I have considered myself a writer ever since I was eight years old and I co-wrote a series of illustrated short stories with my best friend on 008, the woman spy who took over when James Bond failed. I guess my identity as a feminist was formed around the same time! No longer writing spy fiction, in my adult life, my writing focuses primarily on spiritual themes, including spirituality and the arts, creativity, monastic and contemplative spirituality, and wisdom of the natural world.
You can read some of my writing by visiting my blog or clicking the links below to articles I have published.
BOOKS:
Lectio Divina: Contemplative Awakening and Awareness now available from Paulist Press, co-authored with Sister Lucy Wynkoop
Books Coming in Spring 2010:
Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire: The Christian Practice of Praying with the Elements from Ave Maria Press
Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Expressive Arts to Spiritual Direction from Morehouse Publishing (the Spiritual Directors International Imprint Series) co-authored with Betsey Beckman.
REFLECTIVE ART JOURNALS:
A series of booklets published by Abbey of the Arts Press incorporating reflections on the spiritual life with photography, collage, and other art media by Christine Valters Paintner.
Sacred Poetry: An Invitation to Write (published in July 2009)
Illuminating Mystery: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice
Crossing the Threshold: New Year, New Beginnings
Season by the Sea: A Contemporary Book of Hours
What is Blossoming Within You?
Callings: Becoming Who You Already Are
Praying With the Elements: Reflections in Word and Image
ARTICLES: (Click on the article titles for PDF files or web links)
Liturgy as a Feast for the Senses at Patheos
Art and Spiritual Practice at Patheos
Beauty and Spirituality at Patheos
Pray with Music: Audio Divina at Patheos
“The Practice of Contemplation as Witness and Resistance”
Appeared in October 2007 issue of The Way, an international journal of contemporary Christian spirituality
“The Relationship Between Spirituality and Artistic Expression: Cultivating the Capacity for Imagining”
Appeared in the Winter 2007 Issue of the UCLA Spirituality and Higher Education Newsletter
Creativity as a Christian Spiritual Practice: Foundations and Explorations for Ministry”
co-authored with Amy Wyatt
Appeared in the 2006 issue of the Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry
“Using the Arts in Discernment”
Appeared in the September 2006 issue of Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction
“Responding to Beauty’s Call: The Shape of an Aesthetic Spirituality”
Appeared in October 2005 issue of The Way, an international journal of contemporary Christian spirituality
“Aesthetics as the Connection Between Spiritual Practice and the Cultivation of Virtue in Hildegard of Bingen’s Theology of Music”
Appeared in the Vol 55, Issue 2 (2004) issue of the American Benedictine Review
“La Estetica Como Vinculacion Entre La Practica Espiritual Y El Cultivo De La Virtud En La Teologia De La Musica De Hildegardis De Bingen”
Appeared in the 2004 issue of Cuadernos Monasticos (151)
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