FALL 2020 50 Years of Books That Matter INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS CATALOG Contact: Doris Goodnough, [email protected] 2 Contact: Doris Goodnough [email protected] Contact: Doris Goodnough [email protected] 3 � � SPIRITUALITY A LIVING GOSPEL Reading God’s Story in Holy Lives Robert Ellsberg “The Holy Spirit writes no more Gospels except in our hearts.… We, if we are holy, are the paper; our sufferings and our actions are the ink. The workings of the Holy Spirit are his pen, and with it he writes a living gospel.” RIGHTS GUIDE —Jean Pierre de Caussade, SJ, 18th century Fall 2020 Doris Goodnough Rights and Permissions Orbis Books PO Box 302, Maryknoll, NY 10545 Email: [email protected] In a number of award-winning books, Robert Ellsberg has reflected on the lives of saints, prophets, and spiritual masters, drawing particular attention to models of holiness that speak to the needs of our time. The message of such figures, as he shows in this new book, is found not only in their writings but in the “text” they wrote with their lives. Among the figures he examines are Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, and Flannery O’Connor. In particular, he offers examples of holy women who charted their own path, and who exemplify a “holiness of the everyday.” In learning how to read the “living gospel” in their stories, he shows how we may learn to read our own lives in the same light. Robert Ellsberg, publisher of Orbis Books, is the author of many award-winning TABLE OF CONTENTS books, including All Saints, The Saints’ Guide to Happiness, and Blessed Among Us (based on his daily reflections for “Give Us This Day”). He has edited the diaries and letters of Dorothy Day, as well as anthologies by Flannery O’Connor, Gandhi, and Pope Francis. Spirituality 3 192pp., index, 53/8 x 8¼ $22 softcover General Interest 12 ISBN 978-1-62698-325-0 Catholic Studies 14 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/Religious RELIGION/Christianity/Saints & Sainthood Theology 17 RELIGION/Spirituality *Rights available, except Philippines 4 Contact: Doris Goodnough [email protected] Contact: Doris Goodnough [email protected] 5 � � SPIRITUALITY SPIRITUALITY JESUS WASN’T KILLED BY THE JEWS WHOLENESS & HOLINESS Reflections for Christians in Lent How to be Sane, Spiritual, and Saintly Jon M. Sweeney, editor David Richo Foreword by Rabbi Abraham Skorka Afterword by Amy-Jill Levine “We have heard or said: ‘I am not a saint.’ Usually this means: ‘Don’t expect me to be “For the last two thousand years, perfect.’ But a saint is not perfect in the Christians have wondered about this sense of being totally saintly every minute question: Who killed Jesus? This new book of every day. A saint is an ordinary is a tremendously helpful resource, drawing person who is animated by an extraordinary upon the work of some of the world’s most love. A saint is also someone dedicated to learned experts, and will help you answer this and focused on the issues that make love essential question fully and finally.” concrete.” —James Martin, SJ —From the book author, Jesus: A Pilgrimage The Passion narratives contain painful anti-Semitic tropes—particularly the Another masterful work by this renowned and popular author, Wholeness and Gospel of John, which is read in churches world-wide every Holy Week. These Holiness guides the reader through grace into the possibilities of a deeper readings have been used over the centuries to brand the Jewish people as spirituality and relationship with oneself, the world, and God. With his lifetime “Christ-killers” and to justify discrimination and violence. Here, religious scholars experience in psychology and spirituality, David Richo takes us on a three-step and writers address the historical, theological, and exegetical considerations journey to become psychologically healthy, spiritually aware and active, and to be addressed by every Christian in order to move beyond a toxic history. sometimes saintly. All three are possible! Contributors include Walter Brueggemann, Mary Boys, Richard Lux, Wes Howard- Brook, Massimo Faggioli, Bishop Richard J. Sklba, Greg Garrett, Robert Ellsberg, David Richo, PhD, is a psychotherapist, author, and workshop leader who and Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. combines psychological and spiritual perspectives in his work. He teaches at a variety of places, including Esalen and Spirit Rock Buddhist Center. Among his Jon M. Sweeney, publisher of Paraclete Press, is the author of more than thirty many books are How to Be an Adult and Everything Ablaze (both Paulist). He books, including The Complete Francis of Assisi (Paraclete) and James Martin, lives in California. (www.davericho.com). SJ: In the Company of Jesus (Liturgical Press). He sits on the board of The Lux Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies in Milwaukee. 176pp., 53/8 x 8¼ $18 softcover 128pp., 53/8 x 8¼ ISBN 978-1-62698-353-3 $19 softcover ISBN 978-1-62698-352-6 RELIGION/Spirituality RELIGION/Christian Living/Personal Growth RELIGION/Biblical Meditations/New Testament RELIGION/Psychology of Religion RELIGION/Holidays/Easter & Lent RELIGION/Christian Theology/General *Italian Rights Sold 6 Contact: Doris Goodnough [email protected] Contact: Doris Goodnough [email protected] 7 � � SPIRITUALITY SPIRITUALITY EMBRACING THE INCONCEIVABLE DANCING IN GOD’S EARTHQUAKE Interspiritual Practice of The Coming Transformation of Religion Zen and Christianity Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow Ellen Birx “A wonderful book! Rabbi Arthur Waskow “This book . serves as a guide for people helps us trace our path back to our practicing in more than one faith and as a spiritual home.” help to people raised in a Judeo-Christian —Gloria Steinem culture who are trying to integrate their religion of birth with their chosen practice of “Calls us to reach down deep in our Zen or other forms of meditation.” moral and religious traditions and have a —From the Preface grownup conversation about the response our present crisis requires.” —William J. Barber, II, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign “A book that warms both heart and mind.” —Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service Written by a woman who is both a Zen roshi and a Christian, Embracing the This book was written before the coronavirus pandemic, yet, as Rabbi Waskow Inconceivable is the perfect guide for people of either faith—or those who share writes in a special preface, “this specific ‘earthquake’ among all the earthquakes both—to experience the joy at their intersection. It will appeal to Christians who in our lives . is ever-present, even if invisible and inaudible.” In fact, his book are interested in the interspiritual practice of Christianity and eastern forms of reflects on the role of “earthquakes”—literal and metaphorical: times like the meditation and mindfulness. Also included: sections on prayers and practices for present crisis when history trembles beneath our feet. Such times may overturn those wishing to explore and apply the thoughtful insights Birx offers to their own empires, structures of power, and the stability of our personal lives. But they may interspiritual practice. also become the fertile ground from which renewal and new life come, especially if we can learn to “dance”—to imagine and live out new possibilities­­—in the midst Ellen Birx holds a PhD in psychiatric nursing from the University of Texas at of this disruption. Austin and is professor emerita, Radford University, VA. She is cofounder of New River Zen Community in Blacksburg, VA, and author of three books, including Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow, PhD, is the founder and director of The Shalom Selfless Love: Beyond the Boundaries of Self and Others (Wisdom Publications). Center (Philadelphia), a prophetic voice in Jewish, multireligious, and American life that brings Jewish and other spiritual thought and practice to bear on MARCH seeking peace, pursuing justice, healing the earth, and celebrating community. He is the author of many books, including Godwrestling, Seasons of Our Joy, 216pp., index, 53/8 x 8¼ and These Holy Sparks: The Rebirth of the Jewish People. In 2014 he was $24 softcover honored by T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights with their first Lifetime ISBN 978-1-62698-369-4 Achievement Award as a “Human Rights Hero.” RELIGION/Comparative Religion OCTOBER RELIGION/Buddhism/General RELIGION/Christianity/General 232pp., 5¾ x 8¼ $25 softcover ISBN 978-1-62698-400-4 RELIGION / General RELIGION / Spirituality RELIGION / Judaism / General 8 Contact: Doris Goodnough [email protected] Contact: Doris Goodnough [email protected] 9 � � SPIRITUALITY SPIRITUALITY HUNGER FOR HOPE DEEP CALLS TO DEEP Prophetic Communities, Contemplation, Mysticism, Scripture, and Contemplation and the Common Good Chad Thralls Sr. Simone Campbell “What is the point of religion? What “Hunger for Hope is rich with Simone’s motivates our religious practices and church spiritual encounters with Christ—her soul activities? This book argues that . the is wide.... and the real-life engagements to point of being religious and belonging which those encounters lead her, couldn’t to a religious community is to cultivate be given to us at a better time.” awareness of the presence of God and to —From the Preface by Sr. Helen Prejean be transformed by that encounter.” The chaotic individualism of these times demands a prayer practice that This introduction to the theological issues of Christian mysticism explains summons a communal prophetic action with those who are marginalized in our the primary practices necessary to experience mystical consciousness. Deep fractured economic system and broken world. Hunger for Hope explores the Calls to Deep explores the metaphors and images found in scripture and the quest for a justice that works for all and explores what it means to be “holy” in contemplative tradition that can enliven the spiritual imagination, so that today’s world. readers can appreciate Christian mysticism and the necessary practices to cultivate mystical consciousness for themselves.