On the Nightstand: October

Preparing for the prayer retreat I facilitated last month meant I got to read a  lot of great books, including Jon M. Sweeney’s Praying with Our Hands: 21 Practices of  Embodied Prayers from the World’s Spiritual Traditions. The  images of prayer–with our hands, in dance, at altars–are stunning. The text is  thought provoking. Here’s an… Continue reading On the Nightstand: October

On the Nightstand: September

I recently finished (and loved!) Pat Gohn’s Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious: Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood.  Part memoir, part instruction, it’s about the awesome gift of being a spiritual mother. Catholics will drink in the Marian connection, but there are plenty of gems for all Christians, including: “God’s spirit is very adaptable. Just open… Continue reading On the Nightstand: September