{"title":"Jim Sherblom","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"spiritual-audacity-1","title":"Spiritual Audacity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou were born to be a humble and joyful child of God.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2,600 years ago an explosion of philosophers in different parts of the world began spiritual disciplines that would reverberate through history and time. Through study and spiritual curiosity mystic and theologian Rev. Dr. Jim Sherblom unearthed these disciplines in his journey from wealth and power to wisdom and purpose. With humor and grace Sherblom elucidates the six principles: Resilience Surrender Gratitude Generosity Mystery and Awakening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart memoir part philosophical history and part manual for living Spiritual Audacity will guide you from black and white to color from formless to form from dark to light and from curious to enlightened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReverend Doctor Jim Sherblom\u003c\/strong\u003e holds a BA from Yale an MBA from Harvard and Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Andover Newton Theological School. His industry roles include serving as senior vice president and CFO of Genzyme Corporation chairman and CEO of TSI Corporation and founding managing partner of Seaflower Ventures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt midlife he was called into divine mystery. Through a series of vision quests and theological studies he emerged as a spiritual teacher preacher and friend of God. He was called to parish ministry serving as a senior minister at First Parish in Brookline Massachusetts for eleven years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince retiring from parish ministry Jim mostly writes about spiritual matters especially his travels with mystics pilgrims and spiritual seekers. He lives in Concord Massachusetts with Loretta. His favorite deep spiritual practice consists of walking meditation in Walden Woods or around Walden Pond. He is the proud parent of two grown children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a rags-to-riches Horatio Alger story first of finding the streets of the American Dream paved with gold and then of finding the spiritual path paved with extinction of ego.\" -Rev. Scotty McLennan ethics educator and author of Christ for Unitarian Universalists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is both a fascinating memoir and a guidebook for discovering your own spiritual path. Jim Sherblom offers inspiration and wisdom for the journey.\" -Rev. Amy Freedman Unitarian Universalist Minister of Religious Education\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jim Sherblom's spiritual journey takes him to the farthest reaches of the earth-and to the inner sanctum of his heart. In this compelling memoir Jim shares his victories and wounds with generosity and insight.\" -Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone coauthors of \u003cem\u003eDifficult Conversations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jim manages something quite remarkable with this book: he throws himself headlong into life's complexities and navigates his way through with grace integrity and compelling good humor.\" -Sandro Galea MD DrPH dean Boston University School of Public Health\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gripping compelling and deeply inspiring. A journey to the heights of wealth and power that lands somewhere completely different-in the mystical audacious world of inner lightness laughter and freedom.\" -Anna Huckabee Tull Master Life Coach and author of \u003cem\u003eLiving the Deeper YES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Through six decades of life Jim Sherblom learned-sometimes the hard way as we all do-six key spiritual qualities needed for human flourishing. This audacious self-revelation is more than a memoir. It is a lesson in spiritual growth from which we all can profit.\" -Rev. John Buehrens minister mentor and coauthor of \u003cem\u003eA Chosen Faith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The best careers spring from deep self-knowledge. Jim Sherblom-CEO financial expert spiritual seeker and late-career minister-presents a six-step path for attaining that knowledge and the 'spiritual audacity' to stay on the path.\" -Doug Hardy career expert coauthor of Monster Careers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Most everyone dreams of a life of meaning adventure and financial success. Jim Sherblom shares his journey from childhood poverty to exactly that! Along the way he offers six spiritual disciplines we can use to make our own audacious journey. As always the journey starts today.\" -Peter Bowden digital educator on spirituality religion and community\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jim Sherblom's storytelling offers light and inspiration to anyone who has spent time reaching for the golden ring of success only to discover it was the reaching and not the ring itself which gave their life meaning.\" -Jim Tull international negotiation \u0026amp;amp conflict resolution specialist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wise Ink Creative Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321597501590,"sku":"9781634890762","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_719b0624-6c2d-4d8b-8839-0e2fd982d7ff.jpg?v=1642158254"},{"product_id":"spiritual-pilgrim-1","title":"Spiritual Pilgrim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I simply learned to say yes whenever a great spiritual adventure is offered.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a venture capitalist and early investor in biomedicine Jim Sherblom sought to make a positive impact in the world. At the height of his career he experienced what could only be called a spiritual awakening and was drawn away from his successful career to follow his calling as a newly ordained UU Minister. What followed was a multi-religious exploration across the globe through time and space and into the transcendental experiences of religious mystics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this memoir Rev. Dr. Jim Sherblom reflects on his journeys of awakening and the teachings he uncovered from occupying the liminal space of the mystics. He shares these lessons so others may live deeply and curiously and experience the awakened joy of twenty-first century transcendentalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReverend Doctor Jim Sherblom\u003c\/strong\u003e holds a BA from Yale an MBA from Harvard and Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Andover Newton Theological School. His industry roles include serving as senior vice president and CFO of Genzyme Corporation chairman and CEO of TSI Corporation and founding managing partner of Seaflower Ventures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt midlife he was called into divine mystery. Through a series of vision quests and theological studies he emerged as a spiritual teacher preacher and friend of God. He was called to parish ministry serving as a senior minister at First Parish in Brookline Massachusetts for eleven years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince retiring from parish ministry Jim mostly writes about spiritual matters especially his travels with mystics pilgrims and spiritual seekers. He lives in Concord Massachusetts with Loretta. His favorite deep spiritual practice consists of walking meditation in Walden Woods or around Walden Pond. He is the proud parent of two grown children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Equal parts memoir and guidebook \u003cem\u003eSpiritual Pilgrim\u003c\/em\u003e entrances with stories that reveal Jim's unabashedly open heart and deep well of knowledge.\"-Doug Stone and Sheila Heen coauthors of \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling \u003cem\u003eDifficult Conversations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jim Sherblom took me on a journey of heart and mind. By weaving pilgrimage practices from various religions with his own searching Sherblom shows us both the agony and the ecstasy of following God.\" -Rev. Howard Dana senior minister First Parish Unitarian Universalist in Concord\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Establishments hate mystics. We seekers of unity both love and need them. They remind us that there is no One Way. We need others whose vision is deeper and broader than ours to nudge us back onto the Path to spiritual maturity compassion wisdom and a more universal vision of salvation for all. Jim Sherblom here offers not just his own personal experience but the counsel of the wisest of all ages.\" -Rev. John Buehrens past president Unitarian Universalist Association\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Many come to religion with a sense that there is something happening in their lives that is beyond what they can explain or even fully understand. The language of mysticism that Jim Sherblom teaches in his clear concrete and yet ephemeral book provides the tools a community needs to have a conversation about that which could be otherwise beyond words.\" -Rev. Sarah Drummond academic dean Andover Newton Theological School\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this enchanting book Jim Sherblom relates his experience of pilgrimage in different religious traditions and his encounters with mystics who reveal and embody the mystery that crackles just below the surface of life. Sherblom tells his story with such insight and wonder that he turns from pilgrim to guide for the reader and reading the book itself becomes a kind of pilgrimage.\" -Rev. Martin B. Copenhaver President of Andover Newton Theological School and author of \u003cem\u003eThis Odd and Wondrous Calling\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Are you seeking a living mystic guide? In his new book you'll find Jim is sparkling and wonderfully accessible as he channels the wisdom of the Sages of the Ages. What a pleasure to walk with him as he shares with us his spirited spiritual adventures.\" -Steven Cadwell Ph.D. psychotherapist educator performer filmmaker activist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSpiritual Pilgrim\u003c\/em\u003e is an odyssey to the shores of the world's mystic traditions. With knowledge and self-revealing honesty Jim Sherblom will deepen your understanding of the transcending and unifying power of mysticism. His insights will then guide you home into the depth and wonder of your next breath.\" -Rev. Stephen Shick poet minister and author of \u003cem\u003eBe the Change\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eConsider the Lilies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reading this book I felt myself illuminating from the inside out. 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However, the elite still governed afterward. The following generations adopted scientific farming, large-scale finance, and industrialization. As new businesses and immigration brought more wealth to the elite, Concord thrived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe early 1800s gave rise to lyceums, debating societies, newspapers, and libraries, where federalists contested democrats over how broadly to extend voting rights. Concord residents debated in town meetings while the elite created their own Social Circle. In this environment, the Transcendentalists, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, flourished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-1800s, Concord abolitionists joined the Underground Railroad and partially-funded John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry. Concord's militia were among the first to respond to President Lincoln's call for troops, and Concord's schoolchildren petitioned Lincoln to free their enslaved peers. 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