Active Spirituality: A Guide for Seekers and Ministers

by Kent Ira Groff

Overview

A practical guidebook for the inquiring layperson seeking a holistic, intelligent look at the spiritual life, and for the pastor or religious professional seeking a systematic framework and spiritual practices to re-ignite the flame of faith. Groff explains what it means to believe and what to do after you say you believe-through a unique integration of spirituality and service, heart and mind, and various faith traditions. Explore five spiritual disciplines: community, solitude, learning, service, and vocation. Great for study groups.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566991179
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/31/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

KENT IRA GROFF is a spiritual companion for journeyers and leaders, a retreat leader and a writer poet living in Denver, Colorado. He describes his work as "one beggar showing other beggars where to find bread." As a pilgrim of east and west, he leads conferences at retreat centers, campuses, seminaries, and faith communities in the U.S. and abroad and in the Denver area. You can travel with Kent in Honest to God Prayer: Spirituality as Awareness, Empowerment, Relinquishment and Paradox; Active Spirituality: A Guide for Seekers and Ministers; Journeymen: A Spiritual Guide for Men and The Soul of Tomorrow's Church. Share his passion to reach outside church doors in What Would I Believe If I Didn't Believe Anything?: A Handbook for Spiritual Orphans and to communicate in Writing Tides: Finding Grace and Growth Through Writing and in his prayer poetry, Facing East, Praying West and Clergy Table Talk. With experience as a pastor, chaplain, and seminary professor, he serves as founding mentor of Oasis Ministries, Camp Hill, Pa. He teaches writing in Colorado prisons.