Sister Wendy on Prayer
10 best books like Sister Wendy on Prayer (Wendy Beckett): Beautiful Girlhood, A Young Woman's Walk with God: Growing More Like Jesus, Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life, Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage, Looking for Mary: Or, the Blessed Mother and Me, Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays, Teresa of Ávila: An Extraordinary Life, Ten Girls Who Changed the World
| Author | Karen Andreola |
| ISBN | 1883934028 |
While this book provides an interesting study of early 20th Century ideals, I would definitely take its advice with a grain of salt. Beautiful Girlhood, first published in the 1920's and then edited in the 1990's is popular among homeschool and Christian school girls. I've had a copy since about 1999...
A Young Woman's Walk with God: Growing More Like Jesus
| Author | Elizabeth George |
| ISBN | 0736916539 |
Elizabeth George, author of A Young Woman After God's Own Heart (more than 150,000 copies sold), offers another life-changing teen book—A Young Woman's Walk with God.
Christian teens long to please God, but peer pressure, school activities, and physical changes make godly qualities...
| 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 | Patricia Hampl |
| ISBN | 0865477167 |
A gifted writer's inquiry into one of the most profound yet least discussed issues of contemporary American life: the individual's search for faith. It tells of Hampl's quest to escape the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, following her to the "old world" of Catholocism in Spain and France,...
| 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...
| 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...
Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays
| Author | Peter J. Leithart |
| ISBN | 1885767234 |
Shakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, "a great observer," able to see and depict patterns of events and character. He understood how politics is shaped by the clash of men with various colorings of self-interest and idealism, how violence breeds violence, how fragile human beings create masks...
| 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,...
| Author | Irene Howat |
| ISBN | 1857926498 |
Gladys Aylward ~ Mary Slessor ~ Isobel Kuhn ~ Elizabeth Fry ~ Jackie Pullinger ~ Amy Carmichael ~ Joni Eareckson Tada ~ Catherine Booth ~ Corrie Ten Boom ~ Evelyn Brand
Would you like to change your world?
These ten girls did! Read this book and find out how Corrie saved lives and loved...
| Author | Carolinne White |
| ISBN | 0140435263 |
Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographies depict men who devoted themselves to solitude, poverty and prayer. Athanasius records Antony's extreme seclusion in the Egyptian desert, despite...
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...
Where Are You Going?: A Guide to the Spiritual Journey
| Author | Muktananda |
| ISBN | 0911307605 |
Where are you going? What is the purpose of life?
Sometimes it seems that we have been sidetracked and have lost sight of our true destination. One of the great spiritual masters of the modern age, Swami Muktananda, tells us, "Now is the time to get back on the main road." In the essays, stories,...
| Author | Josemaría Escrivá |
| ISBN | 0933932049 |
Christ Is Passing By collects 18 homilies given by St. Josemaria between 1951 and 1971, on the occasion of various liturgical feast days. The guiding thread is divine filiation, and the universal call to holiness entailed by this reality. Other important themes are the sanctification of ordinary...
God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church
| Author | George Weigel |
| ISBN | 0060937599 |
George Weigel's bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With God's Choice, he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as an unflinching view of the Catholic Church at...
The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace
| Author | Leslie Ludy |
| ISBN | 0736922903 |
Sensuality equals beauty—that’s what today’s young women are learning from our sex-obsessed society. Millions of 20somethings are caught up in trying to look like fashion models, movie stars, or the hottest new pop singer and end up plagued by insecurity, eating disorders, and sexual promiscuity.
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| Author | Steffany Woolsey |
| ISBN | 1400319536 |
A beautiful devotional, brimming with the wit and wisdom of Jane Austen and the timeless truths of Scripture.
The works of Jane Austen can transport a reader to a world that exudes beauty, peace, wisdom, wit, and love. Captivating audiences for 200 years, the works of Jane Austen continue...
Here and Now: Living in the Spirit
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0824519671 |
Here and Now was a recommendation by a dear Christian friend who knows how drawn I am to Buddhist teachings. Given that it was written by a Catholic priest, I cracked it open expecting to have (not entirely unpleasant) flashbacks to my Catholic upbringing. Instead, I found an incredibly open and nondenominational...
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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Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry: True Stories of Padre Pio
| Author | Diane Allen |
| ISBN | 1593305753 |
Based in large part upon the stories that have been researched and written for the quarterly Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry publication, the book contains 47 chapters and more than 400 pages. It provides a glimpse into the life and spirituality of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, who has often been called "The greatest...
Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints
| Author | Thomas J. Craughwell |
| ISBN | 0385517203 |
Saints are not born, they are made. And many, as Saints Behaving Badly reveals, were made of very rough materials indeed. The first book to lay bare the less than saintly behavior of thirty-two venerated holy men and women, it presents the scandalous, spicy, and sleazy detours they took on the road to...
Something Beautiful for God
| Author | Malcolm Muggeridge |
| ISBN | 0060660430 |
In celebration of Mother Teresa's beatification in October of 2003, HarperOne is proud to present a new edition of the classic work that introduced Mother Teresa to the Western world. Something Beautiful for God interprets her life through her conversations with Malcolm Muggeridge, the quintessential...
