Liberating Mindfulness: From Billion-Dollar Industry to Engaged SpiritualityUsing feminist critical theory and weaving in her Christian background and other depth practices, Stearns asks hard questions about the mindfulness field: What exactly is its promise of happiness? Can it be divorced from Western consumerist values? Is mindfulness contributing to systems of oppression or freeing us from them? In this thought provoking book, she invites us to be mindful about mindfulness. Diana Winston, director of mindfulness

Ki Joo Choi is professor of theological ethics and chair of the department of religion at Seton Hall University

and offering a fascinating insider's assessment of the legacy of the Second Vatican Council

NM to study with Robert Lentz and continues to live in Albuquerque as a priest of the Archdiocese

he encountered healing in the place few survivors would look—the Catholic Church

I came away

They can help you in yours too—since we're all aging in one way or another

Brady reminds us

“Readers will find here a deep existential regard for the ‘unfinished’ in Thurman

drawn from the work of Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Merton

O'Murchu's ideas may be of great interest to the spiritual seeker

Pope Francis frequently reminds us that Jesus and his parents were refugees in Egypt

the answers provide a road map for personal