When in Doubt, Sing: Prayer in Daily Life

Drawing on her own prayer life as well as the prayer experiences of friends and strangers, Jane Redmont offers a practical compilation of prayer types sure to enliven any reader's spiritual practice. Now in paperback for the first time, Jane Redmont's When in Doubt, Sing is a "revitalizing" (National Catholic Reporter), "wide-ranging and substantive" (Spirituality & Practice), and "open-minded, generous-hearted" (Library Journal) introduction to prayer and the life of prayer from a Christian theologian whose warm, thoughtful, inviting voice will endear her to a diverse audience of believers and spiritual seekers. First published in 1999, and now reissued with a new preface, this book is both a rich, practical compendium of prayer types (such as centering prayer, praying with icons, and lectio divina) and a warmly personal guide to enlivening your spiritual life.

Jane Redmont offers fresh and original ideas on ways to deepen your spiritual life through incorporating prayer into your everyday routine. Influenced by Jewish, Buddhist, and African-American traditions, she includes ideas for ways music, breathing, meditation, icons, and other elements can be used as part of prayer exercises, allowing you to communicate with the divine in a new way.

Library Journal

Though collections of prayers are common, and books exhorting their readers to prayer even more so, open-minded, generous-hearted, intelligent discussions of the hows and whys of prayer are uncommon indeed. Redmont's latest (after Generous Lives: Catholic Women Today, LJ 9/15/92) is a welcome change. Charming and full of verve, it focuses on the difficulties that confront the believer at prayer (e.g., doubt, self-consciousness, and sexist language) and how use them effectively to achieve grace. Highly recommended.