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Lectio Divina: Revelation and Prophecy

By Barbara Birch. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2025. 112 pages. $12.95/paperback; $4.99/eBook. Lectio divina, Latin for “divine reading,” is…

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Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground

By Mirabai Starr. HarperOne, 2024. 240 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Books about integrating the Divine into our mundane lives are always…

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Exploring Isaac Penington: Seventeenth-Century Quaker Mystic, Teacher and Activist

By Ruth Tod. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. I never devoted much time to reading…

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Object Essays

By Anita Bushell. Self-published, 2023. 40 pages. $18/paperback. Object Essays by Anita Bushell is a collection of ten brief personal…

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Eyes of Compassion: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh

By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2021. 160 pages. $20/paperback; $16.50/eBook. Eyes of Compassion: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh is a…

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Epiphanies: Poems of Liberation, Exile, and Confinement

By Harvey Gillman. Self-published, 2021. 104 pages. $9.59/paperback (available in the United States on worldofbooks.com/en-us). Harvey Gillman, a linguist and…

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The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters

By Mark Nepo. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2020. 288 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. In developing his soul, philosopher and poet Mark Nepo…

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Spiritual Gifts, the Beloved Community, and Covenant

By Emily Provance. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 461), 2020. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet. Picture an equilateral triangle—let’s call it a “covenant…

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How Far Have You Traveled?

By John Calvi. True Quaker Press, 2019. 236 pages. $14.95/paperback.

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The Doctor of Flowers

By Rachel Blum. 3: A Taos Press, 2018. 99 pages. $24/paperback. n her splendid poetry collection The Doctor of Flowers,…

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