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Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom Series

Isabel Anders has written two books in her Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom series. Becoming Flame (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010) is available in print, and a print version of Spinning Straw, Weaving Gold: A Tapestry of Mother-Daughter Wisdom (John Hunt Publishing, June 2012) will be published soon with an eBook format to follow.

In a day when eye contact is interrupted by the incessant call for focus on tiny screens bearing bits of information, we desperately need wisdom. Isabel Anders has chosen the model of ancient wisdom literature, borrowing style and gleaning substance from mystics and desert mothers, to bring forward the kind of mother-daughter dialogues that require eye contact and keep mere information in its place. Her books are not page turners. They are page breathers, allowing us to linger with uncommon thoughts. In Becoming Flame, the Mother says “fire is more than function, just as your life is more than tasks.” This is the kind of insight that enriches the lives of mothers and daughters in today’s task-driven world. Spinning Straw, Weaving Gold: A Tapestry of Mother-Daughter Wisdom is a sequel to Becoming Flame and also consists of dialogues between a mother and daughter. Jerrie Lewallen-A reviewer.

Isabel says, “I emphasize in these writings an exercising of our gift of inner perception or intuition in concert with God’s guidance, wise counsel, and the assent of our own heart. Mother-daughter dialogues are also an encouragement to readers to trust this process.”

Spinning Straw, Weaving Gold: A Tapestry of Mother-Daughter Wisdom


by Isabel Anders

In Spinning Straw, Weaving Gold: A Tapestry of Mother-Daughter Wisdom Anders draws spiritual wisdom from a woman’s world; word paintings expressed in the poetry of mother-daughter dialogue. This is Anders’ sequel to her award-winning book Becoming Flame: Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom described below.

Isabel Anders is a teacher pulling up threads in the tapestry of our collective lives so that we might examine them and then weave them into our own personal tapestry. I found myself wanting to enter into the dialogue and to be included in the conversation. (Marian Windel, Executive Director, Sophia House, Louisa, VA)

What is here is the eternal feminine in its most sacred presentations, and all people, regardless of gender, yearn to know and be embraced by that hallowed fullness. (Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence and The Divine Hours, in her Foreword to Becoming Flame.)

I like [Isabel's] mixture of profundity and populism - her sense of addressing something accessible but without leaving behind the most serious paradoxes. (Richard Grossinger, author of On the Integration of Nature.)

Becoming Flame

by Isabel Anders

Becoming Flame is a poetic perfection of biblically inspired values with a folklore feel.

Lyn Sedmina, Christian Literature Editor, BellaOnline

In Becoming Flame: Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom, Isabel discusses the nature of feminine wisdom in Christian tradition. Becoming Flame also includes a collection of Anders’ own succinct, original mother-daughter dialogues, a style of communication rooted in the wisdom tradition but adapted to a timeless feminine context.

Phyllis Tickle, author of The Divine Hours and former religion editor of “Publishers Weekly”, says in her Foreword to the book: “The genius of Becoming Flame lies in Anders’ singular ability to both occupy and employ the tone and cadence of wisdom literature effectively and without violation to the historical integrity of that genre.”

And poet Diane M. Moore has said of Isabel’s book: “Significant … fine work. Original and profound.”

“Anders writes simply and mystically with a lovely poetic cadence…” Read the rest of the review from Story Circle Book Reviews

Isabel Anders has produced or contributed to more than twenty inspirational books on a variety of subjects, including Soul Moments (Cowley), Simple Blessings for Sacred Moments (Liguori), and The Faces of Friendship (Wipf & Stock); narrated devotional CDs, Soul Openings and Soul Openings 2; and authored the 2008 calendar, Seasons for the Soul (Tide-Mark Press).

Madeleine L’Engle, Newbery Award-winning author (for A Wrinkle in Time), wrote an introduction to Isabel’s first book, Awaiting the Child: An Advent Journal (Cowley). Isabel edited the 2009 book 40-Day Journey with Madeleine L’Engle.

In her Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom series she has written Spinning Straw, Weaving Gold: A Tapestry of Mother-Daughter Wisdom and Becoming Flame: Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom with a Foreword by Phyllis Tickle (Wipf & Stock).

She also co-authored the Father Malachi Mystery, Chant of Death, with Diane Marquart Moore (Pinyon Publishing).

Learn more about Isabel in this interview with Pinyon Publishing

    Blessings and Prayers for Married Couples: A Faith Full Love


    Available now.
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    Chant of Death by Diane Marquart Moore & Isabel Anders

    Chant of Death is a mystery set in a fictional Abbey in southern Louisiana… where Spanish moss veils the landscape, and a murderous soul has found a cloistered refuge. Also available from Amazon

    Becoming Flame is a poetic perfection of biblically inspired values with a folklore feel.

    Lyn Sedmina, Christian Literature Editor, BellaOnline

    Significant … fine work. Original and profound.

    Diane M. Moore, Poet

    "Anders writes simply and mystically with a lovely poetic cadence..."

    Story Circle Book Reviews

    Available now from Wipf & Stock or click here to buy it from Amazon.

    Available now.
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