While illuminating the origins of Christianity, the Gospel of Thomas raises the question whether the New Testament's version of Jesus' teachings is entirely accurate and complete. It presents a new way of looking at the challenging and intriguing figure of Jesus while reminding us that the Divine can be found right here on earth.
This unique guidebook leads you through the Gospel of Thomas, offering practices that help you translate Jesus's wisdom into a more fulfilling, enriching daily life.
Spiritual Wisdom and Practice for Finding Comfort, Hope and Healing After Loss
6 x 9, 272 pp
This soulful companion for grief offers wisdom and creative spiritual practices from across faith traditions for walking with sorrow and honoring loss. Whether you need to grieve in words or silence, in solitude or in company with others, this compassionate guide will help you find wholeness and a renewed vision of yourself and the world.
This unique collection offers insight into the spiritual philosophy and carefree mysticism of the greatest Persian poet. His probing and joyful verse speaks to people from all backgrounds who long for divine love and harmony with all living things.
Takes the mystery and intimidation out of beginning to write haiku as a spiritual practice. Provides helpful hints and step-by-step exercises to broaden and deepen both your haiku artistry and your appreciation of haiku as part of your spiritual life.
Hannah Senesh Foreword by Marge Piercy Preface by Eitan Senesh Afterword by Roberta Grossman, director, Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
A wonderful edition of a Jewish WWII heroine's widely read and cherished diary, also including many of Hannah's poems and letters, memoirs written by her mother and accounts by other parachutists who accompanied Hannah on her fateful rescue mission.
Identify your positive traits as well as negative habits that hinder your ability to achieve happiness. Provides practical steps to exercise your unique qualities to the fullest, actualize your potential and attain happiness in all aspects of your life.
Breathes new life into classic stories from people who so marvelously combined the mystical and the ordinary. Rabbi Rami serves as an expert guide to these wise and meaningful stories that can help further your own spiritual awakening.
Through healing, brokenness can become a source of hope and blessing. This wise and helpful guide traces the path of suffering from despair to depression to desperation to the turning point where suffering can be transformed into blessing.
A probing interfaith dialogue that traces the Jewish-Christian schism to its very source. Shows how Judaism became Christianity's foil and offers fresh retellings of foundational Christian texts to present a better future between the two faith traditions.
A Complete Guide to Learning the Art of Meditation
5½ x 8½, 256 pp
Invaluable for students already studying with a meditation teacher and for those developing a meditative practice on their own. Leads us into self-discovery through the basic meditative principles and practices of the world's great spiritual traditions.
Explores our human connections—with each other, with other nations, with the whole of our environment—and the intersections of faith with issues like poverty, climate change, the economy and healthcare.
This comprehensive teaching tool will help you guide students to a deeper understanding of the secular issues of our day that have profoundly religious roots, and our responsibility to take action as individuals and communities of faith.
This unique look at the Hebrew Prophets sharpens the personal nature of their message and highlights their critique of the spiritual errors we all face in life, challenging readers to correct those errors and experience a life of awakening and joy.
Reveals the underlying story of Matthew, giving us a full appreciation of the book's message, and uncovering a portrait of Jesus that at times resembles the gnostic Christ and sage teacher of the Gospel of Thomas more than it does traditional Christianity.
Essential Writings and Chants of a Christian Mystic— Annotated & Explained
5½ x 8½, 240 pp
Enter the vibrant world of this medieval mystic and open yourself to the music of creation and the living light of God. This unique introduction to one of the most accomplished women in Christian history presents a wide range of Hildegard’s rich and varied writings, grouped by theme, with insightful annotations and historical background.
Spirituality as Awareness, Empowerment, Relinquishment and Paradox
6 x 9, 192 pp
This unique and encouraging guide to prayer explores how to engage in spirituality that blesses your soul—and the world. Offers innovative ways to pray in four metaphorical movements that parallel both Native American traditions and Ignatian spirituality.
Journey to a place as far from here as breathing out is from breathing in—where people are human with the same grace that a willow is a willow—with this insightful, absorbing and practical introduction to the ten gates of Jewish mysticism.
Blessings, prayers, anecdotes and meditations from many faith traditions about the sacred undertaking that is motherhood. These words of hope and healing, pain and promise are for all mothers—traditional, single, adoptive, foster, step and bereaved.
This Christian mystical poet is beloved for his fresh language and startling metaphors. Underneath this lovely verse lies a searching soul, wrestling with and yearning for God that will speak to people of all faiths who seek a deeper experience of God.
Discovering the Hidden Spiritual Power of Invitation and Welcome
5½ x 8½, 208 pp
A practical guide to cultivating the spiritual power of invitation and welcome in your life. Discover how the qualities of hospitality can deepen your self-understanding and help you build transforming and lasting relationships with others and with God.
Discusses the challenges and surprises of aging by talking about how you actually feel, not what you're supposed to feel. Warm and down-to-earth; offers a spiritually grounded method to adjust to the unexpected and live each day with more purpose and joy.
In this playful twist to the Genesis story, God asks all of nature to offer gifts to humankind—with a promise that the humans would care for creation in return. Your child will delight in discovering what the many animals wish for us.
Helps children use all of their senses to explore how God is always present in their everyday lives and is always listening. With simple, everyday examples to which they can relate, helps children develop a direct and personal understanding of God.
To young children, the world is full of things to see and touch. And by using those very examples, this enchanting book gently invites children to become aware of God's presence all around us. Helps you open your child's mind, heart and soul.
It's increasingly common to be invited to a wedding, funeral or other religious service for someone of a different faith. This easy-to-read religious etiquette guidebook helps the well-meaning guest feel comfortable and participate as fully as possible.
It's increasingly common to be invited to a wedding, funeral or other religious service for someone of a different faith. This easy-to-read religious etiquette guidebook helps the well-meaning guest feel comfortable and participate as fully as possible.