Resources
Recommended reading for the 2008 Annual Retreat
- Tilden Edwards, Spiritual Director, Spiritual Companion: Guide to Tending the Soul
- Tilden Edwards, Living in the Presence: Spiritual Exercises to Open Our Lives to the Awareness of God
- Tilden Edwards, Spiritual Friend: Reclaiming the Gift of Spiritual Direction
- Tilden Edwards, Sabbath Time: Understanding and Practice for Contemporary Christians
- Tilden Edwards, Living with Apocalypse: Spiritual Resources for Social Compassion (ed.)
- Tilden Edwards, All God's Children
- Tilden Edwards, Living Simply Through the Day: Spiritual Survival in a Complex Age
Resources on the practice of discernment
- John English, S.J., Discernment and the Examen
- Thomas H. Green, S.J., Weeds Among the Wheat (Ave Maria Press, 1984)
- Stefan Kiechle, The Art of Discernment: Making Good Decisions in Your World of Choices (Ave Maria Press, 2005)
Other resources used by Vineyard Guild clusters
- Diana Butler Bass, The Practicing Congregation (Alban Institute, 2004)
- Roberta C. Bondi, Memories of God (Abingdon, 1995)
- Roberta C Bondi, To Love as God Loves: Conversations with the Early Church (Fortress Press, 1987)
- Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, Resonant Leadership (HBS Press, 2005)
- Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy (Youth Specialties, 2004)
- Brian McLaren, A New Kind of Christian (Jossey-Bass, 2002)
- Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing (Doubleday, 1999)
- N. Graham Standish, Becoming a Blessed Church (Alban Institute, 2005)
- Bernard Tickerhoof, Paradox: The Spiritual Path to Transformation (Twenty-Third Publications, 2002)
- Jim Wallis, The Call to Conversion (Harper Collins, 1981)
- Timothy Geoffrion, The Spirit-Led Leader, (Alban Institute, 2005)
Also, links to other resources on spiritual formation can be found on the website of the Presbyterian Church (USA) at http://www.pcusa.org/spiritualformation/resources.htm.