Miracle Detective
10 best books like Miracle Detective (Randall Sullivan): Ramakrishna and His Disciples, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun, Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage, Mother Teresa's Secret Fire: The Encounter That Changed Her Life, and How It Can Transform Your Own, Looking for Mary: Or, the Blessed Mother and Me, Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns, The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks, Autobiography of Madame Guyon
Ramakrishna and His Disciples
| Author | Christopher Isherwood |
This book forms my first comprehensive introduction to Sri Ramakrishna.
It presents the story of an era where the strength of a man and his stature in society was not measured by his materialistic views and wealth but by the simplicity of his life, his devotion towards fellow beings and his spiritual...
| Author | Ani Pachen |
| ISBN | 1568363230 |
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,...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 1580511430 |
Called to Question is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Centered around a series of conversations with spiritual writers featured in her private journal, Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives-not answers as we've...
| Author | Irina Tweedie |
| ISBN | 0963457454 |
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...
| Author | Scott Cairns |
| ISBN | 0060843225 |
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...
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....
| Author | Beverly Donofrio |
| ISBN | 0140196277 |
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...
| Author | Cheryl L. Reed |
| ISBN | 0425200299 |
When reporter Cheryl Reed set out to examine the lives of nuns, she was determined to find out what was behind the enigmatic image reinforced by Hollywood clichés, misguided speculation, and her Catholic friends' childhood stories of unyielding figures in black.
For Unveiled,...
| Author | Benedicta Ward |
| ISBN | 0140447318 |
The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalised and official theology of the "founding fathers" of the church, the Desert Fathers were ordinary Christians who chose to renounce the world and live lives...
| Author | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon |
| ISBN | 1595479260 |
Madame Guyon was a French noblewoman who was born in an unprincipled time fated to its corruption. She grew up in a church as licentious as the world in which it was established: spiritually despondent and plagued by ignorance. Regardless of these tormenting conditions, she rose to the inimitability...
| Author | Hierotheos Vlachos |
| ISBN | 9607070275 |
الكتاب رائع جدا جدا ويقدم ليس نظرية جديدة ولكن خبرة ورؤية جديدة لمشكلة مرض النفس الانسانية
يعتمد الكاتب على كتابات الاباء الولين فى فهم النفس الانسانية...
Nikolai Grozni was a music prodigy, a jazz pianist training at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, when suddenly he decided to transform his life. He moved to India to become a Buddhist monk: shaving his head, learning Tibetan, and donning long traditional robes. In the Himalayas, living...
| Author | Shirley du Boulay |
| ISBN | 0974240524 |
This intelligent, balanced portrait of an irreverent, intense, and fiery Renaissance woman and her times includes moving excerpts from her letters and sublime spiritual writings. Her unconventional, progressive views on prayer and worship, her outstanding administrative and literary talents,...
Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through India
| Author | Jonah Blank |
| ISBN | 0802137334 |
The three-thousand-year-old epic Ramayana chronicles Lord Rama's physical voyage from one end of the Indian subcontinent to the other and his spiritual voyage from Man to God. In Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, anthropologist and journalist Jonah Blank gives a new perspective to this Hindu classic...
Soul Making: The Desert Way of Spirituality
| Author | Alan W. Jones |
| ISBN | 0060641797 |
A leading spiritual writer recovers "The Desert Way of Believing" -- the spiritual pathway discovered by early Christian monks who lived in the Egyptian desert that is still relevant to Christians today. Alan Jones distills the elements that made this fully orthodox way of inner transformation a...
Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding
| Author | Heather King |
| ISBN | 0670018635 |
An NPR commentator’s story of an unlikely epiphany and the healing power of faith
After years of sleeping around, working as a waitress, and suffering booze- induced blackouts, Heather King settled into sobriety, marriage, and a financially lucrative but unfulfilling career in a Beverly...
| Author | RaNelle Wallace |
| ISBN | 1882723058 |
True story of a couple returning home after an unsuccessful vacation to revive their marriage, their plane crash, their rescue, survival, recovery, and coping with life after severe burns and disfiguration. Adding to this tragedy was a woman's disregard for the warnings and strong premonitions...
Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy
| Author | Frederica Mathewes-Green |
| ISBN | 0060850000 |
The Classic Story of a Family's Pilgrimage into the Orthodox Church: Veiled in the smoke of incense, the Eastern Orthodox Church has long been an enigma to the Western world. Yet, as Frederica Mathewes-Green discovered, it is a vital, living faith, rich in ritual beauty and steadfast in integrity....
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
| Author | Tony Hendra |
| ISBN | 0812972341 |
A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. Father Joe is Tony Hendra’s inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow.
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The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God
| Author | George Weigel |
| ISBN | 0465092667 |
Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist “cube” of the Great Arch of La Défense...
| Author | Renzo Allegri |
| ISBN | 1569551383 |
Beatified on May 22, 1999, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968) was a Capuchin monk and mystic whose life was marked with miracles and wonders, but who said that his only desire was "to be a poor friar who prays." Observes the author: "When people write about Padre Pio, they tend to dwell on the penitential...
Navigating the Interior Life: Spiritual Direction and the Journey to God
| Author | Daniel Burke |
| ISBN | 1937155862 |
What is spiritual direction and my spiritual direction? What are my “blind spots” and how can I uncover them? What keeps me from all the spiritual riches Christ has for me? How can I better understand where I am in my spiritual progress?
Daniel Burke’s Navigating the Interior Life will...
Jesus the Bridegroom: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
| Author | Brant Pitre |
| ISBN | 0770435459 |
In Jesus the Bridegroom, Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and tradition, and unlocks the secrets of what is arguably the most well-known symbol of the Christian faith: the cross of Christ. In this thrilling exploration, Pitre shows how the suffering and death of Jesus was...
Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba
| Author | Ram Dass |
| ISBN | 1887474005 |
Amazing book, a truly one of a kind, it gives you an inside view on what one of these 'elevated beings' or Guru's are really like! He is nothing like you would expect. An ADD madman, he is always running all over the place, never sleeps for very long, he is friends with the most unlikely people because he is...
Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence
| Author | Alexandre Havard |
| ISBN | 1594170592 |
Drawing on the lives of some of the greatest political, intellectual and religious leaders of modern times, and the author's personal experience, Virtuous Leadership demonstrates that leadership and virtue are not only compatible, they are actually synonymous.Virtuous Leadership defines each...
