In Celtic Christianity, an anamchara is a soul friend, a companion and mentor (often across the miles and the years) in life's long journey through the spiritual realm. Soul friendship is a commitment to both accept and challenge the other; to cut across all divisions to the truth that is found everywhere, in all of life.

At Anamchara Books we are committed to creating a community of soul friends by publishing books that lead us into deeper relationships with God, the Earth, and each other.

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Anamchara Books to Attend Spring Enrichment in Albany, NY from May 10th - May 13th

Anamchara Books will be at the Spring Enrichment conference in Albany, NY, between Monday, May 10th and Thursday, May 13th. Spring Enrichment,...
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Soul Friends for June 1st, 2010

One of the new books we’ve been working on here at Anamchara is A Handbook of Mysticism, a book of alphabetical entries that cover the gamut of mystics from all faiths, as well as the vocabulary they use. The book starts with an entry on Abhishiktananda (Henri Le Saux), a twentieth-century Benedictine priest who ended his life as a Hindu hermit in India. He saw himself as a Hindu Christian, a mystic whose deepest, most genuine experiences of Christ had come to him through the Hindu...
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Soul Friends for May 26th, 2010

It’s been busy in the Anamchara/Harding House world. I spend most of my time these days working to do the countless mundane chores necessary to get books to the printers, complete with indexes and running heads, CIP data and back-cover copy, and hopefully, a minimum of typos or any other errors. This is not the most creative of times in the book-making process, nor is it the least stress-free, but I remind myself that books go out into the world and touch real people. They deserve my best...
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Loving Our Neighbors

In Julie Clawson's April 19 blog, she writes about the Emerging Church as a place of community:
 
Coming face to face with the diversity in our unity might not imply immediate acceptance or respect or understanding, but it pushes us outside of ourselves. Seeing a slightly clearer picture of the world as it is forces us to acknowledge and often wrestle with what we see.
 
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