A Dresser of Sycamore Trees
10 best books like A Dresser of Sycamore Trees (Garret Keizer): And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: Stories from the Byways of American Women and Religion, Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections, Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace, This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers, Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words, Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight, Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion, When Women Were Priests, Run to the Mountain: The Journals of Thomas Merton, V. 1, Credo
And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: Stories from the Byways of American Women and Religion
| Author | Adrian Shirk |
| ISBN | 1619029537 |
And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy is a powerful, personal exploration of American women and their religions, weaving connections between Adrian Shirk’s own varied spiritual experiences and the prophetesses, feminists, and spiritual icons who have shaped this country.
Laced throughout...
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 0060652810 |
For half a century, Madeleine L'Engle has spun magic with words, touching millions of lives and earning a devoted readership with her award-winning fiction, candid reflections on her personal and family life and graceful meditations on faith. Now, Glimpses of Grace captures the essence of L'Engle's...
| Author | Nora Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0375705635 |
In the highly praised memoir Things Seen and Unseen, Nora Gallagher reflected on a year of spiritual renewal and the fact of mortality with uncommon wisdom and grace. We rejoin her in Practicing Resurrection as Gallagher searches for direction in the wake of her brother’s death. A desire to reclaim...
| Author | Lillian Daniel |
| ISBN | 0802864759 |
This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from most books available on ministry. Two people still pastoring reflect honestly here on both the joys and the challenges of their vocation. Anecdotal and extremely readable, the book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible...
| Author | Kim Rosen |
| ISBN | 1401921469 |
Can someone really be saved by a poem? In Kim Rosen’s book, the answer is a resounding “Yes!” Poetry, the most ancient form of prayer, is a necessary medicine for our times: a companion through difficulty; a guide when we are lost; a salve when we are wounded; and a conduit to an inner...
| Author | Norman Wirzba |
| ISBN | 1587431653 |
Sabbath is one day a week when we should rest from our otherwise harried lives, right? In Living the Sabbath, Norman Wirzba leads us to a much more holistic and rewarding understanding of Sabbath-keeping. Wirzba shows how Sabbath is ultimately about delight in the goodness that God has made--in everything...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
In these essays on the dialogue between science and Christian faith, Barbara Brown Taylor describes her journey as a preacher learning what the insights of quantum physics, the new biology, and chaos theory can teach a person of faith. She seeks to discover why scientists sound like poets and why physicists...
| Author | Karen Jo Torjesen |
| ISBN | 0060686618 |
This is a challenging book, not in the sense that it is a tough read (it's very well written book), but in the sense that it forces readers to address their own assumptions and the way in which they view women and the church. In her book, Karen Jo Torjessen makes an attempt to both defend the reality of women's...
Run to the Mountain: The Journals of Thomas Merton, V. 1
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0060654759 |
When Thomas Merton died accidentally in Bangkok in 1968, the beloved Trappist monk's will specified that his personal diaries not be published for 25 years -- presumably because they contained his uncensored thoughts and feelings. Now, a quarter of a century has passed since Merton's death, and the...
| Author | William Sloane Coffin |
| ISBN | 0664229484 |
Along with MLK, William Sloane Coffin was my greatest inspiration to get involved in activism and nonviolent civil disobedience. The guy's a legend--he was a freedom rider in the 60s, an adamant Vietnam War opponent, and he was out getting arrested for LGBT activism when he was almost 80 years old. He...
| Author | Ellen F. Davis |
| ISBN | 0521732239 |
This book examines the theology and ethics of land use, especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, in light of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essays explore the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the care of arable land against the background of the geography,...
| Author | Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer |
| ISBN | 0933050461 |
The Farm in the Green Mountains is the story of a family finding home halfway across the world from their homeland.
Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband, the playwright Carl Zuckmayer, lived at the heart of intellectual life in Weimar, Germany, counting among their circle Stefan Zweig, Alma...
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0060611758 |
These powerful reflections on biblical themes by one of today's most popular religious writers point up the truth that the darkness of doubt is often necessary to provoke a hunger for God. The Hungering Dark towers as one of Fredrick Buechner's best statements on contemporary belief challenged by...
Disarming Beauty: Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World)
In 2005, Father Julián Carrón became the leader of the global ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation, following the death of the movement's founder, Father Luigi Giussani. Disarming Beauty is the English translation of an engaging and thought-provoking collection of essays by one of the...
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity
| Author | Robert L. Wilken |
| ISBN | 0300118848 |
How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity...
Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature
| Author | Erwin Chargaff |
| ISBN | 0874700299 |
I'd tap that.
Did biochemist Erwin Chargaff, of the famous "Chargarff's rules" originally write his memoir in German? If this is the case, I will cut him some slack for writing in the kind of way I have very little patience for - overwrought, melodramatic, and earnest. Imagine reading Frasier...
Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation
| Author | Jennifer Harvey |
| ISBN | 0802872077 |
In this provocative book Jennifer Harvey argues for a radical shift in how justice-committed white Christians think about race. She calls for moving away from the reconciliation paradigm that currently dominates interracial relations and embracing instead a reparations paradigm.
Harvey...
Redeeming Singleness: How the Storyline of Scripture Affirms the Single Life
| Author | Barry Danylak |
| ISBN | 1433505886 |
Though marriage is highly esteemed throughout Scripture, the Bible also affirms singleness as an important calling for some Christians. Redeeming Singleness expounds a theology of singleness that shows how the blessings of the covenant are now directly mediated to believers through Christ.
Redeeming...
Things as They Are: Mission Work in Southern India
| Author | Amy Carmichael |
| ISBN | 1436590760 |
Excerpt: ... of the women were afraid even to glance 146 at it, but she was not afraid. She would not stay to talk to us, however, but marched off with the same resolute air. For Brahman widows as a whole are by no means an approachable race. Sometimes we find one who will open out to us, and let us tell her of the...
| Author | François Fénelon |
| ISBN | 0940232499 |
Mi-era dor să citesc o carte care să mă pună pe gânduri cu privire la viața de credință. Nu știu foarte multe despre Fenelon, decât ce am citit în introducere. Teolog catolic în timpul lui Ludovic la XIV-lea, scrisorile sale tratează aspecte profunde ale umblării cu Dumnezeu care au încurajat...
Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering
| Author | Kelly M. Kapic |
| ISBN | 0830851798 |
One of the most awkward moments you can ever face is to walk into a hospice, a hospital room, or a home and get bombarded with “why” questions: why pain, why this catastrophe, why this decline and death. What truly makes it clumsy is to then start waxing eloquent about the problem of evil and pain and...
Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith
| Author | Monica A. Coleman |
| ISBN | 1506408591 |
Bipolar Faith is both spiritual autobiography and a memoir of mental illness. In this powerful book, Monica A. Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death. Coleman offers a rare account of how the modulated highs of bipolar II can lead to professional success,...
