Patheos Book Club

[This post is part of a conversation on focal practices featured at the Patheos Book Club on the new book Living Into Focus by Arthur Boers.] “You walked in this weather?” people often ask me, as if walking is only pleasurable in a congenial climate. Will Ferguson a Canadian humorist once walked 500 miles in [...]More »

Arthur Boers’ Living into Focus (now featured at the Patheos Book Club) is a delightful invitation to personal transformation.  Boers recognizes the spiritual challenges of twenty-first century living and suggests a variety of ways to experience greater meaning, peace of mind, and personal depth.  Now, I am someone who works hard and prays hard – I [...]More »

[This post is part of a roundtable conversation on the new book @stickyJesus, now featured at the Patheos Book Club.] In @stickyJesus, authors Toni Birdsong and Tami Heim counsel us to use the internet in a Christ-like way.  They ask Christians using the internet and social media to reflect on the following questions: Does our [...]More »

By Deacon Jim Russell, Archdiocese of St. Louis, Missouri I have just finished Christopher West’s At the Heart of the Gospel, and, like my Archbishop mentions in his endorsement of the work at the front of the book, I believe the “desert” experience of West’s sabbatical has left him poised to continue blazing the trail, [...]More »

By Rachel Stone, blogger at Eat With Joy! Anyone who has spent much (or even little) time online knows that people can be tremendously mean on the Interwebz, and that there’s a lot of trash in them there Clouds. At the same time, though, the Internet can connect us to other people–whether that’s to people [...]More »

[This post is sponsored by the new book @stickyJesus, by Toni Birdsong and Tami Heim, now featured at the Patheos Book Club.] Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. [...]More »

"Being Different" is a classic and it is bound to cause a great stir and debate in inter-religious discussions.More »

[This post by Catholic blogger Sarah Reinhard is part of a roundtable conversation at the Patheos Book Club on the new book At the Heart of the Gospel by Christopher West.] In the fall of 2002, I was pregnant with my first child and a fairly new parish employee. I was tapped to drive a [...]More »

Reading Adam Hamilton’s Enough: Discovering Joy through Simplicity and Generosity is a good way to start 2012.  Hamilton challenges the pervasive realities of consumerism, instant gratification, and materialism that despite their lure ultimately enslave us and diminish our quality of life.  He reminds us that “it is a gift to be simple.”  Joy comes from [...]More »

[As part of the blogger roundtable on Christopher West's new book At the Heart of the Gospel: Reclaiming the Body for the New Evangelization, Patheos' Managing Editor Patton Dodd offers this reflection on sexuality and religion.  Visit the Patheos Book Club for more conversation here.] A few years ago, a dear Catholic friend of mine [...]More »