Betsey Beckman, M.M. A Retreat With Our Lady, Dominic & Ignatius: Praying With Our Bodies. St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1997.
Co-auhored with Nina O’Connor and J. Michael Sparough.

Betsey Beckman, M.M. Full Body Blessing: Praying with Movement. St. Anthony Messenger Press: 1992.
A superb meditation work that can be used for individual and group praise and movement.

Joan Chittister. The Friendship of Women: A Spiritual Tradition. Benetvision: 2000.
This small book is not meant to be anything more than the beginning of the cry to see the friendships between women as a strong power for good, a potential political force for the preservation of values that the world has greatly overlooked in favor of dominance and reason and individualism.

Kathy Coffey. Women of Mercy. With art by Michael O’Neill McGrath. Orbis Books: 2005.
An award-winning artist and author team up to show us what love looks like, and to encourage us to be the face of love to others.

Kathy Coffey. Hidden Women of the Gospels. Orbis Books: 2003.
Kathy Coffey, with a poet’s use of words, has given women - and all of us - a delightful look at some behind-the-scenes characters from the Gospels. In so doing she raises some key issues in spirituality, for women especially, and helps us all to confront the challenge that the gospel message presents.

Paula D’Arcy, M.Ed. Gift of the Red Bird: The Story of a Divine Encounter. Crossroad Publishing Company: 2003.
D’Arcy shows us in this new book that grief is an ongoing, never-completed process, one that becomes woven into the fabric of the grieving person’s spiritual life.

Lyn Holley Doucet & Robin Hebert. When Wisdom Speaks: Living Experiences of Biblical Women. Crossroad Publishing Company: 2007.
“A fine resource for spiritual formation and transformation.”

Lyn Holley Doucet & Robin Hebert. When Women Pray: Our Personal Stories of Extraordinary Grace. Crossroad Publishing Company: 2004.
“Recommended to anyone who wants to pray more deeply and meet God more boldly”

Edwina Gateley, M.A. Soul Sisters: Women in Scripture Speak to Women Today. Orbis Books: 2003.
“When I first saw Lois Glanzman’s paintings… something happened inside me… The faces rose from the prints and spoke to me. They were people I already knew; homemakers, sex workers, child runaways, crones, teachers, mothers, senior citizens… all of them knew Jesus. All of them were archetypes who reflected the journeys, struggles, joys, and dreams of women today.”

Edwina Gateley, M.A. Psalms of a Laywoman. Sheed & Ward: 1998.
Following the familiar and powerful style of biblical Psalms, the author openly reflects on her life and ministry and ultimately on the nature of faith itself. With a poet’s eye and a believer’s heart, Gately reveals the metaphysical in the practical, the mystical in the ordinary, the divine in the human. Her psalms are a call to recognize God’s presence in each of our lives.

Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, Ph.D. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse. Crossroad Publishing Company: 1992.
Johnson shows how feminist theology, drawing on women’s interpreted experience and a critical retrieval of elements in Scripture and tradition, can enable speech about God previously closed to the imagination. She affirms that women’s reality is capable not only of receiving and bearing the divine but of symbolizing it as well.

Phyllis Zagano, Ph.D. Woman to Woman: An Anthology of Women’s Spiritualities. Liturgical Press: 1995.
A collection of women’s spiritual writings from the 12th c. to the present. A who’s who of women saints.