A Companionable Way: Path of Devotion in Conscious Love - Softcover

Hess, Lisa M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498237363 ISBN 13: 9781498237369

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2016

Synopsis

Rarely are we spiritually traditioned or socially prepared to encounter one another deeply and peaceably across irreconcilable difference in today's polarized publics. A Companionable Way prepares minds, bodysouls, and hearts for demanding inner work required for peaceable encounters with integrity across interreligious and intercultural difference toward an expressive delight able to companion the suffering of self and others. Unmet yearnings and the unconscious refusal of deep feeling need redress, not only within analytical habits of mind, after all, but also in new communal "containers" - in this case, webs of spiritual friendship and circle-way communities of practice. Part memoir, part toolbox and holding space for the curiously contemplative, A Companionable Way witnesses to the deeply rooted Sacred available in a return to the body, devotion in conscious love, and a new-old "container" for holding the unconscious burden and conscious gift of deep feeling in our divisive world. It joins the search unfolding for a peaceable way of awakening, becoming uniquely human together across irreconcilable difference.

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About the Author

Lisa M. Hess is Professor of Practical Theology at United Seminary (Ohio) and a graduate of the 2013 Conscious Feminine Leadership Academy with Women Writing for (a) Change. Author of Artisanal Theology and Learning in a Musical Key, she is a companion, contemplative, scholar, poet, and teaching-elder (PCUSA) who serves the common good as an active leader in traditional and nontraditional communities of practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498237363
• ISBN 13: 9781498237369
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156