Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives You Life
10 best books like Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives You Life (Dennis Linn): I Miss You When I Blink: Essays, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, The Scapegoat, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, So Brave, Young and Handsome, The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old, True Inclusion: Creating Communities of Radical Embrace, Encountering the Wisdom Jesus
I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
| Author | Mary Laura Philpott |
| ISBN | 1982102802 |
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“I've spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authors—Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin—all rolled into one...Good news: I have finally found their successor.” —Elisabeth Egan, The...
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062406582 |
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...
| Author | Daphne du Maurier |
| ISBN | 0316252980 |
By chance, John and Jean--one English, the other French--meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance to each other is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John falls into a drunken stupor. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, Jean...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...
| Author | Josef Pieper |
| ISBN | 1890318353 |
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure: the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that the Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval...
| Author | Leif Enger |
| ISBN | 0871139855 |
A stunning successor to his best selling novel Peace Like a River, Leif Enger's new work is a rugged and nimble story about an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.
In 1915 Minnesota, novelist Monte Becket has lost...
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...
On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
| Author | Parker J. Palmer |
| ISBN | 1523095431 |
From beloved and bestselling author Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, Healing the Heart of Democracy), comes a beautiful book of reflections on what we can learn as we move closer to "the brink of everything."
Drawing on eight decades of life -- and his career as a writer,...
True Inclusion: Creating Communities of Radical Embrace
| Author | Brandan Robertson |
| ISBN | 0827237189 |
Want to be truly inclusive? It's more than flying a rainbow flag on your church doors. So your church website says you're welcoming, a rainbow flag flies out front, worship uses gender-inclusive language, and you make sure you greet the stranger next to you on Sunday mornings. But is all of that really...
Encountering the Wisdom Jesus
| Author | Cynthia Bourgeault |
| ISBN | 1591792932 |
The early Christians, teaches the Reverend Cynthia Bourgeault, were afire with the spirit of Jesus, inspired fully by his teaching of a total transformation of consciousness. How do we reclaim that fire today?On Encountering the Wisdom Jesus, this brilliant author and dynamic Episcopalian priest...
The One Thing Holding You Back
| Author | Raphael Cushnir |
| ISBN | 0061727393 |
By the time you finish this book, there will be nothing holding you back. --from the Introduction Most people have a vision for their lives that they're not pursuing, half-heartedly pursuing, or pursuing with all their might yet somehow falling short. This vision can be modest or grand. It may involve...
Make Miracles in Forty Days: Turning What You Have Into What You Want
| Author | Melody Beattie |
| ISBN | 1439102155 |
If you could ask for a miracle right now, what would it be? We've all had situations in our lives that seem beyond our control or that have no clear remedy. In this concise, inspirational guide, bestselling self-help guru Melody Beattie shows us that we have the ability to make a miracle for almost any circumstance...
The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing
| Author | Linda Rief |
| ISBN | 0325098123 |
Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces?
A powerful tool to jumpstart writing
In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher...
Field of Compassion: How the New Cosmology Is Transforming Spiritual Life
| Author | Judy Cannato |
| ISBN | 1933495219 |
I literally, if accidentally, drowned this book. *Maybe* it has some good things to say, but its main premise is based on sketchy research by a scientist who hasn’t worked in the field for well over thirty years, and whose theory has been pretty well debunked. So, ya know. I’m tired of people using...
The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
| Author | Kwame Alexander |
| ISBN | 0544570979 |
You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives?
Illustrated...
The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times: New Perspectives on the Transformative Wisdom of Ignatius of Loyola
| Author | Dean Brackley |
| ISBN | 0824522680 |
In a conversation on spirituality and social justice, a friend recommended this book. The author Fr. Dean Brackley is a North American Catholic priest who has spent a great deal of time in El Slavador, sent there following the 1989 murder of 6 Jesuit priests by the El Salvadoran death squads. Brackley...
Revolutionary Saint: The Theological Legacy of Oscar Romero
Many years after his death in 1980, the world is still absorbing the witness of Óscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador, martyred for his commitment to the poor and social justice. In this work, Michael E. Lee offers a profound reflection on the theological implications of Romero's life and ministry.
Drawing...
Candlelight: Illuminating the Art of Spiritual Direction
| Author | Susan S. Phillips |
| ISBN | 0819222976 |
Candlelight offers an intimate view of spiritual direction through written re-enactments of actual spiritual direction sessions. The experiential practice is accompanied by theoretical and theological foundations guiding it. The book includes the stories of nine men and women whose stories...
