Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
10 best books like Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (Frederick Buechner): Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship, Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type, Goodbye to All That, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Lake Wobegon Days, The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices And Small Salaries Of America's Teachers, The Fruit of the Tree, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship
| Author | Tom Ryan |
| ISBN | 0061997102 |
After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four-thousand-foot peaks...
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
| Author | Isabel Briggs Myers |
Like a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person's uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about...
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
In 1929 Robert Graves went...
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
| Author | Louise Erdrich |
| ISBN | 0007136358 |
This is the story of Father Damien Modeste, priest to his beloved people, the Ojibwe. Modeste, nearing the end of his life, dreads the discovery of his physical identity -- for he is a woman who has lived as a man.
For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the...
| Author | Garrison Keillor |
| ISBN | 0670805149 |
Lake Wobegon. I have tried to read you over the years and every time I picked you up I was bored out of my mind. This time I tried audio. That helped. I can see why people love to listen to you; I can see why people don’t like to listen to you.
So, Lake Wobegon was founded by Unitarians, and it seemed...
The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0060663308 |
Henry J.M. Nouwen, one of the greatest of all spiritual writers, invites us to search deeply for the well-springs that nourish true ministry in his classic The Way of the Heart. Interweaving the solitude, silence, and prayer of the fifth-century Egyptian Desert Fathers and Mothers with our contemporary...
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
| Author | Tish Harrison Warren |
| ISBN | 0830846239 |
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present to us in surprising ways through our everyday routines. Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices and habits that form us. Each chapter looks...
| Author | Daniel Moulthrop |
| ISBN | 1565849558 |
Do teachers really have it easy?
"Teaching would be the greatest job in the world-if money didn't matter."
"I told the girl I was dating I wouldn't mind teaching and she said, 'Don't waste your talent on that.' "
"The schizophrenia is an issue: are you a professional or are you not?"
"I...
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 1428052305 |
Originally published in 1907, this little known novel by the author of The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome was considered controversial for its frank treatment of labor and industrial conditions, drug addiction, mercy killing, divorce, and second marriages.John Amherst, an idealistic middle...
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
You are what you love. But you might not love what you think.
In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways...
Was That Really Me? How Everyday Stress Brings Out Our Hidden Personality
| Author | Naomi L. Quenk |
| ISBN | 0891061703 |
I've been growing more and more interested in MBTI and grabbed this book out of a desperate need to finally figure out how the heck the cognitive functions played a role in determining type. If nothing else, this book gets my undying gratitude for helping me understanding how the introverted and extroverted...
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life
| Author | John G. Miller |
| ISBN | 0399152334 |
The lack of personal accountability is a problem that has resulted in an epidemic of blame, victim thinking, complaining, and procrastination. No organization—or individual—can successfully compete in the marketplace, achieve goals and objectives, provide outstanding service, engage...
Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0521336740 |
Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories gathers together all of Lawrence's short stories not collected in the Prussian Officer volume. It offers a range of work from Lawrence's earliest surviving published story, 'A Prelude', to 'New Eve and Old Adam' written at the height of his early maturity...
| Author | Vincent G. Dethier |
| ISBN | 0816222401 |
THIS WAS SO GOOD. IT'S HILARIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC, WHICH IS AWESOME.
This book was surprisingly hilarious. Dethier had these witty, comical comments and they made me laugh. The novel starts out talking about how why we should test on flies and how it’s an obvious choice because they’re always...
From Image to Likeness: A Jungian Path in the Gospel Journey
| Author | W. Harold Grant |
| ISBN | 0809125528 |
(This is more a story about this book/author, than a review per se).
This book represents to me, what Carl G. Jung called "synchronicity." Reading the book set off a chain of events in my life that to this day, amaze and mystify.
I found the tattered book tucked away in a Jesuit Library...
| Author | Jeffrey Hatcher |
| ISBN | 0822223376 |
I was surprised I hadn't heard of this play before. It's Russian, it's a comedy, and it's a political satire? All things I love to death! I wish I had heard of it earlier.
The Government Inspector is a comedic farce that pokes fun at the socialist society of 1990's Russia, while also poking fun at...
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
| Author | James Graham Leyburn |
| ISBN | 0807842591 |
Dispelling much of what he terms the "mythology" of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He traces their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland; and their successive migrations...
| Author | Leon Uris |
| ISBN | 0061098442 |
Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimed author of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII,Trinity, the Haj and Mitla Pass,continues the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom in Redemption. A dramatic saga set against the backdrop of growing unrest in Ireland and a world...
