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Wild Things

Poems of Grief and Love, Loss and Gratitude

By: Roberta Bondi

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Wild Things

Poems of Grief and Love, Loss and Gratitude

By: Roberta Bondi

Grief is such a messy thing," Roberta Bondi writes in the introduction. "It fills us with so many ideas and images, memories and fantasies, celebration and bitter regret all at once all superimposed upon one another. No wonder it wears us out." In this book of poetry and reflections on her mother's death, Bondi acknowledges her grief in the presence of God over the span of a few months. She expresses many conflicting feelings: love, pain, anger, guilt, emptiness, confusion, exhaustion, relief that her mother was no longer suffering. As she celebrates her mother's life and wrestles with her own sense of loss and longing, she ponders the mystery of life, death, and God's presence everyday all around us in nature as well as in relationships. Even though we may feel isolated in our grief, we do not grieve alone, Bondi reminds us. In this firsthand account of her grief, Bondi offers a gift to all who are grieving—comfort and help with accepting the forward and backward movements of grief and loss. Wild Things will also be a valuable resource for those seeking to aid and comfort the grieving: pastors, counselors, chaplains, hospice workers, and family and friends of those dealing with loss.

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Upper Room Books

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0835813657

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To Love as God Loves

Conversations with the Early Church

By: Roberta C. Bondi

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To Love as God Loves

Conversations with the Early Church

By: Roberta C. Bondi

Being a Christian means learning to love with God's love. But God's love is not a warm feeling in the pit of the stomach. It has definite characteristics we learn in the course of our life, in the behavior and teaching of the early monastics, as we ponder over what we can say about God as God deals with us, and finally, as we model our own lives on what we have learned.

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Fortress Press

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1451417497

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In Ordinary Time

Healing the Wounds of the Heart

By: Roberta C. Bondi

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In Ordinary Time

Healing the Wounds of the Heart

By: Roberta C. Bondi

Prayer is a hard topic for most of us modern folk, and we have little place to talk about it. My own first conversation partners were the great ancient teachers, the Abbas and Ammas of the Egyptian desert...These men and women have been urging me for nearly thirty years to pray and to seek healing for the wounds of my heart I carry from childhood, from my own temperament, from my culture, even the culture of my church. They have also urged me all along to write about what I have learned from them and from my own experience, for, as they tell us, nothing, neither the most wonderful nor the most humiliating thing we are given as Christians, is ever given for ourselves alone...The chapters that follow are in the form of letters to a friend. My intention, of course, is that you, the reader, understand yourself to be the friend to whom I am writing..." --excerpted from the author's Preface "What a wonderful example of spiritual guidance through letters! Out of her own rich experience and struggle and scholarship Roberta Bondi speaks about prayer as one who knows. Those who have a lot of questions about experience of God in everyday life will not want to miss reading In Ordinary Time." --E. Glenn Hinson, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Richmond, Virginia

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0687092000

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To Pray and to Love

Conversations on Prayer with the Early Church

By: Roberta C. Bondi

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To Pray and to Love

Conversations on Prayer with the Early Church

By: Roberta C. Bondi

Prayer is an integral aspect of the love of God and neighbor, which to many is the ultimate goal of a fulfilling Christian life. However, many want to find a way to pray but are unable to understand or justify prayer theologically. Still others believe that God will not support them in the midst of cosmic hurt. This book addresses these concerns.

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1451417500

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To Love as God Loves

Conversations with the Early Church

By: Roberta C. Bondi

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Conversations with the Early Church

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To Pray and to Love

Conversations on Prayer with the Early Church

By: Roberta C. Bondi

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Conversations on Prayer with the Early Church

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Memories of God

Theological Reflections on a Life

By: Roberta C. Bondi

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Memories of God

Theological Reflections on a Life

By: Roberta C. Bondi

Reminiscent of the writings of Augustine, Teresa, and Thomas Merton, this volume is a book of honest pain and honest joy in the presence of God.

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0687038928

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Houses

A Family Memoir of Grace

By: Roberta C. Bondi

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Houses

A Family Memoir of Grace

By: Roberta C. Bondi

Compared to her previous books, Houses: A Memoir of Grace is much less overtly theological and even more autobiographical. Over the course of the chapters--each of which is more or less structured around a particular house in which Bondi or one of her foremothers lived--Bondi reconstructs how she came to be who she is. She particularly focuses on how the women and the houses in her past and in her foremothers' pasts shaped her life and their lives. On this "structure" of houses are hung many different insights and stories of both pain and pleasure, abuse and self-discovery, and intermingled with all this, necessarily, discoveries about God. Houses is written as a story, one that is vividly told and replete with conversation and description of farm life in the South and city life in New York. As is her custom, Bondi also includes the many insights, dreams, revelations, and theological reflections that characterize her life and writing. It is a book that will especially appeal to those interested in self-understanding and self-esteem, as well as the complexity of intergenerational traditions and behaviors.

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0687024056

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Nick the Cat

Christian Reflections on the Stranger

By: Roberta C. Bondi

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Nick the Cat

Christian Reflections on the Stranger

By: Roberta C. Bondi

Combining her storytelling skills with theological insights and reflections, Bondi here tells the story of the stray cat Nick, who wheedled his way into her family's life, home, and heart. At first almost nothing but a pathetic bag of torn, matted bones, Nick arrived unexpectedly but quickly won their hearts. Under the care of a vet and the Bondis, he regained his health while receiving a home and much affection. His coming and going, his health and its decline, his insanity and death are gently told. Nick's presence prompts Bondi to reflect on the unexpected way grace comes into our lives and how we push away the Other, be it stranger, one who is sick, or a person of different orientations and beliefs. She also comments on evil and mental illness; on suffering and the atonement; on the unexpected nature of love; on the training of the heart and mind and the discipline of the Christian life for dealing with otherness; on the pervasive and persistent nature of sin; and, on the nature of embodiment, mortality, and loss.

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0687045207

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9780687045204

A Place to Pray

Reflections on the Lord's Prayer

By: Roberta C. Bondi

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A Place to Pray

Reflections on the Lord's Prayer

By: Roberta C. Bondi

In many ways the Lord's Prayer is the most fundamental of all Christian prayers. It was given by Jesus in response to his disciples' explicit request that he teach them to pray, and throughout the period of the early church (along with the Apostles' Creed) it was regarded as a basic catechistic text. For a large number of people in our own period, however, trying to pray this prayer in any meaningful way is fraught with difficulties. Roberta Bondi contends that Christians are called to love God and our neighbors as ourselves, and that the Lord's Prayer--prayed honestly from the places we really are--is a basic tool to help us do it. A Place to Pray: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer is not an exegetical book; rather the reflections in it, which draw from the author's own experiences, teaching, and study of the early church, are presented in a series of letters to a fictional friend. In these letters Bondi addresses many of the issues that make praying the Lord's Prayer difficult. At the same time, she helps readers use the prayer as a means of helping them love God, neighbor, and self. An excellent resource for personal spiritual growth and development, this volume is also well suited for adult study groups and is an ideal text for courses in Christian Spirituality, Theology, Worship, and Pastoral Care.

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0687025745

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Upper Room Disciplines 2003

A Book of Daily Devotions

By: Garlinda Burton,Marjourie Suchocki,Fairfax M Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity Martin E Marty,Benoni Silva-Netto,Hyeon Sik Hong,Don E Saliers,Virgilia Vazquez,Jane Vennard,Roberta C Bondi

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Upper Room Disciplines 2003

A Book of Daily Devotions

The Upper Room Disciplines is a meditation guide and commentary in one volume. Each week a different writer guides readers through the designated readings from the Revised Common Lectionary, a three-year journey through the Bible. By using Disciplines, readers become part of an international community that is considering the same Scripture passages each week. Writers, pastors, preachers, and scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds contribute to Disciplines, offering a diversity of perspectives on scripture. A best-selling resource for over four decades, this "portable pastor" can serve as a spiritual guide throughout the year.

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0835809528

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Wild Things

Poems of Grief and Love, Loss and Gratitude

By: Roberta Bondi

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Poems of Grief and Love, Loss and Gratitude

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To Pray & to Love

Conversations on Prayer with the Desert Fathers

By: Roberta Bondi

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Conversations on Prayer with the Desert Fathers

By: Roberta Bondi

Drawing on the writings of the early monastic writers, this book invites the reader to keep company with them to illuminate a way of praying, living and thinking about life in mutuality with God.

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Continuum

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Houses

A Family Memoir of Grace

By: Roberta C. Bondi

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A Family Memoir of Grace

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Wild Things

Wild Things

To Love as God Loves

To Love as God Loves

In Ordinary Time

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To Pray and to Love

To Pray and to Love

To Love as God Loves

To Love as God Loves

To Pray and to Love

To Pray and to Love

Memories of God

Memories of God

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Nick the Cat

Nick the Cat

A Place to Pray

A Place to Pray

Upper Room Disciplines 2003

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To Pray & to Love

To Pray & to Love

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