A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997
10 best books like A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997 (Wendell Berry): The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, 1919, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Holy the Firm, Dynamics of Faith
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
| Author | Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| ISBN | 0374529752 |
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication-and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life.
In this brief yet profound meditation...
Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 0679644059 |
The first volume of New and Selected poetry in twelve years from the two-time Poet Laureate of the United States.
Aimless Love gives the reader an opportunity to assess the rich scope of Collins' gifts. Containing more than fifty new poems and a generous gathering from his collections of the...
| Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| ISBN | 1573225851 |
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever...
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
| Author | Tish Harrison Warren |
| ISBN | 0830846239 |
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present to us in surprising ways through our everyday routines. Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices and habits that form us. Each chapter looks...
| Author | Eve L. Ewing |
| ISBN | 1608465985 |
Poetic reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots that comprised the “Red Summer” of violence across the nation’s cities, is an event that has shaped...
The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions
| Author | Emily P. Freeman |
| ISBN | 0800736524 |
Nothing gets our attention like an unmade decision: Should I accept the new position? Which schooling choice is best for my kids? How can I support my aging parents? When we have a decision to make and the answer isn't clear, what we want more than anything is peace, clarity, and a nudge in the right direction.
If...
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1524762091 |
Richard Rohr, one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, delivers his long-awaited book on Jesus. In this radical message of hope, Rohr shows how "Jesus" + "Christ" reveal the divine wholeness at the heart of things--and what that means for every one of us.
In his decades as a globally...
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0470907754 |
A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0060915439 |
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth...
| Author | Paul Tillich |
| ISBN | 0060937130 |
For an evangelical like myself, my assessment of this book depends a great deal on perspective. If I'm viewing Paul Tillich as a Christian theologian than the book, while still insightful and interesting, is hugely problematic. While it probably wouldn't be correct to fully associate Tillich with...
This book was the final part of a trilogy that Trueblood wrote called the "Trilogy for Our Times". It studies the "new world" as it was shortly after World War II. In this book he outlines what he feels is necessary for our world to awake from the futility of war into " a society of loving souls, set free from...
Struggling with Scripture
| Author | Walter Brueggemann |
| ISBN | 0664224857 |
Challenging the traditional meaning of Scripture is not easy, even in the face of issues that call into question those traditional interpretations. In these reflections, Walter Brueggemann says that the Bible, as the live word of the living God, will not submit to the accounts we prefer to give it....
Notes from a Young Black Chef
| Author | Kwame Onwuachi |
| ISBN | 1524732621 |
A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoree
By the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most talked about restaurants...
Runner's World Run Less, Run Faster: Become a Faster, Stronger Runner with the Revolutionary FIRST Training Program
Finally, runners at all levels can improve their race times while training less, with the revolutionary Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training (FIRST) program.
Hailed by the Wall Street Journal and featured twice in six months in cover stories in Runner's World magazine, FIRST's...
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0060611626 |
Frederick Buechner's Godric "retells the life of Godric of Finchale, a twelfth-century English holy man whose projects late in life included that of purifying his moral ambition of pride...Sin, spiritual yearning, rebirth, fierce asceticism--these hagiographic staples aren't easy to revitalize...
