Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage

10 best books like Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage (Scott Cairns): The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism, Beginning to Pray, The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, Friends for the Journey, Miracle Detective, Orthodox Psychotherapy, Bread & Water, Wine & Oil: An Orthodox Christian Experience of God, In The Spirit of Happiness: A Book of Spiritual Wisdom

The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church

Author	Vladimir Lossky
ISBN	0913836311

This is a book that changed my life and made me want to be a Christian after years of immersing myself in other 'Eastern' Religions. This review should be seen in that light and in this respect is deeply personal.

Lossky's Mystical Theology spoke to me but before it did, I got to know Lossky through...

The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism

Author	Bernard McGinn
ISBN	0812974212

This clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections, from the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the third century to the work of twentieth-century...

Beginning to Pray

Author	Anthony Bloom
ISBN	0809115093

Accessible but not simplistic. A welcome and far cry from the rote spiritual pablum I was raised on regarding prayer in daily life. Bloom explains that prayer starts (and often ends) in silence, an attitude that echoes much I've read about meditation.

My favorite passage describes an elderly...

The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0385468148

This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly?...

Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master

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...

Friends for the Journey

Author	Luci Shaw
ISBN	1573832413

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...

Miracle Detective

Author	Randall Sullivan
ISBN	0751530220

In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young Mexican woman saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in an ordinary landscape painting hanging on her bedroom wall. After being met with skepticism from the local parish, the Catholic diocese officially placed the matter "under investigation."...

Orthodox Psychotherapy

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...

Bread & Water, Wine & Oil: An Orthodox Christian Experience of God

Author	Meletios Webber
ISBN	1888212918

Worry, despair, insecurity, fear of death ... these are our daily companions, and even though we attempt to ignore them or try to crowd them out, they are there, waiting for us in our quieter moments. It is precisely where we hurt most that the experience of the Orthodox Church has much to offer. The remedy...

In The Spirit of Happiness: A Book of Spiritual Wisdom

Author	Monks of New Skete
ISBN	0316606944

I originally bought this book back in 1999, at the start of a difficult and challenging period of my life, and I've been "referring" to it ever since whenever times get tough. Don't let the fact that it was written by monks put you off; they know that everyone needs to do at least a little contemplation now...

Illumined Heart

Author	Frederica Mathewes-Green
ISBN	1557252866

This book took more time to read than its thickness would suggest because it is the type of material one needs to marinade in. I am already applying some if the principles, though not as holistically as the book suggests.

There are two things that rub me a little bit the wrong way about this book,...

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...

Wintersong: Christmas Readings

Author	Madeleine L'Engle
ISBN	1573833320

Have a cup of coffee and put a log on the fire, settle info a comforable chair and enjoy a winter's day with the writings of novelist Madeleine L'Engle and poet Luci Shaw. Participate in the winter season: the wonder, the solemnity, the power, and the miracles. These readings reflect on the winter world...

The Philokalia, Volume 4: The Complete Text

Author

G.E.H. Palmer

The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, then translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence in the recent...

The Virgin of Bennington

Author

Kathleen Norris

Shy and sheltered as a young woman, Kathleen Norris wasn't prepared for the sex, drugs, and bohemianism of Bennington College in the late 1960s—and when she moved to New York City after graduation, it was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire. In this chronicle, Norris remembers the education...

The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality

Author	Kyriacos C. Markides
ISBN	0385500920

An acclaimed expert in Christian mysticism travels to a monastery high in the Trodos Mountains of Cyprus and offers a fascinating look at the Greek Orthodox approach to spirituality that will appeal to readers of Carlos Castaneda.

In an engaging combination of dialogues, reflections,...

The Inner Kingdom

Author	Kallistos Ware
ISBN	0881412090

This work is a revised and expanded version of a book that has appeared in several languages. It focuses on themes central to Eastern Christian worship and spiritual life. The first three chapters provide insights on death, bereavement and resurrection in Christ; and repentance. Chapters four and...

Great Lent: Journey to Pascha

Author	Alexander Schmemann
ISBN	0913836044

This revised edition of Father Alexander Schmemann's Lenten classic examines the meaning of Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, the Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian, the Canon of St Andrew of Crete and other neglected or misunderstood treasures of Lenten worship. Schmemann draws on the Church's sacramental...

Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith

Author	Peter E. Gillquist
ISBN	0962271330

This is the story of a handful of courageous men and their congregations who risked stable occupations, security and the approval of life-long friends to be obedient to God's call.It is also the story of every believer who is searching for the Church. Where Christ is Lord. Where holiness, human responsibility,...

Wounded by Love

Author	Elder Porphyrios
ISBN	9607201191

Life changing. Read this book.

I can't decide what moved me more; his life story or his teachings,
both had such simplicity, divine grace, humility and wisdom.

Favorite quotes:

"One thing is our aim — love for Christ, for the Church, for our neighbour. Love, worship...

Light from the Christian East: An Introduction to the Orthodox Tradition

Author	James R. Payton Jr.
ISBN	0830825940

The Word Guild 2008 Canadian Christian Writing Awards winner"Do they really pray to icons?" "Why do they use incense?" "What do they believe?" To many people, the Orthodox Christian tradition (or Eastern Orthodoxy) seems unfamiliar and mysterious. Yet this tradition is arguably the most faithful...