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Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir

10 best books like Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir (Joan D. Chittister): Scivias, Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir, What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun, Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's, The Scent Trail: A Journey of the Senses, Walking a Literary Labyrinth, The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland, A Woman's Journey to God, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master

Scivias
AuthorHildegard of Bingen
Hildegard caught my interest years ago when I realized how popular albums of her music were at the library I worked at compared to everything else in our religious section. Then came to learn that she was both a very early female Christian thinker and mind of her day, as well as being something of an icon...
Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir
AuthorRichard M. Cohen
ISBN0060014091
Illness came calling when Richard M. Cohen was twenty-five years old. He was a young television news producer with expectations of a limitless future, and his foreboding that his health was not quite right turned into the harsh reality that something was very wrong when he was diagnosed with multiple...
What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story
AuthorP.L. Travers
ISBN0850307864
Years ago, when I was in my own dark wood wandering and could not find my way, serendipity sent What the Bee Knows: Reflections On Myth, Symbol and Story my way. I immersed myself in P.L. Travers feminine-centered retelling of Greek myths, her essays, poems and interviews. Her essay titled, Re-Stroying...
Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun
AuthorAni Pachen
ISBN1568363230
Since the publication of Sorrow Mountain in 2000, I have received letters from people throughout the world who felt inspired by Ani Pachen's example. Her courage in the face of devastation, as well as the Buddhist teachings that helped her endure, brought comfort to people experiencing illness, depression,...
Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's
AuthorThomas DeBaggio
ISBN0743205669
"We are foolish, those of us who think we can escape the traps of aging," writes Tom DeBaggio. "I was one of them, dreaming of a perfect and healthy old age....Now, at fifty-eight, I realize the foolishness of my dreams as I watch my brain self-destruct from Alzheimer's." Losing My Mind is DeBaggio's extraordinary...
The Scent Trail: A Journey of the Senses
AuthorCelia Lyttelton
ISBN0593051149
When Celia Lyttelton visited a bespoke perfumers, she realized a long-held ambition: to have a scent created solely for her. Entering this heady, exotic world of oils and essences, she was transported from a leafy London square to a place of long-forgotten memories and sensory experiences. And once...
Walking a Literary Labyrinth
AuthorNancy M. Malone
ISBN1573222461
Who of us doesn’t have a list of books that changed our life? Reflecting on her own reading life, Nancy Malone examines the influence of reading in how we define ourselves. Throughout, she likens the experience of reading to walking a labyrinth, itself a metaphor for our spiritual journey through...
The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland
AuthorBarbara Sjoholm
ISBN1593761597
A Frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her.

Sjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to see the Ice Hotel under construction and to meet the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the...
A Woman's Journey to God
AuthorJoan Borysenko
ISBN1573228354
“Women’s spirituality is as wild and free as that little girl. It is natural, earthy, relational, mystical, embodied, intuitive, sensuous, and compassionate. Slowly but surely, women’s poems, psalms, songs and liturgy are being written and prayed, sung and danced in a way of our own, suitable...
Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master
AuthorIrina Tweedie
ISBN0963457454
A friend lent me this book the past week. Sometimes with spiritual books I like to just open them up to a random page and see if the book speaks to me. That’s what I did with this book the past week.

There are so many beautiful paths in the world, and this book reminds me of the commonalities between...
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...
Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia
AuthorThomas Graboys
ISBN1402753411
At the age of 49, Dr. Thomas Graboys had reached the pinnacle of his career and was leading a charmed life. A nationally renowned Boston cardiologist popular for his attention to the hearts and souls of his patients, Graboys was part of “The Cardiology Dream Team” summoned to treat Boston Celtics...
Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones
AuthorConnie Rice
ISBN1416575006
From one of the nation’s most influential civil rights attorneys—second cousin of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—a noble, hard-hitting memoir chronicling the life of a fiercely powerful woman dedicated to public service.

Connie Rice has taken on the bus system, the...
Don't Leave Me This Way: Or When I Get Back on My Feet You'll Be Sorry
AuthorJulia Fox Garrison
ISBN0061120618
Just an ordinary day . . .

You get up, fix breakfast for your three-year-old son, drive yourself to work -- a day like any other. You're running late for a meeting, and as you hurry down the hall, the light is getting brighter and brighter, and suddenly your vision explodes and . . . you're gone.

When...
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
AuthorJoanna Kavenna
A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic “purity.” In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna Kavenna wanders in search of Thule, to Shetland, Iceland,...
Sister Wendy on Prayer
AuthorWendy Beckett
Sister Wendy Beckett, adored and renowned art historian, has spent years in silence and contemplation in her calling as a nun. Her celebrated television specials and books about art have led her many admirers to ask about her own faith and practices. For the first time, in this thoughtful examination...
North to the Orient
AuthorAnne Morrow Lindbergh
ISBN0156671409
Until I saw a Smithsonian exhibit a few years ago, I never realized that Anne Morrow Lindbergh flew with her husband on various trips, acting as his radio operator, navigator, & general Jack (or Jill) of all trades.

This is her account of their trip of trying to map new routes to Asia by flying...
Mother Teresa's Secret Fire: The Encounter That Changed Her Life, and How It Can Transform Your Own
AuthorJoseph Langford
On Christmas Eve I unexpectedly met two of Mother Teresa's nuns. They were standing at the back doors of my church. They are never at my church. I must admit I get sort of depressed at holiday time, being alone and without a family to celebrate with. I made the "mistake" of going to the 4pm Christmas Eve mass....
Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics
AuthorMargaret Farley
ISBN0826410014
This long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. It begins with historical and cross-cultural explorations,...
Praying Our Goodbyes
AuthorJoyce Rupp
ISBN0877933707
Everyone has unique goodbyes--times of losing someone or something that has given life meaning and value. With the touch of a poet, Joyce Rupp offers her wisdom on "these experiences of leaving behind and moving on, the stories of union and separation that are written in all our hearts." Praying Our...
Looking for Mary: Or, the Blessed Mother and Me
AuthorBeverly Donofrio
ISBN0140196277
Entering her fortieth year, Beverly Donofrio, a "lapsed Catholic," inexplicably begins collecting Virgin Mary memorabilia at yard sales. Her search for kitsch, however, soon becomes a spiritual quest, leading her to make a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medjugorje. There, she learns that Mary comes...
A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West
AuthorR.D. Rosen
ISBN1595581650
A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl's ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species...
Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings
AuthorSuzie Gilbert
ISBN0061563129
I think I read this book at exactly the right time. I currently have a tiny seven-inch-long bearded dragon* in my bedroom. Since getting her on June 13th, things have changed around here. I get up at 6am whether I like it or not because that's when her lights come on and she wakes up, climbs out of her hammock**...
Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening
AuthorDiana Butler Bass
ISBN0062003739
Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary...
Miracle Detective
AuthorRandall Sullivan
ISBN0751530220
In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young Mexican woman saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in an ordinary landscape painting hanging on her bedroom wall. After being met with skepticism from the local parish, the Catholic diocese officially placed the matter "under investigation."...
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