Universal Family

Spirituality as connection to a larger, all-pervading reality (for example, God, as revealed in Jesus) is cultivated by spiritual direction. This book, based on the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, does an extraordinary job of introducing the reader in a gentle, perceptive, illuminated way to our images of God, our narratives of self, our need to listen and respond and engage. This book review of Jeffrey A. Nelson's Coffeehouse Contemplative summarizes the book and celebrates its effects in this reader.