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The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes

8 best books like The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes (Denise Levertov): The Wedding, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities, The Lost Tools of Learning, He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art, When Rap Spoke Straight to God, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

The Wedding
AuthorDorothy West
ISBN0385471440
An Oprah Winfrey Presents Mini-Series on ABC Network Television Starring Halle Berry

In her last novel, Dorothy West, an iconic member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class.  Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells...
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
AuthorJoanne B. Freeman
ISBN0374154775
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War

In The Field of Blood, Joanne Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Freeman shows that the Capitol was...
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
AuthorMark A. Noll
ISBN0802841805
"The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism's most respected historians.

Unsparing in his judgment, Mark Noll ask why the largest...
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
AuthorRichard L. Bushman
ISBN0679744142
This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning, and sentimental novels, Richard L. Bushman...
The Lost Tools of Learning
AuthorDorothy L. Sayers
Since this paper is known to have had great influence on the emergence of the classical schooling movement, I could not help but include it in my article Learning How to Think: A Reading List for Parents Considering Classical Education.”. I first read it about the time I decided to send my child to a classical...
He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
AuthorChristian Wiman
ISBN0374168466
A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets

What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores...
When Rap Spoke Straight to God
AuthorErica Dawson
ISBN1947793039
When Rap Spoke Straight to God isn’t sacred or profane, but a chorus joined in a single soliloquy, demanding to be heard. There’s Wu-Tang and Mary Magdelene with a foot fetish, Lil’ Kim and a self-loving Lilith. Slurs, catcalls, verses, erasures—Dawson asks readers, “Just how far is it...
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
AuthorKathleen DuVal
ISBN1400068959
A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society

Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America’s...
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