""If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for."--Thomas Merton Some of today's most popular spiritual writers--including Rev. James Martin, S.J.; Bishop Robert Barron; Robert Ellsberg; Rev. Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M.; and Kaya Oakes--explore the meaning of ..."
"Merton on the Spiritual Promise of Interreligious Dialogue, by Acharya Judith
Simmer-Brown 1. ... Carolyn Gimian (Boston: Shambhala, 2004), 263. 2. ... The
dialogues in these Naropa conferences were published in Susan Szpakowski, ed
., Speaking of Silence: Christians and Buddhists in Dialogue (Halifax, NS:
Vajradhatu ..."
The Defiant Middle How Women Claim Life's In-Betweens to Remake the World by KayaOakes 200 Pages, Published 2021 by Broadleaf Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5064-6769-6, ISBN: 1-5064-6769-5
"_campaign = silence -breakers -with -gina -hens -piazza. 3 “Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists: The Final Letter, as Sent” (1802), Library of Congress Information Bulletin 57, no."
The Nones Are Alright A New Generation of Believers, Seekers and Those In Between by KayaOakes Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Orbis Books ISBN-13: 978-1-62698-157-7, ISBN: 1-62698-157-4
"Up to 30% of not one but two entire generations of Americans have chosen to live a life free from religion. The Nones Are Alright investigates how and why the exodus from organized religion is occurring, by telling the personal stories of members of the generation born in the 60s and 70s, when their Boomer parents severed their own ties with organized religion, and the stories of those born in the 80s and 90s, when Fundamentalism was on ..."
The Nones Are Alright A New Generation of Believers, Seekers, and Those in Between by KayaOakes Published 2015 by Orbis Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60833-623-4, ISBN: 1-60833-623-9
"“I still remember reading the 'intrinsically disordered' document [from The
Catechism of the Catholic Church] in high school and ... John's grandparents “
have a habit” of wearing rainbow ribbons to mass and handing out cards for the
Catholic ..."
Radical Reinvention An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church by KayaOakes 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Counterpoint Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-092-4, ISBN: 1-61902-092-0
"As the Irish population began aging and dying off, the pews in the city church got
emptier and emptier. ... As their more conservative husbands died off, these
elderly women embraced the men who had often been rejected or abandoned by
their own families. ... One December morning as I'm drinking coffee and checking
my email for grouchy student complaints about final grades, a Google alert
arrives in ..."
Radical Reinvention An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church by KayaOakes Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-431-9, ISBN: 1-59376-431-6
"As someone who clocked more time in mosh pits and at pro-choice rallies than kneeling in a pew, Kaya Oakes was not necessarily the kind of Catholic girl the Vatican was after. But even while she immersed herself in the punk rock scene and proudly called herself an atheist, something kept pulling her back to the religion of her Irish roots.After running away from the Church for thirty years, Kaya decides to return. Her marriage is under ..."
Slanted and Enchanted(1st Edition) The Evolution of Indie Culture by KayaOakes, Catherine Oakes Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Holt Paperbacks Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8852-6, ISBN: 0-8050-8852-0
"A lively examination of the spirit and practices that have made the indie movement into a powerful cultural phenomenon You know the look: skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors, perfectly mussed bed-head hair; You know the music: Modest Mouse, the Shins, Pavement. You know the ethos: DIY with a big helping of irony. But what does it really mean to be "indie"? As popular television shows adopt indie soundtracks and the signature style bleeds into m ..."
Slanted and Enchanted The Evolution of Indie Culture by KayaOakes 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Holt Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-3572-2, ISBN: 1-4299-3572-3
"... its inception, and when she's not there, it's run by volunteers. Reading Frenzy
sponsors concerts, readings, and art shows and actively promotes the work of
local artists and writers. The owner and a partner run a small press of their own
out of the office upstairs. In addition to the stock of zines, comics, and books, the
store also sells prints, knick- knacks, and candy (lollipops and gum are displayed
in a rotating postcard ..."
Telegraph by KayaOakes Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2007 by Pavement Saw Press ISBN-13: 978-1-886350-43-4, ISBN: 1-886350-43-4
"Poetry. Winner of the Transcontinental Poetry Prize (editor's choice), Kaya Oakes' TELEGRAPH "charts a coming back to life with uncompromising lucidity and sorrow. In poetry rife with a bodily knowledge of the inherent 'second ness' of women's history, Oakes writes for the one and the many. 'I wonder if this earth meant anything when I leant my form to it,' the personae wonders in the final poem, and wonderfully, readers will find that ..."
"The fourteenth-century anchorite known as Julian of Norwich offered fervent prayers for a deeper understanding of Christ's passion. The holy woman's petitions were answered with a series of divine revelations that she called "shewings." Her mystic visions revealed Christ's sufferings with extreme intensity, but they also confirmed God's constant love for humanity and infinite capacity for forgiveness. Julian of Norwich's Revelations of ..."