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The Great Conversation

Nature and the Care of the Soul

By: Belden C. Lane

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The Great Conversation

Nature and the Care of the Soul

By: Belden C. Lane

In the face of climate change, species loss, and vast environmental destruction, Belden C. Lane's spiritually centered environmentalism suggests that we must look to teachers in nature to understand how to save ourselves. Pairing anecdotes of personal encounters with nature with the teachings of spiritual leaders from a range of religious traditions, this book invites us to participate once more in the great conversation among all creatures and the earth itself.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190842679

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Ravished by Beauty

The Surprising Legacy of Reformed Spirituality

By: Belden C. Lane

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Ravished by Beauty

The Surprising Legacy of Reformed Spirituality

By: Belden C. Lane

Belden Lane weaves autobiographical essays that illuminate his own experience of nature into a "green theology" drawn from the unexpected resources of Reformed Christian spirituality. He offers a surprising new portrait of the Reformed tradition, revealing a Calvin who spoke of himself as "ravished" by the earth's beauty and a Jonathan Edwards who urged a sensuous enjoyment of God's beauty as the only real way of knowing God. Lane explores the apparent paradox of Reformed spirituality, arguing that Calvinists who may seem prudish are in fact a people of passionate desire.

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328

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OUP USA

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0199755086

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9780199755080

The Solace of Fierce Landscapes

Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

By: Belden C. Lane

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The Solace of Fierce Landscapes

Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

By: Belden C. Lane

Explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference."--Cover.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195116828

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9780195116823

The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

By: Belden C. Lane

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The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

By: Belden C. Lane

In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. Interweaving a memoir of his mothers long struggle with Alzheimers and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa--a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language--Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us. There is an unaccountable solace that fierce landscapes offer to the soul. They heal, as well as mirror, the brokeness we find within. It is this apparent paradox that lies at the heart of this remarkable book: that inhuman landscapes should be the source of spiritual comfort. Lane shows that the very indifference of the wilderness can release us from the demands of the endlessly anxious ego, teach us to ignore the inessential in our own lives, and enable us to transcend the false self that is ever-obsessed with managing impressions. Drawing upon the wisdom of St. John of the Cross, Meister Eckhardt, Simone Weil, Edward Abbey, and many other Christian and non-Christian writers, Lane also demonstrates how those of us cut off from the wilderness might make some desert in our lives. Written with vivid intelligence, narrative ease, and a gracefulness that is itself a comfort, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes gives us not only a description but a performance of an ancient and increasingly relevant spiritual tradition.

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Oxford University Press

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0199886326

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Backpacking with the Saints

Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice

By: Belden C. Lane

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Backpacking with the Saints

Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice

By: Belden C. Lane

Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest. For companions, he has only such teachers as Rumi, John of the Cross, Hildegard of Bingen, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Thomas Merton, and as he walks, he engages their writings with the natural wonders he encounters--Bell Mountain Wilderness with Søren Kierkegaard, Moonshine Hollow with Thich Nhat Hanh--demonstrating how being alone in the wild opens a rare view onto one's interior landscape, and how the saints' writings reveal the divine in nature. The discipline of backpacking, Lane shows, is a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Just as the wilderness offered revelations to the early Desert Christians, backpacking hones crucial spiritual skills: paying attention, traveling light, practicing silence, and exercising wonder. Lane engages the practice not only with a wide range of spiritual writings--Celtic, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Hindu, and Sufi Muslim--but with the fascination of other lovers of the backcountry, from John Muir and Ed Abbey to Bill Plotkin and Cheryl Strayed. In this intimate and down-to-earth narrative, backpacking is shown to be a spiritual practice that allows the discovery of God amidst the beauty and unexpected terrors of nature. Adoration, Lane suggests, is the most appropriate human response to what we cannot explain, but have nonetheless learned to love. An enchanting narrative for Christians of all denominations, Backpacking with the Saints is an inspiring exploration of how solitude, simplicity, and mindfulness are illuminated and encouraged by the discipline of backcountry wandering, and of how the wilderness itself becomes a way of knowing-an ecology of the soul.

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Oxford University Press

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0199927820

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9780199927821

The Great Conversation

Nature and the Care of the Soul

By: Belden C. Lane

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Nature and the Care of the Soul

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0190842679

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Landscapes of the Sacred

Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality

By: Belden C. Lane

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Landscapes of the Sacred

Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality

By: Belden C. Lane

This substantially expanded edition of Belden C. Lane's Landscapes of the Sacred includes a new introductory chapter that offers three new interpretive models for understanding American sacred space. Lane maintains his approach of interspersing shorter and more personal pieces among full-length essays that explore how Native American, early French and Spanish, Puritan New England, and Catholic Worker traditions has each expressed the connection between spirituality and place. A new section at the end of the book includes three chapters that address methodological issues in the study of spirituality, the symbol-making process of religious experience, and the tension between place and placelessness in Christian spirituality.

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JHU Press

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0801868386

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9780801868382

Inflamed

Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm

By: Anne E. Belden,Paul Gullixson

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Inflamed

Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm

By: Anne E. Belden,Paul Gullixson

The dramatic story of hundreds of senior citizens left in the path of a ferocious firestorm and what the quest for accountability reveals about the increasing risks to our most vulnerable population. “…a powerful work of investigative journalism about a particularly vulnerable segment of the population…. Alongside an engrossing account of the emergency as it unfolded in Sonoma County, Belden and Gullixson provide a definitive account of management’s woefully inadequate response at the two sister facilities. Their findings are a lesson to other care facilities —here’s what not to do.” —San Francisco Chronicle Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation’s deadliest and most destructive firestorms swept over California’s Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path. The frailest were blind, in wheelchairs, or diagnosed with dementia, and their community quickly transformed from a palatial complex that pledged to care for them to one that threatened to entomb them. The rescue of the final 105 seniors left behind on an inflamed hillside depended not on employees, but strangers whose lives intersected in a riveting tale of terror and heroism. Headlines blamed caregivers for abandonment and neglect, but the truth proved far more complex—leading to a battle for accountability that stretched from the courtroom to the state legislature, and ultimately, to the ballot box. Inflamed: Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country’s Deadliest Firestorm is the gripping and emotional narrative detailing what happened to these seniors, employees, and rescuers before, during, and after the Tubbs Fire decimated portions of Santa Rosa, including Oakmont Senior Living Villa Capri and part of Varenna at Fountaingrove. Anne Belden and Paul Gullixson are professional journalists and Sonoma County residents who spent three years recording each phase of the disaster in agonizing detail—from the botched evacuation and its excruciating aftermath to the investigations, lawsuits, and breakdowns that followed. They tell this harrowing story with a veracity and compassion only achieved by experienced reporters with local roots. Their narrative revisits the horrors of 2017 but also asks the reader to look to the future and consider how their community’s most vulnerable will fare as ten thousand Baby Boomers retire each day, the for-profit assisted living industry rapidly expands, and the climate becomes more volatile. If this travesty can happen at high-end senior living complexes, it can happen anywhere.

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Simon and Schuster

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1642939374

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9781642939378

Landscapes of the Sacred

Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality

By: Belden C. Lane

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Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality

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Mammie's Journal of My Childhood

Interned in Sumatra

By: Jeanne Belden Tuttle,Jolanthe Zelling

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Mammie's Journal of My Childhood

Interned in Sumatra

By: Jeanne Belden Tuttle,Jolanthe Zelling

A mother's journal, streaked with tears and bolstered by the laughter of her daughter's unfading memories, results in Mammie's Journal of My Childhood-a biographical history set in Indonesia in World War II. From the comforts of colonial Dutch East Indies, Jolly, her mother and brother are thrust into a Japanese internment camp where they spend the next four and a half years separated from Jolly's father, a prisoner of war working on the Burma Railroad. Whether shivering in cool breezes on Brastagi's mountainside or sweating in the moist heat of monsoon-soaked Sumatran jungles, Nettie puts her children first in a valiant race with death. Jolly's childhood is a journey in faith through the worst of times, relieved by episodes of humor and nurtured by heartfelt compassion. Mammie's Journal of My Childhood gives readers a peek through bamboo fences into the lives of devoted mothers seeking to raise their children with dignity, faith, and love.

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iUniverse

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0595372155

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9780595372157

Desert Spirituality and Cultural Resistance

From Ancient Monks to Mountain Refugees

By: Belden Lane

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Desert Spirituality and Cultural Resistance

From Ancient Monks to Mountain Refugees

By: Belden Lane

“The wholeness of the life we seek is one that we are seldom able to envision in advance. It takes a shape that only the desert knows.” Desert Spirituality and Cultural Resistance: From Ancient Monks to Mountain Refugees is a passionate exploration of the theme of wilderness in the spiritual life. These three lectures by accomplished storyteller and theologian Belden Lane are inspirational in a way that lectures rarely are. Lane urges us to think courageously about the place of wilderness in Christian life. He contemplates the radical lives of the fourth-century Desert Fathers and Mothers, as well as the courageous example of sixteenth-century Anabaptists. He speaks of the ways in which wilderness can relate to the practice of a counter-cultural spirituality today, and he asks: Can desert and mountain gift us with a language to understand the experiences in our lives when we are taken to the edge, finding ourselves isolated and alone, both spiritually and culturally? “The wilderness is a place of suffering, out on the edge. It is a place of letting go, a place for dying, and yet also a place for coming alive. The desert is where things fall apart and where things may come together for us in an unanticipated way.”

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532656963

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9781532656965

Backpacking with the Saints

Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice

By: Belden C. Lane

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Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199927812

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Mind-find

By: Wilanne Schneider Belden

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Mind-find

By: Wilanne Schneider Belden

Thirteen-year-old Laurel is torn between her desire to use and reveal her psychic talents and her fear that her father, a noted parapsychologist, will want to use her in his research.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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0152542701

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Book's by Belden Lane

The Great Conversation

The Great Conversation

Ravished by Beauty

Ravished by Beauty

The Solace of Fierce Landscapes

The Solace of Fierce Landscapes

The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

Backpacking with the Saints

Backpacking with the Saints

The Great Conversation

The Great Conversation

Landscapes of the Sacred

Landscapes of the Sacred

Inflamed

Inflamed

Landscapes of the Sacred

Landscapes of the Sacred

Mammie's Journal of My Childhood

Mammie's Journal of My Childhood

Desert Spirituality and Cultural Resistance

Desert Spirituality and Cultural Resistance

Backpacking with the Saints

Backpacking with the Saints

Mind-find

Mind-find

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