The Art of Listening – A Reading List

June is a month for listening. That will be our Godspace theme for the next month. How do we listen and what do we listen to? In preparation for this, a couple of months ago we asked our Godspace contributors what their favourite books on listening were. The follow is a list our suggestions – from many different perspectives and understandings. Enjoy and make sure you listen well!

• Anderson, Keith: A Spirituality of Listening: Living What We Hear
• Baab, Lynne: The Power of Listening: Building Skills for Mission and Ministry
• Bill, J. Brent: Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality
• Brenner, Juliet: Contemplative Vision: A Guide to Christian Art and Prayer
• Buechner, Frederick: Listening to Your Life
• de Caussade, Jean-Pierre: The Sacrament of the Present Moment
• Deere, Jack: Surprised by the Voice of God
• Goll, James W.: The Lost Art of Practicing His Presence
• Guenther, Margaret: Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction
• Fr. Gabriel: Divine Intimacy
• Richard Foster: Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home and Sanctuary of the Soul: Journey into Meditative Prayer
• Hart, Thomas: The Art of Christian Listening
• Hipps, Shane: Flickering Pixels
• Huggett, Joyce: The Joy of Listening to God
• Iyer, Pico: Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
• Kelly, Thomas: A Testament of Devotion
• Kidd, Sue Monk: When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions
• Long, Anne: Listening
• Loring, Patricia: Listening Spirituality Vol. I and Vol. II
• Merton, Thomas: Thoughts in Solitude and Contemplative Prayer and Dialogues with Silence.
• Miller, James E.: The Art of Listening in a Healing Way and The Art of Being a Healing Presence
• Nepo, Mark: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
• Newell, J. Phillip: Listening for the Heartbeat of God
• Nouwen, Henri: The Way of the Heart: Connecting with God Through Wisdom, Prayer and Silence and Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life
• Palmer, Parker: Let Your Life Speak and A Hidden Wholeness
• Peel, Donald: The Ministry of Listening
• Phillips, Susan: Candlelight: Illuminating The Art of Spiritual Direction and The Cultivated Life
• Rohr, Richard: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
• Valters Paintner, Christine: Lectio Divina: the Sacred Art and Illuminating the Way; Embracing the Wisdom of Monks and Mystics
• Virkler, Mark: How to Hear God’s Voice
• Wilson, Rob: How Do I Help a Hurting Friend

For more books on The Art of Discernment, check out this resource list.

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