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Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring

9 best books like Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring (Henri J.M. Nouwen): Red at the Bone, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, New Seeds of Contemplation, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, Das Energi, Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying, The Watanabe Name

Red at the Bone
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0525535276
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.

As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of...
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
ISBN0062406582
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...
The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
AuthorRichard Rohr
ISBN1629117293
Invitation to a Dance

The Trinity is supposed to be the central, foundational doctrine of our entire Christian belief system, yet we're often told that we shouldn't attempt to understand it because it is a "mystery." Should we presume to try to breach this mystery? If we could, how would it transform...
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
AuthorDavid W. Blight
ISBN1416590315
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity...
New Seeds of Contemplation
AuthorThomas Merton
ISBN0811217248
New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, while others have...
An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
ISBN0061370460
In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."—Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry to become a professor, a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World,...
Das Energi
AuthorPaul S Williams
ISBN0934558000


I remember reading this book, Pam reading Be Here Now, Ceci reading Alan Watts, all of us in our gypsy skirts and long long hair and earrings we made out of shells and bells and feathers...I remember writing lines from it and Grateful Dead lyrics and Joni Mitchell's songs all over my notebooks...
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
AuthorMaggie Callanan
ISBN0553378767
Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty...
The Watanabe Name
AuthorSakura Nobeyama
"...flawlessly well-written mystery with a captivating plot that offers a dark perspective on family unity.” –IndieReader

Japanese business magnate Kenji Watanabe, 80, has protected the secrets surrounding his father’s murder for many years. When a detective calls in 2002 hoping...
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