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Beth Allison Barr – The Making of Biblical Womanhood
Kate Bowler – Everything Happens for a Reason
Katharine C. Bushnell – God’s Word to Women (Thistle Book Review)
Kristin Kobe Du Mez – Jesus and John Wayne
Rachel Held Evans – Inspired
Thomas Merton – The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton & Sue Monk Kidd – New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton & Rosemary Radford Ruether – At Home in the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether
Kathleen Norris – The Cloister Walk
Kathleen Norris – Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
Kathleen Norris – Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Kathleen Norris – Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life
Kathleen Norris – The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women’s Work
John O’Donohue – To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
Heather Plett – The Art of Holding Space
Jan Richardson – In the Sanctuary of Women (also CLICK HERE to see Jan Richardson’s website)
Richard Rohr – Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Richard Rohr – Falling Upward
Richard Rohr – The Universal Christ
Rosemary Radford Ruether – Gaia & God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
Rosemary Radford Ruether – Sexism and God Talk
Mary Hembrow Snyder – Christology of Rosemary Radford Ruether: A Critical Introduction
Gretta Vosper – With or Without God: : Why the Way We Live is More Important Than What We Believe
The Making of Biblical Womanhood
Beth Allison Barr
Biblical womanhood–the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers–pervades North American Christianity… Yet biblical womanhood isn’t biblical, says Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr. It arose from a series of clearly definable historical moments.
Everything Happens for a Reason
Kate Bowler
Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval… Then she is diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live.
God’s Word to Women
Katharine C. Bushnell
Biblical scholar, social activist, physician and missionary and linguist, Katherine Bushnell was an extraordinarily gifted and inspirational leader frequently credited with the awakening of the women’s empowerment movement within the Church. In her masterpiece, God’s Word to Women, she carefully argues the case that women should learn directly from the words of God, by educating themselves and taking the initiative.
Jesus and John Wayne
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
A much-needed reexamination, Jesus and John Wayne explains why evangelicals have rallied behind the least-Christian president in American history and how they have transformed their faith in the process, with enduring consequences for all of us.
Inspired
Rachel Held Evans
Drawing upon recent scholarship and literary analysis, Evans creatively retells our favourite Bible stories, explaining their contexts and possible interpretations, and then connects these ancient stories to our present-day ones. Using her well-honed literary instincts and experience in both evangelical and mainline Protestant traditions, Evans discovers a way of understanding that avoids noncommittal liberalism on one hand and strident literalism on the other.
The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton
A telling of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace and faith leads him, at the age of twenty-six, to take vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders–the Trappist monks. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, the four walls of my new freedom; Thomas Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has fully immersed himself in it.
New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton
New Seeds of Contemplation seeks to awaken the dormant inner depths of the spirit so long neglected by Western man, to nurture a deeply contemplative and mystical dimension in our lives.
At Home In the World
Thomas Merton & Rosemary Radford Ruether
An extraordinary exchange between one of the most famous monks in history and a radical theologian whose career and influence at the time of these letters was only just beginning. This spirited and provocative correspondence provides a rare glimpse into how two committed Christians struggled with the questions and uncertainties of their times.
The Cloister Walk
Kathleen Norris
A telling of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace and faith leads him, at the age of twenty-six, to take vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders–the Trappist monks. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, the four walls of my new freedom; Thomas Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has fully immersed himself in it.
Amazing Grace
Kathleen Norris
Words like “judgment,” “faith,” “dogma,” “salvation,” “sinner”—even “Christ”—formed what she called her “scary vocabulary,” words that had become so codified or abstract that their meanings were all but impenetrable. Blending history, theology, storytelling, etymology, and memoir…, she evokes a rich spirituality rooted firmly in the chaos of everyday life—and offers believers and doubters alike an illuminating perspective on how we can embrace ancient traditions and find faith in the contemporary world.
At Home In the World
Thomas Merton & Rosemary Radford Ruether
An extraordinary exchange between one of the most famous monks in history and a radical theologian whose career and influence at the time of these letters was only just beginning. This spirited and provocative correspondence provides a rare glimpse into how two committed Christians struggled with the questions and uncertainties of their times.
The Cloister Walk
Kathleen Norris
A telling of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace and faith leads him, at the age of twenty-six, to take vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders–the Trappist monks. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, the four walls of my new freedom; Thomas Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has fully immersed himself in it.
The Prairie Thistle 