Synopses & Reviews
For readers interested in deepening their spiritual lives and nourishing the soul, Jane Redmont, a Catholic lay minister, draws from a variety of religious traditions to provide commonsense wisdom on communicating with the divine in everyday life.
Offering Many New and Original Ideas on Prayer, When in Doubt, Sing is based on the ancient and rich sources from Christian traditions, but is also enriched by insights from Judaism and Buddhism and from our current global culture. With chapters on meditation, praying through music, praying with icons, and praying during times of depression and anger, it shows readers how to pray with the body and the emotions, and how to get sense, intellect, heart, and flesh all involved in prayer.
Drawing on examples from her own prayer life and from those of men, women, and children across the country, Redmont includes sidebars with prayer exercises and favorite prayers for readers to try. Sharing thoughts on the importance of music, reading, and writing as prayer practices, the use of posture and breath, and most important, freeing oneself from preconceived notions of prayer, When in Doubt. Sing will help readers grow spiritually in remarkable new ways.
About the Author
Jane Redmont is a feminist theologian, Catholic lay minister, social activist, and writer. She was the first woman Chaplain at St. Paul's University Catholic Center in Madison, Wisconsin; was the social justice minister at the Paulist Center in Boston; was the executive director of the Boston Region of the National Conference (founded as the National Conference of Christians and Jews); and has been deeply involved in dialogue among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Born of Jewish parents who became Unitarians and raised as a Unitarian Universalist, Redmont converted to Catholicism as a young adult; she also incorporated much Jewish and Buddhist tradition in her spiritual life. She is the author of Generous Lives: American Catholic Women Today and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.