Spirituality category: 222996 books
Death by Suburb
How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A great number of seekers find themselves in the seemingly unreal world of the suburbs. They read spirituality books but find themselves in carpools and coaching soccer, not in monasteries. Dave Goetz, a former pastor, shows that the suburbs are a real world, but a spiritually corrosive one. The land...
The Practice of Saying No
A HarperOne Select
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
In The Practice of Saying No, beloved author and preacher Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on the meaning of keeping the Sabbath: of saying no to work and doing, but instead celebrating stopping, resting on the porch, and taking the time to recognize our interconnectedness. The Practice of Saying No...
The Law of Divine Compensation
On Work, Money, and Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author (Return to Love, Healing the Soul of America), a world-renowned teacher, and one of the most important inspirational thinkers of our time. In The Law of Divine Compensation, she reveals the spiritual principles that help us overcome financial stress and...
Hard to Be a Saint in the City
The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
An exploration of Beat spirituality--seen through excerpts from the writings of the seminal writers of Beat Generation themselves.
It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience. And there is no doubt that the writers he knew and inspired—iconic...
Divine Nobodies
Shedding Religion to Find God (and the unlikely people who help you)
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
What does a Hip-Hop artist, Waffle House waitress, tire salesman, and disabled girl have to do with discovering spiritual truth? What if embracing authentic Christianity is a journey of unlearning? Welcome to Jim Palmer's world!
Don Miller meets Anne Lamott meets Brian McLaren in this tale...
Motherlines
Love, Longing, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
When she was twenty, Patricia Reis’s mother asked, “What about your spiritual life?” Years later, this question drives her midlife quest to reconcile the desires of her body with the mandates of her spirit. Motherlines is a candid and compelling story of sex with men and with women, of celibacy,...
Hallelujah Anyway
Rediscovering Mercy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
**“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Almost Everything and Bird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it.**
"Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening...
Australian Indigenous Hip Hop
The Politics of Culture, Identity, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book investigates the discursive and performative strategies employed by Australian Indigenous rappers to make sense of the world and establish a position of authority over their identity and place in society. Focusing on the aesthetics, the language, and the performativity of Hip Hop, this book...
The Twelfth Insight
The Hour of Decision
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
On December 21, 2012, the Mayan calendar will end. Many see it as an apocalyptic sign.
But is it?
In The Twelfth Insight, the long-awaited fourth book in the beloved Celestine Series, we again follow our Hero and his close friend Wil. They have just received a portion of another ancient...
The Essential Guide to Jewish Prayer and Practices
Discover a Richer Spirituality Through Jewish Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
An insightful and illuminating guide to Judaism's basic tenets and practices. The Essential Guide to Jewish Prayer and Practices offers a more profound understanding of Judaism - for practicing Jews and non-Jews alike - by explaining the key concepts of Jewish thought, including the sanctity of human...
The Way of a Pilgrim
And the Pilgrim Continues His Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly?...
Every Earthly Blessing
Rediscovering the Celtic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Uncover the history and meaning of Celtic traditions, poetry, songs, and spirituality, in a captivating and comprehensive journey through Ireland.
The beauty of the Emerald Isle has always enchanted the world: the ancient ruins, the rolling green hills, the intricately carved crosses in historic...
by Levi H. Dowling
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
An extraordinary vision of unity among the world's historic faiths and a classic of New Age spirituality.
Here is a hugely influential interpretation of the "lost years" of Jesus Christ-from roughly the ages of twelve to thirty that are not covered in Scripture- in which the Son of...
Democratic Religion
Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 1996
No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically...