Alicia von Stamwitz (Ramírez de Arellano) is an award-winning writer and longtime editor with the religious press. She currently works with Franciscan Media as a contract book acquisitions editor and foreign rights manager. Her freelance essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly,The Sun, America, Broadview, and St. Anthony Messenger. Her exclusive interviews and profiles of today's most influential spiritual leaders are published internationally. She was born in Havana, Cuba, and now lives in Missouri with her family.
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Live interview with spiritual writer Ron Rolheiser at Los Angeles Religious Education Congress 2017
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Featured Books
Austrian-born Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast is one of the most influential and beloved spiritual teachers of our time. His newest book, compiled and edited by Alicia von Stamwitz, draws heavily on Buddhist teachings to cultivate the practice of “deep” listening: turning away from noise and distraction, paying attention, and embracing quiet.
Brother David was one of the first Roman Catholics to participate in Buddhist-Christian dialogue, studying under Zen teachers and building bridges between religious traditions. The Way of Silence embraces paradox: absence versus presence in silence. Dynamic tranquility. The all-oneness of aloneness. Publishers Weekly writes in their review, "The Benedictine monk offers deep insight into prayer in a fetching opening chapter that he ties to a variety of personal experiences as well as reflections on the Trinity. He nimbly makes connections and plumbs observations of everyday things, as the title promises. The book is like a buffet of small plates, best savored chapter by chapter. " Author Anne Lamott says, "I love Brother David Steindl-Rast, and all of his work." |
Selected with an Introduction by Alicia von Stamwitz
“We do not wake up in this world calm and serene, having the luxury of choosing to act or not act. We wake up crying, on fire with desire, with madness. What we do with that madness is our spirituality.”—Ronald Rolheiser Ronald Rolheiser, a Catholic priest and theologian, is one of the most popular and influential spiritual writers today. Through such bestselling books as The Holy Longing and Sacred Fire, as well as his syndicated column, “In Exile,” he has shown an ability to outline a healthy Christian spirituality that relates to the deep desires, anxieties, and hopes of ordinary people living in the world. This collection of his essential writings, which draws in large part on his columns, first outlines the “holy longing” that underlies all spirituality. He then outlines the elements of a “generative,” or fruitful spiritual life, including prayer, suffering and death, love and justice, faith and doubt. Fr. James Martin, SJ, writes, "Ron Rolheiser's unique contribution is his ability to make sometimes difficult spiritual concepts and goals crystal clear. It's the mark of a real spiritual master." Theologian John Shea: "There is a good reason why Fr. Ron Rolheiser is a popular speaker and writer. He brings forward the Christian spiritual traditions in ways that people can understand and integrate into their lives. This is no easy undertaking. It entails storytelling people’s experiences as well as interpreting stories of spiritual wisdom. It means finding the connective insights between scriptural texts and current ways of thinking and acting. Most of all, it means suggesting practices that have appeal to people struggling with personal and work lives and hungry for the spiritual energy to give them purpose, make them pleasurable, and keep them passionate. Enter Fr. Ron Rolheiser – companion, spiritual teacher and director to the women and men of our times." |
