The Sacred Garden Bookstore first opened in January 2007 to be a sacred space for the entire Greensboro community. Centrally located between downtown and Fisher Park, it is meant to be a place where people can stop in to find rest, solitude, and sanctuary in the midst of thier busy everyday lives. While operated as a ministry of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, the bookstore offers widely ecumenical resources to guide individuals in their unique journey of faith. With books, coffee, gifts, speakers, events and meeting spaces available to non-profit, church, and other community groups, our hope is to help foster and facilitate meaningful dialogue that leads to both inner awakening and an outer call to serve.
Supporting Spiritual Growth:
Offering ecumenical spiritual resources for the walk of faith, including books on the labyrinth, devotionals, contemplative prayer, Biblical studies, Celtic spirituality, the Enneagram, servant leadership, food, body and mind wellness, spiritual direction, money, science, church history, and environmental and social justice.
We also supply textbooks for all Servant Leadership School classes.
Supporting Community:
Offering space for community and non-profit group meetings, classes, book clubs, discussion groups and other events, as well as a unique collection of titles previously only available online. We long to be a safe and welcoming place, where Christians and spiritual seekers from every denomination and faith tradition can come together for conversation and inspiration, to foster a sense of real community among those who wish to delve into deeper levels of their faith and want to make real-life connections with others exploring a similar path of inner and outer transformation.
Supporting Family:
Offering books and resources for the entire life's journey, from toddler to baptism to childhood to confirmation and adolescence to parenting to aging and caring for the elderly to loss and grief.
Supporting Sustainability:
Offering products, books, information, and local resources to encourage lifestyle changes that can make a lasting positive impact on God's good creation and for future generations. We are proud to carry locally made Eco Everyday 100% natural and ethically-produced laundry detergent, and re-usable shopping bags that support Greensboro's Environmental Stewardship Commission. Also, all of our shopping bags are made from 100% recycled paper that is at least 95% post-consumer product.
Supporting Local Artists & Causes:
Offering gifts, cards, music, and other items from local entrepreneurs and artisans, including pottery by Peter Strafaci, photography by Tom Gravitte and John Compton, ceramic angels by Ellen Drake, glass pendants by Marcy Reid-Smith, crosses by Paul Nixon, music by Ben Brafford, Maurice Horne, and Will Ridenour, Guided Meditations by Sarah Campbell Arnett, and mixes from the Old Mill of Guilford. All of the proceeds of many of our gifts and cards support local causes and missions like the Guilford Interfaith Hospitality Network, and St. Joseph's Home, Trinity House, and Wings of Hope homes for abandoned and disabled children in Haiti.