Product Description: If Barbara Brown Taylor and Steven Covey ever wrote a book together, this might be the book! Living Compass is a church-based faith and wellness program designed for individuals and small groups. Readers engage in a 10-week, self-guided wellness retreat, consisting of daily ten-minute readings, plus small, meaningful action steps designed for getting “your life, your relationships, and your work headed in a new direction,” according to the author...read more

Collects meditations for a series of three ten-day retreats drawn from Benedictine spirituality

Product Description: This practical book offers pastors and lay leaders a comprehensive resource for planning their own faith-based retreat for church or community group--everything from choosing a theme to identifying a retreat center to outlining the schedule of events...read more

Product Description: This book guides you through an active vacation for families of any size. A unique book that will take you through the planning stages, packing, daily activities, and the trip home. It is a vacation that is organized, creative, relaxing, educational, and fun! You will encounter personal discovery, family communication techniques, goals, and dreams...read more

Product Description: Wonder and Other Life Skills explores the human need for community, non-threatening ways to create community in multi-faith environments, the implications of the statement that people are created in the image of God, connections among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the use of creative arts as tools to open the minds of young adults to ingenuity, innovation and imagination to help them connect with the Divine...read more

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Contemplative landscape and contemplative space are familiar terms in the areas of design, landscape architecture and architecture. Krinke and her highly regarded contributors set out to explore definitions, theories, and case studies of contemplative landscapes. The contributors, Marc Treib, John Beardsley, Michael Singer, Lance Neckar, Heinrich Hermann and Rebecca Krinke have spent their careers researching, critiquing, and making landscapes. Here they investigate the role of contemplative space in a post-modern world and examine the impact of nature and culture on the design or interpretation of contemplative landscapes. The essays, drawn from both scholarship and personal experience explore the links between spaces designed to provide health benefits and contemplative space.

A memoir of one man's personal journey through Ignatian spiritual practice follows the author as he describes in his journal his search for and discovery of God's will in his life. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: It's the getaway you've been dreaming of, a retreat from your schedule that lets you slip into an oasis of quietude and calm. Time just for you! For 15 precious minutes you ignore the phone and forget about your to-do list. Soak up the rich reflections within these pages and enjoy a long drink of refreshment for your thirsty soul, deep rest for your weary soul, and comfort and peace for your worried soul...read more

Covers such information as why people go on retreats, what types of retreats are available, what role the retreat companion plays, how people prepare for retreats and subsequently sustain their retreat experience, and how to find a retreat center that is nearby. Original.