Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirtuality
10 best books like Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirtuality (J. Philip Newell): Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, The Brothers K, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction, The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination, The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self, The Rebirthing of God: Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062406582 |
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0310293995 |
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.
In Faith Unraveled, Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obsessed...
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022319 |
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible
If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the...
Duncan took almost 10 years to follow up the publication of his much-praised first novel, The River Why, but this massive second effort is well worth the wait. It is a stunning work: a complex tapestry of family tensions, baseball, politics and religion, by turns hilariously funny and agonizingly sad....
| Author | Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee |
Showing the deep connection between our present ecological crisis and our lack of awareness of the sacred nature of creation, this series of essays from spiritual and environmental leaders around the world shows how humanity can transform its relationship with the Earth. Combining the thoughts...
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 | Esther de Waal |
| ISBN | 0385493746 |
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...
This book is both a summary of various mystic traditions and practices, as well as a guidebook to a life in mystic spirituality. It is well-written, well-researched, with a style and tone equally balanced between scholarly neutrality and personal conviction. It is a book worthy of re-reading.
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Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1118303598 |
Dissolve the distractions of ego to find our authentic selves in God In his bestselling book Falling Upward, Richard Rohr talked about ego (or the False Self) and how it gets in the way of spiritual maturity. But if there's a False Self, is there also a True Self? What is it? How is it found? Why does it matter?...
The Rebirthing of God: Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings
| Author | John Philip Newell |
| ISBN | 1594735425 |
Dare to imagine a new birth from deep within Christianity, a fresh stirring of the Spirit.
"The walls of Western Christianity are collapsing. In many parts of the West that collapse can only be described as seismic.... There are three main responses or reactions to this collapse. The first...
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for soul friend, the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the...
The Confession of Saint Patrick
| Author | St. Patrick |
| ISBN | 0385491638 |
The autobiography of one of the most popular saints in history, now available in a new translation.
Beyond being recognized as the patron saint of Ireland (perhaps for having chased some nonexistent snakes off the Emerald Isle), little else is popularly known about Saint Patrick. And...
Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome.
Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety...
| Author | Ian Bradley |
| ISBN | 0232524955 |
The Celtic Way is a fascinating read for people such as myself who want to know more about the early Celtic Church in the British Isles. Ian Bradley says he would now describe the church in those days not as the Celtic Church but as early indigenous Christianity in the British Isles.
He gives an overview...
| Author | Nial Giacomelli |
| ISBN | 1912054906 |
In this bittersweet and hauntingly surreal tale, a couple finds the distance between them mirrored in a strange epidemic sweeping the globe. Little by little, each victim becomes transparent, their heart beating behind a visible rib cage, an intricate network of nerves left hanging in mid-air. Finally,...
Don't Just Sit There!: 44 Insights to Get Your Meditation Practice Off the Cushion and Into the Real World
| Author | Biet Simkin |
| ISBN | 1501193198 |
Discover the forty-four laws of life that are the missing link between the desire to meditate and the motivation needed to maintain a regular meditation practice, process the emotional fallout of meditative experiences, and find spiritual fulfillment.
Biet Simkin knows from personal...
Columba's Iona: A New History
| Author | Rosalind K. Marshall |
One must make a significant effort to visit Iona. It’s a small island in the Inner Hebrides, just to the west of the Isle of Mull. Such a trip usually involves traveling by car, bus or train from Glasgow to Oban, a ferry ride to the Isle of Mull, a long journey on a one lane road across Mull, and then a short...
Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul
| Author | Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
Call her Our Lady, La Nuestra Se�ora, Holy Mother or one of her thousands of other names, says Dr. Est�s. She wears hundreds of costumes, dozens of skin tones, is patroness of deserts, mountains, stars and oceans. Thus she comes to us in billions of images, but at her center, she is the Great Immaculate...
