The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking
(The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book is the classic bestsellin...)
The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book is the classic bestselling cookbook devoted to baking light, healthful, delicious bread entirely from whole grains. Now even the busiest among us can bake the delectable loaves for which Laurel's Kitchen is famous. New research proves what we've known all along: Eating whole grains really is better for your health! Here, the switch from "white" is made fun and easy. Like a good friend, the "Loaf for Learning" tutorial guides you step-by-step through the baking process. You'll make perfect loaves every time, right from the start. Here you'll find recipes for everything from chewy Flemish Desem Bread and mouthwatering Hot Cross Buns to tender Buttermilk Rolls, foolproof Pita Pockets, tangy Cheese Muffins, and luscious Banana Bread.
(The complete vegetarian cookbook and reference center for...)
The complete vegetarian cookbook and reference center for the whole-foods kitchen - over a million copies sold! The New Laurel's Kitchen is everything that made the first edition loved and trusted, with hundreds of new recipes and the latest nutritional information. The book contains more than 500 recipes, ideas, menus, and suggestions, each tested and perfected for satisfying wholesome home cooking. Imaginative recipes use low-cost, easy-to-find foods, with dozens of ways to cut back on fat without losing flavor. There are specific sections on cooking for children, elders, pregnancy, and athletes. The New Laurel's Kitchen is the revolutionary food guide that makes good nutrition easy, and this classic is still relevant for today's generation of vegetarians and plant-based eaters.
(Now readers can discover an increasingly popular dimensio...)
Now readers can discover an increasingly popular dimension of Christian spirituality with this luminous collection of writings and sayings of the great women mystics. Carol Lee Flinders, the author of Enduring Grace, has brought together the little-known teachings of Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Saint Teresa of Avila, and others in this spiritually enlightening little book.
Laurel's Kitchen Caring: Recipes for Everyday Home Caregiving
(The charm and compassion of Laurel Robertson - bestsellin...)
The charm and compassion of Laurel Robertson - bestselling author of the popular Laurel's Kitchen make this book of wholesome vegetarian recipes the perfect "nurse's aide" for any caregiver. Laurel includes uplifting stories, advice and inspiration for caregivers, invaluable ideas for administering medicine, and original suggestions for making mealtimes a pleasant occasion, even when the patient can't eat much.
At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst
(In this brilliant exploration of the apparent conflicts a...)
In this brilliant exploration of the apparent conflicts and tensions between feminism and contemplative spirituality, Carol Lee Flinders uncovers how a life of meaning, self-knowledge, and freedom depends on both.
The Values of Belonging: Rediscovering Balance, Mutuality, Intuition, and Wholeness in a Competitive World
(The Values of Belonging breaks new ground by examining hu...)
The Values of Belonging breaks new ground by examining human value systems from the perspective of how we live, not our gender. This society's core values, which include an intimate connection with the land, empathetic relationship with animals, self-restraint, balance, expressiveness, generosity, egalitarianism, playfulness, and nonviolent conflict resolution. But with the Agricultural Revolution, as people took charge of what they could grow and where, the nature of human society changed. Once we could produce enough food to have surpluses, food could be bartered. The concept of ownership took on new meaning; more complex economies evolved, and with them came social and economic inequities. Qualities that had been reviled, such as competitiveness, acquisitiveness, and ambition, became under these new conditions the means to success. God underwent a transformation as well, becoming masculine, supreme, and finally located above and beyond us in the heavens. The values that shaped the hunter-gatherer's life reflected the need for connection, while those that fueled the Agricultural Revolution, and the subsequent rise of civilization as we know it, resulted in the disconnection from nature, other people, and Spirit.
Rebalancing the World: Why Women Belong and Men Compete and How to Restore the Ancient Equilibrium
(For all of our progress, the world stubbornly retains a m...)
For all of our progress, the world stubbornly retains a male-dominated, competitive streak. Certainly, the emphasis our culture places on enterprise has given us much, but what have we sacrificed along the way? Carol Lee Flinders argues that the more ancient values of Belonging (mutuality, cooperation, and generosity), traditionally associated with women, have been subsumed by those of Enterprise (individualism, competitiveness, and materialism), associated with men. In the lives of visionaries, artists, and mystics such as the Buddha, Baal Shem Tov, Teresa of Avila, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Muir, and Martin Luther King Jr., Flinders offers models for a new kind of balance. Rebalancing the World urges us to incorporate the values we are missing in our lives for the sense of wholeness we all seek.
Enduring Lives: Living Portraits of Women and Faith in Action
(In this companion volume to her best-selling Enduring Gra...)
In this companion volume to her best-selling Enduring Grace, Flinders profiles the lives of four contemporary women of faith. Contending that her modern subjects are spiritual heirs to saints and mystics she draws parallels between her modern subjects and their historical predecessors.
Spirit, Science, and Health: How the Spiritual Mind Fuels Physical Wellness
(From meditation to reciting mantras or praying, spiritual...)
From meditation to reciting mantras or praying, spirituality is more and more often being recognized for its beneficial effects on health. In this volume, a team of experts from across disciplines including psychology, medicine, nursing, public health, and pastoral care offer reader-friendly chapters showing the state of the art in understanding this connection. Chapters include attention to special populations such as youth, HIV/AIDS patients, cancer patients, and those in hospice care. Contributors, all members of the Spirituality and Health Institute at Santa Clara University, aim to use the scientific understanding of the spirituality/health connection to promote better health for the general public. From meditation to reciting mantras or praying, spirituality is more and more often being recognized for its beneficial effects on health.
Contemplative Practices in Action: Spirituality, Meditation, and Health
(This groundbreaking primer illuminates contemplative meth...)
This groundbreaking primer illuminates contemplative methods that can improve mental and physical health. Contemplative practices, from meditation to Zen, are growing in popularity as methods to inspire physical and mental health. Contemplative Practices in Action: Spirituality, Meditation, and Health offers readers an introduction to these practices and the ways they can be used in the service of well being, wisdom, healing, and stress reduction. Bringing together various traditions from the East and West, this thought-provoking work summarizes the history of each practice, highlights classic and emerging research proving its power, and details how each practice is performed.
Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power
(A dynamic conversation on the power of women's spiritual ...)
A dynamic conversation on the power of women's spiritual leadership and its emerging patterns of transformation. This empowering resource engages women in an interactive exploration of the challenges and opportunities on the frontier of women's spiritual leadership. Through the voices of North American women representing a matrix of diversity: ethnically, spiritually, religiously, generationally and geographically, women will be inspired to new expressions of their own personal leadership and called into powerful collaborative action.
Carol Lee Flinders is a national speaker, educator, and author of the popular "Laurel's Kitchen" cookbooks. Flinders has also written several books on spirituality and feminism including Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics, and At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst.
Background
Carol Lee Flinders was born as Carol Lee Ramage on December 12, 1943, in Portland, Oregon, United States. She is the daughter of Gilbert H. Ramage, a farmer, and businessman, and Jeanne Lee Ramage, a homeworker. As a child, she grew up on a farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley. In 1958 her family moved to Spokane.
Education
Carol Lee Flinders graduated from North Central High School (Spokane, Washington) in 1961, Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 as well as from the University of California, Berkeley with a Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature in 1973.
Carol Lee Flinders taught courses in mystical literature, mysticism, and women's studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. She was also a Fellow of the Spirituality and Health Institute at Santa Clara University, and an adjunct faculty at the Sophia Center: Culture and Spirituality, Holy Names University, Oakland, California, where Flinders taught courses on mysticism and contemplative spirituality.
Beginning the 1970s Flinders spent more than fifteen years writing about natural foods, co-authoring the popular Laurel's Kitchen vegetarian cookbooks, which in all sold more than a million copies, and writing a weekly newspaper column that in 1987 was syndicated by 20 newspapers across the United States, including the Washington Post, The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon), the Milwaukee Journal (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and others. She continued writing this column for 12 years, until 1989. Since then, Carol shifted her interests to spiritual matters and feminism. Carol Flinders co-wrote with her husband Timothy The Making of a Teacher: Conversations with Eknath Easwaran in 1989. Then in 1993, Carol published Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics. Subsequent books include At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst, The Values of Belonging, Rebalancing the World. In May 2006, she published her latest book, Enduring Lives: Living Portraits of Women and Faith in Action, which profiles contemporary women she believes live and work in the "spiritual mother-line" of Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint Catherine of Genoa. Carol Flinders has authored and co-authored several chapters in edited books, on topics that include meditation, spirituality, and feminism. She contributed a chapter to Spirit, Science and Health: How the Spiritual Mind Fuels Physical Wellness (2007), The Healing Power of Spirituality, Volume 1 (2009), Contemplative Practices in Action: Spirituality, Meditation, and Health (2010), and Women, Spirituality, and Transformative Leadership (2012), which won a Nautilus Book Award and was recognized by Booklist as one of the Top 10 Religion and Spirituality Books of 2012.
For all of our progress, the world stubbornly retains a male-dominated, competitive streak. Certainly, the emphasis our culture places on enterprise has given us much, but what have we sacrificed along the way? Carol Lee Flinders argues that the more ancient values of Belonging (mutuality, cooperation, and generosity), traditionally associated with women, have been subsumed by those of Enterprise (individualism, competitiveness, and materialism), associated with men.
Carol Lee Flinders examined human value systems from the perspective of how the people live, not the gender. As she said: "There is a way of being in the world that recoils from aggressiveness, cunning, and greed." This way of being arisen out of the relationships our hunter-gatherer ancestors had with the natural world, one another, and Spirit - relationships that are most acutely understood in terms of trust, inclusion, and mutual reciprocity. This society's core values, which include an intimate connection with the land, empathetic relationship with animals, self-restraint, balance, expressiveness, generosity, egalitarianism, playfulness, and nonviolent conflict resolution, are what Flinders calls the "values of Belonging." But with the Agricultural Revolution, when people took charge of what they could grow and where the nature of human society changed. Once people could produce enough food to have surpluses, food could be bartered. The concept of ownership took on new meaning; more complex economies evolved, and with them came social and economic inequities. Qualities that had been reviled, such as competitiveness, acquisitiveness, and ambition, became under these new conditions the means to success. God underwent a transformation as well, becoming masculine, supreme, and finally located above and beyond us in the heavens. Flinders observes that these "values of Enterprise" have played a crucial role in the development of human society, having given us our passion for innovation and exploration of our world. But, whether negative or positive, the values of Enterprise, which became associated with men, overwhelmed the values of Belonging, which were identified with women. For all of our progress, the world stubbornly retains a male-dominated, competitive streak. Certainly, the emphasis our culture places on enterprise has given us much, but what have we sacrificed along the way? Carol Lee Flinders argues that the more ancient values of Belonging (mutuality, cooperation, and generosity), traditionally associated with women, have been subsumed by those of Enterprise (individualism, competitiveness, and materialism), associated with men. This division has impoverished us all. The values that shaped the hunter-gatherer's life reflected the need for connection, while those that fueled the Agricultural Revolution, and the subsequent rise of civilization as we know it, resulted in disconnection, from nature, other people, and Spirit.
Quotations:
"Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hunger."
"The energy that can rise in real connection is the stuff of revolution."
"Building cultures of peace is long-haul work, undramatic and unheralded, and often infinitely tedious, and most of the people doing it probably don't even think of themselves as practitioners of nonviolence. Maybe it's time they did."
Interests
Hiking, reading
Politicians
Mahatma Gandhi
Sport & Clubs
swimming
Connections
Carol Lee Flinders Timothy Flinders in 1971. They have a son Mesh Flinders. Carol lives in Northern California at the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation with her husband Tim.