Praying Our Goodbyes
10 best books like Praying Our Goodbyes (Joyce Rupp): A Simple Path, Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day, With Open Hands, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life, Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion, Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives You Life, In the Sanctuary of Women: A Companion for Reflection & Prayer, Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes Crisis
| Author | Mother Teresa |
| ISBN | 0345397452 |
Known around the globe for her indefatigable work on behalf of the poor, the sick, and the dying, Mother Teresa has devoted her life to giving hope to the hopeless in more than one hundred and twenty countries. She inspires us all to find a way to translate our spiritual beliefs into action in the world....
| Author | Macrina Wiederkehr |
| ISBN | 1933495103 |
Author and retreat leader Macrina Wiederkehr opens the monastery door and invites readers to come in and learn how the practice of consciously pausing for prayer at the seven sacred moments of each day can make their daily passage through time a more sacred pilgrimage. Using scripture, poetry, reflections....
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 1594710643 |
The quote that went into my bones and will never leave me:
Praying means giving up a false security, no longer looking for arguments which will protect you if you get pushed into a corner, no longer setting your hope on a couple of lighter moments which your life might still offer. Praying means...
| 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 | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 0802829740 |
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...
| Author | Marjorie J. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0664229476 |
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...
| Author | Barbara 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...
| Author | Dennis Linn |
| ISBN | 0809135795 |
In this book the Linns (a husband and wife, and the husband’s brother) invite us to practice the examen, a technique for reflecting on the events of our day, passed down by Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. Though it can be phrased many ways, the examen centers on two basic questions: For what...
| Author | Jan L. Richardson |
| ISBN | 0835810305 |
Jan starts with Eve and asks the readers to engage the story without the lens of interpretation that has defined the story of the fall of man, an explanation of how sin entered the world. She invites the readers - as women - to trace our own lines of longings, our own reaching, and taking, and tasting, and...
| Author | Stanislav Grof |
| ISBN | 0874775388 |
From Spiritual Emergency to Healing and RebirthIncreasing numbers of people involved in personal transformation are experiencing spiritual emergencies — crises when the process of growth and change becomes chaotic and overwhelming. Individuals experiencing such episodes may feel that their...
Healing Into Life and Death
| Author | Stephen Levine |
| ISBN | 0385262191 |
In "Healing Into Life And Death," Stephen Levine deals directly with the choice and application of treatment, offering original techniques for working with pain and grief, and discusses the development of a merciful awareness as a means of healing, as well as how to encourage others to do the same....
I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0664231489 |
This collection of inspirational writings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer is drawn from his many works and presented here as a series of daily meditations to last throughout the year. Organized under monthly themes, these prayers, sermons, meditations, letters, and notes offer readers a new glimpse at...
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...
The Practice of Spiritual Direction
| Author | William A. Barry |
| ISBN | 0866839518 |
Short Review: I am considering going to formal training to become a spiritual director. Because I am who I am, I decided to read widely about spiritual direction as part of the decision making process.
This is a classic (originally published in 1982). The authors are Catholic, but it is widely...
When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings
| Author | Thomas H. Green |
| ISBN | 0877936412 |
This is one of the best books I have read on contemplative prayer. The author clearly writes from experience; his own and groups he has led. He combines and explains the meanings from some of the masters of contemplative prayer such as St. John of the Cross and the Cloud of Unknowing in a way I have not read...
Forgotten Among the Lilies: Learning to Love Beyond Our Fears
| Author | Ronald Rolheiser |
| ISBN | 0385512325 |
The author of The Holy Longing explores the debilitating obsessions that often dominate our lives and offers down-to-earth guidance for learning to leave our fears, anxieties, and guilt “forgotten among the lilies.”“Rarely do we taste the food we eat or the coffee we drink. Instead we go through...
Four Elements: Reflections on Nature
| Author | John O'Donohue |
| ISBN | 0307717607 |
From the beloved author of the bestselling To Bless the Space Between Us and Anam Cara comes a new work that shares his insights on nature and the ancient wisdom of this earth.
John O'Donohue won hundreds of thousands of admirers with his now classic work on Celtic spirituality Anam Cara. Unfortunately...
