“Clairvaux Manifesto: a personal odyssey of spirituality at work” invites readers to rediscover the pioneering spirit of old-world abbeys of prayer and work.

Through accounts of spirituality at work in his life, Kirk Bartha discovers splendor in the ordinary and occasionally witnesses the extraordinary things of God. Clairvaux Manifesto can be translated “Clear Valley Clear Word”. This book is a clarion call to prayer in action.

From the introduction, “I’m just one soul in the armada, scrambling into the crow’s nest of a ship, calling toward the horizon. Confined as a writer experimenting with form, I attempt to lead words in certain directions and often deconstruct those very directions with other words, like adjusting snapping sails. Expressing my perspective of a wide open sea, this canvas might just tear away in the wind.”