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Imagine the Celtic saint Brigid and the great bodhisattva Guanyin sitting down together for a cup of tea. I certainly would want to listen in to their conversation! Oak and Lotus takes us to a similar place. It's a beautiful, expansive book about the joyful integration of Eastern and Western wisdom, a resource I expect to return to again and again. - Carl McColman, author of The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism and Eternal Heart Oak and ...

Rediscover the life-giving connections between us, which neither death nor racism can destroy. In a captivating blend of Black history, African spirituality, and personal memory, Home-Going displaces hopeless accounts of racism and death with a story of limitless love. Saint-Jean invites us to participate in the pain and trauma as well as the creative resilience of the Black experience. He inspires us with courage and possibility. - Valarie Ka...

For setting us, like the stars in their courses, within the orbit of Your love, we praise You. ¿¿This book contains short, daily devotions, selected from thirty-five different titles published by Anamchara Books. Included here are prayers and insights from authors Lynne Bundesen, Jeff Campbell, David Cole, Marietta Della Penna, Bruce Epperly, Sharon Grussendorff, Rich Lewis, Kenneth McIntosh, Bill Palmer, Melina Rudman, Patrick Saint-Jean, Ell...

Those who sing pray twice. In our Christmas carols, we find praise, contemplation, lamentation, and affirmation. Singing them, we join the angelic chorus with the shepherds, participating in the harmonies of the spheres. Our carols rise to the heavens and plumb the unconscious depths of the Spirit, where the "sighs too deep for words" whisper. Childhood memories of carols linger forever at the edges of our memories, fueling our hearts with ...

Energize us with Your compassion, Giver of Life, to help the dispossessed, to listen to those without voices, and to reach out in friendship to all.Empower us with Your love, encourage us with Your Spirit, make us strong to bring Your justiceto individuals, communities, nations, and the entire globe. Our society often assumes that "justice" has to do with punishment. We think it means we make criminals pay for their crimes. The biblical mean...

Holy Spirit, breathe upon the cosmos.May it share in Christ's resurrectionand grow with the birth pangs of his kingdom.May we, even in the middleof its groanings and agony, be instruments of its healingand breathe peace upon it this day. In the prayers collected in this book, Ray Simpson asks us to "hear the cry of the earth and work together to 'choose life'" (Deuteronomy 30:19). He reminds us that Divine life courses through Earth's rivers...

God is in me, and God is in you, just as Life is in every seed. . . . Kabîr, an ordinary craftsman who lived in fifteenth-century India, could neither read nor write-and yet he left us spiritual wisdom that spans religions. Although both Hindus and Muslims today claim Kabîr as their saint, ultimately, his religion was simply love. Kabîr's passionate love affair with the Divine offers a resolution to the dualism so present in our modern th...

This new version has more than 150 pages of previously unpublished material, including illustrated guides to Celtic pilgrimage sites, study questions, and updated research. ¿¿¿Using story, scripture, reflection, and prayer, Kenneth McIntosh offers us a taste of the living water that refreshed the ancient Celts, allowing them to perceive God as a living Presence in everybody and everything. This Earth-based and inclusive perspective suggests li...

Written with the clear thinking of a physicist, this inspiring book uses fresh language and creative metaphors to guide the reader on a deepening contemplative journey. . . . The author offers a sense of reassuring companionship for what can sometimes be a lonely inner pilgrimage." -Father Richard Rohr "Here is a book that is worth reading and meditating slowly. Sharon bites on what it is to be human, on how the life of the spirit gets to wo...

For four years in a row, Bruce Epperly has spent the Twelve Days of Christmas with spiritual companions-authors and thinkers from ages past and present-and then he has shared his twelve-day journey with the rest of us. Last year, Bruce's spiritual companions were Saint Francis and Saint Clare. During the Twelve Days of Christmas, Clare and her spiritual companion Francis ask us to consider the following questions:Where do I see Christ in my ...

Every hour is holy, every day is sacred. We sometimes think prayer belongs only in certain places on certain days. This book calls us to set prayer free from these constraints, allowing it to flow out through the hours of every workday, sanctifying the ordinary rhythm of our modern lives: waking upgoing to workbreaking for lunchending the workdaythe evening hoursgoing to bed Ray Simpson gives us twenty original prayers, written in the Cel...

Retirement is an invitation to embark on a holy adventure. Retirement does not mean passivity or sitting on life's sidelines. Bruce Epperly knows from experience that even in retirement, we can be agents of our own destinies. We may discover deeper passions that we had not previously imagined. Roads not taken may emerge, and gifts undiscovered may be mined. Retirement can also be a pilgrimage of faith, stretching far into the future and liv...

Soul friendship joins friends togetherin a common dwelling that neither time nor spacenor death itself can separate."-Edward Sellner The special friend who accompanies a person through life's journey is more precious than gold. The early Christian Celts had a heartwarming name for this person: the Anamchara. (Anam is the Gaelic word for soul, chara is the word for friend-"friend of the soul.") This special friend was someone with whom a pers...

Sexual trauma can dim or even extinguish the spark of our personalities-¿but deep within us, our souls remain as bright and beautiful as the day God gave them to us. Little Sweetheart, the true account of a twelve-year-old girl trapped in a sexual relationship with an older dance teacher, is much more than a memoir. With vulnerability and honesty, Amber Gregory integrates both spiritual inspiration and careful research with her autobiograph...

Many of us have found ourselves at a crossroads in life-wavering between the person we've been in the past and the person we'd like to be in the future. To reinvent ourselves, we must thoughtfully and intentionally make choices and take actions that enable us to show up in the world as the person we'd like to be. 101 Soul Seeds for Reinventing Yourself offers wisdom and inspiration for connecting with creativity and your heart's desire, for ov...

A Celtic Pilgrimage into Your Own HeartIf you long to set out on an inner journey, this book is a guide to point you in the right direction. Its simple and practical prayer techniques from Celtic and other ancient traditions make use of your breath, Nature, scripture, and prayer words.Offering simple and practical meditation techniques to deepen readers' connections with God, this book is an instruction manual for the inner journey using medit...

Times of crisis test us, physically, emotionally, spiritually. But crises can also be opportunities for change, for renewed health, and new visions. Our response can make all the difference. Will we let crisis defeat us? Or will we rise to the challenge and one day emerge from these catastrophic events as better people building a better world? Change must come, it is inevitable. But the form that change takes is at least partly up to us.The pr...

This is the story of a woman's spiritual journey: from the restrictions of growing up as Catholic female in the 1950s to her emotional and spiritual liberation as a Sufi-and to her ultimate return to a new understanding of Christianity. Building on the foundations of the Sufi and Christian mystics, Della Penna's memoir is sometimes funny, sometime heartbreaking-and always points toward more universal truths beyond the particularities of an ind...

Grandparenting is truly a holy adventure. As we see and bring forth the inner divinity of our grandchildren, we have the opportunity to show them that they are not only our beloved grandchildren but God's children as well, infinite in worth and possibility. Grandparenting also takes us beyond our relationships with our own grandchildren to care for children everywhere. What kind of world do we hope for them-and what will we do about it?This bo...

If you're feeling disillusioned with organized religion, this book is for you. With Jeff Campbell as your tour guide, you can embark on your own personal journey to discover the essence of spirituality."Many of us can identify with Jeff Campbell's experience of being disenchanted with religion, leaving church, learning from the spiritual disciplines of others, and finding his way back to a vitality he'd sought all along. His path and his book ...