Creating Spaces

Exploring Our Spiritual Journeys Through Drama

BY CAROLINE JONES
This pack contains material for six reflective drama sessions and guidelines on how to use them. The material can be used for one-off sessions or as a series of six over a weekend or number of weeks. Each session lasts two hours and has a similar structure and style of exercise, but a different theme. The themes are the six basic elements of drama: sound and silence, movement and stillness, light and darkness. By using simple, meditative drama techniques the sessions provide an opportunity for a small group to share some aspects of their spiritual journeys.

Britain Yearly Meeting 1994 42 PP. Paper

$3.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

I Could Tell You Stories

Sojourns In The Land Of Memory

BY PATRICIA HAMPL
Memoir has become the signature genre of our age. In this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl, one of our most elegant practitioners, "weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she explores the autobiographical writing that has enchanted or bedeviled her. Subjects engaging Hampl's attention include her family's response to her writing, the ethics of writing about family and friends, St. Augustine's Confessions, reflections on reading Walt Whitman during the Vietnam War, and an early experience reviewing Sylvia Plath. The word that unites the impulse within all the pieces is "Remember!" This book is required for Workshop #70.

W. W. Norton Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Life's Companion

Journal Writing As A Spiritual Quest

BY CHRISTINA BALDWIN
Laying the groundwork for journeys and journals this book is a great support to the long-standing Friends practice of keeping personal spiritual journals.

Bantam 1990 350 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Live The Questions

Write Into The Answers - Php 354

BY BARBARA PARSONS AND MARY MORRISON
"Through journal writing and other forms of personal writing we are able to take our own life story seriously, to work with our experiences and search through them as we explore the questions that confront us every day. We share here some of our experiences and ideas for [living the questions and writing into-someday-the answers]." - from the foreword

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 40 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

Radical Spirits

Spiritualism And Women's Rights In Nineteenth-century America, 2nd Edition

BY ANN BRAUDE
In Radical Spirits, Ann Braude contends that the early women's rights movement and Spiritualism went hand in hand. Her book makes a convincing argument for the importance of religion in the study of American women's history. In this new edition, Braude discusses the impact of the book on the scholarship of the last decade and assesses the place of religion in interpretations of women's history in general and the women's rights movement in particular. A review of current scholarship and suggestions for further reading make it even more useful for contemporary teachers and students.

Indiana University Press 2001 296 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Send My Roots Rain

A Spirituality Of Justice And Mercy

BY MEGAN MCKENNA
Justice and mercy are so easily misunderstood. "We tend to think of them as opposing forces and actions," she writes. "But the tradition of the Judeo-Christian world is that somehow mysteriously the Holy One holds them bound together, like intertwined roots of a great tree." Drawing upon scripture, Christian poetry and parables from Hindu, Zen, Native American, Jewish and other traditions, McKenna shows how justice and mercy need to be understood in spiritual terms before they can be effectively delivered. This makes for a contemplative, wandering book that's perfect for individual reflection or study groups.

Doubleday 2003 336 PP. Cloth

$6.50 (in stock)

Shouts And Whispers

Twenty-one Writers Speak About Their Writing And Their Faith

EDITED BY JENNIFER HOLBERG
Shouts and Whispers contains a fascinating array of reflections on topics surrounding the often-perilous intersection of writing and faith. The authors all agree that literature can help us to be more faithful, yet they approach the subject in ways as diverse as their biographies. Contributors include Madeleine L'Engle, Katherine Patterson, Frederick Buechner, Annne Lamott, Jan Karon, and Kathleen Norris. "What does it mean to be a writer working in a context of faith? Answers to this question and others are the crux of this meaty, thoughtful volume of essays edited from speeches and interviews at the biennial Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing." - Publishers Weekly

Eerdmans 2006 257 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Weekends With O'keeffe

BY C.S. MERRILL
Poet Carol Merril provides memories and writing from her seven years working as a companion and assistant to the aging artist Georgia O'Keefe, when the author was a young woman.

University of New Mexico Press Cloth

$24.95 (in stock)

Writing Down The Bones

Freeing The Writer Within

BY NATALIE GOLDBERG
The author of ten books. Writing Down the Bones, her first, has sold over one million copies and has been translated into twelve languages. For the last thirty years she has practiced Zen and taught seminars in writing as a spiritual practice. Natalie Goldberg's word-of-mouth hit has sold well over half a million copies. She has conducted writing workshops for both beginners and professionals all over the United States and sees writing as a practice that helps us comprehend the value of our lives. With insight, humor, and practicality, she inspires writers and would-be writers alike to take the leap into writing creatively and well.

Shambala 1986 171 PP. Paper

$14.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Writing The Sacred

A Psalm-inspired Path To Appreciating And Writing Sacred Poetry

BY RAY MCGINNIS
Quaker Ray McGinnis offers a new, deeper, and more meaningful way to explore and understand the Psalms. Vividly connecting readers with the writers of the original Psalms, he discusses the intent and meaning of the historical Psalms. He then sets readers on a path to creating their own sacred poetry. The book includes new psalms and poems from contemporary Jewish, Islamic, and Christian writers from Canada and other countries.

Northstone 2005 224 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)