Books for Further Reading and Study

Three Mile an Hour God

KOSUKE KOYAMA

A powerful invitation to rediscover the spiritual rhythms of a slower life. Koyama helps us see that God meets us not in haste, but in the ordinary, attentive pace of love — three miles an hour.

Godspeed Pilgrim

MATT CANLIS

A forty-day pilgrimage that pairs Scripture with the practice of walking a particular place, helping us slow down enough to become present to God, our neighbors, and the places we actually inhabit.

A Theology of the Ordinary

JULIE CANLIS

A gentle but profound exploration of how God meets us in everyday life — work, home, relationships, creation, and the hidden rhythms of the ordinary.

In Thought, Word, and Seed

TIFFANY EBERLE KRINER

Essays from a Midwest farm bring literature, faith, ecology, family, and place into conversation, cultivating a deeper attention to interdependence and the world growing around us.

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

TYLER STATON

A fresh invitation to rediscover prayer as a living relationship with God — shaped by listening, honesty, persistence, confession, wonder, and the practices of Jesus.

There Is a Future

AMY BORNMAN

Born from a year of reading Scripture and responding through poetry, this collection brings imagination, struggle, questions, and hope into conversation with the biblical text.

Traveling Light

EUGENE PETERSON

Peterson turns to Galatians to explore the freedom of life in Christ and the work of laying down the anxieties and burdens that prevent us from traveling lightly.

A Body of Praise

W. DAVID O. TAYLOR

An exploration of how posture, gesture, movement, and the senses matter in worship — and how our physical practices help form us as whole people before God.

The Rule of St. Benedict

ST. BENEDICT

Fifteen centuries later, Benedict’s practical wisdom about prayer, work, silence, humility, hospitality, and community still offers a compelling pattern for attentive daily life.

A Journey of Sea and Stone

TRACY BALZER

Drawing on repeated pilgrimages to the Isle of Iona, Balzer reflects on sacred places, creation, memory, and the ways particular landscapes can renew our attention to God.

Becoming Friends of Time

JOHN SWINTON

Swinton challenges the tyranny of clock time and productivity, imagining instead a gentler way of inhabiting God’s time through patience, presence, relationship, and discipleship.

Home Economics

WENDELL BERRY

Essays about household, work, land, responsibility, community, and economy that ask what it means to become responsibly and faithfully at home in the world.

At the Still Point

COMPILED BY SARAH ARTHUR

A literary guide to Ordinary Time that gathers poetry, fiction, prayer, and reflection into a rhythm designed to awaken imagination and attentiveness to God’s presence.