Spiritual Friends provides a biblically relevant training manual and relationally practical workbook for relating God's truth to human relationships. Spiritual Friends is for the layperson, pastor, or professional Christian counselor. It will equip the reader to master the personal ministry of the Word and spiritual friendships with thousands of illustrative interactions and hundreds of skill-building exercises.
The blistering, perhaps unfair, critique from Janet Martin Soskice may be found in her “Friendship,” in Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the TwentyFirst Century, edited by David F. Ford, Ben Quash, and Janet Martin ...
Intimacy with others is a part of our soul's architecture, and it can restore life and health to our depleted souls. Spiritual Friendship introduces you to principles of friendship that bring focus to your spiritual life.
Giving spiritual direction and preparing to become a spiritual director are characterized in terms of the preparation, qualities, and practical considerations necessary for guiding fellow Christians.
Follows and completes Aelred's earlier treatise on love, "The Mirror of Charity".
Friends on the Path presents some of Thich Nhat Hanh's most precious offerings on the necessity of practicing with a Sangha (spiritual community) in order to receive support and encouragement along the way.
Two fundamental practices can be helpful in this task: identifying the neighbor and making room. Both invite us to move our egos from the center and see how all creation is interconnected. Identifying our neighbors comes down to being ...
A Guidebook for Spiritual Friends
In the House of Friends: Understanding and Healing from Spiritual Abuse in the Christian Church is written for survivors of abusive churches, their families and friends, and all who want to understand spiritual abuse and help the abused.
In The Wisdom of Each Other, he demonstrates how the concerns of life can be met with the insights that come through transparent, Christ-centered relationships.
595–9); Gary E. Schwartz with William L. Simon, The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough ScientificEvidenceof LifeafterDeath (New York: Atria 2002); Huw Parri Owen, Christian Theism: A Study in Its Basic Principles (Edinburgh: Clark ...