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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAn End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
Pankaj Mishra
Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life
Karen Maezen Miller · 180 pages
Miller uses daily household chores, laundry, kitchen, yard, to demonstrate timeless Buddhist principles. The skillful weaving of personal anecdotes, a few Zen terms, and acute insights sometimes addressing the reader directly, distinguish this book from others in the genre. Miller, a Zen priest and student of the late Maezumi Roshi, argues for the faultless wisdom of following instructions when go
On Living
Kerry Egan · 208 pages
"A hospice chaplain shares the meaning the dying make of their lives, to help us understand what is ultimately important and to make the most of our own still-being-lived lives"--
Learning to Walk in the Dark
Barbara Brown Taylor · 208 pages
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Kathleen Norris · 343 pages
Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers
Lillian Daniel, Martin B. Copenhaver · 235 pages
This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from most books available on ministry. Two people still pastoring reflect honestly here on both the joys and the challenges of their vocation. Anecdotal and extremely readable, the book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible variety of a pastor's day. The chapters move from comedy to pathos, story to theology, Scripture to c
Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It
Krista Tippett · 256 pages
An intimate, thought-provoking, and original appraisal of the meaning of religion in our time—from the creator and host of public radio's Speaking of FaithKrista Tippett, widely becoming known as the Bill Moyers of radio, is one of the country's mostintelligent and insightful commentators on religion, ethics, and the human spirit. With this book,she draws on her own life story and her intimate con
A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit
Mike Huckabee · 208 pages
The former presidential candidate and current talk-show host shares twelve true and heartwarming stories from his past that help recall the real meaning of Christmas.
Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
Lauren F. Winner · 272 pages
My Story as told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
David James Duncan · 304 pages
"In his own words, David James Duncan was "struck by a boyhood suspicion that rivers and mountains are myself turned inside out. I'd heard at church that the kingdom of heaven is within us and thought, Yeah, sure. But the first time I walked up a trout stream, fly rod in hand, I didn't feel I was 'outside' at all: I was traveling further and further in." An estimated three thousand river walks la
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
Penn Jillette · 231 pages
The outspoken half of magic duo Penn & Teller presents an atheist reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments, discussing why doubt, skepticism, and wonder should be celebrated and offering humorous stories from his own experiences.
For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
Jen Hatmaker · 224 pages
The popular writer, blogger, and television personality reveals with humor and style how Jesus' extravagant grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don't like, don't und
Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead
Sara Miles · 171 pages
"I came late to Christianity," writes Sara Miles, "knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world." In this new book, Sara Miles tells what happened when she decided to follow the flesh and blood Jesus by doing something real. For ever
Legends of Our Time
Elie Wiesel · 197 pages
This is a very personal account from an Auschwitz survivor. It is profound in it's view about the Holocaust as well as Judaism. If this was the only book available about the 6 million innocents murdered during the 2nd World War it would be enough. No other book would be necessary. Of all the books I have read on this subject, this one makes me want to let the issue go, as I now understand more tha
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott · 281 pages
"Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith. In a narrative spiced with stories and scripture, with diatribes, laughter, and tears, Lamott tells how, against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. She shows us the myriad ways in which this sustains and guides her, shining the light
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Donald Miller · 256 pages
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Nadia Bolz-Weber
What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace today? And what if that's the point? In Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising encounter with what she calls “a religious but not-so-spiritual life.” Tattooed, angry and profane, this former standup comic turned pastor stubbornly, sometimes hilariously
A Circle of Quiet
Madeleine L'Engle · 245 pages
Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
Shauna Niequist · 256 pages
Reflections of a Scientist
Henry Eyring · 103 pages
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
A.J. Jacobs · 492 pages
Raised in a secular family but interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to stone adulterers. The
Letters to an American Lady
C.S. Lewis · 121 pages
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
Rachel Naomi Remen · 368 pages
"Everybody is a story," writes Dr. Remen in her introduction. "When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering. Despite the awesome powers of technology many of