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OUR LIBRARY
Thanks to the generousity of our parishioners and Wanda's love for reading, our church library is continually growing. Below is a partial list (I am still cataloging!) of the books that are available to borrow.
| Title | SubTitle | Author | Description |
| A Hidden Wholeness | The Journey Toward an Undivided Life | Parker J Palmer | Mapping an inner journey that we take in solitude and in the company of others, Palmer describes a form of community that fits the limits of our active lives. |
| A Woman's Journey to God | Finding the Feminine Path | Joan Borysenko | Woman now make up the largest group of religious dropouts in Western society. The religious and ritual forms that have been shaped by men can be alienating to woman who spend much of their lives searching for their faith. |
| About Alice | Calvin Trillin | In Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, Alice was portrayed as the wife who had "a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day" and the mother who thought that if you didn't go to every performance of your child's play, "the cou | |
| Around the Next Corner | Elizabeth Wrenn | For Deena Munger, the transformation to under appreciated housewife was subtle and gradual. She loved her family dearly, but Deena was starting to wonder: WHEN DID I DISAPPEAR? AND HOW COME I NEVER EVEN NOTICED? | |
| At Home in the World | A Rule of Life for the Rest of Us | Margaret Guenther | From the rule of St Benedict to twelve-step groups and weight watchers, the basic human desire for support and structure in the quest for God is urgent and real. |
| Beautiful as the Moon Radiant as the Starts | Jewish women in Yiddish Stories | Edited by Sandra Bark Intro by Francine Prose | This unique anthology introduces literary heroines who are ambitious and subversive, desperate and determined. |
| Bereavement | Reactions, Consequences, and Care | Nicole Marcalis | |
| Big Russ & Me | Father and Son: Lessons of Life | Tim Russert | “The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t remember something Big Russ taught me.” |
| Bird by Bird | Some Instructions on Writing and Life | Anne Lamott | |
| Breakfast Epiphanies | Finding Wonder in the Everyday | David Anderson | Breakfast Epiphanies is a collection of forty-one true-life tales. In these inspiring stories, Anderson writes with a great deal of humor about relationships - both within his family and within the community he serves |
| Buddha Never Raised Kids and Jesus Didn’t Drive Carpool | Seven principles for parenting with soul | Vickie Falcone | Yet these and many other spiritual masters have provided timeless principles to assist parents in the day-to-day challenges of child rearing. |
| Composing a Life | Life as a Work in Progress | Mary Catherine Bateson | This extraordinary bank explores the act of creator that engages us all - the composition of our lives. Through the comparative biographies of five woman… |
| Contemplative Prayer | Thomas Merton - Intro by Thich Nhat Hanh | In this classic text, Thomas Merton offers valuable guidance for prayer. | |
| Dinner with a Perfect Stranger | An Invitation Worth Considering | David Gregory | What would you discuss over dinner with Jesus? That’s the dilemma facing cynical but successful businessman Nick Cominsky when he accepts an invitation to join Jesus of Nazareth for dinner at a local restaurant. |
| Exploring the Labyrinth | A Guide for Healing and Spiritual Growth | Melissa Gayle West | Whoever you are, Walking the Labyrinth has something to offer. If a projects challenging you, waking your creative juices flowing. |
| Finding Your Religion | When the Faith you Grew-Up with has lost its meaning | Rev Scotty McLennan with intro by Garry Trudeau | "Starting with my own experience in the college in the 1960s and divinity school in the early 1970s, I have learned a great deal about how people lose and find their own religion." |
| Gods Passion Our Passion | The only way to Love…Everyday | Pierre Wolff | Are you feeling disengaged from the people around you? Withdrawn from those relationships that should be intimate? Separated from the human experience instead of enriched and fully alive? Here is a book that offers promise. |
| Handbook for the Soul | Edited by Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield - Forward by Marianne Williamson | A magnificent gathering of warmth and wisdom to nourish your soul, featuring original writings by: Lynn Andrews, Melody Beattie, Joan Borysenko, Jack Canfield, Ste4phen R Covey, Wayne dyer, Betty Eadie, Robert Fulgham, John Gray, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thomas Mo | |
| Holy Hunger | A Memoir of Desire | Margaret Bullitt-Jonas | The compelling story of a young woman's recovery from a privileged yet painful childhood and away from the cravings that came to control her life. |
| Holy Listening | The Art of Spiritual Direction | Margaret Guenther | "Margaret Guenther shares with the reader a loving and invocative meditation on the experience of spiritual direction from the perspective of a wise and hospitable spiritual director, who is also a woman, wife, mother, teacher, and priest." |
| Home Sanctuary | Practical Ways to Create a Spiritually Fulfilling Environment | Nicole Marcalis | Teeming with useful advice, ancient wisdom, and inspiring ideas, Home Sanctuary shows you how to create a beautiful and spiritual home environment infused with intent and consciousness. |
| If God is Love | Rediscovering Grace in an Ungracious World | Phillip Gelley and James Mulholland | In a straightforward and thoughtful exploration, pastors Phillip Gelley and james Mulholland confront the fear and hate that often characterize the voice of the Church today, and show how far we have drifted from Jesus' message of grace, love and hope. |
| In the Company of Cheerful Ladies | Alexander McCall Smith | In this latest, widely praised addition to the beloved No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, the charming and ever resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself faced with new challenges - and intriguing surprises. | |
| In Touch With the Word | Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart | Lectionary-based Advent, Prayer Reflections…Christmas, Lent and Easter | |
| Interrupted by God | Glimpses From the Edge | Tracey Lind | I don't think I'm alone in my mixed feelings about interruptions. Most people believe that interruptions are a nuisance. Interruptions break the normal state of affairs and stop the continuity of events…but Christ happens in the interruptions. |
| Knitting into the Mystery | Susan S Jorgensen and Susan S Izard | A Guide to the Shawl-knitting Ministry | |
| Leaving Microsoft to Change the World | An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children | John Wood | In 1998, John Wood wa a rising executive at Microsoft when a trip to Nepal inspired him to change the world, one book and one child at a time. |
| Let Your Life Speak | Listening for the Voice of Vocation | Parker J Palmer | "Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?" With this searching question, Parker Palmer begins an insightful and moving meditation on finding one's true calling. |
| Life of the Beloved | Spiritual Living in a Secular World | Henri JM Nouwen | This spiritual classic began as a simple request from one friend to another. Fred Batman, a secular journalist and writer, asked a friend and renowned author Henri JM Nouwen to write a book explaining the spiritual life in terms that he and his friends could understand. |
| Life Together | the Classic Exploration of Faith in Community | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Martyred at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer left a legacy of writings that has become his prized testimony of faith and courage for Christians around the world. |
| May I Have This Dance? | Joyce Rupp | Readers will find here a unique invitation to join with God in the dance of life, and invitation to experience God in the daily and seasonal rhythms of life. | |
| Meeting Jesus AGAIN for the First Time | Marcus J Borg | The historical Jesus and the heart of contemporary faith. | |
| Music of Silence | A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day | David Steindl-Rast and Sharon Lebell | Most of us are not about to escape to the monastery. But many of us would like to share in the Spiritual riches that come from leaving behind a world full of noise and distraction. |
| New and Selected Poems | Mary Oliver | One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over a long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets… | |
| Now and Then | A memoir of vocation | Frederick Buechner | Frederick Buechner is an ordained Presbyterian minister |
| Prayer and Personal Religion | LARGE PRINT | John B Coburn | Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we fee uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else. So this book is a kind of map or guidebook |
| Raising the Roof | the Pastoral-to-Program Size Transition | Alice Mann | In times of transition, congregations have an opportunity to deepen the connection between faith and context. Vital congregations are passionate about bringing faith to bear powerfully within their context - I believe this right down to my toes. |
| Real Kids, Real Faith | Practices for Nurturing children's Spiritual Lives | Karen Marie Yust | In a culture that has lost touch with love, compassion, and meaning, how can parents be intentional about building a spiritual foundation for their children's development? |
| Renovation of the Heart | Putting on the Character of Christ | Dallas Willard | A high school student raised in a Christian home who turns to drugs and alcohol.. A woman who has tried to stop criticizing others - for ten years. A father who knows he needs more patience with his children, but his efforts seem in vain. |
| Sabbatical Journey | The Diary of His Final Year | Henri J.M. Nouwen | Henri Nouwen passed away September 21, 1996 - three weeks after writing the last entry in this remarkable journal. |
| Seed of Sarah | Memoirs of a Survivor | Judith Magyar Isaacson | The gripping and highly acclaimed account of a young woman's experiences in concentration camps includes a new final chapter, "A Time to Forgive?" detailing the author's recent trips back to her forced labor camp in Germany. |
| Send My Roots Rain | A spirituality of Justice and Mercy | Megan McKenna | This collection of beautifully written contemporary parables brings Megan McKenna’s provocative explorations of the spiritual life to mainstream audiences for the first time. |
| Simpler Living Compassionate Life | A Christian Perspective | Henri Nouwen, Richard Foster, Cecile Andrews and others | Not enough time? Money? Peace? Can less really be more? What really matters to you? This powerful resource can help you find the questions that challenge you, and the answers that help. |
| Soul at Work | Spiritual Leadership in Organizations | Margaret Benefiel | Soul at Work describes the way organizations do business. Soul in the Workplace is not a theological abstraction, but a way of being and doing. Each of the organizations that Benefiel profiles in this lively and informative book describes the profound role that awareness of soul, or spirituality, can play in leadership and orgranizational life. |
| Soul Food | Stories to Nourish the Spirit and the Heart | Forward by Jon Kabat-Zinn Jack Kornfield and Christina Feldman | Jack Kornfield and Christina Feldman serve up a delicious banquet of wise tales from the world's greatest spiritual traditions in the pages of this delightful collection. |
| Soul Gardening | Cultivating the Good Life | Terry Hershey | People who love this world, people who pay attention, are gardeners, whether or not they have ever picked up a trowel. Because gardening is not just about digging or planting for that matter, gardening is about cherishing. And to cherish one must be present. |
| Soul Mates | Honoring Mysteries of Love and Relationship | Thomas Moore | A companion volume to the national bestseller CARE OF SOUL, this new book from Thomas Moore explores how relationships of all kinds - with all their difficulties - deepen our lives and help fulfill the needs of the soul. |
| Telling the Truth | The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairytale | Frederick Buechner | Telling the Truth is for: |
| The Alto Wore Tweed | A Liturgical Mystery | Mark Schweizer | St Germaine is a quiet little town in the mountains of North Carolina. Quiet until fall-time police detective, part time Episcopal choirmaster and aspiring whodunit novelist Hayden Konig begins his opus amidst murder and hilarious mayhem at St Barnabas Church. |
| The Call to Conversion | Recovering the Gospel for These Times | Jim Wallis | The times in which we live call out for our conversion. The vast majority of the world's people is virtually imprisoned in poverty while an affluent minority is plagued with anxiety. |
| The complete Illustrated Guidebook to Boston's Public Parks and Gardens | Concept, Design and Maps by Richard J Berenson, Text by Jon Marcus, Photo by Susan Cole Kelly | ||
| The Cup of Our Life | Phyllis Rickle | Joyce Rupp | Anyone thirsting for a more intimate and disciplined life of prayer will find a rich wellspring in The Cup of Our Life. |
| The Dance of Anger | Harriet Lerner, Ph D | A woman's guide to changing patterns of intimate relationships. | |
| the five people you meet in heaven | Mitch Album | An enchanting, beautifully written novel about heaven and earth that has already touched millions around the world. Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his father before him, fixing rides at an amusement park. |
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| The Gift of the Jews | How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the way Everyone Thinks and Feels | Thomas Cahill | In The Gift of the Jews, Thomas Cahill, author of the best selling HOW THE JEWISH SAVED CIVILIZTION, takes readers on a second amazing journey into the past, this time telling the engrossing story of how a tribe of desert Nomads forever altered the way we experience our world. |
| The Glass Castle | A Memoir | Jeanette Walls | Jeanette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. |
| The Good Book | Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart | Peter J Gomes | The Bible and the social and moral consequences that derive from its interpretation are all too important to be left in the hands of the pious or the experts, and too significant to be ignored and trivialized by the uninformed and indifferent. |
| The Gospel According to Sam | Animal Stories for the Soul | William Miller | A collection of thirty animal stories |
| The In-Between Church: Navigating Size Transitions in Congregations | Alice Mann | Alice Mann has written an exploration of size transitions that clergy and lay leadership of congregations of all sizes will find insightful and practically instructive, either for individual reading, passing on the others, or for group discussion. | |
| The Knitting Sutra | Craft as a Spiritual Practice | Susan Gordon Lydon | Knitting as prayer? Craft as spiritual path? In this wonderfully allusive story of the guest to master a craft, Susan Gordon Lydon’s love of knitting and her search for spiritual insight and become powerfully and lyrically intertwined. |
| The Last Week | A day-by-day account of Jesus's final week in Jerusalem | Marcus J Borg and John Dominic Crossan | Top Jesus scholars marcus J Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. |
| The Longing for Home | Recollections and reflections | Frederick Buechner | in this deeply moving book of reflection and recollection, Frederick Buechner once again draws us into his deeply textured life and experience to illuminate our own understanding of home as both our places of origin and ultimate destination. |
| The Night Offices | Prayers for the Hours from Sunset to Sunrise | Phyllis Tickle | In The Night Offices, Phyllis Tickle, offers the perfect compliment to THE DIVINE HOURS, bringing together prayers, psalms, hymn texts, religious poetry and other readings not included in the original Trilogy, covering the offices from late evening (Compline) to early morning (Prime). |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. | |
| The Purpose Driven Life | What on Earth am I Here For? | Rick Warren | You are not an accident. Even before the universe was created, God had you in mind, and he planned you for his purposes. |
| The Red Tent | Anita Diamant | Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapter about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons in the Book of Genesis. Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich story telling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's society. |
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| The Return of the Prodigal Son | A Story of Homecoming | Henri JM Nouwen | A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son catapulted Henri Nouwen on a long spiritual adventure. Here he shares the deeply personal and resonant meditation that led him to discover the place within where God has chosen to dwell. |
| The Shaping of a Life a Spiritual Landscape | Phyllis Rickle | Lively, entertaining, and inspiring, The Shaping of a Life is in the tradition of the beloved bestsellers by Kathleen Norris and Ann Lamott, an intimate, lyrical, and thought provoking memoir from one of the4 most respected and admired writers on religion in America today. | |
| The Spiritual Traveler | Boston and New England | Jana Riess | A guide to sacred sites and peaceful places. |
| The Tent of Abraham | Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians and Muslims | Joan Chittister, OSB, Marshid Saadi Shakur Chisti, Rabbi Arthur Waskow | In recent years there has been an explosion of curiosity and debate about Islam and the role of religion on the global stage., The debates bring up questions of politics, history, and global security, but virtually no one speaks to the heart and the spirit. |
| Too Busy Not to Pray | Slowing Down to be with God | Bill Hybels | Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. There's church and school and neighborhood and job and friends and recreation and THEN the crises hit! Time for prayer seems impossible to find. |
| Walking a Sacred Path | Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice | Lauren Artess | Walking the Labyrinth has reemerged today as a metaphor for the spiritual journey and as a powerful tool for transformation. This waking meditation is an archetype, a mystical ritual found in all religious traditions. |
| Walking the Bible | A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses | Bruce Feiler | Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic odyssey - by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel - through the greatest stories ever told. |
| Weavings "Woven Together in Love" | A Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life May/June 1997 | Periodical | Courage is the Heart of Faith - Fear and Anger on Our Side - Whispering of Oak Leaves - Baking Bread in the Dark and Other Acts of Courage. |
| Wisdom Distilled from the Daily | Living the Rule of St Benedict Today | Joan Chittister, OSB | Wise and enduring spiritual guidelines for everyday living - as relevant today as when The Rule was originally conceived by St Benedict in fifth century Rome. |
| Working on the Inside | The Spiritual Life through the eyes of actors | Retta Blaney | Working on the Inside goes backstage into the inner lives of respected actors like Liam Neeson, Vanessa Williams, Phylicia Rashad, Edward Herrmann, Kristen Chenoweth, and many others to reveal the deep spirituality each one relies on in their lives and work. |
Worry |
Hope and Help for a Common Condition | Edward M Hallowell, MD | Here is the first book to explore every facet of the most common and debilitating emotional state: worry. While a healthy level of worry can help us perform efficiently at work, anticipate dangers, and learn from past errors, in its extreme forms worry can become "toxic" -- poisoning our pleasures, sabotaging our achievements, and preventing us from resolving actual problems. |
