Books we talked about in Ulster

Here is a partial list of some of the many books we talked about, recommended to one another, read from, or otherwise consulted, during the Spirituality and Peacemaking week in Northern Ireland earlier this month. Some of these books were mentioned in our sessions; others were used to help plan the sessions; others came up in informal conversations between the retreat participants. If you weren’t on the retreat, dipping into these books might give you a sense of the breadth of the conversation we had during our week in Ulster. If you were on the retreat, perhaps this list will help you to find a book or two to read, to deepen the experience.

• Mary Margaret Funk, Thoughts Matter
• Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things
• Gareth Higgins, How Movies Helped Save My Soul
• Robert Kee, Ireland: A History
• Gordon Lathrop, Holy Ground
• Gordon Lathrop, Holy People
• Gordon Lathrop, Holy Things
• John Paul Lederach, Building Peace
• John Paul Lederach, Preparing for Peace
• John Paul Lederach, The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
• Carl McColman, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism
• Carl McColman, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Celtic Wisdom
• John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
• John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us
• Seán Ó Duinn, Rites of Brigid
• Seán Ó Duinn, Where Three Streams Meet
• Walter Wink, Engaging the Powers
• Walter Wink, Naming the Powers
• Walter Wink, Unmasking the Powers
• John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus

I’m sure there are others that I missed (if anyone who was on the retreat reads this and thinks of a book that was part of the retreat experience for them, please let me know and I’ll add it to this list).