Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village

by Barbara Holmes

Written soon after the pandemic, and not long before her death, Barbara Holmes’ timely and challenging book invites us to challenge our assumptions about community and contemplation. She examines the intersection of faith, social justice, and spiritual practice. The Women’s Circle is reading this book and finding Holmes’ courageous honesty about the collective crises of racism, environmental devastation, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Practices at the end of each chapter are culled from various traditions with an emphasis on indigenous and African contemplative practices.