William Barry, SJ. A Friendship Like
No Other . Loyola Press, 2008. $15.85 Exploring the
premise that God wishes to be friends with us.
J. Brent Bill. Holy Silence: The Gift
of Quaker Spirituality. Paraclete Press, 2005. $15.85
A Quaker's appreciation of silence as a sacrament of God's
presence.
Dean Brackley. The Call to Discernment
in Troubled Times. Crossroad, 2004. $21 A modern classical
interpretation of the Spiritual Exercises with a gentle
social justice bent.
Margaret Craven. I Heard the Owl Call
My Name. Doubleday,1980. $7.40 A novel of a clergyman
being prepared for his death among the Kwakiutl Native
Americans.
Nancy Dossin and Christine Zimmerman. Tell
Me About God Again. Zimsin, 2005. $15.85 Mini illustrated
lessons to teach young children some basic ideas about
God, for people of all faiths.
Martha Whitmore Hickman. Healing After
Loss. Collins, 1994. $10.60 Daily meditations for
working through grief.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Gift from the
Sea. Pantheon Books, 2005. $10.55 A perennial classic
since 1955; every one needs time away to rest and be replenished.
Dennis, Sheila and Matthew Linn. Sleeping
with Bread. Paulist Press, 1995. $13.70 A simple form
of finding God's guidance through examination of consciousness.
Gerald G. May. Addiction and Grace.
Harper One, 1991. $15.85 A classical treatment of addictions
in many forms as an entry way for God's grace.
Gerald G. May. The Dark Night of the
Soul . Harper One, 2005. $15.85 An interpretation
of the dark night of the soul according to Teresa of Avila
and John of the Cross.
Henri Nouwen. The Return of the Prodigal
Son. Image Books, 1992. $16.85 A modern classic about
repentance and forgiveness — the best book of one
of our best spiritual writers.
Victor M. Parachin. Eastern Wisdom for
Western Minds. Orbis Books, 2007. $16.95 A dictionary
of Eastern religious terms of use to Christians.
Joyce Rupp. Prayer. Orbis, 2007.
$10.60 A wonderful composer of prayer-poems selected to
do the book on prayer for a new Catholic Spirituality
for Adults series.
Mother Teresa. Come Be My Light.
Doubleday, 2007. $24 (Hard Cover) The private writings
of Mother Teresa, and an insight into the unexpected obscurity
of her faith.
Joanna Weaver. Having a Mary Heart in
a Martha World: Finding Intimacy with God in the Busyness
of Life. Waterbrook, 2000. $15.85 The title says it
all.
Robert J. Wicks. Riding the Dragon: 10
Lessons for Inner Strength in Challenging Times. Sorin
Books, 2003. $13.70 Dealing with life's difficulties.
Macrina Wiederkehr. Seven Sacred Pauses:
Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day . Sorin
Books, 2008. $20.05 (Hard Cover) Monastic wisdom from
the liturgy of the hours.
