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“Cat Psalms: Prayers My Cats Have Taught Me” by Herbert Brokering

Cat Psalms is Herb Brokering’s best-selling title. Inspired by Brokering’s observations of cats, each of these whimsical, playful psalm-meditations is written in the voice of the cat and expresses what cats can teach us about grace and living a grace-filled life. A prayer that encourages readers and offers fresh, new ways to pray more deeply and with more imagination and understanding follows each meditation.


“Dog Psalms: Prayers My Dogs Have Taught Me” by Herbert Brokering

This whimsical and insightful book explores the similarities in the relationship between dogs and owners and the relationship between humans and God. The author’s descriptions of well-loved canine attributes—including trusting, pleading, loving, guarding—are followed by prayers that explore these traits in our relationship with God. A delightful little book for readers seeking creative expressions for their faith.


“The Shack” by William Young

A grieving father receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him to meet in the Oregon wilderness where his daughter has been abducted and murdered. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant “The Shack” wrestles with the timeless question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?” Presently on theNY Times paperback fiction bestseller list.


“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. This brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between the Merced Community Medical Center in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia’s parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy.



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"It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together." ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian