Stalking the Divine
10 best books like Stalking the Divine (Kristin Ohlson): Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith, Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed: The Ultimate Nap Book, The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life, Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead, Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life, Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion, Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself, Bazaar Style: Decorating with Market and Vintage Finds
| Author | Diana Butler Bass |
| ISBN | 0060836946 |
For decades the accepted wisdom has been that America's mainline Protestant churches are in decline, eclipsed by evangelical mega-churches. Church and religion expert Diana Butler Bass wondered if this was true, and this book is the result of her extensive, three-year study of centrist and progressive...
| Author | S.A.R.K. |
| ISBN | 0684859300 |
Recently I went home to visit my parents, and I found – in the basement – this little book about napping. At my parents’ house, every object and book that cannot be classified is taken down to an old “wreck-room,” full of miscellaneous bits and pieces.
“Change Your Life Without Getting...
| Author | Oriah Mountain Dreamer |
| ISBN | 0062516930 |
Welcome to The Dance, the wise and practical book that expands on Oriah Mountain Dreamer′s new moving prose poem. In this compelling book the acclaimed author of The Invitation challenges readers to live with passion, energy, and honesty. The key, says Oriah, is to savour the everyday world of family,...
| Author | Irwin Kula |
| ISBN | 1401301924 |
"Irwin Kula shows us how to to live our humanness -- the pleasures and the challenges, the messiness and the triumphs -- with a profound acceptance of our desires and foibles and a joy that can only come from understanding." --Deepak Chopra "Yearning. After twenty-three years as a rabbi, I can think of...
| Author | Sara Miles |
| ISBN | 0470481668 |
"I came late to Christianity," writes Sara Miles, "knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world."In this new book, Sara Miles tells...
| Author | Frederic Brussat |
| ISBN | 0684835347 |
A book that belongs in every seeker's home, Spiritual Literacy answers the universal question, "How can I live a spiritual life every day?" Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat reveal a way to read the texts of our lives and of the world around us for sacred meaning.
Using more than 650 brief examples from...
| Author | Patricia Storace |
| ISBN | 0679744789 |
"I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint." So begins Patricia Storace's astonishing memoir of her year in Greece. Mixing affection with detachment, rapture with clarity, this American poet perfectly evokes a country delicately balanced between East and West.
Whether...
| Author | Dawna Markova |
| ISBN | 1573241016 |
When Dawn Markova was diagnosed with cancer, instead of lying down to die she delved into a search for meaning and a higher purpose for her life. "I Will Not Die an Unlived Life is a collection of stories of Markova's own journey to uncover her purpose and make her life matter, and it has been inspiring readers...
| Author | Judith Duerk |
| ISBN | 1880913631 |
Long ago before the patriarchal period, in many places on Earth, the Goddess was worshipped. Circle of Stones draws us into a meditative experience of the lost Feminine and creates a space for us to consider our present lives from the eyes of women's ancient culture and ritual. Incorporating the most...
| Author | Selina Lake |
| ISBN | 1845976266 |
If you love rummaging through markets for unusual fabrics, and can’t pass an antique or second-hand shop without popping in, Bazaar Style is for you. Stylist Selina Lake and experienced interiors writer Joanna Simmons show you real homes furnished with intriguing pieces from different eras...
| Author | Gregg Levoy |
| ISBN | 0609803700 |
How do we know if we're following our true callings? How do we sharpen our senses to cut through the distractions of everyday reality and hear the calls that are beckoning us?
is the first book to examine the many kinds of calls we receive and the great variety of channels through which they come to us....
| Author | Sibella Court |
| ISBN | 1452104964 |
In this deluxe cloth-covered style guide, celebrated designer Sibella Court travels the world in search of eclectic inspiration. She explores far-flung destinations and captures the essence of each in small details, exotic color palettes, exquisite textures, and traditional crafts. Along the...
| Author | John O'Donohue |
| ISBN | 0385522274 |
From the author of the bestselling Anam Cara comes a beautiful collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their lives.
John O'Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, has been widely praised for his gift of drawing on Celtic spiritual...
| Author | Ernie J. Zelinski |
| ISBN | 1580085520 |
Ernie Zelinski could change your view of the world forever. He has already taught more than 150,000 people what THE JOY OF NOT WORKING is all about: learning to live every part of your life-employment, unemployment, retirement, and leisure time alike-to the fullest. With this completely revised and...
| Author | Parker J. Palmer |
| ISBN | 0787971006 |
In A Hidden Wholeness, Parker Palmer reveals the same compassionate intelligence and informed heart that shaped his best-selling books Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach. Here he speaks to our yearning to live undivided lives--lives that are congruent with our inner truth--in a world filled...
| Author | Margaret Visser |
| ISBN | 0865476403 |
Margaret Visser's desire to find answers to her own questions -- as a traveler, a believer, and an insatiable "anthropologist of everyday life" -- led her to undertake this unique and revelatory book. Guiding the reader through a church outside Rome, Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura, she draws upon history,...
| Author | Christine Valters Paintner |
| ISBN | 1933495294 |
Summarized in the phrase "pray and work," "The Rule of St. Benedict" provides the inspiration for Christine Valters Paintner's newest exploration of the mutually nourishing relationship between contemplative practices and creative expression. Artists of all stripes and stations in lifepoets...
| Author | Daniel Homan |
| ISBN | 1557254419 |
Today's culture is increasingly hostile and suspicious toward anyone who appears to be different--especially when tragedy strikes. Our instinct is to bolt our doors and protect the ones we love. But deep within the heart of Benedictine spirituality lies a remedy to hatred, fear, and suspicion: hospitality....
| Author | Cheryl L. Reed |
| ISBN | 0425200299 |
When reporter Cheryl Reed set out to examine the lives of nuns, she was determined to find out what was behind the enigmatic image reinforced by Hollywood clichés, misguided speculation, and her Catholic friends' childhood stories of unyielding figures in black.
For Unveiled,...
| Author | Michael Frost |
| ISBN | 1565636597 |
I liked this book, but it was a bit of a mixed bag.
On the one hand, it was full of great ideas for the church to recover its missional impulse. I liked the encouragement to contextualize to local environs. Churches don't need to look the same. And I loved the ideas for making the church more organic....
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 0849901146 |
Shines a practical light on the spiritual disciplines that have been in use since the time of Abraham. In a sense, every day of our lives is labor. It is questionable if you can ever be exactly the same person waking up on two consecutive days. How are spiritual sojourners to cope with the constant change?...
| Author | George G. Hunter III |
| ISBN | 0687085853 |
Celtic Christianity--the form of Christian faith that flourished among the people of Ireland during the Middle Ages--has gained a great deal of attention lately. George G. Hunter III points out that, while the attention paid to the Celtic Christians is well deserved, much of it fails to recognize...
Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members - revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier sermons, bigger and better auditoriums. But there are still so many people who aren't being reached, who don't want to come to church. And the truth is...
The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love
| Author | Richard Dahlstrom |
| ISBN | 0801013569 |
The Christian life, says Richard Dahlstrom, should be guided by the intentional goal of blessing the lives of the friends, loved ones, and strangers in our midst. We are called to impact a culture that, for all the rhetoric about hope, is overwhelmingly preoccupied with personal peace, prosperity,...
On the Verge: A Journey Into the Apostolic Future of the Church
| Author | Alan Hirsch |
| ISBN | 0310331005 |
The church is on the verge of massive, category shifting, change. Contemporary church growth, despite its many blessings, has failed to stem the decline of Christianity in the West. We are now facing the fact that more of the same will not produce different results. Our times require a different kind...
