“Wide reading and measured judgement are evident in the 365 mini-biographies, but Ellsberg is concerned with something more than scholarship or even good writing. Dipping regularly into the pages of All Saints becomes a delightful way to absorb a great deal of Christian history and rediscover some of its most luminous figures; it is also a means of enlarging our understanding of holiness . . . Ellsberg has pondered his material deeply and combined psychological shrewdness with spiritual depth in his selections and commentary.”