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A New Spirituality of Holiness This book explores the rich traditions of the Celtic saints and their kinship with animals. The accounts of these individuals' lives constitute the largest body of stories (hagiographies) of any group in Christian history-so to have so many creature stories included in them reveals the deep love early and medieval Celts had for animals, with their saints sharing this quality to the full. As we read these stories...

Who do you say Jesus is? In his answer to this age-old question, Bruce Epperly brings us a new vision of Jesus of Nazareth, the healer, mystic, and prophet who is always more than we can imagine. This Jesus embraces all times and places with his mystical union with God, his healing presence, and his transforming prophetic challenge. Rather than requiring supernatural intervention from outside our reality, the Jesus of the Gospels is presen...

A love and appreciation for animals can shape a child's entire life, teaching important lessons about responsibility, empathy, and respect for nature. In Caring for Dogs, young readers will learn about how to care for the dogs in their lives, as well as the importance of treating all animal life with respect. Readers will also learn about the importance of adopting dogs from shelters rather than "puppy mills" and how they can help dogs without...

A love and appreciation for animals can shape a child's entire life, teaching important lessons about responsibility, empathy, and respect for nature. In Caring for Farm Animals, young readers will learn about how to care for the farm animals in their lives, as well as the importance of treating all farm animals with respect. Readers will learn about factory farming and why even animals that are used as food deserve healthy lives-and that they...

A love and appreciation for animals can shape a child's entire life, teaching important lessons about responsibility, empathy, and respect for nature. In Caring for Small Animals, young readers will learn about how to care for the fish, birds, reptiles and other small creatures in their lives, as well as the importance of treating all animal life with respect. Whether you're considering bringing a new pet into your home and want your child to ...

A love and appreciation for animals can shape a child's entire life, teaching important lessons about responsibility, empathy, and respect for nature. In Caring for Wild Animals, young readers will learn about how to treat wild animals-and their habitats-with caution and respect, as well as what they can do to advocate for the lives of animals all around the world. Whether you're trying to foster environmental awareness or just want to teach y...

A love and appreciation for animals can shape a child's entire life, teaching important lessons about responsibility, empathy, and respect for nature. In Caring for Cats, young readers will learn about how to care for the cats in their lives, as well as the importance of treating all animal life with respect. Readers will also learn about the importance of adopting cats from shelters and how they can help cats without homes. Whether you're con...

When people hear the word Quaker, their first association is often oats, motor oil, or the Amish-but oatmeal, automobile lubricant, and avoiding electricity have nothing to do with the Quakers' holistic mysticism. What is central to Quaker spirituality is the Divine Center, an inner sanctuary where the very Presence of God dwells. As Quaker theologian Rufus Jones wrote: "The kingdom of God is not a place where we go, but a state of being we ca...

Dave finds a curious silver medallion in a cave by the Ohio River-and then finds he has changed places with Dewi, a sixteenth-century boy in medieval Wales. When he travels across the sea with explorers searching for the legendary cities of the New World, Dave hopes to find a way back to his own time and place. Meanwhile, Dewi is adjusting to life in the modern world. As the boys journey through time, caught up in a world where prophecies come...

In this prequel to the other books in the series, Eilian faces the distrust of neighbors who fear she is a fairy child. Since no one understands or accepts her, including her own family, Eilian decides she might be happier if she could actually run away and live with the fairies. The truth she discovers-about herself and about the fairies-is not what she expected, but it leads her into a new acceptance of herself and the world in which she lives.

This is a moving reflection on motherhood's spiritual lessons. Ellyn Sanna draws from personal anecdotes as well as from a wide range of male and female Christian saints and writers, making the book personal yet truly universal at the same time. "¿¿Discover the continuous thread that connects a modern mother's ordinary life with Christianity's ancient fabric. Ellyn Sanna's personal transparency gives us all permission to be honest about our ...

When Miggle creates a make-believe treasure hunt, she never dreams it could turn into a very real and dangerous battle against an ancient evil-or that nearby strip-mining could be a threat not only to the landscape but also to the existence of the Fair Folk who dwell within the mountain. In the end, it's up to Miggle and her siblings and cousins to help these mysterious and beautiful people find their way to safety.

When Callie and the other children stumble upon an ancient artifact, they find themselves facing a terrible danger from the long-ago past. Time overlaps in a mysterious way, while the children fight to help an ancient tribe in both the past and in the present.

The characters from The Daybreakers return for more time-travel adventures. An imaginary girl, invented by Callie and her friends as an elaborate hoax, takes on an unexpected reality that turns out to be at the heart of a magical mystery from the long-ago past.

As the adventures continue for the characters from The Wolves of Aam, they face more dangers in the jeweled caverns and darkness of the Shadowlands. The tale moves to a dramatic conclusion that unlocks the final mysteries of the magic stones. These books lay the foundation for the events told in later books in the series.

At war with his stepmother, in trouble at school, and desperately unhappy, thirteen-year-old Ray finds himself shipped off to distant family in the high mountain hollows of Western Virginia. There Ray encounters a strange world of mystery, where nothing quite makes sense. The mystery deepens when he discovers a great stone snake carved on the wall of an old coal mine high in the hollow. A piece of that stone draws Ray into a conflict that echo...

Searching for his missing "dreamstone" and the answers to the mystery surrounding it, Runner ventures into the northern Icelands and the grim mountain fortress that lies there. In a night of terror and destruction beyond imagining, part of the dreamstone's riddle is solved. With extraordinary skill and depth of imagination, Jane Louise Curry has created an ancient world filled with brooding mystery, danger, and forces of power. The magical cha...

Join Ray Simpson in prayer as you follow the hidden way to spiritual life. Ray Simpson has spent his life following the mystic's path that lies hidden in the midst of everyday life. This path is also the heart of Celtic Christianity: simply following in Christ's footsteps in the ordinariness of life. From this perspective, everything becomes an act of spiritual meaning-getting up in the morning and going to bed at night, going to work and pl...

Deepen Children's Relationships with Jesus through the Chronicles of Narnia! Children and adults alike are taking new interest in C.S. Lewis's children's classics, the Chronicles of Narnia. In these books, Lewis presented the Gospel story hidden within tales of the magical land of Narnia, a place where Christ reveals Himself in the shape of a great lion named Aslan. Now you can enrich your children's religious education and spiritual devel...

Each of us is growing toward the revelation of our true selves, " wrote George MacDonald, "the white stone given to each person by God, on which the true name is written." MacDonald, a nineteenth-century minister, was considered a heretic in his day, because he believed absolutely in a God of love who works eternally to make us whole. His theology of love, hope, and affirmation runs through all his writing-and Anamchara has pulled out some ...