The Porch and the Cross: Ancient Stoic Wisdom for Modern Christian Living Paperback – February 29, 2016

This book serves as a great reference, directing the reader to the works which both define Stoicism and intersect the Christian faith.

Overall I liked this book. It is a very good survey of the main works for 4 Roman Stoics. I am relatively new to the study of Stoicism so a broad survey did not hurt me at all, but it's not why I bought the book. I was expecting the author to show deeper connections and Christian application of Stoic principles.The first part of the book establishes the author's Christian/Catholic leanings. Sanctity of life is mentioned a few times with force early in the book, but then never again (this was not important to me but I noted it because it seemed important to the author.The middle of the book is a really good survey of the main works of Musonius Rufus, Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus. I got a lot from this section, but Christianity is hardly mentioned nor with many (anu?) scripture references. This is 2/3 of the book.The ending rapidly ties things up by saying the Stoics help us my managing our emotions to better serve God and has a lot of compatibility with Christian ethics. Not much more than that and I had arrived at this on my own.Not a bad book, especially if you are new to Stoicism, but it's not an integration of Christian thought with Stoic. The title led me to expect something more.

The book did a great job giving at giving insights to multiple philosophers and sharing how it can relate to Christianity. Highly recommend the book.

I'm Catholic, I became interested and intrigued with Stoic "Fathers" and stoicism in general. I started reading Marcus Aurelius and some YouTube videos and saw several videos where Kevin Vost was the guest. I knew about this book through those videos. Read it, easy, simple (as in not complicated explanations) and even great as guide to read The Stoics... Recommended 100%

I liked the deep look into the “Big Four” stoics, and how he connected them with Catholic teachings. I’ll definitely read this again.

Overall it's pretty good but in some areas like human sexuality they slip into the naturalistic fallacy and the author does not acknowledge that because it Accords with his religious beliefs

Stoic history and biblical facts are on point. Very educational and worth the read. But it should be noted In the description (which it’s not), author is a deep Catholic and most of the topics are rooted in Catholicism rather than unbiased Christ-centered topics. Just fyi. Still worth the read and very educational.

This is absolutely one of the only books you will need to live a fuller life, the other is the Catholic bible.