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Daughters of the Desert: Stories of Remarkable Women from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Traditions
Claire Rudolf Murphy, Meghan Nuttall Sayres, Mary Cronk Farrell, Sarah Conover, and Betsy Wharton
This ground-breaking collection of short stories brings to life the women—daring, brave, thoughtful, and wise—who played important and exciting roles in the early days of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These stories invite us to come to know and appreciate the struggles and triumphs of these women—mothers, daughters, believers and seekers.
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Divining the Body: Reclaim the Holiness of Your Physical Self
Jan Phillips
Discover an entirely new way to look at your body—as a pathway to the Divine. Award-winner Jan Phillips takes you on an energizing journey through your physical self, drawing connections between the bone, muscle, and sinew of your body and the spiritual teachings of various faith traditions, modern scientific research, and her own experiences. You will find yourself empowered to work to transform the world around you and overcome self-defeating thoughts through positive, practical exercises and meditations that show you how to climb back into your body and honor it as the temple of God that it is.
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Everyday Herbs in Spiritual Life: A Guide to Many Practices
Michael J. Caduto
Foreword by Mary Gladstar
This hands-on guide to incorporating herbs into your spiritual life contains rituals and ceremonies, descriptions of herbs and their applications across many traditions and engaging information on how herbs can be used for healing your physical—and spiritual—self.
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Finding Hope: Cultivating God's Gift of a Hopeful Spirit
Marcia Ford
Foreword by Andrea Jaeger
Discover the freedom and joy that come when you open your heart to hope. This practical guide gives you the inspiration, encouragement and practices you need to cultivate a hopeful spirit and thus live a more fulfilling and joyful life. Writing from personal experience and her broad knowledge of many faith traditions, Marcia Ford helps you recognize—or develop—your own personal images of hope and create a place where you can go to see the many evidences of hope in your life any time despair seeps in. She provides inspiring personal stories of hope from the famous and not-so-famous and realistic exercises for creating the overall balance and peace you look to achieve in living your life connected to God.
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Renewal in the Wilderness: A Spiritual Guide to Connecting with God in the Natural World
John Lionberger
Reveals the power of experiencing God’s presence in many variations of the natural world—from a backpacking trip in a truly remote wilderness to an afternoon spent in a nearby park to a single moment savored in your own backyard. While exploring wilderness wisdom from several faith traditions—Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and more—you will discover how the universal experience of being present in nature can lead to startling discoveries both about God and about yourself.
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Sacred Attention: A Spiritual Practice for Finding God in the Moment
Margaret D. McGee
Discover ways to develop a practice of attention as a means of talking—and listening—to God. Framed on the Christian liturgical year and paired with images of the seasons of the earth, each chapter includes an insightful and poignant narrative which illustrates the surprising richness to be found in every attention-getting moment.
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