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Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections

10 best books like Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections (Madeleine L'Engle): Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, Early Christian Fathers (Library of Christian Classics), The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics, Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality, Friends for the Journey, Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People, The Women's Bible Commentary with Apocrypha, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope

Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion
AuthorCarol P. Christ
ISBN0060613777
This text had been low on my Feminist Theology To-Reads simply because it was so often quoted since that I thought it might be redundant to read. But I kept feeling nudged to sit down with it on its own terms instead of others' summaries. My reading of it is strangely bittersweet.

As one of the foundational...
Early Christian Fathers (Library of Christian Classics)
AuthorCyril Charles Richardson
ISBN0684829517
This selection of writings from early church leaders includes work by Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Athenagoras and Justin Martyr.
Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides...
The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination
AuthorEsther de Waal
ISBN0385493746
Esther de Waal, one of Celtic Christianity's preeminent scholars, shows how this tradition of worship draws on both the pre-Christian past and on the fullness of the Gospel. It is also an enlightening glimpse at the history, folklore, and liturgy of the Celtic people.

Esther de Waal introduces...
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
AuthorKathleen Norris
ISBN1594489963
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...
Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
AuthorCarol Lee Flinders
ISBN0060626453
Astonishingly relevant portraits of the lives of seven women mystics Known to more than a million readers as the coauthor of the classic vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen, Carol Lee Flinders looks to the hunger of the spirit in Enduring Grace. In these striking and sustaining depictions of seven...
Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality
AuthorMarilyn Sewell
ISBN0807068497
Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation,...
Friends for the Journey
AuthorLuci Shaw
ISBN1573832413
These two Christian women, one an Episcopalian, the other a Plymouth Brethren who converted to Episcopalianism, have been fast friends for many years. In this book they discuss life and friendship and religion. It is an easy book to pick up and browse through, but I read every word, mostly since I have...
Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People
AuthorDorothy C. Bass
ISBN0787938831
Many Christians are looking for ways to deepen their relationship with God by practicing their faith in everyday life. Some go on retreats but are often disappointed to find that the integrated life they experienced in a place apart is difficult to recreate in their day-to-day world. Many thoughtful,...
The Women's Bible Commentary with Apocrypha
AuthorCarol A. Newsom
In the critically acclaimed best-seller, Women's Bible Commentary, an outstanding group of women scholars introduced and summarized each book of the Bible and commented on those sections of each book that have particular relevence to women, focusing on female charecters, symbols, life situations...
Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope
AuthorJoan D. Chittister
ISBN0802829740
Everyone goes through times of pain and sorrow, depression and darkness, stress and suffering. It is in the necessary struggles of life, however, that we stretch our souls and gain new insights enabling us to go on.

Building on the biblical story of Jacob wrestling with God and on the story of...
The Only Necessary Thing: Living a Prayerful Life
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN0824518330
Throughout the forty-some books that Henri Nouwen wrote and the hundreds of talks that he gave, the subject of Prayer runs through them all and unites them. For him a life of faith is a life of prayer. Drawn from many decades of his life, the compilation of Henri's thoughts, feelings, and the struggle with...
Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard
AuthorRolland Hein
The very best books, in my opinion, are the ones that lead me to read many other very good books. Two examples of this sort par excellence are Francine Prose's Reading like a Writer and Stephen Cox's The New Testament and Literature. From them, I received not only the pleasure of those authors' well-written...
Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas
AuthorThomas Aquinas
Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, there s a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the...
Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life
AuthorMarjorie J. Thompson
ISBN0664229476
Few books in Westminster John Knox's publishing history have been so embraced and so loved as Marjorie Thompson's Soul Feast. First released in 1995, this spiritual classic continues to be a best-seller, as thousands each year accept her invitation to the Christian spiritual life. Offering a framework...
Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology
AuthorDaniel L. Migliore
Daniel Migliore's Faith Seeking Understanding has been a standard introduction to Christian theology for more than a decade. The book's presentation of traditional doctrine in freshly contemporary ways, its concern to hear and critically engage new voices in theology, and its creative and accessible...
Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
In these essays on the dialogue between science and Christian faith, Barbara Brown Taylor describes her journey as a preacher learning what the insights of quantum physics, the new biology, and chaos theory can teach a person of faith. She seeks to discover why scientists sound like poets and why physicists...
O Me of Little Faith: True Confessions of a Spiritual Weakling
AuthorJason Boyett
ISBN0310289491
In O Me of Little Faith, author Jason Boyett brings you a transparent and personal account of his own of struggles with doubts and unbelief in living out his faith. With humor and frankness, Boyett uses personal anecdotes and a fresh look at Scripture to explore the realities of pursuing Christ through...
A Dresser of Sycamore Trees
AuthorGarret Keizer
ISBN0060643579
The prophet Amos, a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees, had a parallel, and more challenging, calling as a shepherd of human souls. So too does Garret Keizer, an Episcopalian minister to the community of Island Pond in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. This profoundly contemporary book displays...
The Cup of Our Life: A Guide for Spiritual Growth
AuthorJoyce Rupp
ISBN0877936250
I purchased this book along with the members of our church to use for a daily devotional during Lent. That made it more special, since I knew each day that others I knew were reading the same devotional. Rupp centers the book around a teacup or coffee cup or mug of your choosing and uses scripture to teach...
The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
AuthorMargaret Visser
ISBN0865476403
Margaret Visser's desire to find answers to her own questions -- as a traveler, a believer, and an insatiable "anthropologist of everyday life" -- led her to undertake this unique and revelatory book. Guiding the reader through a church outside Rome, Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura, she draws upon history,...
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