Spirituality category: 222996 books
Grandma Says: Wake Up, World!
The Wisdom, Wit, Advice, and Stories of "Grandma Aggie"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Agnes Baker Pilgrim, known to most as Grandma Aggie, is in her nineties and is the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe, one of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz.
A descendant of both spiritual and political tribal leaders, Grandma Aggie travels tirelessly around the world to keep traditions...
Native Wisdom for White Minds
Daily Reflections Inspired by the Native Peoples of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
You don't have to be white to have a white mind.
What is a white mind? As Anne Wilson Schaef learned during her travels throughout the world among Native Peoples, anyone raised in modern Western society or by Western culture can have a white mind. White minds are trapped in a closed system of thinking...
Eyes Remade for Wonder
A Lawrence Kushner Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
A treasury of insight from one of the most creative spiritual thinkers in America.
Whether you are new to Kushner or a devoted fan, this is the place to begin.
At once deeply human and profoundly spiritual, Lawrence Kushner’s books are a treat for the soul. For nourishment and inspiration—...
by Shih Jingang
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
A Sparrow Splashing is a journey into the heart of the Buddha’s teachings. This book of stories and poetry looks at the life of the author through the eyes of three characters: a child named Little Pebble, a young man called the Seeker, and the Teacher, a Buddhist Monk. The reader is invited to...
by James Hilgendorf
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Fifty-seven short pieces about the future of America, & the American Dream. The title refers to a passage in Walt Whitman's "Democratic Vistas", in which he states: "In the future of these States, must arise poets immenser far, and make great poems of death." Not poems as such, these poetic prose...
Bridging over with Guidance
My Personal Relationship with God
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Like many of us, author Nancy Wiltgen learned to recite prayers as a child, prayers that stayed with her into adulthood. Then one day, worried about her daughter, Nancy prayed, unaware that she was about to start an amazing journey that would change her life forever. Mary began coming to her in beautiful...
Unlearning God
How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
America's favorite Quaker storyteller explores the terrain of faith and doubt as shaped by family, church, and young love, finding his way to a less convenient but fully formed adult spirituality.
Most of us grow up taking in whole belief systems with our mother's milk, only to discover later...
by Margaret Silf
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
There is a story growing inside you – a story as big as the universe, and as mind-blowing and as beautiful. And you are growing inside that story. Your personal story is an essential strand of the Big Story. Life’s story begins, we are told, from elements released into space in the death of a...
Open to New Light
Quaker Spirituality in Historical and Philosophical Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
This book is about “the meaning of life” or “the spiritual quest”. It offers a selective and critical evaluation of some central strands of Western religious and philosophical thought over two and a half thousand years. It starts with Socrates’ philosophy of life, and the Greek tradition...
The Cloud of Unknowing
and The Book of Privy Counseling
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING and THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING are the first explorations in the English language of the soul’s quest for God.
Written in Middle English by an unknown fourteenth-century mystic, THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING expresses with beauty a message that has inspired such great religious...
Wearing God
Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Lauren F. Winner—a leading writer at the crossroads of culture and spirituality and author of Still and Girl Meets God—joins the ranks of luminaries such as Anne Lamott and Barbara Brown Taylor with this exploration of little known—and, so, little used—biblical metaphors for God, metaphors...
Starting Points
100 Triggers for Writing, Journal-Keeping, and Personal Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Starting Points: One Hundred Triggers for Writing, Journal-Keeping, and Personal Reflection encourages its readers to be journal-keepers who believe that their thoughts, insights, and discoveries are worth recording, then developing, and possibly publishing. Daniel Pelletier has selected one hundred...
by Rex Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
God in a Nutshell
What have Atheists, Christians and Muslims and all other categories in the human race got in common? Why – despite our shared humanity – do so many of us get involved in clashes about religion? And why do some of us even fight and kill each other? What do we understand by the...
The Charismatic City and the Public Resurgence of Religion
A Pentecostal Social Ethics of Cosmopolitan Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Two powerful and interrelated transnational cultural expressions mark our epoch, Charismatic spirituality and global city. This book demonstrates how these two forces can be used to inform ethical design of cities and their common social lives to best support human flourishing, spirituality, and social and ecological wellbeing of their residents.