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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
$10.00 (low stock)
Thomas Merton On The Vocation Of Writing
EDITED BY ROBERT INCHAUSTI Merton's thoughts on writing have never been compiled into a single volume until now. Topics include writing as a spiritual calling, the role of the Christian writer in a secular society, the joys and mysteries of poetry, and evaluations of his own literary work. Also included are fascinating glimpses of his take on a range of other writers, including Henry David Thoreau, Flannery O'Connor, Dylan Thomas, Albert Camus, James Joyce, and even Henry Miller, along with many others.
New Seeds 2007 224 PP. Paper
$14.00 (low stock)
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 (low stock)
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 (low stock)
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)
A Spirituality Of Justice And Mercy
BY MEGAN MCKENNA The Catholic retreat leader and scholar has storytelling at the central focus of her spiritual life. She examines spiritual stories of every faith tradition, collecting stories and parables of love, friendship, peace and loss that show a deep relationship with God and that spiritual fulfillment can be found through justice and mercy.
Doubleday 2003 336 PP. Cloth
$6.50 (in stock)
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
How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
BY LOUISE DESALVO "How writing can be used to recover from trauma and as a tool for personal growth: encouragement and suggestions from a professor of literature and creative writing. DeSalvo (Hunter Coll.) is working here from her own experience: a tumultuous childhood, the loss of her mother and sister in adulthood, and severe health problems left her in turmoil that began to calm when she wrote about her experiences...Years of seeing her students find similar succor has further convinced her of the special value writing holds as a therapeutic tool." - Kirkus Reviews
Beacon Press 2000 240 PP. Paper
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
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
$18.95 (in stock)
Send My Roots Rain
Life's Companion
Echoing Silence
Creating Spaces
Shouts And Whispers
Writing The Sacred
