In Search of Solitude

Published by Zondervan in 2010, a book of Oden's personal meditations, gathered over the ten years after his wife's death and arranged according to the traditional daily hours of prayer for seven weeks. Each hour marks a phase of the day's light and darkness rather than sixty minutes, and brief prose sections explain how the church has understood the passage of time in which the prayers are said. The publisher presents it for readers who miss an ordered prayer life and want to recover that rhythm. It is the most personal of his books after his memoir.