God Laughs & Plays; Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
10 best books like God Laughs & Plays; Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right (David James Duncan): Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition, Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, The Spiritual Life of Children, Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery, Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life, Simpler Living, Compassionate Life, The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West . . . Again, Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirtuality
| Author | Christine D. Pohl |
| ISBN | 0802844316 |
Although hospitality was central to Christian identity and practice in earlier centuries, our generation knows little about its life-giving character. Making Room revisits the Christian foundations of welcoming strangers and explores the necessity, difficulty, and blessing of hospitality...
In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth... women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. Now, as we face a diminished present and an uncertain future, the need to honor the interconnection...
| Author | Robert L. Root Jr. |
| ISBN | 0321434846 |
This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today. The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While...
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 1594489963 |
Kathleen Norris’s masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself...
| Author | Robert Coles |
| ISBN | 0395599237 |
In this eighth and final volume in his Pulitzer Prizewinning Children of Crisis series, Coles examines the religious and spiritual lives of children. By using children's own words and pictures, Coles presents their deepest feelings..
| Author | Richard Lischer |
| ISBN | 0767907442 |
In the tradition of Garrison Keillor, Open Secrets captures the friendships, rivalries, and rumors of small-town life by chronicling the lives of the citizens of a small Midwestern community through the eyes of a young minister.
Fresh out of divinity school and bursting with enthusiasm,...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0061686158 |
Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life features the wisdom that spiritual leader and counselor Henri J. M. Nouwen brought to the essential question asked by every Christian and seeker: What should I do with my life?
Nouwen emphasizes listening to the Word of God—in our hearts, in...
| Author | Michael Schut |
| ISBN | 1889108626 |
Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective is a rich collection of voices that bring clarity to the confusion between our society's ideal of the material "good life" with the "abundant life, " modeled after the person of Jesus, the things he taught, and the way he lived. It invites...
| Author | George G. Hunter III |
| ISBN | 0687085853 |
Celtic Christianity--the form of Christian faith that flourished among the people of Ireland during the Middle Ages--has gained a great deal of attention lately. George G. Hunter III points out that, while the attention paid to the Celtic Christians is well deserved, much of it fails to recognize...
| Author | J. Philip Newell |
| ISBN | 0809137593 |
Very readable. Newell discusses the differences between the theologies of Pelagius and Augustine, and how the former influenced Celtic Christianity, which blended with the pre-existing Druid religion. Augstine's idea of sin being transmitted from one generation to the next through sex, [which...
| Author | Ilia Delio |
| ISBN | 1626980292 |
This book explores Teilhard de Chardin's idea of evolution being God in action through love in the universe. These are complex ideas but even someone not familiar with Teilhard will be able to understand it. DeLio is a scientist as well as a mystical theologian with a gift for bringing a lot of different...
Citizenship papers, n 1. Materials prepared for presentation to authorities when making an application for citizenship. 2. Documents presented as proof of citizenship.
There are those in America today who seem to feel we must audition for our citizenship, with "Patriot" offered as the...
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0867164859 |
Award winner! Catholic Book Awards (Catholic Press Association) Spirituality (Hardcover edition won)
"'Let us begin again, for up to now we have done nothing.' That enigmatic sense of beginning again at the end of life, at the end of an era, in the middle of so much failure, when you just want...
| Author | Ellen F. Davis |
| ISBN | 0802812694 |
The difficulty of interpreting the Bible is felt all over today. Is the Bible still authoritative for the faith and practice of the church? If so, in what way? What practices of reading offer the most appropriate approach to understanding Scripture? The church's lack of clarity about these issues has...
| Author | Robert L. Park |
| ISBN | 0691133557 |
From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions...
| Author | Jacob Needleman |
| ISBN | 1585422266 |
Looking at the lives of America's founders-including Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin-scholar and bestselling author Jacob Needleman explores their core of inner beliefs; their religious and spiritual sensibilities; and their individual conception of the purpose of life. The founders,...
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0060611855 |
A Room Called Remember brings together some of Buechner's finest writings on faith, love, and the power of words in the form of essays, addresses, and sermons. Here Buechner explores autobiography as theology, offers exhilarating reflections on biblical passages, and leads us into the "room called...
This was a reread of a book I read about 10 years ago. It has so many bookmarks to important passages, I have to laugh. I think I may not have remembered how important it was to me because he does a lot of describing his hunting, which I have to admit scares me, I could never kill another living animal other than...
| Author | Paul Tillich |
| ISBN | 0671214268 |
Trying to impress a friend (a doctoral candidate in religious history), I mentioned that I was reading Paul Tillich’s A History of Christian Thought. Her answer was, “That’s fine if you’re a follower of Tillich.” I was somewhat taken aback, but I recognized that she expected a more granular...
Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
The purpose of this new collection is two fold. First, to make Kierkegaard accessible; second, to present in as concise a way possible his "heart," his core themes, and his passion. Divided into six sections, Provocations contains a little of everything from Kierkegaard's prodigious output, including...
| Author | Paul Woodruff |
| ISBN | 0195157958 |
Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behavior and in the vestiges of old ceremonies. Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the fundamental importance...
