Phyllis Tickle, with Jon M. Sweeney. Baker, $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8010-1480-2
Reading this pair of veteran authors is like being invited as a freshman into the office of an admired professor and then being brought up to speed like a colleague. Tickle (The Great Emergence) and Sweeney (The Pope Who Quit) embrace the reader of...
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Jon M. Sweeney, Author . Paraclete $21.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-55725-419-1
Sweeney (Road to Assisi
), who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian church believing that Catholic and Orthodox Christians were in need of salvation, honestly admits that his own discovery of the spirituality of the saints is not without serious...
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Jon M. Sweeney, Author . Paraclete $19.95 (173p) ISBN 978-1-55725-431-3
It is refreshing to read a book by an ex-fundamentalist who is not bitter. Sweeney, associate publisher of Paraclete Press, writes fondly of his parents' faith with its emphasis on personal experience, scripture, right doctrine, mission and the...
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Jon M. Sweeney, Author . Paraclete $21.95 (233p) ISBN 978-1-55725-432-0
Pious devotions to Mary the mother of Jesus, once derided as superstitious by non-Catholic Christians, are reconsidered by award-winning Protestant author Sweeney (Born Again and Again
). Drawing upon excellent scholarship, Christian history and...
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Jon M. Sweeney, Author . Paraclete $16.95 (204p) ISBN 978-1-55725-476-4
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he was “rudder to his sail” and “yin to his yang,” but the relationship between medieval saints Clare and Francis of Assisi was hardly the love affair depicted in literature and film, as this joint biography makes clear....
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Jon M. Sweeney, Author . Jossey-Bass $19.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-7879-9470-9
Rosaries, rituals, crucifixes and canonized saints: Sweeney, an Episcopalian, enthusiastically embraces these trappings of the Catholic faith, even as many Protestants find them unbiblical and some Catholics have abandoned them. In his latest book,...
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Jon M. Sweeney, Author . Brazos $12.99 (157p) ISBN 978-1-58743-268-2
Protestant author Jon Sweeney (Almost Catholic
) reports on more than 20 years of conversations he's had with monks in Massachusetts, Kentucky and Georgia. In his search for God, he encountered Trappist monk M. Basil Pennington and a number of...
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Jon M. Sweeney, Author Paraclete Press (MA) $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-55725-352-1
Readers wanting an accessible, practical introduction to Franciscan prayer will enjoy The St. Francis Prayer Book: A Guide to Deepen Your Spiritual Life. Jon Sweeney (editor of The Road to Assisi: The Essential Biography of St. Francis) offers ...
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Jon M. Sweeney. Jericho, $16 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-4555-8224-2
Descending into the infernos of mythology, biblical stories, and history, Sweeney (The Pope Who Quit) becomes our Virgil, ably and cannily leading readers through the circles that culminate in the picture of Hell invented by Dante and that...
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Jon M. Sweeney and Michal Woll. Jericho, $15 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4555-4589-6
This husband-and-wife collaboration (he is Catholic, she is Jewish and a rabbi) attempts to provide a road map for other interfaith couples. Breezy and conversational, it does not live up to its title as an exploration of "relationships, family and...
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Jon M. Sweeney, Author, Jennifer Wilson, Photographer, Mother Tessa Bielecki, Foreword by Skylight Paths Publishing $16.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-893361-16-4
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel spoke of praying with his feet during civil rights marches. Sweeney (Who Is My God?) agrees that we don't pray just with words, but with our bodies, particularly our hands. In this brief, meditative book, short essays...
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