Summer Reading Suggestions

Looking for something beyond the typical "beach read" to inform and inspire your spiritual journey this summer? Here are some suggestions from our recent reviews.

101 Ways to Have True Love in Your Life
Daphne Rose Kingma
Many handy and helpful tips on sustaining a love relationship.

201 Little Buddhist Reminders: Gathas for Your Daily Life
Barbara Ann Kipfer
A wonderful collection of Buddhist gathas to bring you back to the present moment in your everyday activities.

At Home in the World: A Rule of Life for the Rest of Us
Margaret Guenther
Illuminating suggestions for creating a rich and flexible rule of life for these tense times.

A Code of Jewish Ethics: Volume I: You Shall Be Holy
Joseph Telushkin
A treasure trove of ways to improve your character from Jewish tradition.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
A spiritual memoir that is delightful romp filled with delicious adventures and many keen insights.

The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice
Thich Nhat Hanh
A thoughtful and enlightening overview of prayer and the healing and helpful energies it can generate.

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Karen Armstrong
A solid and substantial case for compassion as a spiritual practice that can save the world.

Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
Matthieu Ricard
A Buddhist monk's understanding of happiness as the deep sense of flourishing that arises from a healthy mind as well as a way of interpreting the world.

The Passion of Mary Magdalen: A Novel (The Maeve Chronicles)
Elizabeth Cunningham
A raucous, inspired treatment of Mary Magdalen as an embodiment of the Divine Feminine.

Poet's Choice
Edward Hirsch
An invaluable resource on poetry that enchants and enlightens.

Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
Frederick Buechner
Top-drawer sermons by a gifted and imaginative preacher.

The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth That Could Change Everything
Brian D. McLaren
The right book at the right time with its call to a new form of Christianity that can appeal to evangelicals, mainliners, and spiritual seekers.