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Genesis: A Living Conversation (PBS Series)

10 best books like Genesis: A Living Conversation (PBS Series) (Bill Moyers): The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem, The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination, How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation, The Spirit of Food: Thirty-Four Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God, Original Blessing, The Gospel According to Jesus, The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholar's Version, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart, In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis, Celtic Prayers from Iona: The Heart of Celtic Spirituality

The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem
AuthorMarcus J. Borg
ISBN0060872608
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan reveal a radical & little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to & responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during...
The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination
AuthorEsther de Waal
ISBN0385493746
Esther de Waal, one of Celtic Christianity's preeminent scholars, shows how this tradition of worship draws on both the pre-Christian past and on the fullness of the Gospel. It is also an enlightening glimpse at the history, folklore, and liturgy of the Celtic people.

Esther de Waal introduces...
How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation
AuthorJohn Dominic Crossan
ISBN0062203592
The acclaimed Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus and God & Empire—“the greatest New Testament scholar of our generation” (John Shelby Spong) —grapples with Scripture’s two conflicting visions of Jesus and God, one of a loving God, and one of a vengeful God, and explains...
The Spirit of Food: Thirty-Four Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God
AuthorLeslie Leyland Fields
ISBN1608995925
Description: You are invited to a feast for the senses and the spirit! Thirty-four adventurous writers open their kitchens, their recipe files, and their hearts to illustrate the many unexpected ways that food draws us closer to God, to community, and to creation. All bring a keen eye and palette to...
Original Blessing
AuthorMatthew Fox
ISBN1585420670
Here is a reissue of the critically acclaimed bestseller, named one of the "20 books that changed the world" in New Age Journal's Annual Source Book for 1995. Maverick theologian Matthew Fox provides a daring view of historical Christianity and a theologically sound basis for personal discovery of...
The Gospel According to Jesus
AuthorStephen Mitchell
I feel a kind of wistful envy toward people who have a clear image of Jesus. The images differ--wiry prophet of social justice; Son of God Incarnate, feet barely touching the dust he walked on; witty wandering sage; Buddha of the Mediterranean.

Mitchell has done his homework, reviewing what...
The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholar's Version
AuthorRobert J. Miller
ISBN0944344496
The Complete Gospels includes all twenty of the known gospels from the early Christian era, clearly presented for the scholar, student and general reader alike. The new Scholars Version translation captures the full spirit and vitality of the original texts. This gospel picture of early traditions...
The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart
AuthorPeter J. Gomes
ISBN0060088303
A very lively, excellent, and relevant booking on reading the Bible. It was written for readers across the spectrum - from those who are intimidated by it or curious, to those who may feel they know it rather well. Though this topic may seem prudishly boring, the author has a wonderful way of bringing both...
In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis
AuthorKaren Armstrong
ISBN0345406044
The power of Genesis lies in its stories, especially those of the creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph. Armstrong traces the grand design of Genesis and its great themes, examines its stories in fascinating detail, and shows why and how they work so well to illustrate the...
Celtic Prayers from Iona: The Heart of Celtic Spirituality
AuthorJ. Philip Newell
ISBN0809104881
J. Philip Newell and his wife Ali were cowardens of the lay religious community of Iona Abbey in the Western Isles of Scotland. There Philip developed this book as an aid to daily prayer. Here is a weekly cycle of morning and evening prayers in the Celtic tradition, with gospel and psalm readings taken...
The Divine Hours: Prayers for Summertime, Volume 1 of 3
AuthorPhyllis A. Tickle
ISBN0385492863
The first volume in a trilogy of prayer manuals compiled by "Publishers Weekly" religion editor Phyllis Tickle as a contemporary Book of Hours to guide Christians gently yet authoritatively through the daily offices.
The Divine Hours is the first major literary and liturgical reworking of the...
Sufism: An Introduction To The Mystical Tradition Of Islam
AuthorCarl W. Ernst
ISBN1570621802
The Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished—from Morocco to India to China—and as varied as their distinctive forms of art, music, poetry, and dance. They are said to represent the mystical heart of Islam, yet the term Sufism is notoriously difficult to define, as it means...
The Sufi Book of Life: 99 Pathways of the Heart for the Modern Dervish
AuthorNeil Douglas-Klotz
ISBN0142196355
Part meditation book, part oracle, and part collection of Sufi lore, poetry, and stories, The Sufi Book of Life offers a fresh interpretation of the fundamental spiritual practice found in all ancient and modern Sufi schools—the meditations on the 99 Qualities of Unity. Unlike most books on Sufism,...
Illuminated Prayers
AuthorMarianne Williamson
ISBN0684844834
"I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be," Marianne Williamson writes in this new book of universal prayers. Prayer is a powerful force that can lift spirits, guide journeys, and heal the heart. "Illunimanted Prayers" is a small volume of spiritual wisdom to bring the...
The Oxford Companion to the Bible
AuthorBruce M. Metzger
ISBN0195046455
The Bible has had an immeasurable influence on Western culture, touching on virtually every aspect of our lives. It is one of the great wellsprings of Western religious, ethical, and philosophical traditions. It has been an endless source of inspiration to artists, from classic works such as Michaelangelo's...
Who Needs God
AuthorHarold S. Kushner
ISBN0743234774
With the warmth, insight, and understanding that distinguished his phenomenal bestsellers When Bad Things Happen to Good People and How Good Do We Have to Be?, Rabbi Harold Kushner addresses a critical issue in the lives of many: a spiritual hunger that no personal success can feed.

If you...
The "Unknown" Reality, Volume 2: A Seth Book
AuthorJane Roberts
ISBN1878424262
In this second volume of The "Unknown" Reality, Seth radically expands our conceptions of "self," by showing us that the human personality is literally infinite in its scope and potential. He discloses precisely how probable realities combine to create our waking lives, and how our "higher selves"...
The Acts of the Apostles
AuthorWilliam Barclay
ISBN0664241069
A lot of Barclays material, in my experience, has stood the test of time, reading well after forty or so years since it was written. While written in a simple style, he takes modern biblical scholarship to a general audience. But in this case, I felt it was overly simplistic, perhaps for one of two reasons:...
Catholic and Christian: An Explanation of Commonly Misunderstood Catholic Beliefs
AuthorAlan Schreck
ISBN0892831812
As a Christian who doesn't know a lot about Catholic-specific doctrines and beliefs, this was an incredibly helpful book. Schreck does an excellent job of outlining "controversial" Catholic beliefs and explaining them without getting bogged down in the details.

While I can't say I agreed...
Bread & Water, Wine & Oil: An Orthodox Christian Experience of God
AuthorMeletios Webber
ISBN1888212918
Worry, despair, insecurity, fear of death ... these are our daily companions, and even though we attempt to ignore them or try to crowd them out, they are there, waiting for us in our quieter moments. It is precisely where we hurt most that the experience of the Orthodox Church has much to offer. The remedy...
It's Really All about God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian
AuthorSamir Selmanovic
ISBN0470433264
A fresh exploration of a redeeming, dynamic, and radically different way to hold one's religion Samir Selmanovic--who grew up a in a culturally Muslim family in Croatia, converted to Christianity as a soldier in the then-Yugoslavian army, and went on to become a Christian pastor in Manhattan and in...
The Glorious Impossible [Illustrated with Frescoes from the Scrovegni Chapel by Giotto]
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
ISBN0671686909
The birth of Jesus was a Glorious Impossible. Like love, it cannot be explained, it can only be rejoiced in. And that is what master storyteller Madeleine L'Engle does in this compellingly written narrative, inspired by Giotto's glorious frescoes from the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. With a simple clarity...
Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief
AuthorRodney Stark
ISBN0061173894
Discovering God is a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age. Sociologist Rodney Stark surveys the birth and growth of religions around the world—from the prehistoric era of primal beliefs; the history of the pyramids found in Iraq, Egypt, Mexico,...
The Mass of the Early Christians
AuthorMike Aquilina
ISBN1592763200
What did the first Christians believe about the Eucharist?
How did they follow Jesus' command, "Do this in remembrance of me"?
How did they celebrate the Lord's Day?
What would they recognize in today's Mass?The answers may surprise you.

In The Mass of the Early Christians, respected...
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