What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Bonaventure, The Soul’s Journey into God

Diana Butler Bass, Grounded

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

Francis of Assisi

Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life

Leah D. Schade and Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Kinship with Creation

Pat McCabe, Living With, For, as Earth

Richard Rohr, A New Cosmology; Christianity and the Creation; Eager to Love; The Universal Christ; The Wisdom Pattern

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Ann Kansfield w/Marty St. George, Be the Brave One

David Steindl-Rast

Dawna Markova, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life

Erik H. Erickson, Identity

Ilia Delio, Falling Inward, Falling Upward

Kathleen Dowling Singh, The Grace in Living

Michelle A. Scheidt, Oneing, Falling Upward

Richard Rohr, Falling Upward; Just This

Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow

Diana Butler Bass, Grateful

Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven

Kaira Jewel Lingo, We Were Made for These Times

Richard Rohr, A Spring within Us; Capitalist Economy and Gift Economy; Karma; The Woman at the Well; Things Hidden

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Brian D. McLaren, The Galápagos Islands

H. Daniel Zacharias, The Land Takes Care of Us

José Hobday, Stories of Awe and Abundance

Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

Randy S. Woodley, Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview

Richard Rohr, Christianity and the Creation; Eager to Love

The Assisi Compilation 108

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Bonaventure, Breviloquium

Carol Lee Flinders, Enduring Grace

James Finley and Kirsten Oates, Turning to Mechtild of Magdeburg

James Finley, Mechtild of Magdeburg: Session 3

Laura Swan, The Wisdom of the Beguines

Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead

Richard Rohr, Eager to Love; Immortal Diamond

The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg

Wendy Farley, The Thirst of God

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Brian McLaren, Why Don’t They Get It?

Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, Reconciling All Things

Leroy Barber, Embrace

Liz Theoharis, What Doth the Lord Require?

Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward, Love’s Garden

Richard Rohr, Grace in Action; Mending the Breach; Near Occasions of Grace; What the Mystics Know

William J. Barber II, We Cry Justice

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Cynthia Bourgeault, Mystical Hope

Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams, God Has a Dream

Douglas M. Donley, Isaiah 55:10–13: Pastoral Perspective

M. K. Gandhi, My Conception of Patriotism

Margaret Swedish, Living beyond the “End of the World”

Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream

Randy Woodley, Becoming Rooted

Richard Rohr, Near Occasions of Grace; The Prophets

Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Barbara Holmes and Donny Bryant, Healing

Ilia Delio, The Unbearable Wholeness of Being

James Finley, Wholeness and Hope

Marcie Alvis Walker, Everybody Come Alive

Nadia Bolz-Weber, Human Bodies and the Image of God

Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness

Richard Rohr, A Spring Within Us; Eager to Love

Thomas Merton, Hagia Sophia; New Seeds of Contemplation

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Barbara A. Holmes and Donny Bryant, Crisis, The Cosmic We

Barbara A. Holmes, Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village; Joy Unspeakable

Howard Thurman, The Creative Encounter

Lerita Coleman Brown, What Makes You Come Alive

Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane

Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs; Liminal Space; The Way of the Prophet

Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Catherine T. Nerney, The Compassion Connection

Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Sacred Self-Care

Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz, Turn to the God of Mercy

Ilia Delio, Compassion

Jacqui Lewis, Fierce Love

Joyce Rupp, Boundless Compassion

Judy Cannato, Field of Compassion

Richard Rohr, Creating a Community of Compassion; Eager to Love; Near Occasions of Grace; The Universal Christ

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Dorothy Day, Bread for the Hungry

Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life

Julie Leininger Pycior, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and the Greatest Commandment

Richard Rohr and Joan Chittister, Prophets Then, Prophets Now

Richard Rohr, Dancing Standing Still; Eager to Love; Letters from outside the Camp; On the Edge of the Inside; The Prophets;

Terry Tempest Williams

Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild

Walter Brueggemann, Tenacious Solidarity

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Brian McLaren and Patrick Carolan, It’s Time for a Franciscan Renaissance

Bruce G. Epperly, Walking with Francis of Assisi

Dan Riley with Stephen Copeland, Franciscan Lectio

Ilia Delio, The Humility of God

Marie Dennis, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Joseph Nangle, and Stuart Taylor, St. Francis and the Foolishness of God

Richard Rohr, Dancing Standing Still; Eager to Love; Franciscan Mysticism; The Franciscan Way;

Thomas of Celano, The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Esther de Waal Lost in Wonder: Rediscovering the Spiritual Art of Attentiveness

Jalal al-Din Rumi The Breeze at Dawn

James Finley The Contemplative Heart; Turning to the Mystics

Mirabai Starr Wild Mercy

Richard Rohr Just This

Thomas Merton New Seeds of Contemplation

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Barbara Brown Taylor, Speaking of Sin

Christopher Marshall, The Little Book of Biblical Justice

Desmond M. Tutu and Mpho A. Tutu, The Book of Forgiving

Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Rethinking Incarceration

Gospel of Thomas

James Baldwin

Mary Katherine Birge, Jesus, the Kingdom of God, and Restorative Justice

Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water; Essential Teachings on Love; Jesus Punishes No One

Shane Claiborne, Executing Grace

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Joan D. Chittister, A Passion for Life

Kelley Nikondeha, Defiant

Raymond of Capua, Life of Catherine of Siena

Richard Rohr & Joseph Martos, The Great Themes of Scripture

Richard Rohr, The Prophets; Things Hidden; Way of the Prophet

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Gerard Manley Hopkins, As Kingfishers Catch Fire

Jorge N. Ferrer and Jacob H. Sherman, The Participatory Turn

Richard Rohr, Falling Upward; Immortal Diamond

Tara Brach, Trusting the Gold

Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Ali Abu Awwad

James Finley, The Mystical Foundations of Nonviolence

Kazu Haga, Healing Resistance

Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolence and Racial Justice

Nancy Schreck, The Faithful Nonviolence of Jesus

Richard Rohr, Healing Our Violence through the Journey of Centering Prayer; Mary and Nonviolence; On Transformation

Thomas Keating, Who Is God?

Veronica Pelicaric and Nina Koevoets, Engaging Nonviolence: Activating Nonviolent Change in Our Lives and Our World

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man

Danya Ruttenberg, Nurture the Wow

Kaira Jewel Lingo, We Were Made for These Times

Nicolas Herman, Practice of the Presence

Paula D’Arcy, Gift of the Red Bird

Richard Rohr, Just This

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Carol J. Gallagher, Heaven and Hell

Dwight N. Hopkins, Introducing Black Theology of Liberation

Gustavo Gutiérrez, Saying and Showing to the Poor

Kaira Jewel Lingo, We Were Made for These Times

Murphy Davis, Loving the Poor and Embracing the Radical Gospel

René Girard, Satan

Richard Rohr and Joseph Martos, The Great Themes of Scripture: Old Testament

Richard Rohr, Dancing Standing Still; Gospel Call for Compassionate Action

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

C.G. Jung, A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity

Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special

Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh

Howard Thurman, The Growing Edge

Lerita Coleman Brown, What Makes You Come Alive

Liza J. Rankow, Mysticism and Social Action

Richard Rohr, A Spring within Us; Eager to Love; Everything Belongs; Franciscan Mysticism; Spiral of Violence; Things Hidden;

Sebene Selassie, You Belong

W. Robertson Nicoll, Life of the Rev. John Watson

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Barbara Holmes, Solidarity and Compassion

Margaret Swedish and Marie Dennis, Like Grains of Wheat

Renny Golden and Michael McConnell, Sanctuary: The New Underground Railroad

Richard Rohr w/Greg Boyle, Standing with Jesus

Richard Rohr, Eager to Love; The Universal Christ; Things Hidden

Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church

Shannon T. L. Kearns, In the Margins

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Barbara Holmes, Crisis Contemplation

Barbara Holmes and Donny Bryant, Contemplation; Crisis; The Village Response;

Bayo Akomolafe, A Slower Urgency

Constance FitzGerald, Impasse and Dark Night

Dorothee Soelle, Suffering

Drew Jackson, God Speaks Through Wombs

Kuzipa M.B. Nalwamba, Mupasi as Cosmic s(S)pirit

Otis Moss III w/Gregory Lichtenberg, Dancing in the Darkness

Ruth King, Mindful of Race

Steven Charleston, Ladder to the Light

Howard Thurman

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Ann Belford Ulanov, Where to Put the Bad? Where to Put the Feminine?

Connie Zweig, The Inner Work of Age

Pádraig Ó Tuama, In the Shelter

Pixie Lighthorse, Goldmining the Shadows

Richard Rohr, Falling Upward; The Wisdom Pattern; Things Hidden; Way of the Prophet;

Tara Brach, Radical Compassion

Teresa of Ávila, The Interior Castle

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Barbara Mahany, The Book of Nature

Brian D. McLaren, Do I Stay Christian?

Catherine T. Nerney, The Compassion Connection: Recovering Our Original Oneness

Evelyn Underhill, Worship

Gregory Boyle, The Whole Language

James Finley, The Healing Path

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu

Richard Rohr, Essential Teachings on Love; Everything Belongs; The Seven Themes of an Alternative Orthodoxy; Yes, And

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Carl McColman, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism

Elizabeth A. Johnson, She Who Is

Karl Rahner, The Mystery of the Trinity

Paul Tillich, ‘The Ground of Being’

Richard Rohr, A Spring within Us

Sharon L. Baker Putt, A Nonviolent Theology of Love

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Reimagining Spirit; The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Holy Spirit

Leonardo Boff, Come Holy Spirit

Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence

Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water; Essential Teachings on Love; The Divine Sparkplug; Things Hidden

Stephanie Spellers, The Church Cracked Open

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, Jesus Wept

Brian D. McLaren, Naked Spirituality

Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person

Diana Gruver, Companions in the Darkness

James Finley, An Introduction to Depression and Spiritual Healing

Monica A. Coleman, Not Alone

Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah, Unsettling Truths

Richard Rohr, The Wisdom Pattern; What Do We Do with Evil?

Walter Wink, The Powers That Be

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven

James Finley, Mystical Sobriety

Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless

Richard Rohr, Essential Teachings on Love; Jesus’ Alternative Plan; The Wisdom Pattern

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Barbara A. Holmes, Crisis Contemplation

Brian D. McLaren, Transitions

Cameron Trimble, In Times of Turbulence, Fly Loose

Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s Slow Ripening

Esther de Waal, To Pause at the Threshold

Felicia Murrell, Liminality and Certitude

Kamea Chayne and Bayo Akomolafe, Slowing Down and Surrendering Human Centrality

Richard Rohr, Adam’s Return; Liminal Space; The Wisdom Pattern

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

angel Kyodo williams, Being Black

Caroline Oakes, Practice the Pause

James Finley, Meister Eckhart: in Turning to the Mystics

Laura Swan, The Forgotten Desert Mothers

Richard Rohr, A Spring within Us; The Art of Letting Go; Essential Teachings on Love

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Aaron Graham, Lament

Andi Lloyd

Ann B. Weems, Psalms of Lament

Brian McLaren, Weep for the World; Weeping and Lamentation

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

Clayborne Carson, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, Reconciling All Things

John Dear, Blessed Are the Nonviolent

Richard Rohr, Complaining to God; The Art of Letting Go

Walter Brueggemann, Reality, Grief, Hope

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Beatrice Bruteau, The Easter Mysteries

Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart

Judy Cannato, Radical Amazement

Matthew Fox and Marc Andrus, Stations of the Cosmic Christ

Richard Rohr, Eager to Love; The Cosmic Christ; The Universal Christ

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Barbara Holmes, Crisis Contemplation

Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus

John of Taizé, Life on the Edge

Paul Murray, A Journey with Jonah

Rachel M. Srubas, The Desert of Compassion

Richard Rohr with Joseph Martos, From Wild Man to Wise Man

Richard Rohr, The Good News According to Luke; Wondrous Encounters

Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow; Traveling Mercies

Catherine Chapman, Step Spirit

James Finley, Mystical Sobriety; The Healing Path

John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul

Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie, Good Enough

Richard Rohr, Breathing under Water

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook

Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh

Estelle Frankel, The Wisdom of Not Knowing

Fiona Gardner, The Only Mind Worth Having

Richard Rohr, Beginner’s Mind; Everything Belongs; Soul Brothers

Shunryū Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

James Finley / Kirsten Oates, Turning to the Mystics

Megan Don, Meditations with Teresa of Ávila

Mirabai Starr, Saint Teresa of Ávila

Richard Rohr, The Way of Perfection

Teresa of Ávila / Richard Rohr, The Way of Perfection

Teresa of Ávila, The Interior Castle

Tessa Bielecki, Holy Daring

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Augustine, Confessions

Brett Webb-Mitchell, Practicing Pilgrimage

David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer

Richard Rohr, A Spring within Us; On Pilgrimage

Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Pilgrimage—the Sacred Art

Victor Turner and Edith Turner, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, Without Oars

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Barbara A. Holmes, Joy Unspeakable

John Chryssavgis, In the Heart of the Desert

Laura Swan, The Forgotten Desert Mothers

Mary C. Earle/Moses of Scetis, The Desert Mothers

Paisius Altschul, An Unbroken Circle

Richard Rohr, All Must Be Tested in Regard to Their Use of Power; Desert Christianity and the Eastern Fathers of the Church; On Practice; Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Brian D. McLaren, The Great Spiritual Migration

Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus

Diana Butler Bass, Freeing Jesus

Elizabeth O’Connor, Journey Inward, Journey Outward

Jon M. Sweeney and Mark S. Burrows, Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart

Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie, The Lives We Actually Have

Norman Wirzba, Way of Love

Óscar Romero, Voice of the Voiceless

Richard Rohr, Simplicity; The Four Gospels; The Good News According to Luke; The Universal Christ

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Abraham J. Heschel, The Prophets

Howard Thurman, The Message of Micah

Kat Armas, Abuelita Faith

Mary Ellen Chase, The Prophets for the Common Reader

Megan McKenna, Prophets: Words of Fire

Richard Rohr, The Prophets

Walter Brueggemann, Bragging about the Right Stuff

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

David G. Benner, Yes, And

Delores S. Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness

Elizabeth, Memoir of Old Elizabeth

Richard Rohr, Good Theology Creates Good Politics; The Jesus Hermeneutic; Things Hidden; Yes, And;

Steven Charleston, The Four Vision Quests of Jesus

Thomas Aquinas, De Veritate

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft

Brian D. McLaren, Naked Spirituality

Edwina Gateley et al, Loving the Two Halves of Life: The Further Journey

Matthew Fox, Meditations with Meister Eckhart

Richard Rohr, Essential Teachings on Love; Falling Upward

Richard Rohr, Ronald Rolheiser, and Edwina Gateley, Loving the Two Halves of Life

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Albert Nolan, Jesus Today

Amy-Jill Levine, The Misunderstood Jew

Brian D. McLaren, Jesus as Prophet

Barbara A. Holmes, We Shall Also Be Prophets

Erica N. Williams, Jesus Came to Set It Off

Richard Rohr, Things Hidden; Lots of Priests, Not So Many Prophets

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Brian D. McLaren Anger, Contemplation, and Action

Howard Zinn Marx in Soho

Jacqui Lewis Fierce Love

Joan Chittister and Richard Rohr Prophets Then, Prophets Now

Martin Luther King Jr. Beyond Vietnam

Megan McKenna Prophets: Words of Fire

Pixie Lighthorse Prayers of Honoring Voice

Richard Rohr Soul Brothers; The Prophets

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Joan Chittister & Richard Rohr, Prophets Then, Prophets Now

Richard Rohr, Soul Brothers; The Prophets; The Universal Christ; Near Occasions of Grace; Dancing Standing Still

Erwin Chargaff, Heraclitean Fire

Eugene H. Peterson, Run with the Horses

Howard Thurman, The Message of Isaiah I

Mirabai Starr, God of Love; Wild Mercy

Richard J. Sklba, Mary and the Anawim

Elizabeth A. Johnson, Truly Our Sister

Michael J. Buckley, Resources for Reform from the First Millennium

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Barbara A. Holmes, We Shall Also Be Prophets

Howard Thurman, The Message of Isaiah II

Ilia Delio, The Hours of the Universe

Joan Chittister and Richard Rohr, God of the Great Gaze

Nahum Ward-Lev, The Liberating Path of the Hebrew Prophets

Richard Rohr, Playing the Prophet Close Richard Rohr, The Prophets; Way of the Prophet

W. H. Auden, Advent, IV, Recitative

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Brian D. McLaren, The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth That Could Change Everything

Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind—a New Perspective on Christ and His Message

Henri J. M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

Jennifer Bailey, To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hope

Judy Cannato, Radical Amazement: Contemplative Lessons from Black Holes, Supernovas, and Other Wonders of the Universe

Richard Rohr, Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation The Divine Dance: Exploring the Mystery of Trinity The Good News According to Luke: Spiritual Reflections The Illusion of a Separate Self

What is wisdom ? Wisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper: Wisdom Wednesday is an invitation to open to the depths of your self, your intellect, will, emotion, senses, images, aesthetics, and epiphanies. Yes, open to the ground of wisdom, which is the transformation of human consciousness and the heart.

Adapted from the following:

Claire Brown and Michael T. McRay, Keep Watch with Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers

Rachel Held Evans with Jeff Chu, Wholehearted Faith

Gregory Boyle, The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness

Madeleine L’Engle, Bright Evening Star: Mysteries of the Incarnation

Richard Rohr, Christmas Mass 2015: The Great Embodiment, homily

Kelley Nikondeha, The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope

Ilia Delio, The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love

Karen Baker-Fletcher, Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation

Richard Rohr, Essential Teachings on Love; Jesus’ Alternative Plan: The Sermon on the Mount; The Divine Dance: Exploring the Mystery of Trinity; The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe

Satish Kumar, Soil, Soul, Society: A New Trinity for Our Time

Adam Bucko, Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation

Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

Brian D. McLaren, Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It

Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Debie Thomas, Into the Mess and Other Jesus Stories: Reflections on the Life of Christ

Molly Phinney Baskette, How to Begin When Your World Is Ending: A Spiritual Field Guide to Joy Despite Everything

Richard Rohr, Evolution Is Another Name for Growth; Great Themes of Paul: Life as Participation; Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality

Barbara Holmes, The Role of the Pastor; Read the Bible Differently

Brian D. McLaren, The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World’s Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian; Brian McLaren, The Question of the Future of Christianity

Diana Butler Bass, The Future of Faith as the Way of Salvation

Nontombi Naomi Tutu, The Prophetic Future of Christianity

Richard Rohr, Creating a Church for the 21st Century; The Future of Christianity: A Virtual Summit

Sallie McFague, A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming; Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint.

Richard Rohr, A Spring within Us: A Book of Daily Meditations; Breathing under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps

Richard Rohr and Joseph Martos, The Great Themes of Scripture: New Testament

Diana Butler Bass, Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Giving Thanks

Doug Good Feather, Think Indigenous: Native American Spirituality for a Modern World

Brian D. McLaren, Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words

Kristi Nelson, Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted

Brian D. McLaren, Do I Stay Christian? A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned

Idalin Luz Montes Bobé, The Power to Cry Justice

Michael B. Curry, Following the Way of Jesus

Richard Rohr, Reimagining Notions of Love; Retribution or Restoration?

William J. Barber, We Are Called to Be a Movement

Yvette Flunder, Where the Edge Gathers: Building a Community of Radical Inclusion

Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

Brian D. McLaren, Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road? Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World

Eboo Patel, Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation

John Dear, The Common Ground of Interfaith Nonviolence

M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and Other Writings; In Search of the Supreme

Mirabai Starr, God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Raimundo Panikkar, The Jordan, the Tiber, and the Ganges: Three Kairological Moments of Christic Self-Consciousness

Richard Rohr, Why Jesus

Second Vatican Council, Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate

Barbara A. Holmes, Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village; God in Thin Places

Barbara A. Holmes and Donny Bryant, Ritual Journeys through Grief and Joy with Dr. Walter Earl Fluke

Kat Armas, Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength

Mari Joerstad, The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics: Humans, Nonhumans, and the Living Landscape

Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Richard Rohr, Gravity and Grace: Insights into Christian Ministry; The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe

Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

angel Kyodo williams, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace

David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday, Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist

John C. Wester, Living in the Light of Christ’s Peace

John Dear, Nonviolence Is Power: A Conversation with the Rev. James Lawson

Leymah Gbowee with Carol Mithers, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War: A Memoir

M. K. Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War

Martin Luther King Jr., A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings; Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

Richard Rohr, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Principles of Nonviolence

Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifest of Revolutionary Love

angel Kyodo williams, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace

David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday, Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist

John C. Wester, Living in the Light of Christ’s Peace

John Dear, Nonviolence Is Power: A Conversation with the Rev. James Lawson

Leymah Gbowee with Carol Mithers, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War: A Memoir

M. K. Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War

Martin Luther King Jr., A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings; Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

Richard Rohr, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Principles of Nonviolence

Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifest of Revolutionary Love

Richard Rohr, Contemplation and Compassion: The Second Gaze; If It Is True, Then It Has to Be True Everywhere; On the Edge of the Inside: The Prophetic Position; Questions versus Answers; Standing with Jesus; True Self, False Self

The Rule of St. Benedict

Vincent of Lérins, The Commonitories, in The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation

Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Dawn M. Nothwehr, Ecological Footprints: An Essential Franciscan Guide for Faith and Sustainable Living; Franciscan Mysticism: I AM That Which I Am Seeking

Ilia Delio, Franciscan Prayer; The Humility of God: A Franciscan Perspective

Joan Mueller, St. Clare of Assisi’s Gospel Mysticism

Murray Bodo, St. Francis of Assisi: The Practical Mystic

Richard Rohr, Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi; Franciscan Mysticism: A Cosmic Vision

Thomas of Celano, The Life of Saint Francis; The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul