Prayer: The Hidden Fire: Journal and Companion Guide - Softcover

Harpur, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1896836321 ISBN 13: 9781896836324

Publisher: Northstone, 1999

Synopsis

As an article in Publishers Weekly suggests, many people feel disconnected from institutional religion - they don't go to church to pray, but still feel the need to speak to God. This book gives readers an opportunity to pursue that conversation through journaling.

More than simply offering the reader space to write, this beautiful journal and companion guide contains quotes from Prayer: The Hidden Fire, a new introduction from Tom Harpur, and two appendices: one that compiles the activities suggested at the end of each chapter, and one that offers the personal prayers included in Prayer.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

For more than 25 years, journalist, author and commentator Tom Harpur has been thinking, speaking, and writing about religion and spirituality for the mass media and a popular audience. In the process, he has traveled the globe, written 14 books and thousands of articles on everything from life after death and the place of healing in religion to the controversy over who Jesus is and the rational basis for a firm belief in God.

In all of this experience, Tom Harpur discovered that one of the central issues for every faith is prayer. Yet, over his time as a parish priest, seminary professor and commentator, Harpur found a distinct gap in the books available on prayer. Simple, practical, and focused on real life, Prayer: The Hidden Fire is the kind of book on prayer Tom Harpur wanted and badly needed many years ago when he first consciously took over his own spiritual journey.

This book examines our deep inner need to pray. Harpur encourages readers to go beyond childhood notions of prayer and to develop a personal style of praying and repertoire of prayers that work for them today. Along the way, Tom Harpur shares experiences from his own spiritual journey, and gives readers his most personal work to date.

About the Author:

Tom Harpur, columnist for The Toronto Star, Rhodes scholar and Anglican priest, is a prominent writer on religious and ethical issues. He is the author of seven bestselling books including For Christ's Sake, and Would You Believe? He has hosted numerous radio and television programs; a six-part television series based on his bestseller The Uncommon Touch: An Investigation of Spiritual Healing, is currently in production. Tom Harpur lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northstone
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1896836321
• ISBN 13: 9781896836324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224