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Atchison Blue
A Search for Silence, a Spiritual Home, and a Living Faith
The Patheos Book Club features "Atchison Blue: A Search for Silence, a Spiritual Home, and a Living Faith," by celebrated PBS religion journalist and celebrated poet Judith Valente, a meditative spiritual memoir of the author's transformative pilgrimages to Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kansas. | read more»
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Atchison Blue: About the Book and Author
In this meditative spiritual memoir, celebrated PBS religion journalist and poet Judith Valente invites readers along on her transformative pilgrimages to a monastery in Atchison, Kansas. | read more »
Atchison Blue: Read an Excerpt
A monastery is like a mirror we hold up to the soul. It reflects back to us our weaknesses, struggles, flaws. But by looking deeply into that mirror, we can come face-to-face with an answer. | read more »
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"Seldom is 'spiritual' reading so readable as it is here! There will be very few who would not find her journey helpful to their own." Read what Richard Rohr and others are saying about the new book, Atchison Blue. | read more »
Living Conversion: A Video Q&A with Judith Valente
When religion journalist Judith Valente traveled from her home in Chicago to the sleepy town of Atchison, Kansas to lead a retreat for busy professionals at a 150-year Benedictine monastery, she never expected she'd become the student. | read more »
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Award winning Journalist, Poet, Author and Producer Judith Valente offers intervals of silence, contemplation and contemporary spirituality to busy professionals all over the world. | read more »
Conversion of Life: Monastic Wisdom for Our Time
I used to think monasteries were hopeless throwbacks to the past. Now I see them as windows to the future, a future our world desperately needs. | read more »
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