Rating: 
Summary: YES!
Review: I found myself saying "YES!" to many moments in Flinders' "At the Root of This Longing." The book has been wholely transformative for me and I will read it again and again. I have bought copies of it for my all female friends. Flinders, a deeply spiritual person rooted in the Christian mystical tradition and a practioner of Eastern meditation, finds her faith at odds with her feminism. Whereas her faith urges her to give up worldy attachments, cultivate mindful silence, and serve others-- her experience as a woman and a feminist rages against these practices and urges her to embrace her physical self, be heard, and start serving and honoring herself. Flinders' attempts a life that integrates feminism and spirituality and looks forward to a time when others embrace this infusion and proactively affect the world. I found this book to be thoroughly inspirational and offered much support to me. I highly recommend it, no matter what your faith, path, practice, or persuasion be!
Rating:
Summary: YES!
Review: I found myself saying "YES!" to many moments in Flinders' "At the Root of This Longing." The book has been wholely transformative for me and I will read it again and again. I have bought copies of it for my all female friends. Flinders, a deeply spiritual person rooted in the Christian mystical tradition and a practioner of Eastern meditation, finds her faith at odds with her feminism. Whereas her faith urges her to give up worldy attachments, cultivate mindful silence, and serve others-- her experience as a woman and a feminist rages against these practices and urges her to embrace her physical self, be heard, and start serving and honoring herself. Flinders' attempts a life that integrates feminism and spirituality and looks forward to a time when others embrace this infusion and proactively affect the world. I found this book to be thoroughly inspirational and offered much support to me. I highly recommend it, no matter what your faith, path, practice, or persuasion be!
Rating:
Summary: YES!
Review: I found myself saying "YES!" to many moments in Flinders' "At the Root of This Longing." The book has been wholely transformative for me and I will read it again and again. I have bought copies of it for my all female friends. Flinders, a deeply spiritual person rooted in the Christian mystical tradition and a practioner of Eastern meditation, finds her faith at odds with her feminism. Whereas her faith urges her to give up worldy attachments, cultivate mindful silence, and serve others-- her experience as a woman and a feminist rages against these practices and urges her to embrace her physical self, be heard, and start serving and honoring herself. Flinders' attempts a life that integrates feminism and spirituality and looks forward to a time when others embrace this infusion and proactively affect the world. I found this book to be thoroughly inspirational and offered much support to me. I highly recommend it, no matter what your faith, path, practice, or persuasion be!
Rating: 
Summary: Couldn't get past the first few chapters.......
Review: The author is certainly writing for a target audience.......as one other reviewer said, white, upper-middle-class, female would-be mystics. I found the stories of life on the commune mind-numbing (then again, I was born in Berkeley in 1970, so that hippie commune kumbayah stuff reminds me of eating carob when I was a kid) and the rest of what I did manage to read alienating.......zzzzzzzzzzzz.......I am not saying this is a bad book at all, just that it's focus was so narrow that it completely lost my interest. The language was so fuzzy and woo-woo that it just irritated my Gen X (for lack of a better word) postpunk sensibility. It's a shame, too, as I was really looking forward to this book and hoping it would assist me in reconciling my own struggle between feminism and spirituality. C'est la vie.
Rating:
Summary: Transformational
Review: This book is critical for women and feminist men alike. All will walk away re-examining their own views and values. A particular idea that is staying with me (on this reading) is the idea of "retreat > magnification > transformation." The book itself provides such an experience by allowing the reader to go within his or her own thoughts on the two themes, putting a magnifying glass to literature, sociology, history, and the writer's own history to illuminate the topics, thus creating the opportunity to transform or critically change one's one view of the Journey. As suggested on the back cover, I am recommending it to all I know and encouraging a local discussion group.
Rating:
Summary: Transformational
Review: This book is critical for women and feminist men alike. All will walk away re-examining their own views and values. A particular idea that is staying with me (on this reading) is the idea of "retreat > magnification > transformation." The book itself provides such an experience by allowing the reader to go within his or her own thoughts on the two themes, putting a magnifying glass to literature, sociology, history, and the writer's own history to illuminate the topics, thus creating the opportunity to transform or critically change one's one view of the Journey. As suggested on the back cover, I am recommending it to all I know and encouraging a local discussion group.
Rating:
Summary: Transformational
Review: This book is critical for women and feminist men alike. All will walk away re-examining their own views and values. A particular idea that is staying with me (on this reading) is the idea of "retreat > magnification > transformation." The book itself provides such an experience by allowing the reader to go within his or her own thoughts on the two themes, putting a magnifying glass to literature, sociology, history, and the writer's own history to illuminate the topics, thus creating the opportunity to transform or critically change one's one view of the Journey. As suggested on the back cover, I am recommending it to all I know and encouraging a local discussion group.
Rating:
Summary: Essential
Review: This book was excellent and thought-provoking. The topics raised are pertinent to every woman who values her spiritual and feminist sides. Dr. Flinders examines disparate issues which are troubling to many women. She does this in a way that is meant not so much to solve the issues but simply to raise them as subjects to be examined and brought to the light of day. I have recommended this book to many people and will continue to do so. This is a wonderful book!
Rating:
Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: This book was excellent and thought-provoking. The topics raised are pertinent to every woman who values her spiritual and feminist sides. Dr. Flinders examines disparate issues which are troubling to many women. She does this in a way that is meant not so much to solve the issues but simply to raise them as subjects to be examined and brought to the light of day. I have recommended this book to many people and will continue to do so. This is a wonderful book!
Rating:
Summary: Essential
Review: This book was profoundly useful in helping me reclaim my spirituality after having left the church in anger years ago. Ms. Flinders identifies elements essential in helping women find their wholeness. The book is written clearly and beautifully. I recommend it whole-heartedly.
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