Books, CD and Audio Cassette

Looking Back to Tomorrow: A Spirituality for Between the Times by Ruth Patterson

Proclaiming the Promise (book cover)  Year: 2009

Price: £8.45

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Addressing the current period of flux and change that we find ourselves in, economically, socially and personally, Ruth shows the path to awakening belief, pointing to some of the timeless truths from the storylines of yesterday that can nurture our spirituality in this present in-between time and link us to the tomorrow of that new creation, towards which everything is reaching. In this way Ruth hopes that we can be the bridge ’between the times.

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Proclaiming the Promise: Reflection on the God of Love by Ruth Patterson

Proclaiming the Promise (book cover)  Year: 2006

Price: £6.00

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There is a very short account of a homeless woman in one of Rachel Naomi Remen’s books that can serve as a marvellously heart-wrenching and mind-stopping introduction to this book. One of her colleagues, a psychiatrist like her, sees people who live on the street gratis once a month. And this one woman who lives inseparable from her shopping cart climbs one of the steepest hills in San Francisco to get to his office. But she will not leave the shopping cart anywhere – she’s afraid of being robbed and of losing all her possessions.

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Journeying Towards Reconciliation by Ruth Patterson

Journeying Towards Reconciliation (book cover) Year: 2003

Price: £8.30

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At the heart of individual lives, at the heart of communities, nations and continents there exists a brokenness resulting from the violence, abuse, sectarianism and conflict of the past. Often we are lured into a cycle of bitterness, hatred, revenge, suspicion and, ultimately, to despair. Experience and history tell us that the wrongs of the past cannot be wiped out without a trace.

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A Farther Shore by Ruth Patterson

A Farther Shore (book cover) Year: 2000

Price: £7.50

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I love Ireland. Is it because my grandmother was a Maloney, I was told, originally from County Clare? Or is it because of the Irish people's friendliness, their faith, their laughter, their jokes, or because of the windy, rainy days and the land frequently surrounded by angry waves? One day however I discovered another Ireland; huge wire barriers separating streets in Belfast; guns held sometimes by young, fearful soldiers from England; mothers telling me of their sons killed by 'the other side', their bodies left lying in the open streets; people in the south asking "Aren't you afraid to go up there?"

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Journeying with a Pilgrim God,
by Ruth Patterson

Journeying With A Pilgrim God (CD Cover)

Journeying with a Pilgrim God is a CD/tape of some of the poems, prayers and reflections from Rev Ruth Patterson’s two books- 'A Farther Shore' and 'Journeying Towards Reconciliation – A Song For Ireland.' A combination of music and of the spoken word, this CD is a useful tool for periods of meditation and reflection.