Mary Ann Brussat

Mary Ann Brussat has been covering contemporary culture and the spiritual renaissance for four decades. She is the co-author with her husband Frederic of Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life, a collection of more than 650 examples of spiritual perspectives on everyday experience, which is the basis of a 26-part DVD series. In that book, the Brussats introduced the Alphabet of Spiritual Literacy—37 spiritual practices that are common in the world’s religions—and their book Spiritual Rx: Prescriptions for a Meaningful Life recommends resources and exercises for exploring those practices. The Brussats’ work is now consolidated on their website www.SpiritualityandPractice.com. Multifaith in coverage, it focuses on resources for people on spiritual journeys. Each year the Brussats identify spiritual themes in more than 300 books, 50 audios, and 300 films. The site also offers e-courses, online practice circles, teacher profiles, inspirational quotations, discussion guides, galleries, blogs, and articles on spiritual practices for everyday life. A member of a United Church of Christ (progressive Protestant) congregation and an initiate of the Mevlevi Sufi Order, Mary Ann is an ordained interfaith minister.