The Sacred Depths of Nature
10 best books like The Sacred Depths of Nature (Ursula Goodenough): Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Here If You Need Me, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally, Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God, a Broken Mother's Search for Hope, Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible Through Palestinian Eyes, The Dream of the Earth, Guestbook: Ghost Stories, Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power - And How They Can Be Restored
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
| Author | Caroline Criado-Pérez |
| ISBN | 1419729071 |
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar,...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| Author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| ISBN | 1571313354 |
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together...
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
| Author | Carrie Brownstein |
| ISBN | 1594486638 |
From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply personal look at life in rock and roll.
Before Carrie Brownstein codeveloped and starred in the wildly popular TV comedy Portlandia, she was already an icon to young women for her role as a musician in the...
| Author | Kate Braestrup |
| ISBN | 0316066303 |
When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister, and eventually began working with the Maine Game Warden Service, which...
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060609192 |
Many Christians mistakenly believe that their only choice is either to reconcile themselves to a fundamentalist reading of scripture (a "literal-factual" approach) or to simply reject the Bible as something that could bring meaning and value into their lives. In Reading the Bible Again for the First...
Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God, a Broken Mother's Search for Hope
| Author | Christopher Yuan |
| ISBN | 0307729354 |
Coming out, Then coming home. "'Christopher, you must choose! You must choose the family or choose homosexuality.' He looked at me and said, 'It's not something I can choose. I am gay. If you can't accept me, then I have no other choice but to leave.'"
Christopher Yuan, the son of Chinese immigrants,...
| Author | Mitri Raheb |
| ISBN | 1626980659 |
Growing up in conservative Christian culture, it was taken for granted that we (individuals, Christians, America) need to support Israel. The creation of Israel was a miracle, a herald of the end-times. Israel remains God's chosen people. Any who attack Israel are attacking God and will be punished.
Over...
| Author | Thomas Berry |
| ISBN | 1578051355 |
This landmark work, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988, has established itself as a foundational volume in the ecological canon. In it, noted cultural historian Thomas Berry provides nothing less than a new intellectual-ethical framework for the human community by positing planetary...
| Author | Leanne Shapton |
| ISBN | 0399158189 |
What haunts us? What can’t we let go of? A tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence, until one day he vanishes. A series of ghosts appear at their former bedsides, some distraught, some fascinated, to witness their unfamiliar occupants....
Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power - And How They Can Be Restored
Modern Christians are steeped in a language so distorted that it has become a stumbling block to the religion, says internationally renowned Bible scholar Marcus J. Borg. Borg argues that Christianity's important words, and the sacred texts and stories in which those words are embedded, have been...
The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
| Author | Emily Esfahani Smith |
| ISBN | 0553419994 |
This wise, stirring book argues that the search for meaning can immeasurably deepen our lives and is far more fulfilling than the pursuit of personal happiness.
There is a myth in our culture that the search for meaning is some esoteric pursuit that you have to travel to a distant monastery or...
Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry
| Author | Melissa M. Kelley |
| ISBN | 0800696611 |
The experience of grief has been a source of intrigue and curiosity throughout history, and it continues to stimulate thought and theory in various fields of study. Unfortunately, these fields tend to function in isolation from each other. The result is a substantial disconnect between grief research,...
An Introduction to Systematic Theology
| Author | Wolfhart Pannenberg |
| ISBN | 0802805469 |
A fantastic read, but ended in a let down. Pannenberg rightly suggests that a lot of our categories for doing systematic theology are not only outdated, but a few are contradictory and wildly at odds with the Hebrew narrative. Our understanding of God, for example, owes more to the quasi-heretic Origen's...
