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Be Stillby Amy Reinhold; Judge Reinhold; Lezle Williams
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 12.99Stop Breathe Listen Be Still In a world that moves too fast and places little value on quiet times, the practice of contemplative prayer offers rest to your soul and invites God's presence into your life. This thoughtful book, inspired by the best-selling DVD of the same name, invites you into the joy and peace that can be found in the age-old practice of contemplative prayer and features writings from some of today's most highly respected authors and speakers, including: Max Lucado Dr. Henry Cloud Philip Yancey Michelle McKinney Hammond Richard Foster Dallas Willard Dr. Calvin Miller Ken Gire In these pages you will be introduced to the practice of... more...
Where Men Are Wives and Mothers Ruleby Mary Ann Clark
UPF 2001; US$ 44.95While much theological thinking assumes a normative male perspective, this study demonstrates how our ideas of religious beliefs and practices change in the light of gender awareness. more...
Verdi: Requiemby David Rosen
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 26.00This new guide considers the work's history, composition, performance practice and reception. more...
History of Godby Karen Armstrong
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 11.99BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Karen Armstrong's Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life. In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. From classical philsophy and medieval mysticism to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the modern age of skepticism, Karen Armstrong performs the near miracle of distilling the intellectual history of monotheism into one superbly readable volume, destined to take its place as a classic. more...
Mighty Stories, Dangerous Ritualsby Herbert Anderson; Edward Foley
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 18.95Bringing together two of our greatest sources of meaning and transformation This book marries two partners that are made for each other. The result, as in all good unions, is mutual enrichment and deeper life. --Jack Shea, author of Stories of God Now available in paperback, this moving and enlightening book presents us with a compelling vision of what can happen when we take the opportunity to connect stories and rituals--a vision of individuals and communities transformed through a deeper sense of connection to our loved ones, our communities, and God. Herbert Anderson and Edward Foley reveal how when stories and rituals work together, they have the potential to be both mighty and dangerous--mighty in their ability to lift us up and help... more...
Receiving the Dayby Dorothy C. Bass
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 14.95In this spirituality of time, Dorothy Bass invites readers into a way of living in time that is alert to both contemporary pressures and rooted ancient wisdom. The celebrated editor of Practicing Our Faith asks hard questions about how our injurious attitude toward time has distorted our relationships with our innermost selves, with other people, with the natural world, and with God. As an alternative to the rhetoric of management and mastery, Receiving the Day offers a language of attention, poetry, and celebration. Bass encourages us to reevaluate our understanding of the temporal and thereby to participate fully in the Christian practice of knowing time as God's gift. Embraced in this way, time need not be wrestled with each day. Instead,... more...
A Place to Prayby Roberta C. Bondi
Abingdon Press 2002; US$ 12.00In many ways the Lord's Prayer is the most fundamental of all Christian prayers. more...
A Time Apart for My Soulby Mary Zimmer
Abingdon Press 2002; US$ 10.00This book offers teachers and other seekers a daily reading for reflection. Taking 'time apart for the soul' allows each of us to grow in God's grace. Based on the Christian year, the readings begin with the first Sunday of Advent. more...
Celebration of Disciplineby Richard J. Foster
HarperCollins US 2009; US$ 12.99In the twenty years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has helped over a million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God. For this special twentieth anniversary edition, Richard J. Foster has added an introduction, in which he shares the story of how this beloved and enduring spiritual guidebook came to be. Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline explores the "classic Disciplines," or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found. Dividing the Disciplines into three movements of the... more...
Asceticism and the New Testamentby Leif E. Vaage; Vincent L. Wimbush
Routledge 1999; US$ 48.95This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might reorder the way in which we interpret the New Testament. more...









