15 Top spirituality books like Starting Spiritual Direction: A Guide to Getting Ready, Feeling Safe, and Getting the Most Out of Your Sessions by John R. Mabry

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Starting Spiritual Direction: A Guide to Getting Ready, Feeling Safe, and Getting the Most Out of Your Sessions

By: John R. Mabry

4.23

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

Starting spiritual direction for the first time? This book tells you everything you need to know.Re…

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1. Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction

By: Margaret Guenther

4.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Guenther uses the images of the spiritual director as host, teacher, and midwife to describe the mi… read more

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"While I haven’t yet reached this state of detachment, I have spent too long with the day-to-day realities of mothering to be sentimental about it. If I am now perceived as a motherly person, I would …"

-Margaret Guenther, Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction

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2. Sacred Companions: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship Direction

By: David G. Benner

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

An ECPA 2003 Gold Medallion Finalist! We need companions on our spiritual journey. The modern world… read more

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3. The Practice of Spiritual Direction

By: William A. Barry

4.00

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The authors see spiritual direction as helping people develop their personal prayer life with God. read more

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4. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more

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5. The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays

By: Mary Oliver

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

From a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this wor… read more

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6. The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective

By: Peter Heinegg , Richard Rohr , Andreas Ebert

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Richard Rohr and Andrea Ebert's runaway best-seller shows both the basic logic of the Enneagram and… read more

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7. Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation

By: Ruth Haley Barton

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

Winner of a 2006 Logos Book Award! Do you long for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God… read more

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8. The Tale of Despereaux

By: Kate DiCamillo , Timothy Basil Ering

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Ka… read more

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9. Candlelight: Illuminating the Art of Spiritual Direction

By: None

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Candlelight offers an intimate view of spiritual direction through written re-enactments of actual … read more

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10. Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening

By: Cynthia Bourgeault

4.03

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Practitioners of Centering Prayer are known for the great enthusiasm they bring to the practice of … read more

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11. Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self

By: Richard Rohr

3.50

Format: 424 pages,

In "Falling Upward "(and in many of his other teachings), Richard Rohr talked at length about ego (… read more

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12. The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The Wounded Healeris a hope-filled and simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who … read more

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13. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

By: Parker J. Palmer

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teach… read more

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14. How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

By: Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when … read more

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15. The Bookshop of Second Chances

By: Jackie Fraser

3.58

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

Thea Mottram is having a bad month. Her husband of nearly twenty years has just left her for one of… read more

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16. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross

By: Brian Zahnd

4.53

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The cross is the heart of Scripture Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and pro… read more

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17. Adult Assembly Required

By: Abbi Waxman

3.72

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, trying to escape an overprotective family and the hauntin… read more

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"that child only needs the slightest encouragement to go rogue"

-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required

"but the thing with Target is there is always something...ideal."

-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required

"Catching and holding the attention of an eight-year-old on Halloween is like trying to catch a hummingbird with a piece of dental floss. It's theoretically possible, but not very likely."

-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required

"Polly was so forthright she blew right past Lauraʻs defenses and made them feel unnecessary. Laura didnʻt really understand the mechanics of it; one minute she was completely alone and feeling like c…"

-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required

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18. The Rocking Chair Prophet

By: Matthew Kelly

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THERE IS A VOICE WITHIN YOU. Listening to that voice is the difference between happiness and mis… read more

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"Can you say it?" Daniel prompted. Samantha sighed. "I'm not what has happened to me," she mumbled. It was barely audible. "I can hear in your voice that you don't believe it yet," he said. And that's…"

-Matthew Kelly, The Rocking Chair Prophet

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19. Honest Advent: Awakening to the Wonder of God-with-Us Then, Here, and Now

By: Scott Erickson

4.48

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In a world that's difficult to make sense of, and a season that's so often overtaken by consumerism… read more

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20. When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse

By: Chuck DeGroat

4.39

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Why does narcissism seem to thrive in our churches? We've seen the news stories and heard the rumor… read more

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21. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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22. The Beginning of Everything

By: Jackie Fraser

3.59

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

An irresistible friends-to-lovers novel of resilience, hope, and new beginnings from the author of … read more

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23. A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal

By: Amena Brown

4.40

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the weary, the angry, the anxious, and the hopeful, this collection… read more

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24. The Way of Discernment: Spiritual Practices for Decision Making

By: Elizabeth Liebert

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

We all make decisions constantly--some with careful reflection, some without much thought. But what… read more

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25. God Speaks Through Wombs: Poems on God's Unexpected Coming

By: Drew Jackson

4.56

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Christian Book Award Finalist But God speaks through wombs, birthing prophetic utterances. . . . En… read more

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26. Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering

By: Rachel E. Harding

4.68

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s spirituality blen… read more

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27. Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation

By: Cindy S Lee

4.36

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Christian spiritual formation resources and teachings have primarily come from Western spiritual tr… read more

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28. A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)

By: Daniel Silva

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve… Acclaimed #1 Ne… read more

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29. Spiritual Direction 101: The Basics of Spiritual Guidance

By: Teresa Blythe

4.31

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Wondering what spiritual direction is all about?Looking for a guide that covers everything from fin… read more

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30. Starting Spiritual Direction: A Guide to Getting Ready, Feeling Safe, and Getting the Most Out of Your Sessions

By: John R. Mabry

4.23

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

Starting spiritual direction for the first time? This book tells you everything you need to know.Re… read more

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31. The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)

By: Louise Penny

4.44

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone ca… read more

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19 Top adult books like The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser

Transform Your Habits

The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

Shauna Robinson

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Bookshop of Second Chances

Jackie Fraser

3.58

Transform Your Habits

The Last Chance Library

Freya Sampson

3.75

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