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EXPERIENCING SPIRITUALITY

Ernest Kurtz Katherine Ketcham

Finding Meaning Through Storytelling

The long-awaited sequel to the contemporary classic, The Spirituality of Imperfection (Bantam 1993).
A great master once said, “The shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.” In Experiencing Spirituality, Kurtz and Ketcham take readers on a journey through storytelling as a means of self-discovery.
Recounting and interpreting great wisdom stories from all ages and all cultures, as well as telling many of their own, the authors shed light on such experiences as awe, wonder, humor, confusion, and forgiveness.

In story after story, seekers look to those whose lives reveal a special quality—sometimes called spirituality—and ask the masters what they must do to attain that same quality. The answer is simple: “Come, follow me, and see how I live.” Experiencing Spirituality teaches through the example of human experience.

Ernest Kurtz received his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University in 1978. Over the course of his academic career, he has taught American History and the History of Religion in America at the University of Georgia and Loyola University of Chicago, and served on the faculty of the Rutgers University Summer School of Alcohol Studies and as a lecturer at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. After a brief stint as Director of Research and Education at Guest House, an alcoholism treatment facility for Catholic clergy, Kurtz retired in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Katherine Ketcham has been writing non-fiction books for over 30 years. Her books have been published in sixteen foreign languages and have sold over 1.5 million copies. She is co-founder and Executive Director of a grassroots nonprofit organization called Trilogy Recovery Community, which helps youth and their family members with alcohol and drug problems.
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Published 2014-05-01 by Tarcher

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Published 2014-05-01 by Tarcher

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The inspiring storytellers’ guide to who we are as humans and how we can live the reality of our dreams along the journey of an unpredictable life.

Readers of Experiencing Spirituality will undoubtedly want to go back again and again to revisit and reflect on the stories that are the heart of this remarkable work.

Brilliantly conceived and beautifully written, Experiencing Spirituality is one of those rare books readers will return to again and again as a balm for old and fresh wounds and as a meditation on how to live a life of greater balance, fulfillment, and self-acceptance.

Kurtz and Ketcham (The Spirituality of Imperfection) return after a long absence with a compendium of stories and wry life truths drawn from a variety of cultures and wisdom traditions. Read more...

Come, one and all, to the Spirit’s big buffet!’ Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham are sending out this invitation on every page of their engaging new book, Experiencing Spirituality. Through wisdom stories and the reflections tying them together, we can enter a place of wonder, mystery, and understanding where we learn to be human and to awaken to new purpose in the tremendous plan of God. If, as the old adage says, experience is the best teacher, then Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham are (in my opinion) among its best proponents.

Kurtz and Ketcham have a mission to clarify—because defining is impossible—spirituality. These stories are experiences. You may forget informative data, but you will not forget the stories. Experiencing Spirituality is not reading. It is an experience.

A rich, thoughtful, and engaging collection of stories, anecdotes, quotations, and thoughts on all kinds of subjects that connect to spirituality from two people who understand spirituality better than anyone. Wonderful!