One of our goals is to increase the opportunities for women of faith to learn about each other’s religious traditions and experiences. We have a 200-volume library dealing with women’s issues from spiritual, psychological and historical perspectives. Our classes often use books to begin our conversations. Here is our book list from 1994 to the present.

My Grandfather’s Blessings by Rachel Naomi Remen
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Wisdom Way of Knowing: Reclaiming the Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart by Cynthia Bourgeault
The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring by Parker Palmer
On Desire: Why We Want What We Want by William B. Irvine
The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth by Wendy Farley
Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions by Gerald May
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor
The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion by Dawna Markova
The Second Half of Life by Angeles Arrien
Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory by Maureen Murdock
Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood by Suzanne Levine
The Heroine’s Journey: Women’s Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock
Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance by Helen LaKelly Hunt
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
Contemplative Heart by James Finley
Inner Simplicity: 100 Ways to Regain Peace and Nourish Your Soul by Elaine St. James
Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down and Enjoying More by Elaine St. James
Lighten Up: Free Yourself From Clutter by Michelle Passoff
Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages by Ursula King
Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings by Evelyn Underhill
The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance by Dorothy Soelle
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Beyond The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
Dreams: God’s Forgotten Language by John Sanford
Reconciliation: Mission and Ministry in a Changing Social Order by Robert Schreiter
Why Christianity Must Change or Die by John Shelby Spong
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden
Heart of Flesh: A Feminist Spirituality for Women and Men by Joan D. Chittister
Life Abundant: Rethinking Technology and Economy for a Planet in Peril by Sallie McFague
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
My Soul in Silence Waits by Margaret Guenther
Tending the Earth, Mending the Spirit: The Healing Gifts of Gardening by Connie Goldman & Richard Mahler
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith by Marcus Borg
A Woman’s Path: Women’s Best Spiritual Travel Writing by McCauley, Carlson & Leo, editors
How Then Shall We Live? by Wayne Muller
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal and Delight in our Busy Lives by Wayne Muller
A Place to Pray: Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer by Roberta Bondi
The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion by Barbara Brown Taylor
The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry
Listening for the Heartbeat of God by J. Philip Newell
Listening for God: A Minister’s Journey Through Silence and Doubt by Renita J. Weems
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman’s Journey by Leila Ahmed
The Bond Between Women: A Journey to Fierce Compassion by China Galland
Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders by Mary Pipher
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Thomas Cahill
God, Sex and Women of the Bible: Discovering our Sensual, Spiritual Selves by Shoni Labowitz
Saving Jesus From Those Who are Right: Rethinking What it Means to be Christian by Carter Heyward
At the Root of this Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst by Carol Lee Flinders
Take Your Time: Finding Balance in a Hurried World by Eknath Easwaran
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
Women’s Spirituality: Resources for Christian Development edited by Joan Wolski Conn
Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People edited by Dorothy Bass
The Celtic Way of Prayer: Recovery of the Religious Imagination by Esther de Waal
Enduring grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics by Carol Lee Flinders
Do What You Have the Power to Do: Stories of Six New Testament Women by Helen Pearson
Jubilee Time: Celebrating Women, Spirit and the Advent of Age by Maria Harris
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler
Choosing to Lead: Women and the Crisis of American Values by Constance Buchanan
Just a Sister Away by Renita J. Weems
Women at the Well by Kathleen Fischer Cloister
Walk by Kathleen Norris
Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg
Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool by Lauren Artress
A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary by Macrina Wiederkehr
Memories of God by Roberta Bondi
Inheriting Our Mothers’ Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective edited by Katie Cannon
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse by Elizabeth A. Johnson
A Warm, Moist, Salty God: Women Journeying Towards Wisdom by Edwina Gately
The World’s Religions by Houston Smith

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