Author: ANITA PUNYANITYA Publisher: BookRix ISBN: 373964365X Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 17
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These are tales from some of mum's and some of my former lifetimes, sometimes relating to each other. There are also specail tales of Jim, one who knows how to love people, and knows spiritual love and how to greatly Bless people, in its great form.
Author: Elizabeth Andrew Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations ISBN: 9781558964099 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 220
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A woman's coming-of-age journey through the rugged landscape of Wales to the reflective quiet of a retreat center. Along the way she questions and explores the depth of her Methodist faith as she comes to terms with her bisexual identity.
Author: Traci Rhoades Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1640652809 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 153
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A delightfully-written exploration of faith for those who are searching and for those who are settled What if we stopped trying to find the perfect church in the right Christian tradition and intentionally explored our faith with all our Christian brothers and sisters? Can Christians embrace God fully by exploring other faith traditions? In Not All Who Wander, we discover that we do indeed find Jesus in a church, and traces of him in our everyday lives as well. Not All Who Wander walks readers through the author’s faith journey, and how her experience with churches in a number of traditions has left her longing for more of Jesus than any one church offers. It also presents stories from other believers to give readers a sense of how alike, and different, our spiritual experiences can be. Rhoades has developed a passion for discovering all the ways we worship Jesus and invites readers to join her. With utter delight, she’s discovered no matter which traditions she worships with, Jesus meets her there.
Author: Rachel G. Hackenberg Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1640650245 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 163
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Two ministers share their own stories about struggling to live out their faith. It’s the sort of experience familiar to many: Somewhere between illness and divorce, abusive relationships and brushes with death, faith failed to provide answers . . . or we failed to live as though we believed faith held answers. But surely, it’s different for clergy, the ones who preach and practice faith? But faith requires more, and authors Martha Spong and Rachel G. Hackenberg, who grew up in the church and became ordained ministers, know first-hand about coming to terms with God and life, the need to search for answers . . . or at least assurance we are not alone in struggling for renewed hope. Denial is My Spiritual Practice is a companion for the wondering and struggling. The authors offer their own stories as evidence that God remains, both when faith fails and when faith finds new understanding. They combine stark life experiences, offbeat spiritual perspectives, and Scripture to offer comfort, grace, laughter, and a few tears along the way.
Author: Michael Bova Publisher: ISBN: 9780963450159 Category : Narrative therapy Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume, edited by Stanley Krippner, Michael Bova, Leslie Gray and Adam Kay, brings together spiritual narratives from a wide variety of psychotherapeutic, religious and cultural traditions to illustrate the healing power of personal narrative, cultural narrative, art and theater, spirituality and prayer. Authors span a variety of traditions and cultural experiences among them Asian, European, Native American, New Age, to contemporary American, and more.
Author: Katherine Kurs Publisher: Schocken ISBN: 9780805211115 Category : Christian biography Languages : en Pages : 0
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This insightful and inspirational anthology of first-person accounts brings together--for the first time--the stories of more than 50 writers, who have eloquently explored the spiritual impulses that have significantly informed their lives.
Author: Elizabeth Lesser Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062887203 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 304
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What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers? Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding stories—stories that value caretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communication over vengeance and violence. Cassandra Speaks is about the stories we tell and how those stories become the culture. It’s about the stories we still blindly cling to, and the ones that cling to us: the origin tales, the guiding myths, the religious parables, the literature and films and fairy tales passed down through the centuries about women and men, power and war, sex and love, and the values we live by. Stories written mostly by men with lessons and laws for all of humanity. We have outgrown so many of them, and still they endure. This book is about what happens when women are the storytellers too—when we speak from our authentic voices, when we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales we tell about what it means to be human. Lesser has walked two main paths in her life—the spiritual path and the feminist one—paths that sometimes cross but sometimes feel at cross-purposes. Cassandra Speaks is her extraordinary merging of the two. The bestselling author of Broken Open and Marrow, Lesser is a beloved spiritual writer, as well as a leading feminist thinker. In this book she gives equal voice to the cool water of her meditative self and the fire of her feminist self. With her trademark gifts of both humor and insight, she offers a vision that transcends the either/or ideologies on both sides of the gender debate. Brilliantly structured into three distinct parts, Part One explores how history is carried forward through the stories a culture tells and values, and what we can do to balance the scales. Part Two looks at women and power and expands what it means to be courageous, daring, and strong. And Part Three offers “A Toolbox for Inner Strength.” Lesser argues that change in the culture starts with inner change, and that no one—woman or man—is immune to the corrupting influence of power. She provides inner tools to help us be both strong-willed and kind-hearted. Cassandra Speaks is a beautifully balanced synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural observation. Women, men and all people will find themselves in the pages of this book, and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better world for all people.
Author: Nancy Tatom Ammerman Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199917361 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 395
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Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual. In addition to interviews and observation, Ammerman bases her findings on a photo elicitation exercise and oral diaries, offering a window into the presence and absence of religion and spirituality in ordinary lives and in ordinary physical and social spaces. The stories come from a diverse array of ninety-five Americans — both conservative and liberal Protestants, African American Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Wiccans, and people who claim no religious or spiritual proclivities — across a range that stretches from committed religious believers to the spiritually neutral. Ammerman surveys how these people talk about what spirituality is, how they seek and find experiences they deem spiritual, and whether and how religious traditions and institutions are part of their spiritual lives.
Author: Suzanne M. Coyle Publisher: John Hunt Publishing ISBN: 1782792309 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 95
Book Description
Re-Storying Your Faith has caught our culture’s imagination from nouveau experiences of spirituality through channeling and meditation to traditional spiritual practices of personal devotions, scripture reading, and prayer. Building on Christian spirituality, this spiritual practice of re-storying our faith offers people an everyday experience of discovering multiple faith stories to give meaning to their spiritual journey. Built into this process is a way of discovering individual uniqueness as well as sharing discovered stories in faith communities, whether it is a Sunday school class or a group of like-minded friends. ,
Author: ANITA PUNYANITYA
Author: Elizabeth Andrew
Author: Traci Rhoades
Author: Christina Feldman
Author: Rachel G. Hackenberg
Author: Michael Bova
Author: Katherine Kurs
Author: Elizabeth Lesser
Author: Nancy Tatom Ammerman
Author: Suzanne M. Coyle