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Is it really possible to enter into a genuine conversation with God Christians throughout the ages have done so using the ancient practice of lectio divina or spiritual reading. In this practical and inspirational book Stephen Binz shows how we can read and reflect on Scripture in ways that enable us to hear God speaking to us in our thoughts and hearts. He explains how to converse with God in prayer which will lead to contemplation and life changing action. With a clarity that all will welcome Binz explains the elements characteristics and benefits of lectio divina. This book is suitable both for beginners and those seasoned in prayer as well as for those in faith sharing and Bible study groups.
Seven examples from biblical passages show readers how to use lectio divina.
Questions for reflection and discussion follow each chapter.
Valuable for all from beginners to those experienced at prayer.

The Seven Storey Mountain (Bestseller!) by Thomas Merton

In 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century.

Thomas Merton’s first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into sticky-sweet abstractions, Merton’s autobiographical reflections are mostly wise, humble, and concrete. The best reason to read The Seven Storey Mountain, however, may be the one Merton provided in his introduction to its Japanese translation: “I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both.”

In the half-century since its original publication, this timeless spiritual tome has been published in over twenty languages and has touched millions of lives.This 50th anniversary edition contains an introduction by Merton’s editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by biographer William H. Shannon.

This is a story of a soul who is searching for God. Like many of us, his journey took him past the world into silence, the silence of God.

In The Catholic Church and Science Answering the Questions Exposing the Myths author Ben Wiker The Darwin Myth A Meaningful World takes on the most common errors that modern materialistic thinkers convinced that faith and science must be mortal enemies have foisted into popular culture.
With great learning clarity and wit he tackles stubborn confusions many people have about the relationship between Christianity especially Catholicism and the empirical sciences and separates truth from lies the factual from the fanciful.

Weren t the Middle Ages dark for science Didn t the pope say Darwin was right From the Big Bang to Galileo from the origins of life on Earth to the existence of life on other planets The Catholic Church and Science clears away the fog of falsehood and misunderstanding to reveal a faith whose doctrines do not contradict the facts of science but harmonize with them and a universe whose uncanny order and precision point not to chance assemblage by random forces but to the purpose built design of an intelligent creator.