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Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics

10 best books like Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics (Carol Lee Flinders): Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation, Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul, Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics, The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times, Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story, The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women, Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna, A Woman's Journey to God, The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power, Tending Brigid's Flame: Awaken to the Celtic Goddess of Hearth, Temple, and Forge

Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
AuthorMary Daly
ISBN0807015032
Daly was popular at seminary, but I didn't get around to reading her until years later. I was visiting an old high school friend in Springfield, Vermont, had finished the book I'd brought along for the trip and asked his wife for recommendations from their substantial library. She suggested Daly.

If...
Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul
AuthorCathleen Medwick
ISBN0385501293
A refreshingly modern reconsideration of Saint Teresa (1515-1582), one of the greatest mystics and reformers to emerge within the sixteenth-century Catholic Church, whose writings are a keystone of modern mystical thought.

From the very beginning of her life in a convent, following the...
Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics
AuthorMonica Furlong
ISBN1570623147
The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. As such, they are striking and unusual, strange, powerful and urgent. Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women's own writings and writings about them by their...
The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times
AuthorJean-Charles Nault
The noonday devil is the demon of acedia, the vice also known as sloth. The word "sloth," however, can be misleading, for acedia is not laziness; in fact it can manifest as busyness or activism. Rather, acedia is a gloomy combination of weariness, sadness, and a lack of purposefulness. It robs a person...
Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story
AuthorSera Beak
ISBN1622030532
When one person dares to speak her truth, it challenges us all to live our own. With Red Hot and Holy, Sera Beak offers a provocative and intimate view of what it means to get up close and personal with the divine in modern times.

With a rare combination of audacious wit, scholarly acumen, and tender...
The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women
AuthorSherry Ruth Anderson
ISBN0553352660
For many contemporary women, the old patriarchal models of religion are no longer relevant, forming a need to look beyond the male-oriented past to a wider, more fulfilling spiritual horizon. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Sherry Anderson and Patricia Hopkins show how many women...
Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna
AuthorChina Galland
ISBN0140195661
Read China Galland's posts on the Penguin Blog

With this book, China Galland brought increased attention to the spiritual traditions of the Black Madonna and other cross-cultural expressions of the feminine divine. The popularity of recent works by authors like Sue Monk Kidd and Kathleen...
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...
The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power
AuthorBarbara G. Walker
ISBN0062509349
I applaud Walker for the extensive reading she's done in anthropology, archetype psychology and history, but I find her arguments too extreme. Even the most basic reciting of facts are put into a narrative that is extremely negative towards all men through all history. While I do agree that societies...
Tending Brigid's Flame: Awaken to the Celtic Goddess of Hearth, Temple, and Forge
AuthorLunaea Weatherstone
Brigid is worshiped worldwide as a source of inspiration, protection, and blessing. In Tending Brigid's Flame, Lunaea Weatherstone presents the beloved Celtic goddess as a true soul-friend for women today, exploring her legends and lore, attributes and allies, holidays, symbols, and sacred places....
The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine
AuthorMargaret Starbird
In an era that has reclaimed many aspects of the feminine, Margaret Starbird’s The Woman with the Alabaster Jar stands out as a courageous exploration of the scorned feminine in the Western religious tradition. But espousing the marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene created a personal crisis...
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...
Shirt of Flame: A Year with St. Therese of Lisieux
AuthorHeather King
ISBN1557258082

In this short book of biographical and autobiographical meditations, Heather King—self-described “ ex-lawyer, sober alcoholic, contemplative, and Catholic convert who lives in the thick of Los Angeles”—spends a year (the book has twelve chapters, each named for a month) seeking...
God's Fool: The Life of Francis of Assisi
AuthorJulien Green
ISBN0060634642
Four and Half Stars.

First Admission: Prior to reading this biography on the 13th century mendicant saint by Julien Green, I had read one other biography - Saint Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton. And it was a dense work with lot of rationalizations thrown in in a way that could disarm an inquiring...
Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women
AuthorJean Shinoda Bolen
ISBN1573249122
In her latest book, Crones Don't Whine, Jean Shinoda Bolen's playful sense of humor and keen insight combine to offer women thirteen qualities to cultivate. Engage in these small practices and you're bound to be a happier person, who's doing her bit to make the world just a little better. Here are thirteen...
The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day
AuthorDorothy Day
ISBN0874620236
Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, has been called the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism. For almost fifty years, through her tireless service to the poor and her courageous witness for peace, she offered an extraordinary...
God Makes the Rivers To Flow: Sacred Literature of the World
AuthorEknath Easwaran
ISBN1586380087
Chosen for their universal spiritual appeal, literary merit, and recognized wisdom, these selections are perfect subjects for meditation and daily inspirational reading. Drawing from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and Native American sacred literature, this expanded third edition...
Sacred Fire: Practicing Devotion to the Heart of Jesus
AuthorPhilip Bulman
ISBN0990325806
On the night before He died, Jesus called His disciples to abide in Him. This startling invitation to an intimate relationship with God is a great gift to all generations. The devotion to the Sacred Heart gives Catholics a practical way to respond to this invitation. Each of us can experience the love...
Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi
AuthorDonald Spoto
ISBN0142196258
Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto strips away the legends from the life of Francis of Assisi to reveal the true story of a man who has too often been obscured by pious iconography. Drawing on unprecedented access to unexplored archives, plus Francis's own letters, Spoto places Francis within the context...
The Friendship of Women: The Hidden Tradition of the Bible
AuthorJoan D. Chittister
ISBN1933346027
When the Women’s Spirituality Group of my church chose to read this book, inquiring minds such as my own had to read it. I think I was partly bent out of shape by having been excluded from anything, but I also believe, as a personal conviction, that the minds and souls of men and women are not gendered.

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