Bonus Media Reviews

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Bonus Reviews for Volume 14.4

• Contemplative Prayer: Praying When the Well Runs Dry

• A Guidebook for the Spiritual Life: How should one live with God?

• A Contemporary North American Prayer Book

Bonus Reviews for Volume 14.3

• Prayerful Listening: Cultivating Discernment in Community
• Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day
• Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation
• Blessing: Jewish Chants for Blessing and Healing
• Work and Spirituality: Finding the Balance

Bonus Reviews for Volume 14.2

• Faith Evolving: A Patchwork Journey
• My Karma Ran Over My Dogma: Lessons Learned by a Whistle-Blowing Minister Turned Mystic
• Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction
• Archetype of the Spirit: Origins of Spirituality—Individual and Collective

Bonus Reviews for Volume 14.1

• Awakening Consciousness
• Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity: Psychological, Contemplative, and Moral Challenges in Christian Living
• How Can I See the Light When It’s So Dark? Journey to a Thankful Heart
• The Geography of God’s Mercy: Stories of Compassion and Forgiveness

Bonus Reviews for Volume 13.4

• Traveling with the Turtle: A Small Group Process in Women's Spirituality and Peacemaking
• Leading Diverse Communities: A How To Guide for Moving from Healing into Action
• Saints to Lean On: Spiritual Companions for Illness and Disability
• Consider the Blackbird: Reflections on Spirituality and Language

Bonus Reviews for Volume 13.3

• Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
• The Deeper Centre
• Roots and Wings: The Human Journey from a Speck of Stardust to a Spark of God
• Crossing the Desert: Learning to Let Go, See Clearly, and Live Simply
• Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life
• The Sacred Art of Lovingkindness: Preparing to Practice

Bonus Reviews for Volume 13.1

• 50 Ways to Pray: Practices from Many Traditions and Times
• Desert Spiritualitty and Contemporary Ministry
• Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer
• Essence of Prayer
• Fasting: Spiritual Freedom Beyond Our Appetites
• Manifesting God
• Mind the Light: Learning to See with Spiritual Eyes
• Adventures of the God Detectives
• Making Heart-Bread

Bonus Reviews for Volume 12.4

• GodSpeech: Putting Divine Disclosures into Human Words
• Being Prayer
• Visio Divina: A New Prayer Practice for Encounters with God
• Soul Types: Matching Your Personality and Spiritual Path
• At Home in the World: A Rule of Life for the Rest of Us
• Let in the Light: Facing the Hard Stuff with Hope
• The Sacred Art of Lovingkindness: Preparing to Practice
• Encountering the Wisdom Jesus

Bonus Reviews for Volume 12.3

• The Great Transformation: The Beginning of our Religious Traditions
• Lord of Creation: A Resource for Creative Celtic Spirituality
• She Changes Everything: Seeking the Divine on a Feminist Path

Bonus Reviews for Volumes 12.1 and 12.2

• A Pen and a Path: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
• Christian Contemplation and Chinese Zen-Taoism: A Study of Thomas Merton’s Writings
• How Can I Let Go If I Don't Know I'm Holding On?
• Reaching Godward: Voices from Jewish Spiritual Guidance
• Sabbath Keeping: Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Rest
• Suffering and the Courage of God: Exploring How Grace and Suffering Meet
• The 7 Spiritual Practices of Marriage: Your Guide to Creating a Deep and Lasting Love
• The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
• The Powers of the Universe
• The Sevenfold Yes: Affirming the Goodness of our Deepest Desires
• The Soul Tells a Story: Engaging Creativity with Spirituality in the Writing Life

Bonus Reviews for 2005

• Beginning Again: Benedictine Wisdom for Living with Illness
• Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
• Four Essentials: Classical Disciplines of Christian Spirituality
• Leadership From Inside Out: Spirituality and Organizational Change
• Sparks of the Divine: Finding Inspiration in Our Everyday World
• The Teacher's Way: Teaching and the Contemplative Life
• The Seeker's Way: Cultivating the Longings of a Spiritual Life
• What Would I Believe If I Didn't Believe Anything? A Handbook for Spiritual Orphans
• Where is God?: Earthquake, Terrorism, Barbarity, and Hope