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A CELEBRATION OF GOD'S GRACE
There are two tragedies in life.
One is to lose your heart's desire.
The other is to gain it.
--George Bernard Shaw
Peace is not an idea. It's a practice. It needs human hands ot support it. The world becomes habitable only when human beings live together in peace.
--Vassilis Vassilokos (in Z)
The covetous man (sic) never has money;
the prodigal will have none shortly.
--Ben Jonson
God's love for poor sinners is very wonderful,
but God's patience with ill-natured saints is a deeper mystery.
--Henry Drummond
One hour of justice is worth a hundred of prayer.
--Arab proverb
It is not well for man (sic) to pray cream, and live skim milk.
--Henry Ward Beecher
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
--Gautama Buddha
Reading List
Religious Studies * Theology * Fiction * Theological Fiction * Biblical Scholarship * Social Commentary
Cultural History * Emergent Church * Biography & Memoirs * Devotional Books
Liturgical Theology * Church Music * Practical Theology * Short Stories * Poetry and Essays * History
 | RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
**Latest Addition**
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code (Bart D. Ehrman) 6/13
The Bible and the Roots of Western Literature (Adam Potkay) - 12 Recorded Lectures 12/11
A History of God (Karen Armstrong)
In the Beginning (Karen Armstrong)
The Battle for God (Karen Armstrong)
The Heart of Christianity (Marcus Borg)
The Book of Job (G.K. Chesterton) 10/09
Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton)
Reaching Out without Dumbing Down (Marva Dawn)
The Catholic Imagination (Andrew M. Greeley) 1/10
Beyond Belief (Elaine Pagels)
Living with Hope (John Polkinghome)
Reviving Sacred Speech (Gail Ramshaw)
The Legend of Pope Joan (Peter Stanford) 3/14
Out of the Question....Into the Mystery (Leonard Sweet)
A Secular Age (Charles Taylor) 2/09
God Has a Dream (Desmond Tutu)
Messengers of God (Elie Wiesel) 3/10
Mudhouse Sabbath (Lauren F. Winner) 6/11
Simply Christian (N.T. Wright)
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| THEOLOGY |  |
**Latest addition**
He Came Down from Heaven (Charles Williams) 6/14
The Heart of Christianity (Marcus Borg)
God After Darwin (John F. Haught)
Honest to God (John A.T. Robinson)
Simply Christian (N.T. Wright)
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 | FICTION |
**Latest Additions**
Silas Marner (George Eliot) 8/14
Time's Arrow (Martin Amis) 7/14
Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) 5/14
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren) 4/14
The Gathering (Anne Enright) 3/14
Books That Have Made History: Books That Could Change Your Life (Rufus Fears) - 36 Recorded Lectures 2/12
A Death in the Family (James Agee) 9/13
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) 4/13
The Sea (John Banville)
Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
Regeneration 4/14
The Eye in the Door 5/14
The Ghost Road 5/14
Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie) 6/13
Henderson the Rain King (Saul Bellow)
Herzog (Saul Bellow)
The Diary of a Country Priest (Georges Bernanos) 7/09
Hotel Du Lac (Anita Brookner) 7/09
Latecomers (Anita Brookner) 12/09
Visitors (Anita Brookner) 7/09
March (Geraldine Brooks) 12/12
The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) 1/13
O Pioneers! (Willa Cather) 1/09
The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterton) 10/09
The Awakening (Kate Chopin) 2/11
The Life and Times of Michael K. (J.M. Coetzee) 12/13
Winter Journey (Isabel Colegate)
Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad) 2/13
The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy)
Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper
The Pioneers (James Fenimore Cooper) 4/10
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper) 3/09
The Hours (Michael Cunningham) 9/12
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickins)
The Prague Cemetery (Umberto Eco) 12/12
Offshore (Penelope Fitzgerald) 1/13
The Hamilton Case (Michelle de Kretser) 10/09
The Red Tent (Anita Diamant) 10/09
Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow) 2/09
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
Advise and Consent (Allen Drury) 6/09
Come Ninevah, Come Tyre (Allen Drury) 5/09
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas) 9/12
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) 3/09
The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)
The Reivers (William Faulkner) 7/13
This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 10/11- recorded book
World Without End (Ken Follett)
Independence Day (Richard Ford) 8/13
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Steven Galloway) 7/11
The Scandal of the Season (Sophie Gee) 8/10
The Inheritors (William Golding) 6/13
The Keepers of the House (Shirley Ann Grau) 3/14
England Made Me (Graham Greene) 6/10
The Quiet American (Graham Greene) 10/09
Forrest Gump (Winston Groom) 9/09
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hamid) 11/13
The Book of Ruth (Jane Hamilton) 3/12
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett) 7/09
The Thin Man (Dashell Hammett) 9/12
Chocolat (Joanne Harris) 5/11
One Day as a Tiger (Anne Haverty) 11/09
The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 3/09
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemmingway) 6/11
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) 10/13
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse) 4/12
The Fly on the Wall (Tony Hillerman) 6/10
Practical Magic (Alice Hoffman) 1/13
The Odyssey (Homer) 1/11
The Prisoner of Zenda (Anthony Hope) 10/13
Call in the Night (Susan Howatch) 6/10
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
The Cider House Rules (John Irving)
The Fourth Hand (John Irving)
The Water-Method Man (John Irving)12/09
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro) 4/09
Heat and Dust (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala) 10/13
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (James Weldon Johnson) 11/10
Dubliners (James Joyce) 3/14
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) 3/14
Andersonville (MacKinlay Kantor) 6/13
Zorba the Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis)
The Fratricides (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Ironweed (William Kennedy) 7/13
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
Dead Poets Society (N.H. Kleinbaum)
The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri) 10/12
Blue Shoe (Anne Lamott) 3/11
Arabian Nights Entertainment (Andrew Lang) 8/12
Call for the Dead (John LeCarré) 11/09
The Looking-Glass War (John LeCarré) 11/09
The Good Terrorist (Doris Lessing) 2/14
Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis) 9/09
Arrowsmith (Sinclair Lewis) 11/13
The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) 9/13
The Call of the Wild (Jack London) 3/12
The Sea Wolf (Jack London) 1/12
Rest and Be Thankful (Helen MacInnes) 1/12
A River Runs Through It (Norman Maclean)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (Peter Matthiessen) 4/09
Amsterdam (Ian McEwen)
Atonement (Ian McEwen) 9/09
Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry) 10/13
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Journey (James A. Michener) 4/13
Tales of the South Pacific (James A. Michener) 6/12
House Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday) 8/13
A Mercy (Toni Morrison) 1/12
The Assault (Harry Mulisch) 4/12
The Milagro Beanfield War (John Nichols)
The English Patient (Michael Ondaatie)
1984 (George Orwell) 12/11
Taft (Ann Patchett) 6/12
The Magician's Assistant (Ann Patchett) 6/12
Bel Canto (Ann Patchett) 6/12
State of Wonder (Ann Patchett) 6/12
The Patron Saint of Liars (Ann Patchett) 5/09
Ran (Ann Patchett) 7/12
The Dante Club (Matthew Pearl) 3/12
The French Mathematician (Tom Petsinis) 5/09
Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Picoult) 5/09
The Chosen (Chiam Potok)
Quartet in Autumn (Barbara Pym) 12/12
Julie and Romeo (Jeanne Ray) 7/12
The Good Priest's Son (Reynolds Price)
Cry to Heaven (Anne Rice) 6/10
The Feast of All Saints (Anne Rice) 11/09
Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice) 12/09
The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice) 1/10
The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice) 2/10
The Shipping News (Annie Proulx)
Black and Blue (Anna Quindlan)
American Pastoral (Philip Roth) 9/13
The Woodsman's Daughter (Gwyn Hyman Rubio)
Empire Falls (Richard Russo) 3/14
Heliopolis (James Scudamore) 9/11
The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara) 2/13
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows) 9/11
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare) 7/12
The Young Lions (Irwin Shaw)
Eden Close (Anita Shreve) 4/11
Strange Fits of Passion (Anita Shreve) 4/11
Where or When (Anita Shreve) 4/11
The Weight of Water (Anita Shreve) 5/10
The Pilot's Wife (Anita Shreve) 3/11
Fortune's Rocks (Anita Shreve) 4/11
The Last Time They Met (Anita Shreve) 4/11
Resistance (Anita Shreve) 5/11
Sea Glass (Anita Shreve) 3/11
All He Ever Wanted (Anita Shreve) 3/11
Light on Snow (Anita Shreve) 4/11
A Wedding in December (Anita Shreve) 11/09
Body Surfing (Anita Shreve) 4/11
Testimony (Anita Shreve) 3/11
A Change in Altitude (Anita Shreve) 4/11
Rescue (Anita Shreve) 4/11
Satan in Goray (Isaac Bashevis Singer) 3/11
Gorky Park (Martin Cruz Smith) 7/09
August 1914 (Alexander Solzhenttsyn)
Message in a Bottle (Nicholas Sparks) 8/09
Nights in Rodanthe (Nicholas Sparks) 9/09
Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner) 7/12
Cannery Row (John Steinbeck) 7/11
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) 2/13
Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout) 5/13
The Magnificent Ambersons (Booth Tarkington) 9/13
Alice Adams (Booth Tarkington) 9/13
The Hobbitt (J.R.R. Tolkien) 2/12
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; & The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien) 2/12
The Steps of the Sun (Joanna Trollope) 5/10
Mistaken Virtues (Joanna Trollope) 4/10
The Other Family (Joanna Trollope) 12/10
Arthurian Romances (Crétien de Troyes) 5/13
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain) 11/11
The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain) 10/11
Roughing It (Mark Twain) 1/12
Breathing Lessons (Anne Tyler)
Earthly Possessions (Anne Tyler) 9/10
A Slipping-Down Life (Anne Tyler) 11/09
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Anne Tyler) 6/09
Pascali's Island (Barry Unsworth) 2/14
Beck: A Book (John Updike) 6/11
The Centaur (John Updike) 8/09
Rabbit at Rest (John Updike) 6/12
Rabbit Is Rich (John Updike) 5/12
Rabbit Run (John Updike) 4/12
Rabbit Redux (John Updike) 4/12
The Angry Hills (Leon Uris) 7/11
The Old Man and Mr. Smith (Peter Ustinov) 4/09
Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) 8/11
Galapagos (Kurt Vonnegut) 8/11
Slaughter. House Five (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) 2/11
The Color Purple (Alice Walker) 8/13
The Fan Club (Irving Wallace) 8/13
The Seven Minutes (Irving Wallace) 6/12
The Seventh Secret (Irving Wallace) 8/12
The Second Lady (Irving Wallace) 9/12
The Miracle (Irving Wallace) 10/12
The Golden Room (Irving Wallace) 1/13
Border Music (Peter James Waller) 4/09
The Bridges of Madison County (Peter James Waller) 4/09
The Long Night of Winchell Dear (Robert James Waller) 5/11
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (Peter James Waller) 4/09
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) 6/13
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) 4/12
The Forgotten (Elie Wiesel)
The Fifth Son (Elie Wiesel)
A Man in Full (Tom Wolff)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) 9/12
The Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk) 1/13
Z (Vassilis Vassilikos)
Classic Westerns
Destry Rides Again (Max Brand) 4/13
Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey) 2/13
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (Bret Harte) 2/13
The Idyl of Red Gulch (Bret Harte) 2/13
The Luck of Roaring Camp (Bret Harte) 2/13
Tennessee's Partner (Bret Harte) 2/13
A Protégée of Jack Hamlin's (Bret Harte) 2/13
Brown of Calaveras (Bret Harte) 3/13
Miggles (Bret Harte) 3/13
How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar (Bret Harte) 3/13
Wan Lee, the Pagan (Bret Harte) 3/13
A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst (Bret Harte) 3/13
An Ingénue of the Sierras (Bret Harte) 3/13
The Riders of the High Rock (Louis L'Amour's Hopalong Cassidy) 3/13
The Rustlers of West Fork (Louis L'Amour's Hopaloong Cassidy) 3/13
Classic Mysteries
A Pocket Full of Rye (Agatha Christie's Miss Marple) 3/13
4:50 From Paddington (Agatha Christie's Miss Marple) 2/13
Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot) 1/13
Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot) 1/13
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle) 2/13
Overture to Death (Ngaio Marsh) 4/13
Classic Espionage
The Spy (James Fenimore Cooper) 7/10
The 39 Steps (John Buchan) 3/13
On His Majesty's Secret Service (Ian Fleming's James Bond) 11/12
Diamonds Are Forever (Ian Fleming's James Bond) 3/13
The Man with the Golden Gun (Ian Fleming's James Bond) 3/13
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (John LeCarr#&233) 8/09
Classic Science Fiction
The Island of Dr. Moreau (H.G. Wells) 3/13
The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells) 3/13
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| THEOLOGICAL FICTION |  |
Fiction in which theology or the traditions of religious communities form a significant part of the setting or plot -- Christian unless noted otherwise.
**Latest additions**
Absolution by Murder (Peter Tremayne) 8/14
The Third Revelation (Ralph McInerny) 8/14
War in Heaven (Charles Williams) 7/14
The Second Deadly Sin (Lawrence Sanders) 6/14
The Eighth Commandment (Lawrence Sanders) 6/14
The Last Templar (Michael Jecks) 4/14
Godrick (Nelson Buechner) 12/13
Death in April (Andrew M. Greeley) 12/13
Barabbas (Pär Lagerkvist) 5/13
Father Koesler Mysteries by William X. Kienzle
The Man Who Loved God 3/14
The Rosary Murders 1/14
Deathbed 12/13
Assault with Intent 12/13
Death Wears a Red Hat 12/13
Kill and Tell 12/13
Call No Man Father 12/13
Bishop as Pawn 12/13
The Greatest Evil 12/13
Father Dowling Mysteries by Ralph McInerny
Last Things 7/14
Judas Priest 6/14
Desert Sinner 6/14
Blood Ties 1/14
Stained Glass 12/13
Knight Brothers Mysteries set at University of Notre Dame by Ralph McInerny
Emerald Aisle 2/14
The Book of Kills 2/14
On This Rockne 1/14
Irish Tenure 1/14
Lack of the Irish 12/13
Andrew Broom Mysteries by Ralph McInerny
Heirs and Parents 12/13
Mom & Dead 1/14
The Mitford Years by Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford 10/10
A Light in the Window 12/10
The High, Green Hills 12/10
Out to Canaan 12/10
A New Song 12/10
A Common Life 1/11
In This Mountain 1/11
Shepherds Abiding 6/11
Light from Heaven 6/11
Home to Holly Springs 3/12
Rabbi David Small Mysteries by Harry Kemelman (Jewish)
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late 4/10
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry 4/10
Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home 4/10
Monday the Rabbi Took Off 4/10
Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red 4/10
Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet 5/10
Thursday the Rabbi Walked Out 7/10
Conversations with Rabbi Small 9/10
Someday the Rabbi Will Leave 7/11
Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers
Whose Body? 3/10
Clouds of Witnesses 3/10
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club 3/10
Strong Poison 3/10
Lord Peter Views the Body (Short Stories) 4/10
Five Red Herrings 8/10
The Nine Taylors 3/10
The Jim Chee Mysteries by Tony Hillerman (Navaho)
People of Darkness 2/10
The Dark Wind 2/10
The Ghostway 2/10
The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries by Tony Hilleramn (Navaho)
The Blessing Way 5/10
Dance Hall of the Dead 6/10
Listening Woman 6/10
The Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee Mysteries by Tony Hillerman (Navaho)
Skinwalkers 9/10
The Thief of Time 9/10
Science Fiction by C.S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet
The Dark Tower
Perelandra
The World of Maggie Ward by Andrew M. Greeley
Cardinal Virtues 8/10
The Search for Maggie Ward 11/10
Passover Trilogy by Andrew M. Greeley
Thy Brother's Wife 1/10
Ascent into Hell 1/10
The Lord of the Dance 12/09
Blackie Ryan Mysteries by Andrew M. Greeley
Happy Are the Meek 1/14
Happy Are the Clean of Heart 4/10
Happy Are the Merciful 2/10
Happy Are the Peacemakers 2/10
Happy Are Those Who Thirst for Justice 1/10
Happy Are the Poor in Spirit 1/10
Happy Are the Oppressed 3/10
Happy Are Those Who Mourn 2/10
The Bishop at Sea 10/09
The Bishop and the Three Kings 1/10
The Bishop and the Missing L Train 6/10
The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain 8/14
The O'Malley Chronicles by Andrew M. Greeley
A Midwinter's Tale 1/10
Younger than Springtime 1/10
A Christmas Wedding 1/10
September Song 2/10
Second Spring 2/10
Golden Years 2/10
Time Between the Stars by Andrew M. Greeley
Virgin and Martyr 1/10
Nuala Anne McGrail Novels by Andrew M. Greeley
Irish Crystal 5/11
Irish Creme 5/11
Irish Lace 3/10
Irish Whiskey 3/10
Irish Mist 5/10
Irish Eyes 5/10
Irish Love 6/10
Irish Stew 11/10
Irish Linen 6/11
Irish Tiger 6/11
Irish Tweed 11/09
The Starbridge Series by Susan Howatch
Glittering Images 10/09
Glamorous Powers 2/10
Ultimate Prizes 2/10
Scandalous Risks 4/10
Mystical Paths 4/10
Absolute Truths 4/10
The St. Benet Series (by Susan Howatch)
The Wonder Worker 6/10
The High Flyer 6/10
The Heart Breaker 7/10
Father Brown Mysteries (short stories by G.K. Chesterton)
The Innocence of Father Brown - collection 7/10
Putting Away Childish Things (Marcus J. Borg) 8/11
Brendan (Frederick Buechner)
The Son of Laughter (Frederick Buechner)
The Storm (Frederick Buechner)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather) 8/12
Birth of Venus (Sarah Dunant) 9/10
Eve: A Novel of the First Woman (Elissa Elliott) 5/10
The Vicar of Wakefield (Oliver Goldsmith) 7/10
Star Bright (Andrew M. Greeley) 1/10
Contract with an Angel (Andrew M. Greeley) 12/09
The Priestly Sins (Andrew M. Greeley) 6/11
The Cardinal Sins (Andrew M. Greeley) 6/11
The Human Factor (Graham Greene) 11/10
The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene) 4/10
Sarah: a Novel (Marek Halter) 9/10
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 9/10
The Dark Shore (Susan Howatch) 3/10
The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
Certain Women (Madeleine L'Engle)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor) Short stories 12/10
The Thanatos Syndrome (Walker Percy) 1/12
The Beloved Invader (Eugenia Price)
New Moon Rising (Eugenia Price) 9/10
The Promise of Rest (Reynolds Price) 2/11
Of Love and Evil (Anne Rice) 12/10
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson) 10/10
Home (Marilynne Robinson) 10/10
Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson) 10/10
The Documents of the Case (Dorothy L. Sayers) 5/10
The Wholeness of a Broken Heart (Katie Singer) 6/10 (Jewish)
The Choir (Joanna Trollope) 8/09
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lew Wallace) 4/13
Riders in the Chariot (Patrick White)
RECORDED LITERARY CRITICISM
Monsters, Gods, and Heros: Approaching the Epic in Literature (Timothy Shutt) 5/11
The Bible and the Roots of Western Literature (Adam Potkay) 12/11
The Life and Work of Mark Twain (Stephen Railton) 12/11
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 | BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP |
**Latest Addition**
Creation in the Old Testament (ed. Bernhard W. Anderson) 10/13
After We Believe: Why Christian Character Matters (N.T. Wright) 4/12
Torah (Genesis) 11/11 (Exodus-Deuternomoy) 12/11
Deuteronomic History (Joshua-2 Kings) 12/11 to 1/12
Christian Beginnings (ed. Richard Horsley)
Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary (Marcus Borg) 1/12
The First Paul (Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan) 8/11
The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (Marcus Borg & N.T. Wright)
The Last Week (Marcus Borg & John Dominic Crossan)
Spirituality of the Psalms (Walter Brueggemann)
The Greatest Prayer (John Dominic Crossan) 9/11
The Birth of Christianity (John Dominic Crossan)
Who Killed Jesus? (John Dominic Crossan)
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (John Dominic Crossan)
Excavating Jesus (John Dominic Crossan & Jonathan L. Reed)
Misquoting Jesus (Bart Ehrman)
Jesus: A Reflection on His Stories and His Relationships with Women (Andrew Greeley) 12/09
The Gospel according to Paul (Robin Griffith-Jones)
Revelation of the Magi (Brent Landau) 11/11
The Rapture Exposed (Barbara Rossing)
Born of a Woman (John S. Spong) 4/09
For All the Saints (N.T. Wright)
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| SOCIAL COMMENTARY |  |
**Latest addition**
Absence of Mind (Marilynne Robinson) 10/10
The Death of Adam (Marilynne Robinson) 11/10
Blessed Are the Cynical (Mark Ellingsen) 9/09
The Crisis of Islam (Bernard Lewis) 6/09
The Closing of the American Mind (Harold Bloom)
Revolution and Renewal (Tony Campolo)
Collapse (Jared Diamond)
Hot, Flat, and Crowded (Thomas Friedman) 11/08
The World Is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
Five Minds for the Future (Howard Gardner)
We Changed the World (Vincent Harding, et. al.)
American Fascists (Chris Hedges)
American Gospel (Jon Meacham)
Secrecy: The American Experiment (Daniel Patrick Moynahan)
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 | CULTURAL HISTORY |
**Latest addition**
Christmas: Festival of Incarnation (Donald Heinz) 1/11
Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
The Little Book of Dalí (Alyse Gaultier) 6/10
A Little History of the World (E.H. Gombrich)
A History of the Islamic World (Fred James Hill & Nicholas Awde)
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| EMERGENT CHURCH |  |
**Latest Addition**
A New Kind of Christian (Brian McLaren) 11/11
A People's History of Christianity (Diana Butler Bass) 10/09
Christianity for the Rest of Us (Diana Butler Bass)
Emerging Worship (Dan Kimball)
Embracing Grace (Scot McKnight) 6/09
The Jesus Creed (Scot McKnight) 7/09
A Generous Orthodoxy (Brian McLaren)
The Secret Message of Jesus (Brian McLaren)
Adventures in Missing the Point (Brian McLaren & Tony Campolo)
Post-Modern Pilgrims (Leonard Sweet)
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 | (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS |
**Latest Addition**
Interrupted Lives (ed. Andrew Motion) 10/13
What Next? (Ann Patchett) 7/12
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Carlo Levi) 5/12
The Spiral Staircase (Karen Armstrong)
Crossing to Avalon (Jean Shinoda Bolen)
The Diabolist (G.K. Chesterton) 10/09
The King and I (Herbert Breslin & Anne Midgette) 9/11
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (John Cornwell) 9/09
A Long Way from Tipperary (John Dominic Crossan)
Autobiography (Benjamin Franklin) 7/10
Reading Jesus (Mary Gordon) 12/10
Confessions of a Parish Priest (Andrew M. Greeley) 11/10
Furthermore: Memories of a Parish Priest (Andrew M. Greeley) 1/10
The Lawless Roads (Graham Greene) 4/10
The Custom House (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 9/10
A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway) 11/11
All Things Bright and Beautiful (James Herriot) 10/11
All Creatures Great and Small (James Herriot) 10/11
All Things Wise and Wonderful (James Herriot) 10/11
The Lord God Made Them All (James Herriot) 10/11
Every Living Thing (James Herriot) 11/11
True Compass (Edward M. Kennedy) 3/10
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith (Anne Lamott) 1/09
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith (Anne Lamott)
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Madeleine L'Engle)
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith & Art (Madeleine L'Engle)
The Falcon & the Snowman (Robert Lindsey) 7/11
Isabel the Queen (Peggy K. Liss) 10/09
Acedia and Me (Kathleen Norris)
The Virgin of Bennington (Kathleen Norris)
Dakota (Kathleen Norris)
The Cloister Walk (Kathleen Norris)
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship (Ann Patchett) 12/09
Called Out of Darkness (Anne Rice) 12/09
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens & Hitler's Olympics (Jeremy Schaap)
Hamlet's Dresser (Bob Smith) 9/09
Travels with Charley (John Steinbeck)
Highest Duty (Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger) 11/09
The Desert Pilgrim (Mary Swander)
Come Be My Light (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
Walden (Henry David Thoreau) 8/10
Speaking of Faith (Krista Tippett)
Girl Meets God (Lauren F. Winner) 7/11
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| DEVOTIONAL BOOKS |  |
I Will Sing Forever (David Haas) 2/14
Prayer for Each Day (Br. Roger of Taize) 7/13
Earth and All Stars (Herbert Brokering)
Armed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth (Walter Brueggemann)
Through the Ceaseless Web (John Core)
Doing What You Can (Peter J. Gomes)
Epiphanies (Eugene Peterson & Emilie Griffith, eds.)
Glimpses of Grace (Madeline L'Engle)
Kneeling in Bethlehem (Ann Weems)
Kneeling in Jerusalem (Ann Weems)
Luke for Everyone (Tom Wright)
Paul for Everyone - Galatians, Ephesians, 1 & 2 Corinthians (Tom Wright)
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 | LITURGICAL THEOLOGY |
***Latest Addition***
Flowing Water: Uncommon Birth (Samuel Torvend) 8/11
A Watered Garden: Christian Worship and Earth's Ecology (Benjamin M. Stewart) 8/11
Better Get It In Your Soul: What Liturgists Can Learn from Jazz (Reid Hamilton & Stephen Rush) 3/09
Welcoming the Stranger: A Public Theology of Worship and Evangelism
(Patrick R. Keifert)
Unsearchable Riches: The Symbolic Nature of Liturgy (David N. Power)
Worship Comes to Its Senses (Don E. Saliers)
Doxology: A Systematic Theology (Geoffrey Wainwright)
Blended Worship (Robert E. Webber)
Introduction to Christian Worship (James F. White)
Sacraments As God's Self-Giving (James F. White)
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| CHURCH MUSIC |  |
From Memory to Imagination: Reforming the Church's Music (C. Randall Bradley) 2/14
I Will Sing Forever (David Haas) 1/14
Jubilate II (Don Hustad)
Twentieth-Century Church Music (Erik Routley)
Church Music and the Christian Faith (Erik Routley)
Music and Theology (Don Saliers)
Sing a New Song (Jon Michael Spencer)
Music as Prayer (Thomas H. Troeger) 1/14
The Church Musician (Paul Westermeyer)
Let Justice Sing (Paul Westermeyer)
The Story of Christian Music (Andrew Wilson-Dickson)
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 | PRACTICAL THEOLOGY |
***Latest Addition***
The Care of the Earth (Joseph Sittler) 7/13
The Contemplative Pastor (Eugene Peterson)
Preaching (Fred Craddock)
The Making of the Pope 2005 (Andrew M. Greeley) 5/09
The Witness of Preaching (Thomas Long)
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction (Eugene Peterson) 4/09
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| SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS |
**Latest addition**
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| POETRY AND ESSAYS | |
**Latest addition**
Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (ed. C. Day Lewis) 11/13
Lysistrata (Aristophanes) 10/11
The Clouds (Aristophanes) 10/11
The Acharnians (Aristophanes) 9/11
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno & Phaedo (Plato) 8/11
The Epic of Gilgamish (Anonymous) 6/11
The Divine Comedy: The Purgatorio (Dante Aligheri) 5/11
The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Dante Aligheri) 5/11
Beowulf 5/11
The Complete Poetry of John Milton, including Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, & Samson Agonistes (John Milton) 2/11
Selected Poetry by Edgar Allen Poe
*The Bells; *The Raven; *Eldorado; *Annabel Lee; Tamerlane; Evening Star; *The Haunted Palace & To Helen 9/10
Also read (11/10): “Lenore”; “Hymn”; “A Valentine”; *“The Coliseum”; “To -- --”; *“Ulalume”; *“An Enigma”; “To My Mother”
“The Conqueror Worm”; *“To F—s S. O—D”; *“To One in Paradise”; “The Valley of Unrest”; “The City in the Sea”
“The Sleeper”; “Silence”; “A Dream Within a Dream”; “Dream-Land”; “To Zante”; “Eulalie”
“Israfel”; “For Annie”; “To --”; “Bridal Ballad” & “To F--”
Literary Criticism Essays by Edgar Allen Poe
The Philosophy of Criticism & Twice Told Tales: Nathaniel Hawthorne 9/10
Also read: “Preface to the Poems”; “The Poetic Principle”; “Review of Stephens’ ‘Arabia Petraea’”; “The Quacks of Helicon – A Satire”; “Astoria”
“Magazine-Writing – Peter Snook” & “The Rationale of Verse” 11/10
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature; The American Scholar; The Poet; History; Self-Reliance; Circles; & Experience 8/10
Essays by Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience; and Slavery in Massachusetts 9/10
Essays by Marilyn Robinson
Freedom of Thought; Imagination and Community; Austerity as Ideology; Open Thy Hand Wide: Moses and the Origins of American Liberalism; When I Was a Child; The Fate of Ideas: Moses; Wondrous Love; The Human Spirit and the Good Society; Who Was Oberlin?, & Cosmology 11/12
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| HISTORY | |
**Latest addition**
The Plots Against the President (Sally Denton) 3/12
How the Irish Saved Civilization (Thomas Cahill) Hinges of History, vol. 1
Desire of the Everlasting Hills (Thomas Cahill) Hinges of History, vol. 3
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea (Thomas Cahill) Hinges of History, vol. 4
Chaos (James Gleick)
Hiroshima (John Hersey) 7/09
The Return of History and the End of Dreams (Robert Kagan) 6/11
Warriors of God (James Reston, Jr.) 6/09
Resolute (Martin W. Sandler)
Marie and Mary (Nigel Tanter) 6/10