Author’s Preface     6
Foreword by Alan Kreider     7
Introduction: Why Spiritual Practices Matter to Me and to Mission     11

Chapter One: The Life of Susan Ruth (1909-2005) •  23
Chapter Two: What Formed My Grandmother?   •  48
Chapter Three: What Formed Me? •  69
Chapter Four: A Wake-Up Call!   •  86
Chapter Five: Some New Words and Some Old   •  92
Chapter Six: New Spiritual Directions at a Seminary   •  103
Chapter Seven: Becoming Like Christ Inwardly and Outwardly   •  121

Notes     151
Bibliography     173
The Author     183