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Lewis presents an intimate view of his centering prayer journey. He helps us discover the contemplative life and who we are in the deepest sense, made in God's image." - Fr. Carl Arico, founding member of Contemplative Outreach Ltd., and author of A Taste of Silence"This work offers a friendly and accessible approach to centering prayer that will be of great benefit to those new to the practice. Rich has a lovely way of inviting the reader in ...

Love is the essence, the very substance of God."Bernard of Clairvaux had a tremendous influence on the eleventh century-and his understanding of Divine love can still inspire and challenge us. Anamchara's modern version of Loving God brings Bernard's teachings into the twenty-first century, allowing modern mystics the opportunity to once again sit at the feet of this great theologian."All things are ordered-measured, numbered, and weighed-by l...

This is the beginning of Brother Lawrence's spiritual journey, a journey that made him stand out to the Christian community of his day (he lived c. 1614-1691), not because he was a great thinker, a gifted speaker, or a talented writer-but simply because of the way he lived his life.This way of life echoes the teachings of Zen. Surrender yourself to God and you will be equally at peace in both suffering and joy, Brother Lawrence told one of his...

This fantasy tells the story of a Scottish slave, his English master's daughter, and hordes of the Undead in the year 610. It combines themes of coming of age, horror, Merlin, Avalon, Celtic mythology, Dark Ages history, and young-adult romance. Suitable for readers age 13 to 103, it's a good pick for those who enjoy: Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain, and Jonathan Maberry's Rot & Ruin."A vivid accoun...

Kenneth McIntosh liberates the Book of Revelation from magical thinking and apocalyptic predictions, showing us that it's a book for all ages, providing a pathway of hope and agency in times of chaos and confusion. McIntosh's vision gives authentic hope, challenges complacency, and inspires action in a time of rapid climate change, global pandemic, and social disruption. This text is a theological and spiritual goldmine for personal reflection...

Coloring is no longer for children only.Adult coloring books stimulate our imaginations. They can also be a form of mindfulness technique, just as yoga and meditation are. Research shows that coloring can reduce stress by helping to slow heart rate and respiration, loosen muscles, and stimulate the brain. Coloring can open up a quiet space where we are able to hear the Divine voice speaking to our hearts.The images in this coloring book were d...

Warriors of spirit" across disciplines (martial arts, healing arts, creative arts, and spiritual arts) embody certain qualities, says the author. Embodying (deeply practicing) these qualities reduces stress, increases energy, expands awareness, deepens confidence, quiets the mind, and enhances creativity. The author has applied knowledge from his PhD in psychology, his 5th-degree Karate black belt, and his own deep spiritual practice to create...

The Spirit showed me a tiny thing, the size of a hazelnut, " wrote the fourteenth-century mystic, Julian of Norwich. In Julian's vision, the fragile and insignificant hazelnut contains all of Creation-and yet it endures "because God loves it."Seven hundred years before Rob Bell wrote Love Wins, Julian had already offered the world a vision of God's all-encompassing love. These prayer-poems, based on All Shall Be Well: A Modern-Language Version...

Coloring with the Green ManMore and more people are rediscovering what they already knew when they were kids-coloring is fun. What's more, coloring can lead us into a deeper awareness of both our inner selves and the world around us.The Green Man images in this coloring book have been paired with short quotations from two of Anamchara Books' titles: The Green Man: Ancient Symbol for the Modern World and Celtic Nature Prayers: Prayers from an A...

Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything. . . . He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.-Colossians 1:15-17Like a vast, ever-growing Tree of Life, Christ-the expression of Divine love-expands endlessly throughout the universe. This is the perspective of ancient Celtic spirituality, and it is this ...

Here are prayers and blessings that sanctify the simplest of daily activities. They remind us to look for the holiness of the everyday and the real presence of God in Creation. They will illumine your life.

Using the Celtic tradition, David Cole explores the Christian theology that underpins meditation-and discovers the practical spiritual benefits of this ancient practice."Meditation is one of the great treasures of our Christian contemplative tradition, though largely forgotten by modern churches. In this delightful book, David Cole gently invites readers to rediscover this ancient path to deeper relationship with God. David writes with a spiri...

Brimming with insights and packed with information, this book draws you out, quite literally, into nature to experience a new, well thought through pattern of spiritual practice. Bruce Stanley gives you all the resources you'll need, both practical and theoretical, to get going with a group or on your own. The Forest Church movement begun by Bruce Stanley is gaining momentum in the UK, and has now been brought to the United States.

Learn how the ancient Christian Celts read the Bible-and discover new ways to understand the sacred Scriptures today. The Celts' perspectives on the Bible were far less literal than many modern viewpoints, and yet at the same time, they treasured even deeper layers of meaning than are familiar to most twenty-first century readers. For the Celts, Scripture was a wondrous treasure trove of metaphor and meaning, stories and symbols, all pointing ...

Pray with the Sufis!The Sufi mystics' experience of God was down-to-earth, sometimes even crude, and always both practical and jubilant. Their religion was love-and God was their Beloved. Their relationship with the Beloved gave each moment meaning and joy.As you pray with words inspired by Rumi and other Sufi mystics, you'll experience a new understanding of the Divine One who is everything and nothing, all that we can perceive and all that w...

Let us begin the work of Christmas!This book is a celebration of the twelve days of Christmas, offering us a chance to dwell on the meaning of the season in dialog with the wisdom of one of America's greatest mystics and activists, Howard Thurman.Thurman knew that Christmas always begins in darkness-the darkness of the womb, the darkness of human violence and oppression, the darkness of hopelessness. In Christmas, Thurman reminds us, a light s...

Ray Simpson has given his life, both professionally and personally, to Celtic Christianity, and now he helps us to celebrate a Celtic outlook on the season of Christmas. With their eloquent yet simple words, his prayers welcome the Holy One who comes to us in small, ordinary ways, who is present in the helpless and the vulnerable. As we join Ray in prayer, we stand on the threshold to paradox and mystery-and we "prepare the way" for God to ent...

If you don't believe in Santa, you might want to reconsider. The familiar fellow dressed in red has been around a lot longer than the malls' Santa, longer than Rudolph, longer even than "The Night Before Christmas." His earliest and most ancient forms brought hope and cheer to generation after generation of humankind-and he still has a message for us today. In the midst of the materialism of the modern holiday, Santa offers us a bridge between...

In the spirit of God's call to creative transformation, Bruce Epperly invites you to join him on a holy adventure in spiritual growth, inspired by the evolving wisdom of Christianity and the world's great spiritual traditions, innovative global spiritual practices, and emerging visions of reality. Epperly explores the many resources of Christian spirituality in dialogue with the spiritual practices of the world's great wisdom traditions, descr...

Gardening is an instrument of grace.-May SartonIn these fifteen intimate essays, Melina Rudman explores the pain of loss and the joy of connection, all within the context of her garden. She writes of gardening as a spiritual practice, one that has the power to ground us in the seasons and cycles of Nature. Gardening, she says, plants us firmly in the circle of birth, life, and death, "smack dab in the middle of life's gore and glory." While ga...