Strength for the Journey: A Guide to Spiritual Practice - Softcover

Miller, Renee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819227463 ISBN 13: 9780819227461

Publisher: Morehouse Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

This collection of thoughtful reflections looks at events and activities of everyday life and discovers routes to spiritual practice and deeper, daily spirituality. At the behest of CREDO Institute, Inc., which hosts health and wellness conferences and is supported by the Episcopal Church Pension Fund, priest and CREDO conference leader Renée Miller wrote the 20 reflections and grouped them into the categories: Meditative Practice, Ministry Practice, Media Practice, Mind Practice, and Movement Practice. Each entry, accented with color photographs, is aimed at evoking mindfulness in the common activities of life, from music and movie going to reading, writing, and walking.

For the reader who wishes to use the book to introduce or more deeply explore spiritual practices with other people or in an instructional setting, each chapter concludes with a nod toward who might be inclined to certain practices, based on individual predilections or personality.

 The Foreword by Brian Taylor lays out the theological underpinnings of spiritual discipline in what could stand alone as a primer on spiritual practice.

About this title

About the Author:

Renée Miller is a writer, poet, priest, entrepreneur, long-distance truck driver, and CREDO conference leader. She served as Director of the School for Ministry and Canon to the Ordinary in the Diocese of Idaho from 1988 to 1997 and for the Diocese of El Camino Real from 1997 to 2001. Brian C. Taylor is a guitarist, woodworker, priest, writer, CREDO conference leader, husband and father. He has served as rector of St. Michael and All Angels in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since 1983. Diane Walker is a photographer, writer, and Episcopal communicator, who lives in Bainbridge

Review:

A gracious and gentle invitation into intention and regularity in spiritual practice, which will serve the beginner and adept alike. --The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

About this edition

• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0819227463
• ISBN 13: 9780819227461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144