Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice

Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice

Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest.…

If you like book Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice similar books

The Second Mountain

In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our p…
Buy this book on Amazon
To The Woods: A Journey Along The Appalachian Trail

Buy this book on Amazon
How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

An inspirational guide to the key junctures in life that, if navigated with faith and discernment, pave the way for us to become our most courageous selves, by the bishop of the famed Episcopal Dioces…
Buy this book on Amazon
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek.

The Grand Canyon is an American treasure, visited by more than 6 million people a year, many o…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the…
Buy this book on Amazon
Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred

Buy this book on Amazon
The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between

Buy this book on Amazon
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human.

On Oct 25th, after just …
Buy this book on Amazon
Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science

Buy this book on Amazon
Dessert with Buddha

Dessert with Buddha takes the eccentric, sort-of-Buddhist monk, Volya Rinpoche, and his skeptical, middle-of-the-road brother-in-law, Otto Ringling, on another enlightening road trip filled with meals…
Buy this book on Amazon
Hiking Through: Finding Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail

After losing his wife to breast cancer, Paul Stutzman decided to make some big changes. He quit his job of seventeen years and embarked upon a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, a 2,176-mile stretch …
Buy this book on Amazon
Joseph Smith the Prophet

Many books have been written about Joseph Smith. This one the product of Truman Madsen's deep love for the subject and years of research illuminates specific facets of Joseph Smith s greatness. The to…
Buy this book on Amazon
Runaway Amish Girl: The Great Escape

Growing up Amish and leaving the fold, Emma Gingerich left her Amish community in Eagleville, Missouri, at the age of eighteen. Her memoir Runaway Amish Girl: The Great Escape captivates even the timi…
Buy this book on Amazon
A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23

“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want…”

Travel the Shepherd’s path to the green pastures and cool, refreshing waters of Psalm 23.

As a shepherd, Phillip Keller shares his insights into the li…
Buy this book on Amazon
Butcher's Crossing

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismant…
Buy this book on Amazon
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in―and so out of touch with the natur…
Buy this book on Amazon
What the Buddha Taught

Buy this book on Amazon
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks.

Many of us assume that the more succes…
Buy this book on Amazon
Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent traveling to every one of our National Parks, including his experiences with some of the most beauti…
Buy this book on Amazon
How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family’s search for home and hope

“A riveting book that …
Buy this book on Amazon