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Discover a profound, love-filled spiritual journey through Trish McBride's reflections on life, faith, and Divine Love, woven into her later-life writings.
Read this book to:
- Gain insight into post-denominational Christianity and progressive theology.
- Explore diverse perspectives on love, social justice, and interfaith connections.
- Be inspired by reflections on mental health, race, and community.
- Engage with poetry, stories, and liturgies that resonate with spiritual seekers.
- Find comfort and wisdom from a 75-year spiritual journey.
- Challenge traditional theological views with fresh, unorthodox insights.
- Enhance your personal spiritual growth through relatable, deeply human experiences. Features
- Contains 68 writings spanning various spiritual and theological themes.
- Includes stories, poems, liturgies, and personal reflections.
- Addresses topics like forgiveness, same-sex marriage, and interfaith relationships.
- Weaves together experiences of Divine Love, social justice, and personal healing.
- Engages with both orthodox and non-orthodox Christian perspectives. Re-published: 19 April 2024
Language: English
Words: 58,586 B/W text, 154 pages, 7″ x 10″
Soft cover
ISBN 9798689743011
In stock 5 Oct 2024
In A Love Quilt: Later Faith Patches, Trish McBride takes readers on a deeply personal spiritual journey. This collection of later-life writings is a unique blend of personal stories, poetry, liturgies, and reflections, each exploring facets of Divine Love, social justice, interfaith relationships, and mental health.
Drawing on her 75 years of faith, McBride offers an unorthodox yet compassionate Christian perspective, challenging readers to think critically about traditional theology while embracing the universal call to love.
McBride’s writing provides a safe space for those wrestling with institutional religion, while her reflections on same-sex marriage, forgiveness, and critiques of church practices invite readers to reflect on their own beliefs.
The metaphor of a quilt reflects the way these pieces of life, faith, and experience come together, stitched with wisdom and grace.
Whether you are a layperson, clergy, or spiritual seeker, A Love Quilt will inspire and encourage you to reflect on your own spiritual path and the many ways love can be lived in this world. Free PDF Sampler of articles and poems from Trish's three books
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Trish’s three books – Faith Evolving , Exploring the Presence and A Love Quilt – are being republished in 2024. Read together, they document Trish’s 75-year life and faith journey from childhood to her 80s – a unique longitudinal record of women’s spirituality and thinking. They are both spiritual biography and contextual theology.
Along the way, Trish moves from a traditional Catholic faith to embracing feminist theology and on into a post-denominational, inclusive, integrated Gospel-centred spirituality. She has used a patchwork metaphor across all three books, connecting writings of many colours, shapes and textures.
Her purpose in all three has been to encourage others to ponder and record their own faith journeys.
• • • Praise for A Love Quilt
“As an avid reader I find there is a wide diversity of literature that forms, informs and nourishes me as a spiritual director. Works of fiction, spiritual classics, memoirs, emerging biblical scholarship, poetry, theological treatises, process theology, Indigenous studies, current psychology, and eco theology are just a random sample. However, once in a while I come across a book that seems to reflect much of my own spiritual journey, a book I could imagine having written. A Love Quilt: Later Faith Patches by Trish McBride is one such book. It is a pastoral theology work, but not in the academic sense, for it has evolved out of Trish’s rich life experience as a chaplain, counsellor and spiritual director, a life that has been reflected upon with insight and ease.
A Love Quilt: Later Faith Patches is an apt title for McBride’s latest book, the third in what she describes as ‘an accidental trilogy’ recording her spiritual journey for most of the last 70 years. Through this collection of more than sixty ‘patches’, drawing predominantly on the most recent decade of her rich