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Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

10 best books like Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life (Kathleen Norris): The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture, Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us, The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days, Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery, God Laughs & Plays; Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right, Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants, An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order, Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life, Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage, Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness

The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture
AuthorJonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
ISBN1557256233
Discussion around the bestseller The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher has led many people to want to know more about Benedictine principles.

In an age where we might email a friend in Africa, Skype a co-worker in Brazil, and teleconference with people in different time zones–all in one...
Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
AuthorChristine D. Pohl
ISBN0802849857
“This book will focus on several practices that are basic to human life. IN families, communities, and congregations that are vibrant and sturdy, we notice certain patterns in relationships. We see folks making and keeping promise, living and speaking truthfully, expressing gratitude, and offering...
The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
AuthorFrederick Buechner
ISBN0060611839
This was insightful, uncommonly honest, and beautiful. I couldn't put the book down, but had to, twice, before finishing the mere 112 pages (3 chapters called "Once Below a Time, Once Upon a Time, and Beyond Time").
I will not share any of the story, so as not to ruin any of it for future readers; however,...
Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
AuthorKaren Armstrong
ISBN0312340958
Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on a revelatory adventure that begins with Armstrong's decision in the course of her spiritual training offers a fascinating view into a shrouded...
God Laughs & Plays; Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
AuthorDavid James Duncan
ISBN0977717011
A national bestseller and winner of the PNBA Book Award and Pushcart Prize, God Laughs & Plays is David James Duncan s (The River Why, The Brothers K) profound, original, and exhilarating tour de force.

In this multiple award-winning and bestselling diagnosis of the contemporary American...
Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants
AuthorDennis Okholm
ISBN1587431858
In their zeal for reform, early Protestant leaders tended to throw out Saint Benedict with the holy water. That is a mistake, writes Dennis Okholm, in Monk Habits for Everyday People. While on retreat in a Benedictine abbey, the author, a professor who was raised as a Pentecostal and a Baptist, observed...
An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order
AuthorNancy Klein Maguire
ISBN1586483277
In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest center of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually unchanged in its behavior and lifestyle since its foundation...
Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life
AuthorPatricia Hampl
ISBN0865477167
A gifted writer's inquiry into one of the most profound yet least discussed issues of contemporary American life: the individual's search for faith. It tells of Hampl's quest to escape the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, following her to the "old world" of Catholocism in Spain and France,...
Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage
AuthorScott Cairns
ISBN0060843225
While walking on the beach with his Labrador, poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis. A fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty, midlife crises are usually manifested in the form of sports cars and younger women; not so for this Baptist turned...
Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness
AuthorStanley Hauerwas
ISBN0830834524
How are Christians to live in a violent and wounded world? Rather than contending for privilege by wielding power and authority, we can witness prophetically from a position of weakness. The church has much to learn from an often overlooked community--those with disabilities. In this fascinating...
Found: A Story of Questions, Grace, and Everyday Prayer
AuthorMicha Boyett
ISBN1617952168
"My first year of motherhood I lost prayer..." I lost early mornings of quiet, mornings in my pajamas with a Bible in my lap, mornings when I spoke my mind’s chaos into God’s ear and let the chaos come back ordered, holy sealed. I lost peace. I lost clarity and certitude. My faith was never perfect before...
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict
AuthorEsther de Waal
Bestseller!

For over fifteen hundred years St. Benedict's Rule has been a source of guidance, support, inspiration, challenge, comfort and discomfort for men and women. It has helped both those living under monastic vows and those living outside the cloister in all the mess and muddle of...
The Divine Hours: Prayers for Springtime, Volume 3
AuthorPhyllis A. Tickle
ISBN0385505574
The third and final volume in a trilogy of prayer manuals compiled by Publishers Weekly religion editor Phyllis Tickle as a contemporary Book of Hours to guide Christians gently yet authoritatively through the daily offices.

The Divine Hours is the first major literary and liturgical reworking...
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
AuthorChristian Wiman
ISBN0374216789
Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable...
The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom
AuthorChristine Valters Paintner
ISBN1933495294
Summarized in the phrase "pray and work," "The Rule of St. Benedict" provides the inspiration for Christine Valters Paintner's newest exploration of the mutually nourishing relationship between contemplative practices and creative expression. Artists of all stripes and stations in life—poets...
Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery
AuthorRichard Lischer
ISBN0767907442
In the tradition of Garrison Keillor, Open Secrets captures the friendships, rivalries, and rumors of small-town life by chronicling the lives of the citizens of a small Midwestern community through the eyes of a young minister.

Fresh out of divinity school and bursting with enthusiasm,...
Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
AuthorFred Bahnson
ISBN1451663307
Part spiritual quest, part agricultural travelogue, this moving and profound exploration of the joy and solace found in returning to the garden is inspiring and beautiful.After he graduated from Duke Divinity School, Fred Bahnson underwent an agrarian conversion. Trading the pulpit for the plough,...
Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today
AuthorJoan D. Chittister
ISBN0060613998
I need this type of books so badly. I am reading it slowly taking it all in. Today I am up to page 20 since English is my second language. I kept saying, yes, yes, to almost everything she said. Here are some things I liked in her book:

-The spirituality we develop affects the way we image God.

-The...
Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision
AuthorRandy Woodley
ISBN0802866786
Materialism. Greed. Loneliness. A manic pace. Abuse of the natural world. Inequality. Injustice. War. The endemic problems facing America today are staggering. We need change and restoration. But where to begin?

In Shalom and the Community of Creation Randy Woodley offers an answer: learn...
Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
AuthorLauren F. Winner
ISBN0061768111
Following up her highly acclaimed Girl Meets God, author Lauren F. Winner has written an engrossing reflection of literary grace and spiritual wisdom with Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis.

As she lives through a failed marriage and the loss of her mother, Winner finds her Christian faith...
Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another and Other Lessons from the Desert Fathers
AuthorRowan Williams
ISBN1590302311
The place where God happens, according to Rowan Williams's striking new reading of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, is between each other, It's a truth that we of the twenty-first century most urgently need to learn in order to heal the experience of alienation that has become endemic to our age, and these...
A Place at the Table: 40 Days of Solidarity with the Poor
AuthorChris Seay
ISBN0801014514
In a culture built on consumption--especially of food--it is easy to forget the poor that Jesus cared so much about. Following the pattern of his successful "Advent Conspiracy," Chris Seay invites readers on a journey of self-examination, discipline, and renewed focus on Jesus that will change their...
Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN0061686158
Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life features the wisdom that spiritual leader and counselor Henri J. M. Nouwen brought to the essential question asked by every Christian and seeker: What should I do with my life?
 
Nouwen emphasizes listening to the Word of God—in our hearts, in...
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