Bread & Water, Wine & Oil: An Orthodox Christian Experience of God

Author	Thomas A. Harris
ISBN	0060724277

An enormously popular (7-million copies sold) and insightful classic of popular psychology based on Eric Berne’s theory of Transactional Analysis that has helped millions of people who never before felt OK about themselves find the freedom to change, to liberate their ADULT effectiveness, and...

Author	Anthony Bloom
ISBN	0809115093

Accessible but not simplistic. A welcome and far cry from the rote spiritual pablum I was raised on regarding prayer in daily life. Bloom explains that prayer starts (and often ends) in silence, an attitude that echoes much I've read about meditation.

My favorite passage describes an elderly...

Author	Alexander Schmemann
ISBN	0913836087

This is the best book on worldview I have ever read. Hands down. I come from a protestant background but most protestants argue for worldview in gnostic categories. Even the most creational of them merely reduce the Christian faith to the intellectual. This is the oldest heresy the church faced: gnosticism....

Author	Alexander Schmemann
ISBN	0913836044

This revised edition of Father Alexander Schmemann's Lenten classic examines the meaning of Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, the Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian, the Canon of St Andrew of Crete and other neglected or misunderstood treasures of Lenten worship. Schmemann draws on the Church's sacramental...

Author	Elder Porphyrios
ISBN	9607201191

Life changing. Read this book.

I can't decide what moved me more; his life story or his teachings,
both had such simplicity, divine grace, humility and wisdom.

Favorite quotes:

"One thing is our aim — love for Christ, for the Church, for our neighbour. Love, worship...