This collection of quotations of women's spiritual wisdom comes from the best of ten years of lectures at the College of St. Catherine in Saint Paul, Minnesota. If there is anything worth calling theology, said one of the presenters, it is listening to people's stories, listening to them and cherishing them. Streams From The Sacred River contains stories from women willing to share their doubts, fears, successes, inspiration and wisdom.

One journalist's account of her 7-year journey through the Ganges river basin to explore the revered, yet highly polluted, rivers of South Asia.