Resources

Community of Christ Daily Bread Blog
A daily spiritual practice of stories and reflections from around the church. New submissions always welcome!

Online Resource: The Painted Prayerbook by Jan Richardson

Yearning For God: Spiritual Practices for Discernment (PDF)

Spiritual Formation Guide by Carolyn Brock (PDF) Based on Christ’s Mission Is Our Mission by Peter Judd

SPIRITUAL RETREAT- A Surprising Hope- Seeking Wisdom in the Advent Night (PDF) An Advent Spiritual Retreat Guide by Katie Harmon-McLaughlin

lent-a-spirituality-of-resistance (PDF) A Lenten Spiritual Retreat Resource

Lenten Spiritual Retreat Companion (SACRED RESTRAINT: A Spiritual Companion for the Lenten Desert)

Recommended Books: 

The Way of Discernment: Spiritual Practices for Decision Making by Elizabeth Liebert

Spiritual Disciplines Handbook by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

Paths to Prayer: Finding Your Own Way to The Presence of God by Patricia D. Brown

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening by Cynthia Borgeault

Spiritual Friendship After Religion by Joseph Stewart-Sicking

Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of  A New Spiritual Awakening by Diana Butler Bass

Grounded: Finding God in the World- A Spiritual Revolution by Diana Butler Bass

The Discerning Heart by Wilkie and Norene Au

Finding Our Way Again by Brian McLaren

An Altar In The World by Barbara Brown Taylor

Learning To Walk In The Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor

Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton

New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen

Reaching Out by Henri Nouwen

The Inner Voice of Love by Henri Nouwen

Christianity For The Rest of Us by Diana Butler Bass

Monastery of the Heart by Joan Chittister

The Liturgical Year by Joan Chittister

Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer

The Active Life by Parker Palmer

Immortal Diamond by Richard Rohr

Everything Belongs by Richard Rohr

Falling Upward by Richard Rohr

He and I by Gabrielle Bossis

Mystics, Visionaries, and Prophets by Shawn Madigan

Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth by Walter Bruggeman

Sabbath As Resistance by Walter Bruggeman

Fully Awake and Truly Alive by Jane Vennard

Prayers for the New Social Awakening by Christian Iosso and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty

For Praying Out Loud: Interfaith Prayers for Public Occasions by L. Annie Foerster

The Cup of Our Life: A Guide to Spiritual Growth by Joyce Rupp

Prayers to Sophia by Joyce Rupp

Why I Wake Early (Poetry) by Mary Oliver

Thirst (Poetry) by Mary Oliver

A Timbered Choir: Sabbath Poems by Wendell Berry

Leavings (Poems) by Wendell Berry

Small Wonder (Essays) by Barbara Kingsolver

In The Sanctuary of Women by Jan Richardson

In Wisdom’s Path by Jan Richardson