Brent Bill is a writer, retreat leader and Quaker minister. He's the author and coauthor of many books, including SACRED COMPASS: The Way of Spiritual Discernment, HOLY SILENCE: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality, MIND THE LIGHT: Learning to See with Spiritual Eyes, HOLY PLACES: Matching Sacred Space with Mission and Message, and IMAGINATION AND SPIRIT: A Contemporary Quaker Reader. In addition, he is the author of more than one hundred short stories and nonfiction articles. He also is the author of the popular blog Holy Ordinary.

Bill is a graduate of Wilmington College and the Earlham School of Religion. He has been a local church pastor, denominational executive, seminary faculty member and go-cart track operator.

Bill lives with his wife on Ploughshares Farm, 50 acres of Indiana farmland that is being reclaimed for native hardwood forests and warm season prairie grasses.

Books by J. Brent Bill

Awaken Your Senses: Exercises for Exploring the Wonder of God

by J. Brent Bill and Beth A. Booram - Christian, Christian Living, Nonfiction

In AWAKEN YOUR SENSES, longtime ministers Beth Booram and Brent Bill invite you to engage your right brain in your faith through sensory spiritual practices that position your heart for divine encounter. Readings and a variety of exercises that utilize your whole body lead you to experience God in new ways.