What Enters Through the Open Heart

Easter isn't just one Sunday--it's a fifty-day season of renewal.

The poems in Dreaming of Stones are about what endures: hope and desire, changing seasons, wild p...

The resource is designed to help spiritual directors and others use expressive arts in the contex...

Popular author of eight books and abbess of the online retreat center Abbey of the Arts, Christin...

'In this book, Christine Valters Paintner guides readers in moving beyond their own lives and inv...

Adapting the monastic practice of 'lectio divina' (sacred reading) into a form of 'visio divina' ...

As she did in The Artists Rule and Eyes of the Heart, Christine Valters Paintner once again helps...

'Breath Prayer is an insightful guide to reclaiming this practice of the heart--harmonizing the s...

A bestselling Catholic author and online abbess for Abbey of the Arts uses reflections, stories, ...

Lectio Divina develops this ancient prayer practice as a spirituality that cultivates the ability...

The distorted view of the perfect female body created by popular culture, television, movies, and...

The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom, by Christine Valters Paintn...

Organized around 'The Canticle of the Creatures' by St Francis of Assisi, this book considers the...

A doorway to intimacy with our inner wilderness, a call to sit and be present to what we discover...

'In this book Christine Valters Paintner, abbess of the online Abbey of the Arts, invites readers...

Amid the daily grind, the pain and loss, the fears and doubts, it's easy to lose sight of the fir...

'The Love of Thousands invites us to understand both the conscious and unconscious influences sai...

Clarify your true hungers--and nourish your soul.

'Christine Valters Paintner has traveled through grief, an endeavor which has brought her face-to...

'An excellent book for readers interested in finding a new meditation technique or nonsectarian s...

The essential collection of poetic and contemplative blessings and prayers from Christine Valters...