Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling
10 best books like Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling (Becca Stevens): Trespassers Will Be Baptized: The Unordained Memoir of a Preacher's Daughter, The Dogs of Avalon: The Race to Save Animals in Peril, Animal Reiki: Using Energy to Heal the Animals in Your Life, The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine, Backyard Pharmacy: Growing Medicinal Plants in Your Own Yard, Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness, Between Panic and Desire, Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses, The Shaping of a Life: A Spiritual Landscape
Trespassers Will Be Baptized: The Unordained Memoir of a Preacher's Daughter
| Author | Elizabeth Emerson Hancock |
| ISBN | 1599957086 |
Growing up Southern and Baptist in Eastern Kentucky, Elizabeth Hancock's world revolved around Sunday School, foreign missions projects, revival meetings and of course, the Kentucky Wildcats, who "glorified God through their goal-shattering, soul-shattering play." Hancock chronicles her...
| Author | Laura Schenone |
| ISBN | 0393073580 |
Greyhounds, bred to be the fastest racing dogs on earth, are streaks of lightning. Beautiful, astonishing creatures, tens of thousands of them have been abandoned and destroyed every year once they can no longer compete and win.
The Dogs of Avalon introduces us to the strong-willed Marion...
| Author | Elizabeth Fulton |
| ISBN | 1569755280 |
WHETHER YOU’RE A NEWCOMER TO THE FIELD OF energy medicine, an experienced practitioner or an animal lover committed to learning everything you can about your companion’s health, Animal Reiki will open your eyes to a new level of healing and well-being. From dogs and cats to horses and birds, this...
| Author | Barbara Tedlock |
| ISBN | 0553379712 |
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the...
| Author | Elizabeth Millard |
| ISBN | 1591865964 |
A healthier life is right at your fingertips - or at least only a few steps from your door!
Backyard Pharmacy helps you choose the best "backyard" medicinal plants. All the plants can easily be grown throughout North America by any home gardener, and used for their healing and natural-remedy...
| 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 | Pam Montgomery |
| ISBN | 1591430771 |
A hands-on approach to working with the healing powers of plant spirits
• Explores the scientific basis underlying the practices of indigenous healers and shamans
• Illuminates the matrix where plant intelligence and human intelligence join
• Reveals that partnering...
“Insouciant” and “irreverent” are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore’s books—and, invariably, “hilarious.” Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could be named after...
| Author | Donna Freitas |
| ISBN | 0195311655 |
Based on dozens of face-to-face interviews, Sex and the Soul explores the sexual and spiritual lives of today's college students. Donna Freitas crisscrossed the country, visiting a range of America's colleges and universities--from public to private, Catholic to evangelical--to find out what...
| Author | Phyllis A. Tickle |
| ISBN | 0385497563 |
In The Shaping of a Life, Phyllis Tickle recounts her life with honesty and humor, richly conveying both the external events and the internal insights and emotions. As Tickle chronicles her deepening understanding of prayer and the rewards of marriage, family, and spiritual life, she reaches across...
| Author | Michael Schut |
| ISBN | 1889108626 |
Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective is a rich collection of voices that bring clarity to the confusion between our society's ideal of the material "good life" with the "abundant life, " modeled after the person of Jesus, the things he taught, and the way he lived. It invites...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 1561011894 |
In Speaking of Sin, Barbara Brown Taylor brings her fresh perspective to a cluster of words that often cause us discomfort and have widely fallen into neglect: sin, damnation, repentance, penance, and salvation. She asks, "Why, then, should we speak of sin anymore? The only reason I can think of is because...
Do-It-Yourself Herbal Medicine: Home-Crafted Remedies for Health and Beauty
The Modern Guide to Using Herbs and Essential Oils
You don’t have to identify with the goddess or Earth Mother labels to get going with holistic treatments for your everyday health needs. If you already buy organic produce, make an effort to eat whole foods, and tend to choose Method products...
| Author | Walter Wink |
| ISBN | 0800636090 |
More than ever, Walter Wink believes, the Christian tradition of nonviolence is needed as an alternative to the dominant and death-dealing "powers" of our consumerist culture and fractured world. In this small book Wink offers a precis of his whole thinking about this issue, including the relation...
| Author | Maria Noel Groves |
| ISBN | 1612128076 |
Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner for Health & Healing
An antacid or an aspirin may soothe your pain, but it doesn’t cure the cause of your symptoms. Headaches, indigestion, fatigue, allergies, anxiety, eczema, high blood pressure, and other conditions are clues to a deeper imbalance...
The Autobiography Of Howard Thurman
I became interested in Howard Thurman (1899 -- 1981) through studying Martin Luther King, Jr; and, in particular, from reading about Thurman in Gary Dorrien's 2018 book, "Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Social Gospel."...
Despite high-minded ideals, temptation always seems to loom around the corner, threatening to derail us into a desperate world of secret behavior and covered-up indiscretions. From families to marriages to businesses, on a scale as global as the credit default swap meltdown or as personal as our...
| Author | Masaru Emoto |
| ISBN | 1401908764 |
Caroline Myss, author of Sacred Contracts, calls Dr. Emoto, “magnificent…genius…His research in spiritual consciousness is positively masterful.”
This book will transform your world view. Dr. Masaru Emoto’s first book, The Hidden Message in Water, told about his...
| Author | Dennis Linn |
| ISBN | 0809134632 |
What a great, but intriguing book. Published by the Society of Jesus and yet this book seems to differ greatly from traditional Catholic of even Western Christian teaching. Sprinkled throughout is several streams of Christianity (I.e. Augustine, Barth, and Balthasar). Well sourced and approachable...
| Author | John H. Walton |
| ISBN | 0830814191 |
This edition has a new cover
Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference for 2014 (General Reference) How can we account for the "Book of the Law" suddenly being discovered during Josiah's renovation of the temple (2 Chron 34:14)? We know from Egypt and Mesopotamia that it was...
| Author | Nichole Nordeman |
| ISBN | 1617953741 |
A few years ago, a book called simply The Story was released. It broke up the narrative of the Bible into novel format, doing away with verse numbers and separate books. I thought it was a wonderful way to approach reading the Bible, whether you had read it through dozens of times in your life or you were just...
Journeys: Young Readers' Letters to Authors Who Changed Their Lives
| Author | Catherine Gourley |
| ISBN | 0763681016 |
Books can change lives -- and here are more than fifty powerful letters from young readers to authors revealing some of the ways that is true.
Annie Schnitzer tells Elie Wiesel, "Reading your story allowed me to connect with my own history," explaining how reading his memoir deepened her understanding...
Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead
| Author | Tamara Draut |
| ISBN | 1400079977 |
Drowning in student loans? Can’t afford to get married, buy a home, have children? Up to your ears in credit card debt? At last, a book for the under-35 generation that explains why it’s not their fault, and what can be done about it. Strapped offers a groundbreaking look at the new obstacle course...
In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream
| Author | Eric Dregni |
| ISBN | 0816656231 |
"Eric Dregni's great-grandfather Ellef fled Norway in 1893 when it was the poorest country in Europe. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson traveled back to find that (mostly due to oil and natural gas discoveries) it is now the richest. The circumstances of his return were serendipitous;...
Hope without Optimism (Page-Barbour Lectures)
In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling meditation on hope begins with a firm rejection of the role of optimism in life’s course. Like its close relative, pessimism, it is more a system of rationalization...
