Celtic Saints
and Their Animal Friends

A Spiritual Kinship

Edward Sellner

A New Spirituality of Holiness

Edward Sellner's new book is a gift and a delight. Offering the rich Celtic tradition of kinship between Celtic saints and animals, this book is an invitation to ponder our own relationship to the more-than-human world. We can take such inspiration form these monks and mystics, tending to their wild kin in ways that break them open to a God who is wild as well.
- Christine Valters Painter, author of numerous books, including The Soul's Slow Ripening: 12 Celtic Practices for Seeking the Sacred

A beautiful book that reveals an enduring alternative tradition in Christianity that has always celebrated the lives of fellow creatures. Sellner wonderfully demonstrates that for the Celtic saints, the closer we get to God, the more God's creation should be treated with respect, wonder, and delight.
- Clair Linzey, Professor of Animal Theology, and Deputy Director, Oxford Centre of Animal Ethics, Oxford, England.

Through stories of foxes and badgers, otters and ducks, hounds and horses, Celtic Saints and Their Animal Friends inspires readers to reconnect with their sense of wonder and tenderness towards all of creation. Edward Sellner's book revitalizes our sense of compassion and of deep spiritual kinship with animals.
- Lisa Kemmerer, author of numerous books, including Animals and World Religions

For those of us who already have a kinship with an animal, be it a dog, cat, horse, bird, or some other creature, this book teaches us how to integrate that kinship into our spirituality. Ed Sellner's book is a manual on how to integrate our relationships with animals into our spiritual lives.
- Dara Molloy, author of Reimaging the Divine: A Celtic Spirituality of Experience and The Globalization of God: Celtic Christianity's Nemesis.