Richard Rohr
Biography
Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rohr wrote the afterword to Healing the Divide, Tenth Anniversary Edition (2024) and the forewords to Mindful Silence (2018) and Secrets from a Prison Cell (2018).
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Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Effectively skewering a central fallacy of the age, David Dark argues that at the deepest level no one is more or less religious than anyone else. With his premise granted, new avenues for ownership, responsibility, and a renewed attentiveness to all we say, do and think arise. Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious is a call to consciousness and the compassion that accompanies the sacred insight that the whole world is kin and everything belongs.”
Christian Living
“Don’t expect a dry or pious book here! Miller writes with clarity, calm but inspired development of one shining idea, and with an experienced knowledge that is infectious. I sincerely hope the book receives a wide readership. Its truth and allurement are hard to resist.”
Christian Living
“Brings lively attention to the way words can open multiple doors of memory, imagination, and reflection.”
Meeting Jesus the Christ Again
Theology
“This wise, insightful book invites us to both/and thinking about our faith. With a Christ-centered, cross-centered focus, it shows how to build faithful bridges across old divides between believers left and right. In an age of intense polarizations, all Christians of good will should be intrigued by the 'conservative progressive' vision offered here.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
Foreword
“Phileena writes here with such simple clarity—and easy readability—because she knows she does not need to prove, convict, or defend anything. Mindful Silence contains not just her wisdom but the spiritual wisdom of the ages that is again standing the test of time and showing itself in the fruits of incarnational holiness. It is the great tradition of action and contemplation again showing itself.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“So well written, so simple, and quite profound too! This is the kind of practical and practiced wisdom that the world and the churches need today. William Thiele is making an art form of it--for all of us!”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“This is incarnational Christianity and embodied prayer as it was meant to be. For some reason it is the specific, the concrete, the immediate, and the now that lead us to experience the eternal. In this 'prayer book' we have a fine guide and fine guidance.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“This book represents a new maturity in spiritual thinking and teaching. David Benner is wise, broad and deep all at the same time. And you will be too after you finish this wonderful book.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“For some reason we imagined that just the 'thinking life' would elicit and feed the Christian spirit. The soul is fed much more by the 'symbolic life' too, where action and contemplation meet, where the inner and the outer learn to operate as one, where words become flesh, where God is no longer just an idea but the heartbeat of life itself. This marvelous book gives you many avenues by which to live such a full and enfleshed life. Phileena tells you to stop 'thinking about it' and to try it! That is when it works.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“This comprehensive translation of letters, maxims, and last words revolves around the simple practice of the presence, which is simply, and at its most essential, an awareness of the presence of God. Acevedo Butcher beautifully captures what Brother Lawrence continually reminds us: There are no special words, devotions, or actions needed, just simplicity of thought and deed.”
Christian Living
“Jerry reminds us we are simultaneously saint and sinner, called to get out of the pews and into the street because the work of Jesus is not finished; it is to be completed in us and through our acts of service to one another. Jerry is one of the ones I call ‘on the edge of the inside’—neither a ‘company man’ nor a rebel. I support him and his important work.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“This is incarnational Christianity and embodied prayer as it was meant to be. For some reason, it is the specific, the concrete, the immediate, and the now that lead us to experience the eternal. In this 'prayer book' we have a fine guide and fine guidance.”
Christian Living
“God, whose love and healing is working in every life, in every place, simply asks us to join in the divine love flow. In this book, Tim Geoffrion shows us how to actually experience what God is calling us to live, in everyday, real life. I heartily recommend it to any follower of Christ who is ready to say yes to God in deeper and more profound ways, and who wants to be changed by listening more closely to God and by cooperating more fully with the leading of the Holy Spirit.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“As a part-time hermit myself, still mixed with teaching and ministry, I sincerely wish I had this wonderful resource when I was discerning my later Franciscan vocation. There is a common guilt and fear of selfishness that must be faced, and this fine study helps you see that you are a part of a long and solid tradition that was anything but selfish.”
Silence: A User’s Guide, Volume Two
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Maggie Ross is a seer, listener, and hearer of the first magnitude! Now she does it with that most ordinary and universal of spiritual disciplines—silence itself. Come see, listen, and hear with her, and watch her words silence you.”
Christian Living
“Anything David Benner writes is worth reading, and this is no exception. Read and be fed with real food!”
Science & Faith
“We Franciscans always believed that nature was God's first revelation, and if we did not read and respect creation, elements, and animals, we would probably not know how to read the written Bible either. . . . In this beautiful book, you now have a way through--and beyond--that will satisfy your searching intelligence and your seeking heart at the same time.”
Arts & Literature
“Brings lively attention to the way words can open multiple doors of memory, imagination, and reflection.”
Strangers and Pilgrims Once More
Christian Living
“This excellent book is both clear and courageous! It describes the fundamental changes that must take place for re-forming the Christianity that most of our denominations have accepted as the only available model of church. Addison Hodges Hart honors history, Scripture, and theology -- and puts them together very wisely.”
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