Books

"Nobody navigates the intersection of the spiritual and political like Carol Lee Flinders."

– Sue Monk Kidd

Enduring Lives Rebalancing the World At the Root of This Longing

Enduring Grace Laurel's Kitchen Making of a Teacher

Enduring Lives –

Portraits of Women and Faith In Action

“Bold. Inspiring. Provocative. . . Flinders’ careful and faithful rendering of each woman’s spiritual life gives us a map to guide us through the moral freefall of our time. Read this book and hold on. – China Galland

If Saint Teresa of Avila or Saint Clare of Assisi were alive today, how would they be leading their lives? Carol's next book, due in stores in Spring, 2006, attempts to answer this central question.

Enduring Lives, the sister volume to her best-selling classic Enduring Grace, offers riveting portraits of contemporary women who are the spiritual great grand daughters of the female mystics and saints profiled in Enduring Grace. Tracing the spiritual “mother line” of these holy women of centuries past—Julian of Norwich, Saint Catherine of Siena, Saint Catherine of Genoa, and Saint Therese of Lisieux—to contemporary women whose lives have been lived with a similar passion for and dedication to improving the human condition, Carol explores the spiritual journeys of:

	Jane Goodall, the world-renowned scientist, environmentalist and humanitarian, whose groundbreaking work runs parallel to a deeply realized spiritual vision for our times.
	Etty Hillesum, a Jewish intellectual in Amsterdam who documented in her diaries an abiding vision for the eventual triumph of human good over evil even as she faced the horror of Auschwitz.
	Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun who befriended death row inmates and accompanied to their ends with the grace of her certainty that “God dwells in the people that we most want to throw away.” (Sister Helen Prejean was played by Susan Sarandon in the Oscar-winning film Dead Man Walking)

Tenzin Palmo, among the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun, whose twelve years spent meditating in a Himalayan cave led her to emerge with a finely articulated road map for ending human suffering.

With these fascinating portraits of four contemporary women of faith, Enduring Lives illuminates the heart of the feminine sacred and provides inspiration for female spiritual seekers everywhere.

Enduring Grace

Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics.

Enduring Grace offers striking pictures of seven extraordinary women of God – Clare of Assisi, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Sienna, Catherine of Genoa, Teresa of Avila, Mechtild of Magdeburg and Therese of Lisieux – whose life stories provide powerful and relevant models for modern women.

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Laurel's Kitchen

During the past two decades, in books like Laurel’s Kitchen, Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book, and Laurel’s Kitchen Caring co-author Carol Flinders and her colleagues have been promoting a simpler, natural, and more spiritual lifestyle as a way of meeting the needs of the planet and the people who inhabit it.

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The Making of a Teacher

Conversations with Sri Eknath Easwaran

Tim and Carol Flinders

In this series of candid conversations, Tim and Carol Flinders tell the fascinating story of how noted meditation teacher Sri Eknath Easwaran transformed his own life, and how others can profit from his discoveries.

A former professor and writer in India, Sri Easwaran came to the University of California at Berkeley as a Fulbright scholar in 1960, where he founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation.

In The Making of a Teacher Sri Easwaran talks of the influence of the wise, unlettered woman he considers his spiritual teacher, his grandmother – and of how he discovered, almost in spite of himself, his true vocation: teaching people to meditate.