Resources

Books

  • !!! NEW !!! — Wigner, D.E. Word Song: A Mystical Theology. You can purchase it here or here. (Recommended to General Audiences). Also, I have a brief introduction to the book on the Videos section of the website.

 

  • Wigner, D.E. Thinking Spiritually in Small Groups: The Practice of Mystical Reflection. You can purchase it here or here. (Recommended to General Audiences). You might also want to pop over to the Videos section of the website to find my new video describing this book.

 

  • Wigner, D.E. Just Begin: A Sourcebook of Spiritual Practices. You can purchase it here or here. (Recommended to General Audiences)

Review: Just Begin has been reviewed (along with several other books) in this article from Publishers Weekly. If you want to read only about my book, then you can skip to the end of the article (as one might suspect when one’s last name begins with “W”).

  • Wigner, D.E. A Companion Workbook to Accompany Just Begin: A Sourcebook of Spiritual Practices. I have written a workbook to accompany Just Begin to adapt its use for a small group setting. Currently, I am offering this unpublished workbook for FREE to anyone who is interested. Please use the Contact Form to request a PDF version of this workbook.

 

  • Wigner, D.E. A Sociology of Mystic Practices: Use and Adaptation in the Emergent Church. You can purchase it here or here. (Recommended to Academic Audiences)

Interview: If you would like to hear more about A Sociology of Mystic Practices, you can listen here for an interview I did with Mason Mennenga of “Religionless Church.”

Review: Sociology of Mystic Practices was recently reviewed by the journal Reading Religion. You can read the review here.

Articles

Wigner, D.E. “Icons: A Case Study in Spiritual Borrowing between Eastern Orthodoxy and the Emergent Church.” Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 18.1 [Spring/Summer 2018]: 78-101. http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/38733

Wigner, D.E. “Librarianship as a Spiritual Practice.” Theological Librarianship 10.1 [October 2017]: 2-4. https://theolib.atla.com/theolib

Wigner, D.E. “Clarity in the Midst of Confusion: Defining Mysticism.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 34.3 [Fall 2007]: 331-345. https://www.baylor.edu/prs/index.php?id=78988