Lantern: 99 books

Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the living natural order and with our living cultural heritage. By eating the plants and animals of our earth, we literally incorporate them. It is also through this act of eating that we partake of our culture's values and paradigms at the...

For a quarter of a century, Trappist monk Fr. Thomas Keating has been contributing articles on Centering Prayerthe contemporary manifestation of the ancient Christian contemplative traditionto the newsletter of Contemplative Outreach, the organization that he helped establish to promote this tradition....

Revered as a symbol of fertility, sexuality, purity and childhood, beloved as a childrens pet and widely represented in the myths, art and collectibles of almost every culture, the rabbit is one of the most popular animals known to humans. Ironically, it has also been one of the most misunderstood and...

Are you, to paraphrase Fannie Lou Hamer, sick and tired of being sick and tired? In her lively and inspiring guide to living well, Donna Beaudoina.k.a. Sister Vegetarianreports on how she lost weight, gained energy, and healed herself by finally embracing the vegetarian lifestyle that shed attempted...

 In this groundbreaking self-help book and spiritual guide, Christine Warren shares with us the core teachings and creative practices on life transitions that have made her national workshops life-changing events for thousands. This book is a map through change, a companion on the trail of...

I don't know why you're spending all your time on this. Theyre only animalsfor heaven's sake! That was the reaction of one of Andrew Linzey's fellow students at Kings College, London, when he was studying theology in the 1970s. Since then, the now Rev. Dr. Andrew Linzey has been arguing that animals...

The actions of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) constitute one of the most misunderstood components of the animal advocacy movement in the U.K. and U.S. Not so much an organization as an ever-changing cluster of individuals who free animals from laboratories, farms, and other animal-confinement facilities,...

This collection of homilies for feast days and special occasions is rooted in the experience of the grace celebrated in the liturgy. Father Keating draws from his life's devotion as a Trappist monk and abbot to provide a sacramental perspective on such feasts as The Immaculate Conception, The Annunciation,...

Swami Abhishiktananda (Henri Le Saux OSB) was a French Benedictine monk who went to India in 1948 and devoted his life to becoming a bridge between East and West, between Hinduism and Christianity. To mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of this great pioneer of interreligious dialogue, Monastic...

or three and a half decades, Monastic Interreligious Dialogue (MID) has been bringing individuals from faiths with a monastic traditionChristianity, Buddhism, and Hinduismto discuss the deeper rhythms and structures of their traditions: the practices, disciplines, and struggles and joys of a vocation....

The United States is one of the sickest nations on the planet. Most Americans accept degenerative chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis, heart disease, osteoporosis and cancer as part of the normal aging process. Find out how a diet based on the New Food Four Groups can help prevent...

At 27, Bill Hatcher was at a crossroads. Brought up in an evangelical household in the Bible Belt, his religion had provided no answers to his parents' broken marriage, or, indeed, his own divorce. The key to his salvation would come from a most unlikely source: a flyer calling for Peace Corps volunteers....

For many years, congregations have been inspired, challenged, and charmed by the homilies given by the monks who live at St. Benedicts MonasteryThe Magic Monasteryin Snowmass, Colorado. This collection of homilies captures the vitality, wit, and spiritual wisdom of Father Theophane Boyd as he explores the scriptures through the important feast days of the Christian calendar.

For many parents of troubled teenagers, a therapeutic program that takes the child from the home for a period of time offers some respite from the daily tumult of acting out, lies, and tension that has left the family under siege. However, just as the teenager is embarking on a journey of self-discovery,...