A SPIRITUALITY (AND THEOLOGICAL) READING LIST HERE ARE SOME BOOKS I HAVE HAND-PICKED FOR YOU

HENRI NOUWEN............With Open Hands, The Genesee Diary, Reaching Out,In the Name of Jesus, Sabbatical Journey are just a few.

TIMOTHY JONES..........Awake My Soul:Practical Spirituality for Busy People

KEN GIRE...............Windows of the Soul. Author "calls us to a fresh sensitivity to God's voice speaking..."

KIM THOMAS.............Simplicity. Finding Peace by Uncluttering Your Life.

NICOLE JOHNSON.........Fresh-Brewed Life. A Stirring Invitation to Wake Up Your Soul.

RICHARD ROHR...........Daily Meditations by Richard Rohr. "His call is to a life balanced between action and compassion."

GREGORY BOYD...........God of the Possible.A Biblical Introduction To The Open View Of God.

CLARK PINNOCK..........Flame of Love.A Theology of the Holy Spirit.

SCOTT WALKER...........Glimpses of God. Also author of "Life- Rails." Scott "tells an enthralling story."

FREDERICK BUECHNER..........The Sacred Journey, Now and Then, A Room Called Remember, Listening to Your Life. Honest and revealing.

CHRISTOPHER de VINCK.....Only the Heart Knows How to Find Them, Threads of Paradise, and Nouwen Then. This author really opens himself to the reader.

THOMAS MERTON..............The Seven Storey Mountain, No Man Is An Island, and New Seeds Of Contemplation.

RICHARD FOSTER...........Prayer:Finding the Heart's True Home. For lifestyle, read Freedom Of Simplicity.

THOMAS KEATING..........Open Mind, Open Heart

DOROTHY DAY ................The Long Loneliness. An intriguing woman. Books have been written about her. See Robert Coles', Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion.

ANNIE DILLARD.............I really liked, An American Childhood. She wrote the famous Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek.

CATHERINE MARSHALL........Something More: In Search of a Deeper Faith, The Helper. Quite a prolific author! Also wrote the acclaimed "Christy."

PHILIP GULLEY.............Front Porch Tales

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER.....The Cost of Discipleship, and Life Together.

M. BASIL PENNINGTON............Centering Prayer, Call to the Center.

WAYNE OATES.............Nurturing Silence in a Noisy Heart

JOHN POWELL, S.J..........The Christian Vision, Unconditional Love. My favorite is the little book, He Touched Me.

AGNES SANFORD.............Sealed Orders (Her spiritual autobiography). I cherish a hand-written letter she sent me years ago. Also, The Healing Light, Twice Seven Words.

THOMAS GREEN............Opening To God, Weeds Among the Wheat.

BRENNAN MANNING..............The Signature of Jesus and Abba's Child.

MORTON KELSEY............Set Your Heart On the Greatest Gift. "Learning to listen is a key that unlocks the door to loving people."

ROY HESSION..............The Calvary Road, We Would See Jesus, When I Saw Him.

DALLAS WILLARD...........In Search of Guidance, The Divine Conspiracy. (Christianity Today 1999 Book of the Year)

PHILIP YANCEY............A real bright light of an author. The two I think of are Disappointment With God and Where is God When It Hurts? Also, What's So Amazing About Grace?

BROTHER LAWRENCE..........The Practice of the Presence of God. The humble cook who found time to spend with the Lord.

DANIEL BERRIGAN..........His autobiography, To Dwell In Peace is good. Peacemaker Jesuit who has written much. Lately he has been writing short commentaries on O.T. prophets.

JOHN ORTBERG.............The Life You've Always Wanted.

ELIZABETH O'CONNOR............Search for Silence

MAX LUCADO..............In the Grip of Grace, In the Eye of the Storm are just two from this prolific pastor/author.

NANCY ROTH..............The Breath of God Using the metaphor of breath; the "book reveals God to be wholly available in the ordinary round that comprises our days."

CALVIN MILLER...........The Taste of Joy.

ALL THE BOOKS OF A.W. TOZER, a Christian & Missionary Alliance author who is widely read.

ROBERT BENSON...........Between The Dreaming And The Coming True.

RON AUCH................He Hears Your Prayers.

TERENCE FRETHEIM........The Suffering of God."His aim is to broaden our understanding of the God of the Old Testament by showing that 'suffering belongs to the person and purpose of God.'"

HOPE YOU FIND MY LIST USEFUL! Tim Schultz

"Our age needs saints more than it needs brilliant scientific discoveries, advanced technologies, canny politicians, scintillating preachers, awesome atheletes, and so many other things people count crucial today. Our age needs people who can put before us lives and embarrassing invitation we must accept or reject." (E. Glenn Hinson in "Weavings," May/June 1996)

A Definition of Spirituality Provided By Henri Nouwen: "The spiritual life is reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human beings and to our God. We are called to reach out with courageous honesty to our innermost self, with relentless care to our fellow human beings, and with increasing prayer to our God."

Here is a sampling of Mennonite authors: John Howard Yoder, Arthur Boers, John Drescher, Ted Koontz, Donald Kraybill, Melodie Davis, Eleanor Kreider, Ted Koontz, Norman Kraus, Willard Swartley, Ben Ollenburger, Marlene Kropf, Alan Kreider, just to name a few.