Introducing Spiritual Direction: Peter Ball A practical guide to what happens in spiritual direction, including first-person accounts from spiritual directors and directees. It provides insight into why individuals seek direction, how they are guided and what it is like to be in a relationship of spiritual direction.
The Universal Christ: Fr. Richard Rohr Rohr’s view of Jesus Christ is as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world. Rohr asserts Jesus’s life declares that humanity has never been separate from God—except by its own negative choice. Faith becomes about learning to recognize and honor the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet.
One Coin Found: Emmy Kegler Emmy Kegler is a pastor and a queer woman who grew up in both conservative Evangelical and progressive Protestant churches. This book is about her journey from woundedness and exclusion to full relationship with a God who continues to seek us out--appearing again and again in scripture and in our personal lives as a voice, a presence, and a promise.
A Thomas Merton Reader: Thomas P. McDowell This book provides a complete view of Merton, in all his aspects: contemplative, spiritual writer, poet, peacemaker, and social critic. In this closely knit volume are significant selections not only from his major works but from some lesser-known, yet equally valuable, writings as well.
Why I Wake Early: Mary Oliver Mary Oliver is an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, diving into profound awareness of the sacred in ordinary life and deep connection to the transcendence found in everyday encounters.
