcomes Jacob Riyeff, author of Contemplate: Toward an Expansive Heart, which explores sixteen centuries of contemplative tradition in the West to show how embracing a contemplative life can help lead anyone to a fuller experience of self, world, and communion.

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Jacob Riyeff is a Milwaukee Catholic and a Benedictine oblate with Osage Deanery in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, with interests in interreligious dialogue, eco-spirituality, and world literature. He received a PhD in English literature from the University of Notre Dame. His first book, The Old English Rule of St. Benedict, won the 2019 award for best edition or translation of an Anglo-Saxon text from the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England.