Books written by Parker J. Palmer
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad — and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves.
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To Know as We Are Known: A Spirituality of Education
Moving beyond the bankruptcy of our current model of education, Parker Palmer finds the soul of education through a lifelong cultivation of the wisdom each of us possesses and can share to benefit others.
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The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life
' Accepting paradox with humility is the spirit that binds the quite diverse pieces of this book together. And it is the spirit that makes this book worth reading.
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad -- and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves.
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The Company of Strangers: Christians and the Renewal of America's Public Life
The Company of Strangers: Christians and the Renewal of America's Public Life
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Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
LET YOUR LIFE SPEAK “Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?” With this searching question, Parker Palmer begins an insightful and moving meditation on finding one’s true calling.
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On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, & Getting Old
. . This is a book of immense gratitude, consolation, and praise.” —Naomi Shihab Nye, National Book Award finalist
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A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
Bringing the Book to Life, by Caryl Hurtig Casbon and Sally Z. Hare, is a reader's and leader's guide to exploring the themes in A Hidden Wholeness. The DVD illuminates and illustrates the principles and practices behind circles of trust.
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Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
" And Publishers Weekly, in a Starred Review, said "This beautifully written book deserves a wide audience that will benefit from discussing it.
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Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
In this book, Parker J. Palmer urges us to 'keep on walking, keep on talking'—just as we did in the civil rights movement—until we cross those bridges together." —Congressman John Lewis, recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. ...
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The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal
If you are working through this Guide alone, one of your major challenges will be setting aside a scheduled time for reflection—and then holding to it. You may want to choose a regular day each week when you can protect at least an hour ...
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Caring for the Commonweal: Education for Religious and Public Life
The Intelligence and Its Teacher . By and large the liberal arts college has held ( and still holds ) to an aesthetic interpretation of the intelligence . It acknowledges ( and seeks to develop ) the human capacity to appreciate a wider ...
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad --and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who...
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The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal
The book offers a rich interplay of analysis, theory, and proposals for action from two educators and writers who have contributed to developing the field of integrative education over the past few decades.
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
Bill Shore, founder of Share Our Strength; author, The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men “ All who harbor concerns about American politics will find in this book a wise and kindred spirit who reminds us of choices we can make to help ...
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
The more vigorously these camps promoted their polarized ideas, the more antagonistic they became—and the less they ... I do not mean only our noble features, or the good deeds we do, or the brave faces we wear to conceal our confusions ...
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The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal
“integrity” I do not mean only our noble features, or the good deeds we do, or the brave faces we wear to conceal our confusions and complexities. Identity and integrity have as much to do with our shadows and limits, our wounds and ...
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The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal
Completely revised and updated, this guide invites the reader to explore the inner landscape of a teacher's life along three distinct, but related pathways: the intellectual, the emotional and the spiritual.
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Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
" And Publishers Weekly, in a Starred Review, said "This beautifully written book deserves a wide audience that will benefit from discussing it.
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A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
One person says that the Prince and the people were simply in awe of the woodcarver's capacity to create beauty. Someone else suggests that they lusted after Khing's “secret” so they could massproduce and market his work as a Wal-Mart ...