Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
10 best books like Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery (Karen Armstrong): Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul, The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery, Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order, Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life, Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery, At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst, Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son
| Author | Cathleen Medwick |
| ISBN | 0385501293 |
A refreshingly modern reconsideration of Saint Teresa (1515-1582), one of the greatest mystics and reformers to emerge within the sixteenth-century Catholic Church, whose writings are a keystone of modern mystical thought.
From the very beginning of her life in a convent, following the...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0232521433 |
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery is Henri Nouwen's journal of his seven-month stay in the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York. His reflections on daily life with the Trappists are funny, wise, and often profound--resembling Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk, but a bit less...
| Author | Susan Campbell |
| ISBN | 0807010669 |
By the age of twelve, Susan Campbell had been flirting with Jesus for some time, and in her mind, Jesus had been flirting back. Why wouldn't he? She went to his house three times a week, sat in his living room, listened to his stories, loudly and lustily sang songs to him. So, one Sunday morning, she walked...
| Author | John Shelby Spong |
| ISBN | 0060675187 |
I’m sure there are hundreds of reviews by now of this book on Amazon and elsewhere, so I won’t repeat what everyone else is saying. I just want to call it to your attention.
If you’re new to Bishop Spong’s books and his liberal Christian bent, then pick this up. Published way back in 1991,...
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 1594489963 |
Kathleen Norris’s masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself...
| Author | Nancy Klein Maguire |
| ISBN | 1586483277 |
In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest center of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually unchanged in its behavior and lifestyle since its foundation...
| 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 | Richard Lischer |
| ISBN | 0767907442 |
In the tradition of Garrison Keillor, Open Secrets captures the friendships, rivalries, and rumors of small-town life by chronicling the lives of the citizens of a small Midwestern community through the eyes of a young minister.
Fresh out of divinity school and bursting with enthusiasm,...
I really enjoyed this book because it is one of the few positive books on the market discussing feminism within spirituality. The idea that one can be very religious and a good feminist, fighting for the rights of fellow women or setting up ritual in our daily lives to celebrate our womanhood. It was written...
| Author | Peter Manseau |
| ISBN | 0743249089 |
Vows is a compelling story of one family's unshakable faith that to be called is to serve, however high the cost may be. Peter Manseau's riveting evocation of his parents' parallel childhoods, their similar callings, their experiences in the seminary and convent, and how they met while tending to the...
| Author | Kate Braestrup |
| ISBN | 1439184267 |
Prayer is an ancient and simple way to prepare yourself for grace, or love, and to learn to recognize it when it comes. Even the briefest "grace" spoken before dinner offers its time-honored wisdom. Yet in spite of hundreds of traditions and teachings and books about prayer, millions of Americans have...
| Author | Paul Elie |
| ISBN | 0374529213 |
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God
In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them - in works that readers of all kinds could admire....
| Author | Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew |
| ISBN | 1558964096 |
Speaks to the Soul
The language of the soul is tricky to translate, and yet this memoir speaks eloquently, honestly, and with grace. I feel blessed to have read it. We are all on a journey, one that will last a lifetime, and I recommend this to any and all who would like the voice of another traveler...
| Author | Beryl Singleton Bissell |
| ISBN | 1582433488 |
5 – I teared up and cried numerous times – stars. I experienced a rollercoaster of emotions. This book crept up on me and enveloped me.
I don’t even know where to start. Before I even start saying anything, I would like to say this is not a book about religion or God or anything preachy....
| Author | Robert Coles |
| ISBN | 0201079747 |
Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book, an intellectual and psychological portrait, confronts candidly...
| Author | Forrest Church |
| ISBN | 0807072931 |
On a February day in 2008, Forrest Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation, informing them that he had terminal cancer; his life would now be measured in months, not years. In that remarkable letter, he wrote: "In more than one respect, I feel very lucky." He went on to promise that he would...
| Author | Jerry Bridges |
| ISBN | 1612915795 |
Jerry Bridges' life is a remarkable story of God's providence. From -a most unpromising beginning- as a poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks, he joined the Navy, went to college, became an engineer, joined The Navigators as a missionary, and eventually became a best-selling author. In this book,...
| 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 | Robert A. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0062515063 |
One of this century's most popular psychology scholars, Robert A.Johnson was among the first to present Carl Jung's rich but complex theories with simple elegance and grace,opening them to an entirely new and hungry audience. His masterful works--including the best selling He, She, Inner Work,...
Holy Days: The World Of The Hasidic Family
| Author | Lis Harris |
| ISBN | 0684813661 |
"A beloved contemporary classic, Holy Days is a personal account of New York's Hasidic community, its beliefs, its mysteries, and its encounter with secularism in the present age. Combining a historical understanding of the Hasidic movement with a journalist's discerning eye, Harris captures...
| Author | Dorothy Day |
| ISBN | 1570751560 |
This volume contained several striking and informative stories about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker (CW) movement and provides a more substantial discussion of the delightful oddity of her co-founder Peter Maurin than one finds in Day's other writings (he is mentioned throughout the book,...
| Author | Karen L King |
| ISBN | 0944344585 |
Lost for more than fifteen hundred years, the Gospel of Mary is the only existing early Christian gospel written in the name of a woman. Karen L. King tells the story of the recovery of this remarkable gospel and offers a new translation. This brief narrative rejects Jesus' suffering and death as a path...
