Book Choices


 

Book Choices

Selected books are beautiful gifts that shaped my Facebook posts on God and nature.

 Jack Miles, The Norton Anthology of World Religions Volume 1.

Donald A Crosby, The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism.

Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.

Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy.

John O’ Donohue, A Book of Celtic Wisdom.

Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom.

Gail Sheehy, New Passages.

Booker T Washington, Up from Slavery.

Karen Armstrong, A History of God.

Jack Miles, God: A Biography.

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste.

David McCullough, The Wright Brothers.

Karen Armstrong, The Lost Art of Scripture.

Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind.

Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution.

Marie De Hennezel, The Art of Growing Old.

Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ.

Ptolemy Tompkins, The Divine Life of Animals.

Jon Meacham, The Soul of America.

Elisabeth Sifton, The Serenity Prayer.

Stephen Hawkins, Brief Answers to Big Questions.

Ursula Goodenough, The Sacred Depths of Nature.

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.

Gretel Ehrlich, John Muir: Nature’s Visionary.


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