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True Prayer
An Invitation to Christian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
We do not create prayer,” writes Kenneth Leech, “but merely prepare the ground and clear away obstacles. Prayer is always a gift, a grace, the flame which ignites wood; the Holy Spirit gives prayer.”
To Dream as God Dreams
Sermons of Community, Conversion, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Porter Taylor, known for his wonderful preaching, always has something unusual and thoughtful to say. "Forgive us our weeds as we forgive the weediness of others," he writes in one sermon on the parable of the wheat and the weeds. In another he reflects on why the book of Ecclesiastes shouldn't...
Food and Faith
Justice, Joy, and Daily Bread
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
From the creator of the bestseller, Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective, comes Food and Faith. Food is itself a joyful gift – recall how the gift of food so often mediates the sanctity and preciousness of life. This new collection of reflections by Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben,...
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
• A best-selling Morehouse author for decades • Addresses one of today’s most pressing topics • Includes questions for reflection and study by individuals and groups Here is Barbara Crafton at her best—funny, warm, direct, honest, and vulnerable—on aging. “I think growing older is both...
Lovesongs and Reproaches
Passionate Conversations with God
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Those who have never had extended conversations with God, ranging from complaints and anger to love and joy, can draw upon a lifetime of such conversations as Countryman grapples with the reality of evil and loss, as well as hope for the fulfillment of life. This new book takes liberties with the...
Folk Like Me
The Read-Aloud Book of Saints
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The lives of the saints are either too grisly for little kids or too saccharine for older ones. But this collection appeals to both groups with a combination of gentle humor and frankness – battle-tested at the author’s weekly chapel services at the school where she teaches. It’s organized into...
How Can I Let Go If I Don't Know I'm Holding On?
Setting Our Souls Free
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Letting go isn’t just saying good-bye to people, places, and things–as important as they may be. It’s also about letting go of attitudes and ideas–such as perfectionism, resentment, worry, and judgmentalism–that keep us from growing in our relationships with God and others. Letting go is...
How Can I See the Light When It's So Dark?
Journey to a Thankful Heart
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Gratitude is vitally important in our journey toward wholeness. This book looks at the scriptural and psychological foundations of gratitude, and the barriers to developing a thankful heart. Specific tools and techniques are offered to facilitate gratitude. Reflection questions and creative individual and group activities conclude each chapter.
Grace on the Go: Quick Prayers for New Moms
Quick Prayers for New Moms
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Contains prayers and reflections for moms and dads during the early years of parenting. Includes on-minute prayers appropriate for parents, and reflections and prayers based on conversations with new moms and dads about their greatest concerns today.
Christ Walk
A 40-Day Spiritual Fitness Program
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Improve your mental, physical, and spiritual health with this 40-day program for individuals or groups.
There are so many things we try to do in one day. It’s difficult to make time for prayer, healthy eating, exercise, work, and time with our families. However, Anna Fitch Courie has discovered...
Grounded in God, Revised Edition
Listening Hearts Discernment for Group Deliberations
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
This powerful, prayerful, and practical guide teaches groups a whole new way of conducting meetings and reaching consensus. Whether your group, committee or board is secular or religious, its members can now move beyond parliamentary procedure to a higher level using the model described here. Rooted...
Bead One, Pray Too
A Guide to Making and Using Prayer Beads
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
An inspirational, hands-on how-to guide for making and praying with beads, for people of all faiths and traditions.
There are almost as many forms of prayer beads as there are religions. In Bead One, Pray Too, author Kimberly Winston shows with stories and pictures how people of many faiths...
Our December Hearts
Meditations for Advent and Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
"The Advent walkabout is not an easy journey, nor was meant to be. This journey leads into the deeps of our own being. It is an opening of portals we have taken care to keep closed, a letting in of the knowledge and doubt and pain without which there can be no letting in of Christ, the child...
Discerning Life Transitions
Listening Together in Spiritual Direction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Every one of us will experience several major life changes over the course of adulthood. Each of these transitions will be marked by external changes, such as change of location, career changes, promotions, or job losses, plus changes in family circumstances, including births, marriage, and death....