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.
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.
A Guide to Etiquette in Other People's Religious Ceremonies
6 x 9, 432 pp
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.
A Guide to Etiquette in Other People's Religious Ceremonies
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.
Explore how the principles of a global ethic can be found in Judaism and how they can provide the ethical norms for all religions to work together toward a more peaceful humankind.
This simple, beautiful book helps parents and children explore spirituality together by inviting children of all faiths and backgrounds to encounter God through everyday experience and the imagination, and in colors, song and dance.
This spiritual classic focuses the contemporary God-seeker on developing a vital connection with God by inviting the spirit of Jesus into our lives. Helpful commentary clarifies the work's biblical and medieval roots and its continuing significance today.
The people of the world set out to find God's name, and each seeker is sure that he or she alone has found the right name. With poetic text and vibrant illustrations, this modern fable celebrates the diversity and unity of all people.
The people of the world set out to find God's name, and each seeker is sure that he or she alone has found the right name. With poetic text and vibrant illustrations, this modern fable celebrates the diversity and unity of all people.
In this playful twist on the Genesis story, God asks all of nature to offer gifts to humankind—with the promise that the humans would care for creation in return. Celebrates the interconnectedness of nature and the harmony of all living things.
Apocryphal Tales from the Childhoods of Mary and Jesus—Annotated & Explained
5½ x 8½, 176 pp
Presents influential apocryphal stories about the young Jesus and tales that provide the basis for Mary's biography and ideas about her purity. Will give you a deeper understanding of the devotion Christians feel for Mary and the holy infant Jesus.
Exploring the Role of Faith and Spirituality in the Lives of Extraordinary People
6 x 9, 256 pp
Soul-searching conversations on the importance of spirituality and personal faith with more than forty artists and innovators who have made a real difference in our world will inspire you to discover the spirit of God at work in your own life and work.
The Essential Interreligious Community-Building Handbook
6 x 9, 304 pp
Drawing on the knowledge and experience of interfaith leaders from the world's many faiths, this practical guide will help you effectively engage people of other faith traditions to increase understanding and acceptance in your community and beyond.
An introduction to both the basics & complexities of Judaism & Jewish life through the lens of interfaith relationship. Addresses topics that will encourage understanding & stimulate discussion between you & your Jewish partner, relative or friend.
Through stories of everyday human encounters Lawrence Kushner takes us deeply into our lives to find spiritual insight. In this book, literature meets spirituality, the sacred meets the ordinary & people of all faiths can meet one another & themselves.
Join Mitzvah Meerkat and friends as they introduce children through lively illustrations and playful dialogue to the everyday kindnesses that mark the beginning of a Jewish journey and a lifetime commitment to tikkun olam (repairing the world).