Turning is a personal account of the author's journey to God that eloquently demonstrates how deep and complex the process of conversion can be--and how its beauty and power can be a source of inspiration to us all. This book is unlike most others of its kind in that its focus is intellectual as well as emotional.
Emilie Griffin, an accomplished advertising executive, has written a lucid series of reflections on the process of her conversion to Catholicism through the experiences of other "pilgrims" who have encouraged and challenged her. Thus the stories of C.S. Lewis,...

In Simple Ways to Pray, Emilie Griffin offers her readers an intimate and accessible introduction to the history and practice of prayer in the Catholic tradition. Meaning both to engage the beginner and encourage the experienced, Griffin explores the different types, devotional styles and techniques of prayer as well as outlining practical strategies for starting and sustaining an interior spiritual life. Describing prayer as "that deep urgency or longing for something beyond-something greater than ourselves," Griffin extends an open and inclusive invitation to all readers to put themselves...

Small Surrenders provides a daily guide to the holy season of Lent, with 47 meditations of Lenten weekdays, Sundays, and Easter Sunday. Griffin's brief, provocative quotations encourage readers to deepen their spiritual life.

Emilie Griffin's new collection of poems invites us to share her journey "through the grassland of unknowing." Her hope is for wisdom to flow, for moments of delight, for deeper understandings of joy and sorrow. Here and there readers will find a touch of her characteristic humor, and always, gratefulness. These poems are brief meditations, the fruit of a long life of unexpected challenge and surprise.