At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst
10 best books like At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst (Carol Lee Flinders): The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border, Red at the Bone, Gift from the Sea, Perelandra, American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, The Colonizer and the Colonized, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart, Men, Women and the Mystery of Love: Practical Insights from John Paul II's Love and Responsibility, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0525535276 |
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.
As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of...
| Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0394724550 |
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0007157169 |
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil...
American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.
America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably...
The Colonizer and the Colonized
| Author | Albert Memmi |
| ISBN | 0807003018 |
The title of this book suggests something dated, describing both a situation and a mindset that has either ceased to exist or become discredited with time. As such, I hesitated to pick it up initially. But now having read it, I have to say its one of the profound books I've read in recent memory. In timeless...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060872632 |
By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments...
Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
| Author | Jacques Philippe |
| ISBN | 0818909064 |
FINAL REVIEW: Some books really are life-changing. Searching for and Maintaining Peace is one of them. There really aren’t enough accolades I can give this book. If you happen to already be a calm peaceful person who takes whatever happens to you in stride, you may never need this book. As for me, I am...
Men, Women and the Mystery of Love: Practical Insights from John Paul II's Love and Responsibility
| Author | Edward Sri |
| ISBN | 0867168404 |
"Love and Responsibility brilliantly sheds light on the mysterious dynamics between men and women and challenges us to live those dynamics better." — From the Introduction
Father Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) published Love and Responsibility in 1960, the fruit of his pastoral work,...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...
Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
| Author | Ayaz Virji |
| ISBN | 0525577203 |
A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear.
In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage...
No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
The modern workplace can be an emotional minefield, filled with confusing power structures and unwritten rules. We're expected to be authentic but not too authentic. Professional but not stiff. Friendly but not an oversharer.
As organizational consultants and regular people, we know...
The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living
| Author | Timothy M. Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0824522915 |
St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, is one of the most influential spiritual leaders of all time, yet many readers find his Rules for Discernment hard to understand. What can Ignatius teach us about the discernment of spirits that lies at the very heart of Christian life? In The Discernment...
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News
| Author | Peter Enns |
| ISBN | 0062686747 |
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, and author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth by...
Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1501155466 |
In her most personal book yet, popular speaker and bestselling author Sarah Bessey invites us into her long—and sometimes miraculous—road to recovery after a terrible accident and shares how it changed everything she believed about God.
Sarah Bessey was in her sweet spot: a popular...
Beauty Will Save the World: Rediscovering the Allure and Mystery of Christianity
| Author | Brian Zahnd |
| ISBN | 1616385855 |
In today’s world we have technology, convenience, security, and a measure of prosperity, but where is the beauty?
For thousands of years, artists, sages, philosophers, and theologians have connected the beautiful and the sacred and identified art with our longing for God. Now we live...
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
| Author | Daniel Chamovitz |
| ISBN | 0374288739 |
How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can an orchid get jet lag? Does a tomato plant feel pain when you pluck a fruit from its vines? And does your favourite fern care whether you play Bach or the Beatles? Combining cutting-edge research with lively storytelling, biologist Daniel Chamovitz...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0375703470 |
National Bestseller
"Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."--Daily News
From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling...
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
| Author | Emily Guendelsberger |
| ISBN | 0316509000 |
After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover was dizzying. In the new year, she traveled...
Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace
| Author | Sara Ruddick |
| ISBN | 0807014095 |
This book really surprised me. Ruddick gets caricatured as the epitome of essentialist, naive, white solipsistic, middle class, US centric feminism. She’s actually much more self-aware and critical in her claims that she gets credit for. Of course, she must be supplemented with work by feminist/maternal...
Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World
Joan Wink explores critical pedagogy, a student-centered approach to teaching with emphases on collaboration and action. Students must read and identify problems and content, think critically about what they've discovered, and act on their knowledge. Thus, learning is not a transaction of knowledge...
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
| Author | Parker J. Palmer |
| ISBN | 0787910589 |
"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad -- and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life."
- Parker J. Palmer [from the Introduction] Teachers...
Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture
| Author | Kirsten Olson |
| ISBN | 0807749559 |
While reformers and policymakers focus on achievement gaps, testing, and accountability, millions of students mentally and emotionally disengage from learning and many gifted teachers leave the field. Ironically, today's schooling is damaging the single most essential component to education--the...
The Independent Piano Teacher's Studio Handbook: Everything You Need to Know for a Successful Teaching Studio
| Author | Beth Gigante Klingenstein |
| ISBN | 0634080830 |
(Educational Piano Library). This handy and thorough guide is designed to help the independent piano teacher in all aspects of running his/her own studio. Whether it be business practices such as payment plans, taxes, and marketing, or teaching tips involving technique, composition, or sight reading,...
