A Homeward Library
Resources for the Journey
Books, podcasts, videos, and practices chosen for depth, honesty, and spiritual formation - not volume.
Stage One
Inherited Faith
Receive the gift. Make it your own.
The Good and Beautiful God
Examine the stories you carry about God and learn the God Jesus knows.
Sacred Pathways
Discover the different ways people naturally connect with God.
The Return of the Prodigal Son
A meditation on homecoming, belonging, and receiving the Father's love.
Things Above
Good, beautiful, and true thoughts for the mind of Christ.
Life with God
Conversations about living the way of Jesus.
How to Read the Bible
Scripture as a unified story that leads to Jesus.
Being the Beloved
Henri Nouwen on our deepest identity.
Sacred Remembering
A guided practice for receiving what gave life and choosing what to carry forward.
Stage Two
Honest Questions
Make room for what is true. Questions do not disqualify you from belonging.
The Sin of Certainty
Trusting God beyond the need to be right.
Inspired
Loving the Bible while engaging difficult passages, scholarship, imagination, and doubt.
Everything Happens for a Reason
A candid memoir about illness, easy explanations, and life without certainty.
The Bible for Normal People
Honest Bible scholarship without false choices between faith and thinking.
Doubt Can Pull You Closer to Home
Doubt, identity, church, and belonging without pretending.
What Is the Bible?
A clear introduction to Scripture's origins and literary diversity.
What Brought Me Back to Church
Embodied practices that made room for faith again.
Honest Prayer
A guided practice for bringing the whole truth into God's presence.
Stage Three
The Sacred Search
Resources for seeking, questioning, and discovering a more spacious faith.
Faith After Doubt
Language for why doubt can be part of growth rather than the end of faith.
The Universal Christ
A contemplative vision of Christ revealed in Jesus and present throughout creation.
Sacred Rhythms
Gentle practices that help a searching heart become rooted.
Another Name for Every Thing
Contemplative conversations for the questions underneath the questions.
Everything Happens
Honest conversations about faith when life does not resolve neatly.
Centering Prayer
A short guided entry from Contemplative Outreach.
The Universal Christ
Richard Rohr introduces the vision behind the book.
Breath Prayer
Come home to God, one breath at a time.
Stage Four
New Foundations
Rebuild with humility and hope - rooted in Jesus, tested by its fruit, and made livable through practice.
The Divine Conspiracy
A Jesus-centered vision of life in the Kingdom of God.
The Great Spiritual Migration
A hopeful movement from fear and belief systems toward love and healing action.
The Wisdom Jesus
Jesus as a teacher of transformation, self-emptying love, and contemplative practice.
Living the Divine Conspiracy
Dallas Willard on life in God's present Kingdom.
Learning How to See
Brian McLaren on learning to see through eyes of love.
Shaped by the Word
How Scripture forms disciples and draws us into relationship with God.
The Choice
Jesus' closing images of paths, fruit, houses, and practicing his way.
Inspired Reading
An accessible Lectio Divina practice for letting Scripture become encounter.
Stage Five
Embodied Faith
Let faith become a way of life through ordinary rhythms, relationships, practices, and acts of love.
The Spirit of the Disciplines
Spiritual practices as training for living as Jesus taught.
Liturgy of the Ordinary
The holiness and formation hidden in ordinary routines.
The Way of the Heart
Solitude, silence, and prayer as a path toward compassion.
Rule of Life
Arrange life around being with and becoming like Jesus.
Liturgy of the Ordinary
How ordinary life matters and forms us.
The Examen
A simple introduction to the daily prayer of reflection.
Agape / Love
Love as an embodied, others-centered way defined by Jesus.
Daily Reflection
A gentle Examen practice for noticing grace and resistance in an ordinary day.
Stage Six
Living Awake
Live present to God, grounded in humility, and available to love.
New Seeds of Contemplation
A classic invitation into contemplation as life fully awake and receptive to God.
Jesus and the Disinherited
Jesus' way of dignity, resistance, and love from the perspective of those with their backs against the wall.
The Naked Now
Learning to see beyond either-or thinking through Jesus and the Christian contemplative tradition.
Turning to the Mystics
James Finley explores Christian mystics through teaching, reflection, and practice.
The Sound of the Genuine
Otis Moss III on Howard Thurman, suffering, inner authority, and courageous love.
Action and Contemplation
Richard Rohr on prayer, prophetic action, and holding the two together.
Contemplative Sit
A guided invitation into stillness, presence, and receptive awareness.
Contemplative Presence
A simple practice for becoming present to God and available to love.
The Journey
Explore the stages as they are completed.
The resource library will remain one open shelf. Each assessment guide also offers a focused starting point for the season most alive in you.