Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Anderson’s is happy to welcome back Susan Elizabeth Phillips with her two new books: What I Did for Love, in hardcover, and her new paperback, Glitter Baby. Romantic and funny, Ms. Phillips’ books are known for sparkling plots, colorful characters and delicious obstacle-strewn paths to true love.

Candlelight offers an intimate view of spiritual direction through written narratives of spiritual direction sessions. The experiential practice is accompanied by theoretical and theological understandings that guide it. The book includes the stories of nine men and women whose stories illustrate how ... (more)the journey of Christian discipleship is helped by spiritual direction. Susan Phillips has served as Executive Director at New College Berkeley, since 1994, and prior to that was the Academic Dean. She regularly teaches for New College Berkeley, Regent College in Canada, and the Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction program at San Francisco Theological Seminary. Much of her writing, including the CHOICE Award-winning book The Crisis of Care: Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions, reinforce her concern for the ethics of care and how practices of care shape us as people.

“Susan Phillips’s thoughtful, listening intelligence incandesces in this account of her practice of spiritual direction. The process comes to vivid life in her personal narratives of sessions with directees in God’s presence. I was moved by the way Susan’s insights grew in relationship with those she met with over months and years. I felt holiness creeping into my own life.” —Luci Shaw, author, Breath for the Bones: Imagination, Art, & Spirit and Writer in Residence, Regent College.