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A Spiritual Compass for Doubters Who Hunger for a Meaningful Faith This is a guidebook for spiritual orphans that shows how they can "doubt their way home" by embracing their doubts and asking the hard questions as a meaningful path toward genuine faith. Kent Ira Groff helps readers value their own questions and learn to talk about spiritual matters in fresh, nonreligious language. Rather than handing down doctrines "from above," Groff invites readers to look at life "from below," exploring experiences of daily living. He helps the reader and the grace in the grit of everyday life, seeking analogies of faith in film and literature, psychology and science, poetry and arts, music and sports. "Filled with wisdom and practical guidance, rich insights and memorable quotations, it consistently connects to experience and comes complete with fifty rejection exercises." Marcus Borg, Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture, Oregon State University, and author, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time and Reading the Bible Again for the First Time "Kent Ira Groffs timely and fascinating book shows there is a way out of skepticism, in the various manifestations of grace in ordinary life. Virtually everything offers lessons that can open doors to insight, faith, and experience of the divine Presence. This is a much-needed book, especially in this very dark age." Bro. Wayne Teasdale, author, The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the Worlds Religions and A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life "In this book, Kent Ira Groff seeks spiritual nourishment for the religiously disenfranchised. In touching vignettes, the author pries open new doors in his quest to satisfy our deep hunger for meaningdoors that open us to a spiritual realm within ourselves, to which our eyes have been dulled by religion and from which we have for far too long been separated." John Shelby Spong, author, Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile

Table of Contents:
List of Reflection Exercises.Acknowledgments.Orientation: Global Orphans.Conversations with Seekers: Genuine Experiences, Worthy Questions.THE GIFT IN THE GRIT: Losing Your Religion to Find Your Faith.1. Being Agnostic Cracks the Door to Truth.2. Big Barriers to Believing.3. Hide and Seek in Stuff.4. The "Vulgar" Bible.5. Yearning Your Way Home: Holy Worldly Paths.6. Thinking Your Way Home: Postmodern Clues for Primodern Faith.7. Sweating Your Way Home: Body Language.WONDER HAPPENS: Surprise! Surprise.8. Dreams, Daydreams, and Discovery.9. Serendipity! Surprise Hunger for "Soul Talk".10. Shock. 9/11 and Traumatic Surprise.11. You Are Dust. You Are Stars! Two Keys.12. Insight Is Not Transferable.MYSTERY: Inklings of Transformation.13. The Murder of Mystery.14. "You Should See Mt. St. Helens Now!"15. The Matrix: Through Anger to Forgiveness to Freedom.16. Beauty: Johann, Vincent, and Jazz.17. Gesture: Gandhi, Rosa, and Soulforce.18. Emptiness: Prozac Days and Dark Nights.19. Sex, Mysticism, and Work.HOW SHALL WE THEN LIVE? Having Fun Doing Good.20. Playful Projects for Serious Purposes.21. Live as If You Had a Thousand Years to Live, Live as If You Must Die Tomorrow.22. Chocolat and Spider-Man: Passionate Gratitude.23. Listen to Love, to Love: Contemplate Truth, Act Truthfully.24. Singling in Community.25. Dancing Your Way Home Again: Sankofa.Debriefing and Homework: Chop Wood and Carry Water.P.S. For Once or Maybe Christians: How Big Is Your Jesus?Resource One: Guidelines for Group Gatherings.Resource Two: Personal Meditative Reading.Resource Three: Group Meditative Reading.Resource Four: Faith Finding, Faith Sharing.Resource Five: "O For So Short a Time".Notes.Bibliography.The Author.Credits.

About the Author :
Kent Ira Groff, a writer, poet, speaker, and spiritual guide, describes his work as one beggar showing other beggars where to find bread. He is founding mentor of Oasis Ministries for Spiritual Development in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, and adjunct professor at Lancaster Theological Seminary.

Review :
"...another robust example of the riches awaiting those who explore everyday spirituality with mystery, wonder, and joy." (One of The Best Spiritual Books of 2004, Spirituality & Health)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780787967581
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
  • Height: 220 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Handbook for Spiritual Orphans
  • Width: 143 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0787967580
  • Publisher Date: 19 Dec 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 530 gr


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