Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life
10 best books like Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life (Henri J.M. Nouwen): Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us, Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community, The Spiritual Life of Children, Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants, Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness, The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom, Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another and Other Lessons from the Desert Fathers
| Author | Cynthia Bourgeault |
| ISBN | 1561012629 |
Practitioners of Centering Prayer are known for the great enthusiasm they bring to the practice of this ancient discipline. Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening is a complete guidebook for all who wish to know the practice of Centering Prayer. Cynthia Bourgeault goes further than offering an introduction,...
| Author | Christine D. Pohl |
| ISBN | 0802849857 |
“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...
Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction
| Author | Margaret Guenther |
| ISBN | 1561010561 |
Guenther uses the images of the spiritual director as host, teacher, and midwife to describe the ministry of spiritual direction today. She pays particular attention to spiritual direction for women, and addresses such down-to-earth questions as setting, time, and privacy. The stories of real...
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 1594489963 |
Kathleen Norris’s masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself...
| Author | Enuma Okoro |
| ISBN | 1935205102 |
If you sometimes feel lost on your spiritual journey, you'll find a trustworthy companion in Enuma Okoro, a purse shopping, tea-drinking, colon-cleansing, shaky follower of Jesus who just wants to find a godly man with good hair. But after her father's unexpected death, her grief seems to morph into...
| Author | Robert Coles |
| ISBN | 0395599237 |
In this eighth and final volume in his Pulitzer Prizewinning Children of Crisis series, Coles examines the religious and spiritual lives of children. By using children's own words and pictures, Coles presents their deepest feelings..
| Author | Dennis Okholm |
| ISBN | 1587431858 |
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...
| Author | Stanley Hauerwas |
| ISBN | 0830834524 |
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...
| Author | Christine Valters Paintner |
| ISBN | 1933495294 |
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 lifepoets...
| Author | Rowan Williams |
| ISBN | 1590302311 |
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...
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 1933495057 |
This book is set up in the daily liturgical cycle, but instead of prayers from a lectionary or scripture readings, it is entirely composed of Thomas Merton's thoughts on silence, contemplation, nature, and listening to God. It's a great way to silence your soul to listen to God, and a good balance to something...
| Author | David Steindl-Rast |
| ISBN | 1569752974 |
Read this little book in preparation for and on a Quiet Retreat. It was a helpful overview of the monastic hours of the day and the gifts each hour brings. A great book to read to help re-cover a sense of the rhythms of our days and years.
I particularly like the chapter on the hour of Prime in that it...
| Author | James Finley |
| ISBN | 0877930414 |
This excels my expectations and then some. I appreciate and reveled in the concepts and deep spiritual analysis of what comprises the true self as opposed to the false self. This quote struck a cord in me:
"We run and run in our squirrel cage, thinking the constant squeaking of the wheel of our...
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060836970 |
Too often, our study of the Bible focuses on searching for specific information or some formula that will solve our pressing needs of the moment. But what if we approached the Bible differently, and instead of transforming the text to meet our needs, allowed it to transform us?
That's exactly...
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0060611820 |
Of the three memoirs that Buechner wrote, this was probably my least favorite. I can’t bring myself to give this book less than 4 star. There are some hidden wisdom-gems that spoke especially to my life right now. Buechner writes of his middle life and college teaching career. He compares and contrasts...
| Author | Ilia Delio |
| ISBN | 1626980292 |
This book explores Teilhard de Chardin's idea of evolution being God in action through love in the universe. These are complex ideas but even someone not familiar with Teilhard will be able to understand it. DeLio is a scientist as well as a mystical theologian with a gift for bringing a lot of different...
| Author | Belden C. Lane |
| ISBN | 0195315855 |
In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference.
Interweaving...
Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form
| Author | M. Basil Pennington |
| ISBN | 0385181795 |
The practice of prayer and meditation in modern Western Christianity is rooted in the Eastern tradition of early Church prayer as well as the wisdom of early Church fathers. In Centering Prayer, M. Basil Pennington, the author of the highly acclaimed Daily We Touch Him, returns to these roots, offering...
The Divine Hours (Volume Two): Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime: A Manual for Prayer
The second 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...
Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don't Deserve
| Author | Lewis B. Smedes |
| ISBN | 0060675225 |
A Proven Path to Move from Shame to Healing
If you persistently feel you don't measure up, you are feeling shame—that vague, undefined heaviness that presses on our spirit, dampens our gratitude for the goodness of life, and diminishes our joy. The good news is that shame can be healed. With...
Sacred Fire: A Vision for a Deeper Human and Christian Maturity
| Author | Ronald Rolheiser |
| ISBN | 0804139148 |
"When one reaches the highest degree of human maturity, one has only one question left: How can I be helpful?"--TERESA OF aVILA
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Beloved author Ronald Rolheiser continues his search for an accessible and penetrating Christian spirituality in this highly anticipated follow-up to the contemporary...
And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 0877880468 |
Most of the literature on Genesis and creation emphasizes what was created, and how. But in And It Was Good, Madeleine L’Engle cast long, loving, and perceptive glances not only at the created universe but at its creator as well. At every level she sees the connections between Made and Maker, and in...
Understanding "Our Father": Biblical Reflections on the Lord's Prayer
| Author | Scott Hahn |
| ISBN | 1931018154 |
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that the Our Father ?is truly the summary of the whole Gospel? (no. 2761). Catholics pray the Lord's Prayer whenever they worship at Mass and say the Rosary, and other Christians pray it frequently as well. Join Scott Hahn (accompanied by St. Cyprian, St....
