The Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things
10 best books like The Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things (Leighton Ford): Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter, Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day, Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness, Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace, Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls, Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead, Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a Few Scoundrels, Seeking Enlightenment... Hat by Hat: A Skeptic's Path to Religion, The Spirit of Food: Thirty-Four Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God, God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0874869269 |
Though Easter is often trivialized by the culture at large, it is still the high point of the religious calendar for millions of people around the world. And for most of them, there can be no Easter without Lent, the season that leads up to it.
A time for self-denial, soul-searching, and spiritual...
| Author | Macrina Wiederkehr |
| ISBN | 1933495103 |
Author and retreat leader Macrina Wiederkehr opens the monastery door and invites readers to come in and learn how the practice of consciously pausing for prayer at the seven sacred moments of each day can make their daily passage through time a more sacred pilgrimage. Using scripture, poetry, reflections....
| Author | Matthew S. Stanford |
| ISBN | 1934068446 |
Each day men and women diagnosed with mental disorders are told they need to pray more and turn from their sin. Mental illness is equated with demonic possession, weak faith and generational sin. Why is it that the church has struggled in ministering to those with mental illnesses? As both a church leader...
| Author | Nora Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0375705635 |
In the highly praised memoir Things Seen and Unseen, Nora Gallagher reflected on a year of spiritual renewal and the fact of mortality with uncommon wisdom and grace. We rejoin her in Practicing Resurrection as Gallagher searches for direction in the wake of her brother’s death. A desire to reclaim...
| Author | Stephanie Wellen Levine |
| ISBN | 0814751970 |
From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club, smokes pot, and agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Lubavitcher with a desire for a high-powered career, Stephanie Wellen Levine provides a rare glimpse into the inner worlds...
| 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 | Jennifer Grant |
| ISBN | 1455578827 |
An engaging and hilarious collection that encourages readers to tackle those strange, awkward, worrying, yet endlessly compelling passages of the Bible. The Bible is full of not-so-precious moments, from murder and mayhem, to sex and slavery. Now, an incredible cast of contributors tackles the...
| Author | Nevada Barr |
| ISBN | 0425196038 |
A refreshingly honest spiritual exploration from the New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon novels.
Actor, adventuress, seeker of truth, and author of the New York Times bestselling Anna Pigeon mystery series, Nevada Barr beckons readers to share her spiritual search for...
| Author | Leslie Leyland Fields |
| ISBN | 1608995925 |
Description: You are invited to a feast for the senses and the spirit! Thirty-four adventurous writers open their kitchens, their recipe files, and their hearts to illustrate the many unexpected ways that food draws us closer to God, to community, and to creation. All bring a keen eye and palette to...
| Author | Sue Monk Kidd |
| ISBN | 0060645814 |
The bestselling author's inspiring account of her spiritual journey into discovering the love of God.
"Beautifully written . . . the message and challenge of the book is profound. . . . This book will awaken your longing and set you off on your own spiritual journey."—Today's Christian Woman
"A...
| Author | Heidi B. Neumark |
| ISBN | 1630881244 |
A shocking discovery of hidden family secrets leads to profound revelations of faith.
Heidi Neumark’s life changed when a few computer keystrokes exposed a generation of family secrets. Late one night while her family slept, Neumark discovered her hidden Jewish heritage—and uncovered...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0824518780 |
“Maybe the time has come to let go of my prayer, my effort to be close to God, my way of being in communion with the Divine, and allow the Spirit of God to blow freely in me.” p. 6
A couple of weekends ago, I had a mini-retreat. There was no one else home and I wanted to spend some time with just one book....
Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, there s a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the...
| Author | David Dark |
| ISBN | 0310286182 |
Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned? The freedom to question is an indispensable and sacred practice that is absolutely vital to the health of our communities.According to author David Dark, when religion won’t tolerate questions, objections, or differences of opinion, and when it only brings...
| Author | Tony Jones |
| ISBN | 0787994715 |
What the "Emergent Church Movement" is all about-and why it matters to the future of Christianity Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like. Writing "dispatches" about...
| Author | Adam Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0687649692 |
Everyone agrees that America is polarized, with ever-hardening positions held by people less and less willing to listen to one another. No one agrees on what to do about it.
One solution that hasn't yet been tried, says Adam Hamilton, is for thinking persons of faith to model for the rest of the...
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060836970 |
Too often, our study of the Bible focuses on searching for specific information or some formula that will solve our pressing needs of the moment. But what if we approached the Bible differently, and instead of transforming the text to meet our needs, allowed it to transform us?
That's exactly...
| Author | Josh Packard |
| ISBN | 1470725924 |
As millions of church members fall into inactivity each year, they've probably also started skipping church on Sunday.
We need answers—not statistics. We need to understand and hear from people who are leaving church so we can find a way to turn around the trend.
This book uses...
Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics
| Author | Jonathan Dudley |
| ISBN | 0385525265 |
Abortion. Homosexuality. Environmentalism. Evolution. Conservative positions on these topics are the current boundaries of mainstream Evangelical Christianity. But what if the theological arguments given by popular leaders on these “big four” were not quite as clear cut as they claim?...
| Author | Deborah Jian Lee |
| ISBN | 0807033472 |
An inside look at the young, diverse, progressive Christians who are transforming the evangelical movement
Most of what we think we know about evangelicals is wrong, or is well on its way to being outdated. Generational changes and the shifting racial make-up of evangelical Christians...
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0060611391 |
In Wishful Thinking, the first book in his much-loved lexical trilogy, Frederick Buechner puts the language of God, the universe, and the human spirit under his wry linguistic microscope. In his often ironic and always keen-sighted reflections on such terms as agnostic, envy, love, and sin, he invited...
| Author | Daniel Gottlieb |
| ISBN | 1402749996 |
In the nearly 30 years since the accident that made radio personality and columnist Dan Gottlieb a quadriplegic, he developed a finely-tuned quality of awareness that most people never achieve: he became an outsider among us—”like a foreign correspondent,” as he puts it. From that vantage...
| Author | Carolyn Custis James |
| ISBN | 0310325579 |
Malestrom builds on and expands previous books by Carolyn Custis James to explore the idea of manhood, a growing issue both in the wider culture and in the church. Until now, the entire discussion has been largely reduced to Western conceptions. Instead, James here shows how our culture’s narrow...
