Books

Coming Soon:

The Cloud of Unknowing: A New Translation from Shambhala Publications. Click Amazon.com for pre-ordering of April 2009 release.

Translations of two classics teaching contemplative prayer.

Problems in the Origins and Development of the English Language, 6th ed., with John T. Algeo, from Heinle/Wadsworth of Cengage Learning.

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This 6th edition of a perennial History of the English Language text and Answer Key will release January 2009, with John Algeo's Origins and Development of the English Language (ODEL), 6th edition, based on the original work of Thomas Pyles.

A Lenten Journey: Stations of the Cross, with the Spiritual Classics from Paraclete Press.

This book includes the challenging and comforting prayers, poems, and meditations of the desert fathers and mothers, Medieval mystics, and others, arranged by Lenten themes and ordered along the fifteen stations of the cross. These classic spiritual authors include the well-known and the virtually unknown: St. Augustine, Ælfric, St. John Chrysostom, John Cassian, Athanasius of Alexandria, Antony the Great, Pachomius, St. Benedict, Gregory the Great, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, John Donne, Francis of Assisi, Walter Hilton, John of the Cross, Richard Rolle, Johann Arndt, St. Clare of Assisi, Abbot Zosimas, Amma Matrona, Amma Syncletica, Abbot Poemen, Macrina the Younger, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Julian of Norwich, Saint Catherine of Siena, Hildegard von Bingen, the anonymous Dream of the Rood poet, Hadewijch of Brabant, Gertrude the Great, Birgitta of Sweden, and others.

Available Now:

A Little Daily Wisdom

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Paraclete Press March 2008 re-issue of Incandescence: 365 Readings with Women Mystics (originally published and also reprinted in 2005).

Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader

Order now at Amazon.com. Released March 2007 from Paraclete Press. For reviews, click here. Nominated for a 44th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Award, 2007.

Benedictine abbess, artist, composer, dietician, naturalist, poet, travelling preacher, mystic, and political consultant, Hildegard was a self-doubter with acute certainty in a merciful and mysterious God. This book features the best selections from Hildegard's vast oeuvre and includes a unique map of Hildegard's Germany. It presents Hildegard in her most accessible and most dynamic way to date. Read Hildegard's poems/songs and her pioneering musical, The Order of the Virtues, in a modern English that sings and soars, as the originals do.

Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict

Order now at Amazon.com. Released March 2006 from Paraclete Press, reprinted May 2006. For reviews, click here. Nominated for a 43rd Annual Georgia Author of the Year Award, 2006. Man of Blessing was featured in the April 2008 issue of Columba Magazine, published for the Knights of Columbus, and was also translated into French and Spanish for its international members. Columba Magazine's circulation is about 1.6 million. Benedict left behind a life of privilege to live in a cave and learn how to be silent. There, he learned to be God's friend. Set against the bloody backdrop that was mid-first-millennium Italy, Benedict's life charts a unique, peaceful course. In a time of war and want, this monk and abbot established community, cultivated the wilderness, and fed the poor. He left us his famous Rule, seventy-three short chapters, and the foundation for Western monasticism. This book traces Benedict from his birth among the natural beauty of Italy's Umbrian hills to his death in the stark splendor of the mountains at Monte Cassino and the monastery there. Man of Blessing answers these questions: Why did Pope Benedict the XVI choose the regnal name "Benedict"? What other popes were named Benedict? What's in Benedict's Rule? What are his lasting legacies?

God of Mercy: Ælfric's Sermons and Theology

Order now at Amazon.com. God of Mercy has been nominated for two awards, the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS) Best First Book Award and a 43rd Annual Georgia Author of the Year Award, 2006. Released by Mercer University Press in 2006. God of Mercy includes modern translations of Old English sermons, with an introduction and notes. Click here for more information. For library holdings, see this link.

Incandescence: 365 Readings with Women Mystics

Turn to any page in this beautiful collection and you will discover the Christian women mystics, fascinating women who offer a lucid alternative to today's more rationalistic approaches to God. They offer a way to peace, laughter, love, and connection with each other and show us a tender, nurturing God who is as intimate as our own breath. Incandescence offers fresh translations from the writings of famous and not-so-famous mystics: Julian of Norwich, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Gertrude of Helfta, Margery Kempe, and others. Each reading includes a meditation, prayer, poem, or song, offering stunning insights on God's divine, mothering love; the guidance of God's light; the sensuality of faith; and more. In the foreword, Phyllis Tickle observes, "This small collection really is, in substance and detail, a house of God where all who dare, may enter."

Release and Restoration

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Edited (and wrote the Introduction) for Release and Restoration, by Thelma R. Hall and Loren Wilson Hall. Released by Shorter College Press, April 2004. Contemporary American poetry. Nominated for a 41st Annual Georgia Author of the Year Award, 2005.