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Desert Voices: The Edge Effect | David Denny and Tessa Bielecki

Desert Voices: The Edge Effect | David Denny and Tessa Bielecki

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Desert Voices is a song from the edge. It celebrates the amorous frontier between two "desert rats" and an arid landscape of sand, sky, and giant cactus. It celebrates friendships between Abrahamic brothers and sisters who have spent too much time demonizing each other. It mourns the lives lost along the border of Israel and Palestine and honors non-violent sowers of hope. It sings from the death bed, from the poverty of the Cross, the universal desert of impermanence that may be the shadow of eternal life. Attracted by beauty and responding to sorrow, Tessa Bielecki and David Denny offer insights about inner work and earth care, peacemaking and social justice, living and dying, and share the nourishing wisdom that blooms in the desert today. 

About the Authors


David Denny

David M. Denny describes himself as “poet, priest, and desert rat.” After graduating from the University of Arizona, intending to become a journalist or scholar of interreligious studies, he made a retreat at the Spiritual Life Institute in Sedona, Arizona. His original plan for graduate studies was interrupted by becoming a contemplative Carmelite monk for thirty years.  

He was ordained to the priesthood in 1980 and fulfilled his journalism dream by editing the community’s Desert Call quarterly magazine. He continues to serve as a priest through Cross Catholic Outreach, a ministry providing material and spiritual support to the poorest of the poor in over thirty countries.  

Since co-founding the Desert Foundation with Tessa Bielecki in 2005, he fulfills his call to interspiritual dialogue through his writings. When not at his computer, you will find him biking along the Santa Cruz River, ambling among the Saguaros, or shooting hoops in the early hours across the street from his “urban hermit” apartment. 


Tessa Bielecki

Tessa Bielecki represents three rich streams in the Christian contemplative tradition: Carmelite, Celtic, and the spirituality of the Desert Mothers and Fathers. For over fifty years she lived in solitary wilderness hermitages in the U.S., Canada, and Ireland, in deserts, mountains and woods.

She was the Mother Abbess of the Spiritual Life Institute, a monastic community of both men and women for almost forty years, left in 2005 and co-created the Desert Foundation. Tessa is a seasoned retreat facilitator, a forty-year veteran of inter-religious dialogue, and the author of several major works on St. Teresa of Avila, desert spirituality, prayer, contemplative life, and Christmas.

Now living as an “urban hermit” in Tucson, Arizona, Tessa is both poetic and practical, known for an earthy mysticism grounded in the ordinary. She is currently writing a memoir and creating a podcast with David Denny called Fire and Light. Visit tessabielecki.com and sandandsky.org to learn more.


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