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    Letting Go: A Spirituality of Subtraction
    Letting Go: A Spirituality of Subtraction
    Letting Go: A Spirituality of Subtraction
    Audiobook7 hours

    Letting Go: A Spirituality of Subtraction

    Written by Richard Rohr O.F.M.

    Narrated by Father Richard Rohr OFM

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    About this audiobook

    In our culture, the "good life" means getting more. This series of retreat talks challenges listeners to subtract—to release whatever hinders us from siding with the cosmic Christ, whether that be in our inner world (Talks 1-4) or our outer world (Talks 5-8). Father Rohr offers a daring vision which calls us to surrender, to liberation, to making room for real freedom.

    Topics include:
    1. Making Room for Freedom: Liberating the Affluent
    2. At Home in the Wrong House: Living With God or Mammon
    3. Yes! To God: Traveling Through Self to Acceptance
    4. Silence and Willing Service: Delving Into Mystery
    5. What is the Good Life? Breaking Out of the Consumer Trap
    6. Beyond Our Cultural Biases: Siding With the Cosmic Christ
    7. Leaving Security Behind: Finding a New Center
    8. Surrendering: Giving Everything We Are
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFranciscan Media
    Release dateMar 5, 2010
    ISBN9781632533418
    Letting Go: A Spirituality of Subtraction

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    • 5/5
      Well worth a listen. Slightly dated in parts but radical in more parts.
    • 5/5
      A very succinct and subtly challenging series of talks about how to live an authentic Christian life. Always enjoyable to listen to.
    • 3/5
      Extremely thought provoking and if I was of European ancestry I would have given it five stars. But the hackneyed view of Africans in straw huts and of Amish and Mennonites living the “True Christian life” struck me as Carlson Tucker. For one thing, my experience with the Mennonite community was not an inviting one. I was outright rejected because I was once married and my wife left me and filed for divorce. They judged me as unworthy though I think the shade of my skin was the primary fulcrum that their decision rested on. As I was listening to this, I felt author was writing for and/or speaking to a white mostly male audience and it came across to me that the author’s only contact with non whites has been in paternalistic role. Please understand this: Everyone or anyone from my country with children, and/or who have their being in environments that give rise to predation and other natural dangers would want to or already wants to live in a stone house. The example of the old man’s prayer to “not ever live in a stone house” sounded more like the musings of a demented drunk man performing for white tourists. How sad that the author does not realize how he has objectified and greatly simplified if not completely caricatured 80% of the humans on the planet to make a point to some of the twenty percent who might listen. Sad.
    • 5/5
      Fr Richard’s consistency shows a reassuring depth in what he believes.Sincerity sells itself through a growth trajectory within the consistency
    • 5/5
      I love everything Richard robe does...very good talk again. Thank you