Judith Valente

Buoyant

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Gina Vild offers a road map for navigating not only the personal traumas and setbacks we all eventually face, but also the collective political and social tumult we are enduring in the current time. Each chapter is like a fitness class to strengthen not only our inner core but the muscle of resilience that keeps us buoyant even in troubled times.”

Eternal Heart

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“There is likely in each of us a mystic within, waiting for us to open a door in the heart to release that hidden part of ourselves most in touch with the divine, and to embrace it and nurture it. Eternal Heart shows us how to unlock that door so that we can seek what is eternal and sacred in all things -- our conversations, walks, and all we see, taste and hear. It is a book whose 'heart practices' we will feel drawn to repeatedly over the different seasons of our lives.”

Extraordinary Time

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Few people write with more credibility about the nature and meaning of suffering than Laura Dunham. Over the course of little more than a year, she experiences challenges that would break the endurance of most of us. She writes with a journalist's clear-eyed precision and the compassion of a person deeply steeped in Scripture . . . Dunham leaves us with the assurance that ‘nothing that happens is without gifts through the grace of God.’”

The Mindful Grandparent

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“The Mindful Grandparent is essential reading for longtime grandparents, grandparents-to-be, and anyone else who seeks to give loving, grandparent-style caring to our young. Marilyn McEntyre and Shirley Showalter show us how grandparenting is both an art and a contemplative practice. They offer a roadmap for navigating the many roles grandparents play, as well as the new and diverse challenges facing their grandchildren.”

The Monkhood of All Believers

Christian Living

“This is essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of monasticism and why monastic life still matters today. The Monkhood of All Believers could not be more timely, since for the first time in history there are now more lay associates of monasteries—men and women, Catholic and Protestant, married and single, working and retired—than there are monks and sisters living within monastery walls. They are among the growing number of believers Peters identifies as interior monks. Just as Martin Luther spoke of the priesthood of all believers, Peters sees the definition of ‘monk’ and ‘monastic’ expanding and adapting into the monkhood of all believers, reflecting the spiritual reality of the twenty-first century.”

Thomas Merton and the Individual Witness

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Orberson paints a comprehensive and compelling portrait of contemporary religious life and the trends, beliefs, and insights influencing people of faith as well as the prodigious number who describe themselves as spiritual seekers. Into this picture Orberson inserts the timeless wisdom of Thomas Merton, whose reflections on technology, consumerism, racial justice, war, peace, nonviolence, and true communion with God and with others is as relevant today as when he first wrote on those subjects decades ago.”