Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction

Guenther uses the images of the spiritual director as host, teacher, and midwife to describe the ministry of spiritual direction today. She pays particular attention to spiritual direction for women, and addresses such down-to-earth questions as setting, time, and privacy. The stories of real people bring the practice of spiritual direction alive.

“In the pages that follow, I will attempt to describe the shape that spiritual direction might take for people of our time, aware that the subjec...