In this gritty memoir about tackling life’s challenges with the promise of transcendence, Tracy illustrates how seemingly chance encounters with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s work catalyzed her emotional and spiritual expansion.

To read Just Trust Life is to receive a download of mystical energy—love as an evolutionary force. Yet this book is much more than a poetic and practical introduction to the life and teachings of this revered mystic. Through finely tuned scenes from Tracy’s life, we learn what it means to be a “spiritual being having a human experience.”

As Teilhard’s spirit accompanied her through struggles with addiction, infidelity, divorce, a house fire, and a near-death-experience, Tracy realizes that we are never alone—and we have the power to wake up.

In this brisk read with a powerful takeaway that belongs on every nightstand, readers will discover Teilhard’s promise: if one can “just trust life…life will bring you high.”

In this poignant monograph, Christine M. Tracy casts the beloved philosopher, priest, and mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1995) in a new light. As Teilhard’s extraordinary human life proved, “We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” This scholarly yet accessible work invites the reader to reconcile “the inside and outside of things,” and reveals Teilhard’s secret to happiness. Teilhard beckons each one of us to “add one stitch, no matter how small, to the magnificent tapestry of life.”

The Newsphere: Understanding the News and Information Environment balances critical theory and professional practice to create specific strategies that result in more effective and enlightened news production and consumption. Emerging from the integral theories of Teilhard de Chardin and embracing Neil Postman’s media ecology, the reception theories of John Fiske, and the work of many contemporary scholars, The Newsphere constructs a solid theoretical, historical, and practical framework for news as ecology.