The groundbreaking professional resource for providing spiritual guidance to people from faith traditions other than your own.

This comprehensive resource offers valuable information for providing spiritual guidance to people from a wide variety of faith traditions. Covering the world's faith traditions as well as interfaith, blended and independent approaches to spirituality, each chapter is written by a spiritual guidance professional from that tradition or who works extensively with people from that tradition. Each chapter provides: An overview of the tradition, including basic beliefsMethods for spiritual guidance honored in that traditionCommon spiritual problems encountered by people of that traditionTips, techniques and practicesHelpful resources for further learning

CONTRIBUTORS: Dan Mendelson Aviv, PhD Mans Broo, PhD Rev. Cathleen Cox, MAT, MDiv Ervad Soli P. Dastur Karen L. Erlichman, MSS, LCSW Jonathan Figdor, MDiv Rev. John A. Jillions, PhD Siri Kirpal Kaur Khalsa Rev. Daijaku Judith Kinst, PhD Ozgur Koca Bruce Lescher, PhD Rev. Ann Llewellyn Evans Rev. Dr. Jim Lockard Rev. John R. Mabry, PhD Fr. Scott McCarthy, DMin Moojan Momen, MB, BChir Wendi Momen, PhD Richard K. Payne, PhD Susan S. Phillips, PhD James Michael Reeder, LCPC, CPRP Robert A. Rees, PhD Bharat S. Shah, MD He Feng Dao Shi Joshua Snyder Rev. N. Graham Standish, PhD, MSW Chief Luisah Teish Christopher Titmuss

Religions CoveredBy Estimated U.S. Population

Evangelical Christianity Roman Catholicism Mormonism Judaism Reformed Christianity Eastern Orthodox Christianity Islam Buddhism Hinduism Spiritual Eclecticism Unitarian Universalism Neo-Paganism Baha'i Faith Sikhism Shinto Humanism New Thought Zoroastrianism Native American Religion African Diaspora Spirituality Daoism Jainism Confucianism"

A noted spiritual director suggests new ways of looking at how different people understand and relate to the divine. Explores the many styles of faith that characterize believers in all religions, examines the various modes of believing, and offers ways for spiritual directors to use this knowledge as they work with their clients. Includes illustrative case studies and practical suggestions for offering spiritual direction.

The Spiritual Directors International Series This book is part of a special series produced by Morehouse Publishing in cooperation with Spiritual Directors International (SDI), a global network of some 6,000 spiritual directors and members."

Faithful Generations provides a hopeful and helpful guide to the different adult generations alive today, discussing the events that formed them and the issues important to them. Most importantly, it describes their spiritual distinctions the particular needs, gifts and concerns that drive these different generations. With a basic understanding of how other generations think and what drives them spiritually, ministers and congregations can not only avoid conflict, but also put those distinctions to work in order to minister more effectively and create harmony in our religious communities."

The Tao Te Ching is a book of Chinese philosophical poetry, written sometime between the seventh and the fourth centuries BCE. According to tradition it was written by a quiet librarian named Lao Tzu, and describes a way of life that is free of strife and stress. The principle scripture of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching, consisting of just 5,000 Chinese characters, is one of the most sublime, meaningful, and downright practical works of mysticism in the human canon. This new translation by John R. Mabry is simple, poetic, and profound. Cleaving closely to the Chinese text, this translation succeeds in being not only readable and accurate, but beautiful as well.

When it comes to faith, there is no "one size fits all" approach, as different people believe in different ways. This book provides a new way of looking at the ways different people understand and relate to the divine, and how spiritual directors need to be aware of this when assessing clients, making recommendations and assessing progress. The book divides into six broad styles and discusses each style with case studies to illustrate each style. Also included are suggestions of useful ways to guide believers in each style group. It also suggest ways to help those in transition from one style to another. As part of the "Spiritual Directors International" (SDI) series, you can be sure that each book offers solid practical advice based on thorough foundations.

The idea was simple: tell the scariest story you can, in less than 1,000 words. It sounds easy, but it isn t. A thousand words sounds like a lot until you start writing. In this collection, a wide variety of writers some professional, many previously unpublished try their hand at the tricky balance of suspense and brevity. Including stories by: Patricia Abbott Joel Allegretti Anthony Ambrogio Chuck Augello A.J. Barry Jenny Bulmanski Beth Lynn Clegg Michael R. Colangelo Alyssa Cooper Sara Courtney Keith Deininger Joan Doyle Cornelius Fortune A.A. Garrison Kate Gladstone Tara Fox Hall Leah Hampton Scott T. Hutchison Derrick Juengst Hal Kempka Morgen Knight Elsie Schmie Knoke Debbie Lampi Edward Lodi Thomas Logan Cynthia Lyons John R. Mabry Matt McGinnis Nick Medina Adam Millard Philip Murray-Lawson Eryk Pruitt Jami Reeves Dede Ryan Michael Seese Colleen Shaddox Paul Sohar Michael Spera Diane Spodarek Paul Stansbury Gregory M. Thompson Bryan D. Tolin Karen Tolin Gianni Washington Matthew Wilson Karen Yochim

Ozkaya's poetry is similar to the Sufi poetry of Rumi or Hafiz, centered on the relationship of the soul with its Beloved, Allah. His writings were thought to be lost to the world, until religion scholar Mabry discovered a hand-copied manuscript. Translating in the free, contemporary style of Coleman Barks' "Rumi" or Daniel Ladinsky's renderings of Hafiz, Mabry has brought Ozkaya back to life, restoring his challenging yet oddly comforting poetry to the world.

Mystics are not popular amongst the orthodox of any religion. In fact, almost every one of the religious leaders who founded world religions began their careers as mystics who spoke about what they had seen, and were promptly declared heretics. Just think of the Buddha, of Jesus, or of Muhammad. All of them were heretics, all of them were mystics, and all of them changed the way we view reality. Once the mystical vision hits you, you realize that everything you thought you were is a lie, that the universe you thought you were living in is gone, and that all the rules and structures by which you ordered your life are meaningless. It is disorienting and painful. There is no lazy man's path to enlightenment, because once enlightenment hits, the lazy man no longer exists, and the luminous being which has taken his place is beyond recognition, even to himself.

the REVerend JOHN R. MABRY, phd has been writing on interfaith issues since 1990. His ground-breaking column, "Deep Ecumenism," was one of the most popular regular features of Matthew Fox's Creation Spirituality magazine for many years. Those columns are collected in this volume, along with many other essays, articles, and homilies, each of which contrast and illumine the wisdom of various faith traditions. Mabry holds a doctorate in world religions and teaches interfaith theology at the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministry in Berkeley, CA. He is the author of many books on interfaith spirituality and ministry.

Process Theology is one of the most compelling and exciting movements in contemporary theology, and it is taught in nearly every seminary in the United States. But very few people in the pews have ever heard of it. Why is this, and can ordinary Christians benefit from its unique insights? In this series of sermons, the Rev. Dr. John R. Mabry provides an entertaining and coherent introduction to process thought and interprets the most fundamental aspects of Christian theology-including the Apostles' Creed and the Sacraments-in light of its unique perspective.

Independent Catholics are the fastest-growing variety of Catholic in the West. They are found in every city of every state in the U.S. and Mexico, every Province of Canada, and throughout Australia, Europe, and South America. This book arises out of a need in the Independent Catholic community for a compact and concise introduction to the movement. This is intended to be a book that can introduce interested people to the movement in a friendly, easy-to-read style that will not tax their patience or their wallets. The Independent Catholic movement is wonderfully diverse, and it is not possible to adequately cover the full spectrum within an introductory volume of this size. Rather, this book focuses on the most common varieties of Independent Catholicism in hopes of providing a short, useful orientation to the newcomer.