Parker J. Palmer
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Parker J. Palmer wrote To Know as We Are Known.
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Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“With Awaken Your Senses, Brent Bill and Beth Booram have given us a superb resource for seeking the God of life through sensuous experience, a way of knowing that has been sadly neglected--and too often held suspect--by the church. How did a faith based on the claim that 'the Word became flesh' become so divorced from bodily, incarnate knowledge? Here is a beautiful book that will help us reclaim our bodies, our senses and our relationship with God.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Caregiving is demanding work that requires us to take care of ourselves. Courage for Caregivers offers sacred stories and space for those who serve to receive comfort and support as they walk into their calling. Engaging with Henri Nouwen's pastoral counsel, this book lifts up the belovedness of every caregiver.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“I love this book. It's a beautiful introduction to the depths and riches of silence and of the Quaker tradition. I commend it to non-Quakers who want to learn more about the Quaker way, and to Quakers who want to deepen their faith and practice.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“If your work is related to children in any shape, form or fashion, I urge you take a look at Daley-Harris’ book, Hope for the Future. I think you’ll find it an important contribution to a topic all of us should care deeply about.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Getting to know each other's personal stories is one of the best ways to bridge our deep divides and reclaim the power of 'We the People'; this book gives us that chance. Portraits of Peace also gives us a chance to correct the lenses through which we look at others, and get back in touch with our shared humanity.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Practicing Our Faith is a book written by a remarkable community of people—remarkable not only because it includes some of the most insightful Christian voices of our time but because its members prayed and talked and worked together to create this volume, modeling the way the church is meant to do its work. Practicing Our Faith is a book that should be widely read, and more: it should be put into action.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Praying in the Dark is a must-read for all who understand that nonviolence is the only way forward for our world. Dan Snyder does a masterful job of joining contemplation to action, calling us to engage with our deepest selves in order to engage in life-giving ways with the needs of the world. A longtime explorer of the inner life, Dan is a trustworthy guide for anyone willing to plumb the depths of being human in quest of the beloved community.”
The Forever Letter, Second Edition
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“I love this little book because it’s about writing real letters, a lost art in our time. Even more important, it’s about writing letters that matter to people who matter to us. What could be better than putting words to paper to tell people who we are and what we are becoming, and what it is that we cherish and value—thanking them for the way they helped point us toward our own North Star?”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Angela Gorrell was part of a Yale Divinity School project on ‘a theology of joy’ when three members of her family died within four weeks, all in tragic situations. Drowning in an ocean of sorrow, she wondered if joy could keep her afloat. This remarkable book is her honest, vulnerable, and healing answer to that question. There is no spiritual cheerleading here, no cheap grace. Instead, there is the hard-won knowledge that, while we cannot make joy, we can open ourselves to the God who suffers with us, offering us witness and ‘withness.’ The night is long, but if we keep on opening and offering ourselves through our tears, joy will come in the morning.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“The Mindful Grandparent is not only warm, loving, and practical; it's also gently honest. The authors know that this three-generation dance between grandparents, their own children, and their grandkids sometimes means that toes get stepped on. But as we learn the steps involved in doing a graceful dance, we see more clearly that this three-generation dance is grace-filled.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“We need to teach our kids how to create a world where everyone can thrive. This book will help us do exactly that.”
“Over the past decade a growing number of college and university professors have been reclaiming teaching as a vocation, but seminary faculty have been strangely silent on the subject. The Scope of Our Art breaks that silence with eloquence and power. I believe it will be regarded as a landmark book for years to come. This superb set of essays by some of our finest theological educators should spark a life-giving conversation about teaching and learning in the seminaries — where vocation as embodied by the faculty of today helps give shape to the vocation of ministry in the church of tomorrow.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“This beautifully written manifesto, grounded in the author's deep faith and faithful ministry, is manna for those of us who love what the church is called to be--but who have a lover's quarrel with the way it too often distorts the good news about love, justice, mercy, and care for 'the least of these.' May The Underground Church rise up and flower everywhere!”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“It's easy to get lost in a dense wood or a big city. But it's even easier to get lost in the tangles of our inner lives. In this book, Lisa Colón DeLay offers some of the best inner-life guidance I know. Highly recommended.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Alex Gee is a pastor, activist and writer whose writing nourishes the soul. He is a man whose vital faith honors the complexity of life while never evading the bracing simplicity of the gospel challenge. He is a Christian whose convictions have been made manifest in countless works of community building that strengthen the weakest among us and throw bridges across our divides. And he is a writer who does not exhort but models--revealing his own struggles, sufferings, weaknesses and failures, all the while testifying to the tenacity of God's grace. I know your life will be enriched, as mine has been, by Alex's life and work through this probing and faith-filled book.”
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