Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation (Orbis Books, 2022)
Written against the backdrop of the pandemic and America’s reckoning with growing poverty, injustice and systemic racism, this book is uniquely positioned to accompany us through the disillusionment and violence of these times. It offers reflections, stories, and insights from Adam Bucko’s years of prayer and activism, including in the streets with homeless and LGBTQ youth, in new monastic communities across the world, and as an Episcopal priest in an engaged contemplative community.
“Adam blows open the gates of my heart, as he has done since I first met him when he was a young contemplative serving homeless youth on the streets of New York City. The deeper he walks into the holy and broken landscape of the human condition, the more graciously service melds with prayer.” — Mirabai Starr, author, God of Love and Wild Mercy
The New Monasticism: A Manifesto for Contemplative Living (Orbis Books, 2015)
Young leaders of the new monastic movement introduce their vision for contemplative life—one that draws from the long traditions of East and West but also seeks an interreligious and ‘interspiritual’ dimension to intentional and socially engaged living in our time. The National Catholic Reporter called The New Monasticism “a sophisticated and sweeping theological achievement.”
“There is enough guidance, connection, and wisdom in this book to keep you acting, thinking and praying for a lifetime! You would be foolish not to take advantage of it. Rory and Adam are trying to do what St. Francis wanted to do 800 years ago. Maybe now we are more prepared and even ready!” — Richard Rohr, author, Universal Christ
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation (North Atlantic Books, 2013)
Named one of the best spiritual books of 2013 and read in spiritual and activist circles from Europe to Latin America, Occupy Spirituality is a call to action for a new era of spirituality-infused activism. Spirituality & Practice called it: “A profound prophetic dialogue across generations about a radical spirituality that…maps out where we have been and what must be done in our times to reunite contemplation and action and assure our sustainability as a species.”
“This may just be the blueprint for the survival of humanity. Everyone must read this book.” — Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi
