The Truths That Free Us: A Woman's Calling to Spiritual Transformation [Paperback]

Ruth Haley Barton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 16, 2002

We all long for the freedom to choose based on our heart’s truest desires–and to love beyond fear and self-protection. Yet many of us lose touch with this sense of freedom, or never develop it in the first place. Without such freedom, we become limited and are unable to realize our full potential.

In The Truths That Free Us, author Ruth Haley Barton leads women into a place of deeper freedom and truth, helping to transform our relationships with God and others. In these pages, you will discover truths about yourself and God; about the people around you and the world you live in. Sometimes these truths will be beautiful, and sometimes they will be painful. But always, they will set you free as you allow them to change you from the inside out.

INCLUDES SPIRITUAL EXERCISES TO ENCOURAGE
PERSONAL REFLECTION AND SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION.

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We all long for the freedom to choose based on our heart?s truest desires?and to love beyond fear and self-protection. Yet many of us lose touch with this sense of freedom, or never develop it in the first place. Without such freedom, we become limited and are unable to realize our full potential.

In The Truths That Free Us, author Ruth Haley Barton leads women into a place of deeper freedom and truth, helping to transform our relationships with God and others. In these pages, you will discover truths about yourself and God; about the people around you and the world you live in. Sometimes these truths will be beautiful, and sometimes they will be painful. But always, they will set you free as you allow them to change you from the inside out.

INCLUDES SPIRITUAL EXERCISES TO ENCOURAGE
PERSONAL REFLECTION AND SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION.

About the Author

Ruth Haley Barton is a spiritual director, teacher and retreat leader.
Trained through the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation (Washington, D.C.) and the Pathways Center for Spiritual Leadership (Nashville, Tennessee), she is cofounder of The Transforming Center, a community of Christian men and women who shape and care for the souls of leaders--equipping them to guide their churches and organizations in becoming spiritually transforming communities that discern and do the will of God.

Barton was educated at Wheaton College and Northern Baptist Theological Seminary.
She served on the staff at several different churches, including Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, and as past president of the Chicago chapter of Christians for Biblical Equality.
Her books include An Ordinary Day with Jesus: Experiencing the Reality of God in Your Everyday Life (a spiritual formation curriculum coauthored with John Ortberg, Zondervan); Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God’s Transforming Presence (IVP); and The Truths That Free Us: A Woman's Calling to Spiritual Transformation (Waterbrook/Shaw).

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Shaw Books (April 16, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877880697
• ISBN-13: 978-0877880691
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,220,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ruth Haley Barton is founder of the Transforming Center (www.thetransformingcenter.org), a ministry dedicated to strengthening the souls of pastors, Christian leaders and the congregations and organizations they serve. A sought-after teacher, spiritual director, and retreat leader, Ruth is the author of numerous books and articles on the spiritual life including Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry, Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation, Invitation to Solitude and Silence, and Longing for More.

Educated at Northern Seminary, the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation and Loyola University Chicago Institute for Pastoral Studies, she has served on the pastoral staff of several churches including Willow Creek Community Church.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this book was desparately needed and i'm so glad that she wrote it!, February 7, 2007

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J. Smith (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Truths That Free Us: A Woman's Calling to Spiritual Transformation (Paperback)

I loved this book so much that after I read a borrowed copy, I decided to buy my own. I meet with a group of female graduate students and we were all feeling frustrated by the constraints that we felt were being put upon our spiritual callings in the church and in the larger world. Fortunately, one of the women had read this book and lent it to me. Ruth Haley Barton does a great job of staying true to Scripture and in doing so, helping women stay true to themselves rather than standards that are set by others. There are chapters about sex and marriage, but also about vocation and other things that aren't usually found in Christian women's literature. She is a true scholar, but very readable at the same time. This was the perfect balance for me and I hope that it is for others as well.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Accusative, August 5, 2006

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Joshua D. Jones (Nottingham, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Truths That Free Us: A Woman's Calling to Spiritual Transformation (Paperback)

There really was good bits to this book. Unfortunately, her accusation against Bible translators as being male and therefore biased against passages that dealt with women seemed terribly harsh if not arrogant. The basic line of reason goes as follows: "All Bible translators are bigots and have gotten this passage wrong. 'Authority' in the this Biblical passage really doesn't mean 'authority'in the greek." What does it mean? Hubcap?