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Carol Lee Flinders (née Ramage; born 1943) is a writer, independent scholar, educator, speaker, and former syndicated columnist. She received a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on medieval women's mysticism.

Carol Lee Flinders
Born	(1943-12-12)December 12, 1943[1][2] Portland, Oregon
Other names	Carol Lee Ramage
Occupation	Writer, Independent scholar, Educator, & Speaker
Known for	Enduring Grace, At the Root of This Longing, Laurel's Kitchen;

Biography

She is married to Timothy Flinders, and is the mother of screenwriter and filmmaker Mesh Flinders.[1]

Beginning in the late 1980s, Flinders published a series of books on spirituality. The first, entitled The Making of a Teacher (1989), was co-authored with her husband Timothy Flinders. It provided an oral history of the life and work of spiritual teacher Eknath Easwaran, who had helped inspire the creation of Laurel's Kitchen.

In 1993, Flinders published Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics, a well-received collection of spiritual portraits of 7 Catholic mystics, 5 of them canonized as saints: Claire of Assisi, Mechtilde of Magdeburg, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, Catherine of Genoa, Teresa of Avila, and Therese of Lisieux.[3]

Several additional books by Flinders have focused on various intersections of feminism, spirituality, and cultural and biological evolution. At the Root of this Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst (1998) chronicles her struggle to reconcile the claims of a lifelong meditation practice with her emerging feminism. The book argues that both feminism and contemplative spirituality represent authentic, and complementary searches for truth.[4] In Rebalancing the World (2003) she explores the historical and anthropological dimensions of the gender divide, and suggests ways that contemporary movements can restore an ancient harmony between the sexes.[5]

In Enduring Lives: Portraits of Women and Faith in Action (2006), a "sister volume"[6] to Enduring Grace, Flinders raises questions such as: What would Saint Teresa of Avila or Saint Clare of Assisi do today? She examines the lives of four contemporary women spiritual activists: Jane Goodall, the primatologist and environmentalist; Etty Hillesum, the young Jewish mystic-philosopher murdered at Auschwitz; Jetsumna Tenzin Palmo, the Tibetan Buddhist teacher; and Catholic death-penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean.[7]

Books on spirituality &/or feminism

Flinders has authored or co-authored books on spirituality and/or feminism that include[8]

• Flinders, Carol (1993). Enduring grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0062502840.

• Flinders, Carol (1995). A Little Book of Women Mystics. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0060626852.

• Flinders, Carol (1998). At the root of this longing: Reconciling a spiritual hunger and a feminist thirst. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0062513141. ISBN 006251315X
• Flinders, Carol (2003). Rebalancing the world: Why women belong and men compete and how to restore the ancient equilibrium. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062517371.

• Originally published as: Flinders, Carol (2002). The values of belonging: Rediscovering balance, mutuality, intuition, and wholeness in a competitive world. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0062517368.

• Flinders, Carol (2006). Enduring Lives: Portraits of Women and Faith in Action. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin. ISBN 9781585424962. ISBN 158542496X
• Flinders, Tim; Carol Flinders (1989). The Making of a Teacher: Conversations with Eknath Easwaran. Petaluma, CA: Nilgiri Press. ISBN 9780915132546. OCLC 18983479. ISBN 0915132540 (191 pages).

• Flinders, Tim; Carol Flinders (2002). The Making of a Teacher: Conversations with Eknath Easwaran. New Delhi, India: Penguin India. ISBN 9780143028338. ISBN 0143028332 (191 pages).

Books on vegetarian cooking

Flinders' coauthored books on vegetarian cooking[9] include

• Robertson, Laurel; Carol Flinders; Brian Ruppenthal (1986). The New Laurel's Kitchen: A Handbook for Vegetarian Cookery & Nutrition. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0898151678. ISBN 089815166X

• Robertson, Laurel; Carol Flinders; Bronwen Godfrey (1976). Laurel's Kitchen: A Handbook for Vegetarian Cookery & Nutrition. Berkeley, CA: Nilgiri Press. ISBN 0915132079.

• Robertson, Laurel; Carol Flinders; Bronwen Godfrey (2003). The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking. New York: Random House. ISBN 0812969677.

• Robertson, Laurel; Carol Flinders; Bronwen Godfrey (1984). The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking. New York: Random House. ISBN 0394537009.

• Robertson, Laurel; Carol Flinders; Brian Ruppenthal (1993). Laurel's Kitchen Recipes. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0898155371.
• Robertson, Laurel; Carol Flinders; Brian Ruppenthal (1997). Laurel's Kitchen Caring: Recipes for Everyday Home Caregiving. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0898159512.

Syndicated column

Flinders published a syndicated newspaper column from 1978 through 1989, focused on vegetarian cookery. Entitled Notes from Laurel's Kitchen, it appeared in 20 newspapers in 1987.[10]

External links

• Personal website

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