Bøger af Isabel Anders

An established author with over forty years of experience as a physician, minister, mother, retreat leader, and spiritual director has collected daily messages from well-known spiritual authors and responds with a short discussion from her own experience particularly as it relates to spiritual direction. A Daily Spiritual Rx should trigger a connection to God for the reader from her own experience to sustain her for the day during Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. Joanna addresses in particular the most common subjects and questions brought up by people on spiritual journeys or in spiritual direction as she shares books, readings, and experiences that have most connected her to God on her journey from both contemporary and classical writers. Its uniqueness is a daily appetizer sized taste of the spiritual life to be digested during the whole day. The reader may be stimulated to read further about the author or book or insight chosen for that day or just digest this bite. The book can be used as a daily devotional, but hopefully it will lead the reader to a deeper discovery of his or her own insights as well as what well known authors in spiritual direction present.The author is a frequent and well-known retreat leader and the multiple readings on varying subjects in the book are an excellent way to journey with readers on a retreat. The book could be part of curriculum in spiritual direction classes and schools, men's and women's church groups, pastoral care classes and schools. It also speaks to those in 12 step recovery groups. Special writings address the liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.

Monks become rock stars! Chant of Death is set in a fictional Benedictine Abbey in southern Louisiana, where Spanish moss veils the landscape, and a murderous soul has found a cloistered refuge. When murder breaks out, Father Malachi finds his powers stretched to the limit in an effort to protect the innocent and identify the killer.

The Faces of Friendship is one woman''s mapping of the interlocking dynamics of friendship that penetrate to the deepest roots within us--our innate sense of belonging both to God and to each other.Isabel Anders, author of personal reflections that ""reverberate with spiritual insight"" (Arthur Livingston in New Oxford Review)--Awaiting the Child, Soul Moments, and Seasons for the Soul--has collected here in one volume her insights on the various faces of friendship that we encounter daily, with hints of paths we may follow for our souls'' instruction and delight.But this is no simple prescription for everyone or every situation. Anders''s strong theological grounding in the underlying meaning of friendship teems with biblical and classical understandings that stretch the reader and invite ongoing interaction--with questions, quotes, and further insights for individuals and groups at the end of each chapter.""To Be a Friend of God ... Befriending Yourself ... Man-Woman Friendships ... When Friendship Falters ... Friendship and Maturity ... are among the rich themes that interplay in these pages, as Anders''s intriguing case for friendship in the Spirit explores the essential human longing to ''know'' and ''be known'' on our journey here below.""--Arthur Livingston, New Oxford Review.Also by Isabel AndersAwaiting the Child: An Advent Journal""Anders expresses Advent''s multiple themes in language that launches into poetry. This is a book to be savored, reflected on, prayed over. It is a wonderful way to move through Advent toward the light in the darkness, the mystery of Christmas.""--Celebration magazineSoul Moments: Times When Heaven Touches Earth""Soul Moments is ... a beautiful, encouraging, hopeful book. I loved reading it.""--Madeleine L''Engle.""With charm and an eye for the sacred embedded in everyday moments, Isabel Anders helps us see more clearly, more deeply. Isabel''s gentle eloquence makes the ordinary seem luminous. Soul Moments is a delight to read.""--Timothy Jones.Isabel Anders is the also author of Awaiting the Child: An Advent Journal. A graduate in English from Wheaton College, with an MA in religious studies from Mundelein College, Chicago, Isabel has been a writer and editor for more than thirty years and received an Ohio Arts Council fellowship in creative writing (1989).

Here is the perfect resource for encouraging married couples to engage in the spiritual discipline of daily prayer as a means of affirming the blessings and intimacy of their relationship.The seven sections of the wedding vows serve as the framework upon which hang the enduring values that need to be renewed through the decades with scripture, reflections, and questions.This inspiring book provides an aid to couples for continuing to find praying together a natural act for a lifetime of love. It will make a thoughtful gift, whether for newlyweds, couples celebrating their anniversaries, or Marriage Encounter participants.Hardcover