Results for Books
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A Pair of Recommended Reads from Flobots' Jonny 5
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog -
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1887208046?ie=UTF8&tag=sojourners-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=1887208046">When Corporations Rule the World</a>, by David Korten. In 1999, I participated in protests that shut down the WTO meeting in Seattle. In 2008, I read this book and finally understood why!</p> ...
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A Year of Reading
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog -
Although I didn't read as much or as widely as I would have liked this past year (having a baby and moving cross-country had something to do with that), I did encounter quite a few good books. ...
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New Year's Hope from Love All The People and The Last Lecture
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog -
As 2008 came to a close, I found myself mourning the unexpected loss of several people I thought were friends. Simply put, they chose to do venture down some very self-destructive paths. ...
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Books for Reflection
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog -
My favorites from a year of reading:</p> My favorites from a year of reading: Yellow Leaves: A Miscellany , by Frederick Buechner When You Are Engulfed ...
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Life-Shaping Books for Kids
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:52am | Type: Blog -
Children's literature provides one of the most uplifting, energizing, and soul-freeing pursuits for any child-or any adult who cares about children. Children's literatur ...
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Favorite Books and Movies of 2008
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:52am | Type: Blog -
into the 20th century's most famous monk. The Words of Jesus: A Gospel of the Sayings of Our Lord ...
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The Green Bible
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog -
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061627992?ie=UTF8&tag=sojo_blog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0061627992"></a>When the editors of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061627992?ie=UTF8&tag=sojo_blog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0061627992">The Green Bible</a> asked to include an essay of When ...
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Why Does God Need a Starship?
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:51am | Type: Blog -
[Editor's Note: In <em>Sojourners</em>' newest issue there's an <a title="http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0811&article=a-hardhe ...
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Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television (Part 2)
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog -
<p>[<a href="http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=2608">Continued from part 1</a>] I began to wonder what the TBN folks would think of me, a heavily tattooed Christian progressi ...
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Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television (Part 1)
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog -
have the scripture on my wedding ring . 20 years of marriage next week and will be in Maui suffering ...
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Tina Beattie on The New Atheists (interview by Becky Garrison)
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog -
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNew-Atheists-Twilight-Reason-Religion%2Fdp%2F1570757828%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1216393210%26sr%3D8-1&tag=wwwbeckygarri-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">The New Atheists: The Twilight of Reason ... but it also arises out of the trauma of the 20th century and the Holocaust. I think it's fair to say ... enough the challenge posed by the genocides of the 20th century to their own position, with its faith ...
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The View from 1908
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog -
<p>This summer, two friends and I are doing something that seems a bit outlandish (especially for 40-year-old guys). We've borrowed a friend's RV, and we're touring the country to talk abo ...
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What Would Ned Flanders Do?
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog -
<p>Some fun for your Friday: Mark Pinsky, author of <a title="http://www.powells.com/partner/29218/biblio/0664224199" href="http://www.powells.com/partner/29218/biblio/0664224199"& ...
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The Year of Living Biblically: Interview with Author A.J. Jacobs
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog -
<p><P>In church one day, my pastor asked us to raise our hands if we believed in what the Bible said. The right answer seemed pretty obvious, and the whole congregation and I raised our hands. Then ...
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Edwidge Danticat Describes a 'Death by Asylum'
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog -
<p><P>A few of us around Sojourners have been reading award-winning Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat since she published her first novel Breath, Eyes, Memory in 1994. ...
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A Giant Religious Rummage Sale
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog -
<p><P><a href="http://www.powells.com/partner/29218/biblio/0787987425"></a>When I interviewed <A href="http://www.phyllistickle.com">Phyllis Tickle</A> f ...
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My Thoughts on "Souled Out"
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog -
February 20, 2008 3:38 PM Apparently you've read it since you state that it "says the same ... in the lowest 20 % of the income scale. Those children who managed to go to college had a very high probability ...
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A Cure for Burnouts
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog -
<P>Far too often, activists do little to nurture their souls. Far too often, activists do little to nurture their souls. Consequently, they "burn out." Ignorin ...
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The Next Chapter
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog -
have screwed things up. I see those "setbacks" as nothing more than speed bumps. In 15-20 ...
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Enduring Works of Beauty
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog -
<p> <P>I would love to live as a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.</P> <P>The Irish writer, priest, and environmental activist, and my beloved friend - John O ...
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Expectations May Exceed Ex-Athiest's Explanations
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:28pm | Type: Blog -
<P>Back in 2004, Anthony Flew, the world's most prominent atheist, stated he believed in God. Back in 2004, Anthony Flew, the world's most prominent atheist, s ...
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Ryan Rodrick Beiler: Kurt Vonnegut, 'Christ-Worshipping Agnostic'
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog -
<p><a href="http://www.wdog.com/rider/writings/KVJ_soitgoes.htm"></a>I'm not an evangelical who reads only what affirms my theology, or failing that, tries to pretend that the ...
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Ryan Rodrick Beiler: Kurt Vonnegut, 'Christ-Worshipping Agnostic'
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog -
<p><a href="http://www.wdog.com/rider/writings/KVJ_soitgoes.htm"></a>I'm not an evangelical who reads only what affirms my theology, or failing that, tries to pretend that the ...
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Ryan Rodrick Beiler: Kurt Vonnegut, 'Christ-Worshipping Agnostic'
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog -
<p><a href="http://www.wdog.com/rider/writings/KVJ_soitgoes.htm"></a>I'm not an evangelical who reads only what affirms my theology, or failing that, tries to pretend that the ...
