cover image The Spiritual Activist: Practices to Transform Your Life, Your Work, and Your World

The Spiritual Activist: Practices to Transform Your Life, Your Work, and Your World

Claudia Horwitz. Penguin Books, $16 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-14-219606-9

Readers seeking a starting point for developing a spiritual practice may find helpful advice in The Spiritual Activist: Practices to Transform Your Life, Your Work, and Your World. Author Claudia Horwitz is the founder of stone circles, a North Carolina-based organization that integrates faith, spirituality and social justice. Here, she charts a course that moves from ""refuge"" (finding inner strength) to ""union"" (reaching out at home and at work) and ""embrace"" (finding a connection in the outside world). Her book includes useful tips (""spiritual quick hits""), practical suggestions and worksheets. Interviews with socially conscious leaders, such as Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, that add to Horwitz's own counsel. (Aug.)