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Spirit Wheel: Meditations from an Indigenous Elder
Choctaw elder and spiritual explorer Steven Charleston offers more than two hundred meditations based on the four hallmarks of Native spirituality to offer readers encouragement, strength, and confidence in our shared future.
Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth
Through one-hundred meditations, activist, scholar, and Cherokee descendent Randy Woodley invites readers into the Indigenous worldview of the harmony way, inviting us to tend to our deep roots in the land around us, and in Creator.
Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder's Meditations on Hope and Courage
Native America knows something about cultivating resilience and resisting darkness. Choctaw elder and Episcopal priest Steven Charleston offers words of hard-won hope, rooted in daily conversations with the Spirit and steeped in Indigenous wisdom.
Sit in the Sun: And Other Lessons in the Spiritual Wisdom of Cats
Our greatest spiritual teachers may just be the furry companions right in our own homes—the cats we love and treasure. Award-winning spiritual writer Jon M. Sweeney offers a playful, gentle, and profound meditation on the many spiritual truths and practices of our favorite feline companions.
Ordinary Blessings: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Everyday Life
The ordinary moments of life can be sacred, if we simply take a moment to notice. From gifted poet and empathetic pastor Meta Herrick Carlson, Ordinary Blessings is a collection of prayers, poems, and meditations offering a brief respite from the hectic, harried pace of our days.
Breath Prayer: An Ancient Practice for the Everyday Sacred
Abbess of Abbey of the Arts, Christine Valters Paintner introduces the ancient practice of breath prayer to today's spiritual seekers, offering beautiful prayer-poems, reflections on life's ordinary beauty, and heartfelt advice for discovering the sacred all around.
A Faith of Many Rooms: Inhabiting a More Spacious Christianity
Writing to those who feel confined by their faith but who still long for God, Debie Thomas offers a literary and spiritual reckoning with Scripture, doubt, immigrant identity, and feminism, helping readers experience the roominess of Christianity.
What Makes You Bloom: Cultivating a Practice for Connecting with Your Divine Self
Spiritual recovery coach and podcast host Kevin Miguel Garcia offers practical guidance for rebuilding your spiritual practice after your faith has fallen apart, using mindfulness, meditation, daily exercises, and more.
Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace
Rich in Buddhist and Quaker wisdom and spiritual practice, Hope Leans Forward is a guidebook for the soul, moving us toward deeper clarity, inner peace, and everyday bravery as we live through uncertain and chaotic times.
With new, accessible research into brain science and wisdom from ancient contemplative traditions, spiritual director Caroline Oakes guides us through Jesus' own contemplative practice and its revolutionary potential for our brains.
This Book Won't Make You Happy: Eight Keys to Finding True Contentment
Therapist Niro Feliciano offers research-based practices to cultivate balance and calm, allowing readers to attain true contentment rather than pursuing the fleeting sensation of happiness.
Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell
Karen Walrond, author of The Lightmaker's Manifesto, invites us to join the radiant rebellion in this intriguing investigation into how we can reclaim aging, cultivate joy, and resist ageism.
12 Tiny Things: Simple Ways to Live a More Intentional Life
Weaving together personal stories and practical tools, this accessible guide journeys with us through twelve essential areas of life—space, work, spirituality, food, style, nature, communication, home, sensuality, creativity, learning, and community—inviting us to take one tiny action at a time to open up growth and renewal.
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