Madeleine L’Engle Bibliography: Non Fiction

This lovely collection of prayers for children features text by Madeleine L’Engle and black-and-white photographs by Maria Rooney. It makes children more aware of God’s creation, helps them recognize God as a friend and confidant, encourages them to talk with god during special times of celebration—and when bad things happen. Bedtime, thanksgiving, grief, and forgiveness are just a few of the topics covered by these simple prayers. Ideal for the whole family!

The journey of faith in Jesus is different for everybody. In this memoir, Madeleine L’Engle tells us the story of her road to Christ: her childhood in the U.S. and Europe, the small ways in which she was propelled towards God, her church experiences from Connecticut to Cairo, and her perspectives on Christian beliefs like omniscience and free will. While her stories carry us through surgeries and trips to Ireland, her thoughts are always part of her spiritual journey to Jesus, the incarnate one, whose birth continues to be the focal point of her life.

Like a wise and trusted friend, this collection of daily readings sparkles with spiritual insight and speaks with one-to-one immediacy.

For half a century Madeleine L’Engle has crafted an uplifting dance in words, touching lives and earning a devoted readership with her award-winning fiction, her candid reflections on her personal and family life in rural Connecticut and New York City, and her graceful meditations on faith.

Now, ranging freely throughout L’Engle’s remarkable life work, Carol F. Chase selects passages for everyone who is seeking warm, sensitive, and intelligent daily inspiration.

At turns intimate, provocative, and philosophical, each of these 366 carefully chosen readings shares the heightened awareness of an artist as adept at exploring the nature of life, art, and beauty in the context of God and the cosmos as she is at imagining a time-travel adventure or addressing the task of combining marriage, family, and work. With enduring power and resonance, these rich selections speak to the simple joys and sorrows of daily life and the deepest questions of the human heart and spirit. L’Engle’s faith in a God of wonder and love is apparent throughout, offering us wise, compassionate, and engaging insight into our own lives and providing more than just a glimpse of the accomplished artistry of one of the most spiritually alive and articulate storytellers of this century.

Possible things are easy to believe. The Glorious Impossibles are those things that bring joy to our hearts, hope to our lives, songs to our lips.

The birth of Jesus was a Glorious Impossible. Like love, it cannot be explained, it can only be rejoiced in. And that is what master storyteller Madeleine L’Engle does in this compellingly written narrative, inspired by Giotto’s glorious frescoes from the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. With a simple clarity that illuminates the life of Christ, Madeleine L’Engle gives eloquent voice to the miracle of God’s love.

“I have never served a work as I would like to, but I do try, with each book, to serve to the best of my ability, and this attempt at serving is the greatest privilege and the greatest joy that I know.“

Madeleine L’Engle has been “serving the work” for decades, bringing words of insight and delight to thousands of readers of all ages. In this volume you will find hundreds of this author’s most illuminating statements about writing, creativity, and the writing life, including material from L’Engles workshops and speeches that has never been published before. Compiled by Carole Chase.

Enter here into a writer’s thoughts and passion—into a life that leads us to a greater understanding of the faith, the struggle, and the joy of the creative journey.

Lost in life’s struggles, we long for a true home—a solid rock in the midst of our daily wilderness. Story guides us in our journey to that rock, reminding us of who we are and where we come from.

Drawing from literature, her own experiences, and selected naratives from Scripture, Madeleine L’Engle gently and profoundly leads us into the world of story in The Rock That Is Higher. Here, L’Engle helps us see story as an affirmation of God’s love—a love that illuminates the truths of our own life stories and points us to our true home in Christ. As L’Engle writes, “We are homesick not so much for something that was, and was lost, as for something that will be, and is to be found.”

Since its publication, Walking on Water has called thousands of readers to the tastks of the artist: to listen, to remain aware, and to respond to creation by creating. With honest and insightful glimpses into her life as an artist and a Christian, Madeleine L’Engle eloquently explores the mysterious relationship between art and faith.