Rita Snowden has brought strength and comfort to thousands over the years, and in her writings there shines out the solid, steadfast joy of her faith, a faith that has sustained her first as a social worker and then as a deaconess for over half a century.

In this book Rita Snowden tells how she first became a committed Christian and of the books and people, from all ages and all parts of the world, who have most affected her thinking and her work. Told with all the vigor of her down-to-earth style, Christianity Close to Life is a heartwarming and stirring book, written by one of today's most practical Christians.