Robert Benson: 86 books
The Body Broken
Answering God's Call to Love One Another
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
The Body Broken is an honest and moving meditation on the Gospel imperative to love one another as brothers and sisters, even as we choose to live and express our faith in differing ways.
A lifelong Christian and seeker, Robert Benson has shared the prayers, rituals, conversations, and practices...
Dancing on the Head of a Pen
The Practice of a Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
A compelling combination of advice and inspiration, Dancing on the Head of a Pen will challenge and encourage writers, artists, musicians, painters—anyone drawn to a life of artistic expression.
Digging deeply into his own writing habits, failures, and successes, Robert Benson helps you choose...
by Robert Benson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2001
In the spirit of Field of Dreams, a remarkable book about baseball and the meaning of life. A game between the Iowa Cubs and the Nashville Sounds at an AAA park in Nashville provides the lens through which Robert Benson explores the game of baseball and the meaning of life in The Game. It is an ordinary...
That We May Perfectly Love Thee
Preparing Our Hearts for Holy Communion
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Why is it important to prepare your heart for Holy Communion? Holy Communion (also known as the Lord's Supper, service of Word and Table, or Eucharist) is an act of worship that Christians are called to offer to God, Robert Benson believes. "[The observance of Communion] is a critical...
by Robert Benson, Phyllis Tickle
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
What does it mean to pray without ceasing? Is it really that important to pray as the early Church did?
In this installment of The Ancient Practices series, Robert Benson presents a structure for our lives where we can live in continued awareness of God’s presence and reality. A pattern for...
Between the Dreaming and the Coming True
The Road Home to God
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2001
One man's story of his journey through spiritual uncertainty to a newfound understanding of his relationship to God.
For those who have questioned their Christian faith, Robert Benson offers an account of his sojourn in a season of trouble and his journey back to God. In this spiritual self-portrait,...
The Echo Within
Finding Your True Calling
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
“I can remember the words people said that meant so much to me and my own sense of who I was and who I might become…. You know you have heard such a sentence when you hear inside a corresponding Yes. The Yes is an echo of sorts, or at least it is the same voice as is the Echo that you have come...
by Robert Benson
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
"I taught undergraduates for forty-five years (the last thirty at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee), and for most of those years I spent as much time as possible outside. I hunted as much as I could, and I fished some. I also spent time in the woods of Tennessee, Alabama, and...
Punching Holes in the Dark
Living in the Light of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
We do not, and cannot, by definition, know much about the kingdom to come. But the “One Who Came Among Us” not only came to reassure us of the gift of the kingdom that is yet unseen but to proclaim the presence of the kingdom is already among us—even when we cannot see it and we cannot hear...
Home by Another Way
Notes from the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
A lovely Caribbean island and its people awaken in author Robert Benson a sense of place and home. The islanders’ warmth and welcome prompt a new understanding of ideas of beauty, community and spiritual belonging.
“We live in a world where such welcome and gentleness and civility are increasingly...
Venite
A Book of Daily Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The Latin word "venite" is an invitation given to pray the prayers of Christ. It is an invitation to pray the ancient prayer, until life becomes a prayer without ceasing.
Best-selling author Robert Benson brings together deep-rooted and traditional prayer practices of the Church in...
Digging In
Tending to Life in Your Own Backyard
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The story of a small garden large enough to hold everything in life that really matters.
*“These days the portion of Eden for which I am responsible is fairly modest. . . . It is a small house in a small garden in a small neighborhood. But it is large enough . . . Large enough to hold everything...
Moving Miss Peggy
A Story of Dementia, Courage and Consolation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
“I am not ever going to get to go home, am I?," she said one day. This is the story of moving Miss Peggy to a new place to live, to a new way of life, to a new kind of reality. All of which became necessary because Miss Peggy had begun to live a life colored by dementia. All of us who love...
Confessions of a Convert
The Classic Spiritual Autobiography from the Author of "Lord of the World"
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Mentioned by Pope Francis as a writer whom everyone should read, Robert Hugh Benson, author of Lord of the World, shares his spiritual journey from being an Anglican and son of the archbishop of Canterbury to becoming a Roman Catholic priest. Through his humble, honest, and memorable story, Benson...