Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses
10 best books like Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses (Donna Freitas): Make Way for Ducklings, White Fang, Terms of Enlistment, Day by Day Armageddon, Riddley Walker, Introduction to Christianity, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church, Love and Responsibility, Heretics
| Author | Robert McCloskey |
| ISBN | 0670035386 |
The Big Chill Except With The Ducklings From Make Way For Ducklings, Now All Grown Up is what I originally was going to post for this review but then I was like you know who likes ridiculous things with extremely long titles is McSweeney's, I should see if they want this, and they did. Here are the...
| Author | Jack London |
| ISBN | 0439236193 |
White Fang, Jack London
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories,...
The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you're restricted to two thousand calories of badly flavored soy every day:
You can hope...
| Author | J.L. Bourne |
| ISBN | 1411608313 |
An ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him. An unknown plague sweeps the planet. The dead rise to claim the Earth as the new dominant species. Trapped in the midst of a global tragedy, he must make decisions...choices...
| Author | Russell Hoban |
| ISBN | 0253212340 |
Fionnuala wrote: "Ah, you wouldn't be 'fixing' it, not, but you know that of course!
No, you'd be doing an interesting exercise for yourself, maybe for me who'd be curious to read your 'transliteration', even a pag..."
Alan is sure it would be ruined but he's a writer, who aren't necessarily...
Introduction to Christianity
| Author | Benedict XVI |
| ISBN | 1586170295 |
One of Cardinal Ratzinger's most important and widely read books, this volume is a revised second edition with an improved translation and an in-depth 20 page preface by the Cardinal. As he states in the preface, since this book was first published over 30 years ago, many changes and significant events...
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
| Author | Michael J. Sandel |
| ISBN | 0374180652 |
En Justicia, el prestigioso autor y profesor Michael Sandel examina el papel de la justicia en nuestras vidas y en la sociedad, y explica cómo la filosofía puede ayudar a entender la política, la religión o la moral, e incluso nuestras propias convicciones. Deteniéndose en cuestiones tan polémicas...
| Author | Lauren Drain |
| ISBN | 1455512427 |
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER You've likely heard of the Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps you've seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year old victim of the recent Tucson...
| Author | John Paul II |
| ISBN | 0898704456 |
Drawing from his own pastoral experience as a priest and bishop before he became Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla has produced a remarkably eloquent and resourceful defense of Catholic tradition in the sphere of family life and sexual morality. He writes in the conviction that science--biology, psychology,...
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 0486449149 |
G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on "heretics" — those who pride themselves on their superiority to Christian views — Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall...
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate.
In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which...
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
| Author | Wassily Kandinsky |
| ISBN | 0486234118 |
A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and...
From the critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes a dazzling novel of World War II—a shimmering tale of courage, determination, optimism, and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small Normandy village on the eve of D-Day
On June 5, 1944, as dawn rises...
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0684825872 |
In this enlightening study, renowned twentieth-century theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer offers a careful textual analysis of the story of creation, approaching the biblical tale of Genesis with the eye of a philosopher and the soul of a true Christian.
“Creation and Fall” is Bonhoeffer’s...
Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All?
| Author | James W. Sire |
| ISBN | 0830813977 |
With insight and humor, James Sire takes a look at the actual reasons people give for believing what they do. He then probes further to suggest more satisfying and compelling reasons for belief. Having explored the issue of belief in general, he turns to the question of believing that the Christian faith...
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
| Author | John McWhorter |
| ISBN | 1942658206 |
It has now been almost fifty years since linguistic experts began studying Black English as a legitimate speech variety, arguing to the public that it is different from Standard English, not a degradation of it. Yet false assumptions and controversies still swirl around what it means to speak and sound...
Homosexuality and the Christian: A Guide for Parents, Pastors, and Friends
| Author | Mark A. Yarhouse |
| ISBN | 0764207318 |
Mark Yarhouse gives honest and accurate answers to parents and pastors who have questions about homosexuality. Throughout the book, the author uses a new framework for understanding the issue, carefully separating the concept of "same sex attraction" from a "gay identity." In a clear and compassionate...
Preaching the Creative Gospel Creatively
| Author | Francis C. Rossow |
| ISBN | 0570039177 |
Christian preaching need not be tedious or predictable. The very nature of the Gospel itself is enough to motivate our best efforts to present it creatively. Beloved professor of preaching, Francis Rossow, provides help for preachers looking to be more creative in their preaching, showing hot varied...
Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
| Author | Adam S. McHugh |
| ISBN | 0830837027 |
Introverts are called and gifted by God. But many churches tend to be extroverted places where introverts are marginalized. Some Christians end up feeling like it's not as faithful to be an introvert. Adam McHugh shows how introverts can live and minister in ways consistent with their personalities....
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
| Author | Abbi Jacobson |
| ISBN | 1538713292 |
New York Times Bestseller
From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully unabashed" (Cheryl Strayed) bestselling essay collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.
When...
The alien forces known as the Lankies are gathering on the solar system’s edge, consolidating their conquest of Mars and setting their sights on Earth. The far-off colony of New Svalbard, cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Lanky blockade, teeters on the verge of starvation and collapse. The...
The assault on Earth was thwarted by the destruction of the aliens’ seed ship, but with Mars still under Lanky control, survivors work frantically to rebuild fighting capacity and shore up planetary defenses. Platoon sergeant Andrew Grayson must crash-course train new volunteers—all while...
Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians
| Author | Fergus Kerr |
| ISBN | 1405120835 |
This book reports on the lives and works of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century.
A new book from one of the foremost Roman Catholic theologians currently writing in English Reports on the lives and works of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth...
Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering
| Author | James F. Keating |
| ISBN | 0802863477 |
Easily the best book I have read up until this point. This is a serious theological companion of some excellent scholars discussing impassibility. I am grateful to have read Gavrilyuk and Weinandy, both of whom contributed essays in this companion, before embarking on this one. Bruce McCormack's...
| Author | Ferrett Steinmetz |
| ISBN | 0857667173 |
Life sucks and then you die...
In the near future, the elderly have moved online and now live within the computer network. But that doesn't stop them interfering in the lives of the living, whose sole real purpose now is to maintain the vast servers which support digital Heaven. For one orphan...
| Author | Barbara Claypole White |
From a distance, Felix Fitzwilliam, the son of an old English family, is a good husband and father. But, obsessed with order and routine, he’s a prisoner to perfection. Disengaged from the emotional life of his North Carolina family, Felix has let his wife, Ella, deal with their special-needs son...
| Author | John B. Webster |
| ISBN | 0521538467 |
John Webster argues that, whereas any understanding of scripture must be subject to appropriate textual and historical interrogation, it is also necessary to acknowledge the special character of scriptural writing. His book strongly reaffirms that the triune God is at the core of a scripture-based...
