Picture

Sign up for
 Nimble Spirit Update
 

Non-Fiction Reviews

Essay, Memoir, Art &c.

One Hundred Great Catholic Books
From the Early Centuries to the Present

By Don Brophy

God’s Echo
by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

Roots and Wings
by Margaret Silf

The Poetics of Space
and The Poetics of Reverie

by Gaston Bachelard

Short Trip to the Edge
by Scott Cairns

Shouts and Whispers
Jennifer L. Holberg, ed.

My Life with the Saints
by James Martin, SJ

The Grail
by Brian Doyle

The Luminous Dusk
by Dale C. Allison, Jr.

You Called My Name:
The Hidden Treasures of Your Hebrew Heritage
By Esther Ben-Toviya

Safe at Home:
A Memoir of God, Baseball, and Family
by Mark A. Jolley

God Laughs & Plays:
Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
by David James Duncan

Using Scripture in a Global Age
by C. Norman Kraus

The Last Harbinger
by Crazy Dog Audio Theatre

A Man without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut

America, Fascism, and God
by Davidson Loehr

Swimming with Scapulars
True Confessions of a Young Catholic

by Matthew Lickona

The Wet Engine:
Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart

by Brian Doyle

Cross-Shattered Christ:
Meditations on Christ’s Seven Last Words

by Stanley Hauerwas

The Reluctant Spiritualist:
The Life of Maggie Fox

by Nancy Rubin Stuart

Searching for God Knows What
by Donald Miller

Flannery O’Connor and the
Christ-Haunted South

by Ralph C. Wood

Good as New:
A Radical Retelling of the Scriptures
by John Henson

Occasions of Sin
by Sandra Scofield

The Wave in the Mind:
Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
by Ursula K. Le Guin

What Would Buffy Do?
The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide

by Jana Riess

The Great God Baseball:
Religion in Modern Baseball Fiction

by Allen E. Hye

McCarthy’s Bar and The Road to McCarthy
by Pete McCarthy

Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible
by Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet

My Life Closed Twice:
Surviving a Double Loss
by Sandra Klamkin Schocket

A Serious Way of Wondering:
The Ethics of Jesus Imagined

by Reynolds Price

The Life You Save May be Your Own:
An American Pilgrimage
by Paul Elie

Flannery O’Connor: Spiritual Writings
edited by Robert Ellsberg

Memoir of a Misfit:
Finding My Place in the Family of God
by Marcia Ford

Jane Kenyon: A Literary Life
by John H. Timmerman

Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season
edited by Gary Schmidt and Susan M. Felch

Passing the Colors:
Engaging Visual Culture in the 21st Century
by Chris Stoffel Overvoorde

Dialogues with Silence:
Prayers and Drawings
by Thomas Merton
edited by Jonathan Montaldo

Christ for All People:
Celebrating a World of Christian Art

edited by Ron O’Grady

Architecture of Truth:
The Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronet

by Lucien Hervé

Invisible Art
compiled by The Art Brothers

The Annunciation Series
from Phaidon Press

Architecture of Silence:
Cistercian Abbeys of France

photos by David Heald
text by Terryl N. Kinder

The Way of the Dreamcatcher:
Spirit Lessons with Robert Lax: Poet, Peacemaker, Sage
by S. T. Georgiou

A Joyful Theology:
Creation, Commitment, and an Awesome God
by Sara Maitland

The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia
by William H. Shannon, Christine M. Bochen, and Patrick F. O’Connell

The Strangest Way:
Walking the Christian Path
by Robert Barron

Following the Sun:
A Bicycle Pilgrimage from Andalusia to the Hebrides
by John Hanson Mitchell

“Daddy, Do You Believe in God?”
The Story of How We Lost our Faith, and How We Might Find it Again
by John Hunt

Spiritual, But Not Religious:
Understanding Unchurched America
by Robert C. Fuller

A Pelican in the Wilderness:
Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses
by Isabel Colegate

Bones of the Master:
 A Journey to Secret Mongolia
by George Crane

A Stone Bridge North:
Reflections in a New Life
by Kate Maloy

Growing Pains:
Learning to Love My Father’s Faith
by Randall Balmer

Karma and Happiness:
A Tibetan Odyssey in Ethics, Spirituality, and Healing
by Miriam E. Cameron

My Story as Told by Water:
Confessions, Druidic rants, reflections, bird-watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting light, from living rivers, in the age of the industrial dark
by David James Duncan

Good People . . . from an Author’s Life
by Jon Hassler

The Wildest Place on Earth:
Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness

by John Hanson Mitchell

Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir
by Elizabeth J. Andrew

The People of the Sea:
A Journey in Search of the Seal Legend

by David Thomson

Leap
by Terry Tempest Williams

Credo: Essays on grace, altar boys, bees, kneeling, saints, the Mass, priests, strong women, epiphanies, a wake, and the haunting thin energetic dusty figure of Jesus the Christ
by Brian Doyle

Signatures of Grace:
Catholic Writers on the Sacraments

Edited by Thomas Grady and Paula Huston

Eccentric Islands: Travels Real and Imaginary
by Bill Holm

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
by Mary Rose O’Reilley

Meditation & Reflection

The Phoenix Affirmations
by Eric Elnes

Wilderness Meditations from John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman
compiled by Chris Highland

God Has No Religion:
Blending Traditions for Prayer

by Frances Sheridan Goulart

The Song of Songs:
A Spiritual Commentary

by M. Basil Pennington, illus. by Phillip Ratner

Earth’s Echo:
Sacred Encounters with Nature
by Robert M. Hamma

100 Names of Mary:
Stories and Prayers
by Anthony F. Chiffolo

God Whispers:
Stories of the Soul, Lessons of the Heart
by Karyn D. Kedar

Sacred Spaces:
Stations on a Celtic Way
by Margaret Silf

The Story of Ruth: Twelve Moments in Every Woman’s Life
by Joan D. Chittister

The Wisdom of Desmond Tutu
Compiled by Michael Battle

Communion of Life: Meditations for the New Millennium
by Chris Glaser

Go to
Non-Fiction Briefs or
Briefs: Fiction and Non-Fiction on
Dreaming God’s Dreams
 

 Home  | About |   Fiction/Poetry   |   Non-Fiction  |  Marketplace  |
 
Children/Young Adult  |  Essays/Interviews  | Poetry Gallery | Art Gallery |
 How to contact us  |  Links  |  Index  |

Copyright © 2000-2008 Nimble Spirit. All rights reserved.

 

Sign up for
 Nimble Spirit Update
 

 


Web www.nimblespirit.com

Nimble Spirit Blog
Nimble Spirit Market

 

 

 

Sign up for
 Nimble Spirit Update