Book Reviews

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Inspired By Matt Richtel Seeking to understand the fire within us to create. Imagination
Memoir as Medicine By Nancy Slonim Aronie Developing a healthy relationship with your past through writing. Questing
Awakenings By Joan Chittister One of our great living spiritual writers urging us to wake up and see. Openness
Open Wide My Heart By Macrina Wiederkehr A journal by the great Benedictine sister Macrina Wiederkehr filled with short introspective reflections on her yearning for God and to love radically. Meaning
Heaven Is a Place on Earth By Adrian Shirk Desires for a more perfect world that result in communal living. Questing
Another Appalachia By Avashia Neema Growing up Asian American, queer, and Hindu in rural America. You
Resurrection Hope By Kelly Brown Douglas A call to white Christians to fight injustice, first by looking at themselves. Justice
Three Simple Lines By Natalie Goldberg Writing haiku as a way of Zen living. Imagination
The Way of the Empath By Elaine Clayton A welcome guide on how to cultivate your sensitivity to see, hear, and bring healing to others. Listening
Woody Guthrie By Nora Guthrie, Robert Santelli A personal look at one of the great singer-songwriter spiritual activists of the last century. Justice
Notable Native People By Adrienne Keene A celebration of Indigenous teachers in words and color illustrations. Teachers
The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature By Dean Sluyter A lively introduction to great works of literature as gates to joy and enlightenment. Meaning
Body Becoming By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza A master course on understanding every body. You
Ronald Rolheiser By Ronald Rolheiser, Alicia von Stamwitz A spirituality that emerges from the mess of life. Kindness
Broke in America By Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox Ways to change our communities into places of welcome and opportunity for those otherwise stuck in poverty. Justice
The Witch at the Forest’s Edge By Christine Grace Connections to the spiritual-natural world for witches and anyone else. Faith
Meditations with Cows By Shreve Stockton A beautiful written and illustrated memoir about species-to-species love, the modern food system, western ranch life, and global warming. Connections
The Art of Solitude By Stephen Batchelor A beautiful resource for quietness and solitude as a practice. Silence
The Way of Mary By Camille Hamilton Adams Helminski A gorgeous book, meticulously researched, showing how the key moments in the devotional life of Mary, mother of Jesus, can be a model for us all. Devotion
God Is Here By Toba Spitzer Creative new paths from a rabbi for finding what’s sacred in our lives. Questing