Finding Our Way Home: Turning Back to What Matters Most

by Mark R. McMinn

Written in an intimate, personal style, Finding Our Way Home draws on powerful insights from psychology, Christian spirituality, and theology to explore the human longing for home, a spiritual place as much as a physical place where we are at peace with ourselves and with God. Mark McMinn considers the different aspects of home as a spiritual metaphor--the environment we grew up in as well as the challenges of living well within our present realities. In doing so, he addresses the yearning for a spiritual center, a deeper relationship with God, and peace in our lives.

Genres: Spirituality, Christianity

208 pages, Hardcover

Published April 6, 2005

About the author

After a long academic career conducting research and teaching doctoral students in health service psychology, I now spend my time writing and growing fruit in rural Oregon.

I am married to Lisa Graham McMinn, an author, sociologist, and spiritual director. We have three grown daughters and six grandchildren.

Reviews

[Brandon]

McMinn writes this book with the aim of illustrating that everyone longs for home, in both the physical and metaphorical sense. He utilizes personal stories very well in making his points, and blends in a healthy portion of psychological content at times. He states this in the last chapter, "Our quest for home is a story of secure love -- about having it, losing it, and finding it again." I found this sentence to summarize the whole book. It was an easy read and found it to have an existential quality about it.