Speaking the Truth for Love
Reflections on The Dave Test by Frederick W. Schmidt I welcomed this book into my library, but more importantly into my inner heart, because I found it to be a book that spoke the truth about life and...
View ArticleAll Will Be Well: A Book Review
Book Review for The Showings of Julian of Norwich: A New Translation by Mirabai Star Lady Julian is a longtime friend and teacher to me. She has been since I first read her Revelations of Divine Love...
View ArticleJoyful News for Women and Men: Jesus Feminist, A Review
A Joyful Invitation to Women and Men: a Review of Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessey I read this book with a swirl of emotions. It was 40 years ago that I with gladness was transformed by the same good...
View ArticleAn Invitation to Stillness: Book Review of Be Still and Know
An Invitation to Stillness: Book Review of Be Still and Know by Norris J. Chumley No one can dispute the 21st North-American need to encounter silence with as much noise as most of us live with and in...
View ArticleIgnited by SACRED FIRE: a Book Review
What a gift to discover this book in the middle of Lent! Ronald Rolheiser, Roman Catholic writer in spirituality and theology, has written a book that covers new and evocative ground for those who have...
View ArticleA Long Loving Look at Slow Church
A Long Loving Look at Slow Church, by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison I am welcoming the arrival of this new book, Slow Church, to my library, to my thinking and to my prayer. The two authors,...
View ArticleWrestling with Desire–A Book Reflection
A Reflection on Teach Us To Want by Jen Pollock Michel I am always delighted and challenged when an author struggles with the question of desire. A superficial reading of sacred texts and theological...
View Article“Give Me Jesus:” A Reflection on Benjamin L. Corey’s Undiluted
As I read Undiluted by Benjamin L. Corey, I kept hearing an old African-American spiritual in my heart: Give me Jesus, give me Jesus, You can have all the rest,...
View ArticleFinding a Sacred Rhythm: Response to The Sacred Year by Michael Yankoski
As a spiritual director, I am always pleased to encounter a book that describes and encourages practices that deepen one’s journey of Spirit. Among seminary students I often found impatience with my...
View ArticleHopes for Mother and Daughters: A Reflection on Love Will Steer Me True by...
As a mother of an adult daughter who does not share my spiritual practices, I am deeply comforted and delighted to read a book, such as this, in which both mother and daughter seek to keep their love...
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