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Spirituality and Religion September 2026 |
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| Of Mud and Lotuses: Dreaming the Lives of Buddhist Women by Paula Arai, PhDWhat can we learn from the Buddhist women whose stories were never recorded? Paula Arai offers both a mystical and grounded approach to this question, combining richly imagined portraits of Buddhist women from history (some real figures, some representative of a concept) with contemporary interviews of Buddhist female practitioners. Together, these voices offer fresh perspectives on the roles of women across centuries of Buddhist practice. |
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| Scavenging Beauty: A Memoir in Walks by Angelica GlassWhen a project to walk every street in Santa Cruz, California turns into something much larger, social worker Angelica Glass finds herself revisiting a difficult childhood and reckoning with its lasting impact. Blending nature writing, memoir, and quiet reflection, she explores how movement, curiosity, and attention can open unexpected paths toward healing things you might not have fully realized were broken. |
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| All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir by Emilee HackneyAfter a devastating betrayal that called her Pentecostal faith into question, debut memoirist Emilee Hackney left her small Appalachian town in Virginia for Harvard. Amidst the culture shock, Hackney realized that leaving home was the right move for her. But it also made her see that home in a new light, and she found herself defending the land of her birth against those quick to dismiss and stereotype the South and its people. |
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Instructions for the End of the World: Homilies of Comfort and Resistance
by Maggie Helwig
An activist priest's sermons remind us that one of the first social justice frameworks was the Bible. When celebrated author Maggie Helwig became an Anglican priest, she brought both her hard-earned social justice wisdom and her incomparable literary prowess to the role. Where the homily - the weekly act of taking biblical texts and making them speak to one's time, place, and community - can easily become a rote exercise, the homilies in this book talk about the Bible, and by extension, the world, through both an activist and a literary lens.
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| The Cure at Walden Pond: A Guide to Recovering Our Humanity by Thomas MooreWhat might Thoreau have to teach us about living well today? Drawing on Walden and his own experiences as a psychotherapist and spiritual guide, Thomas Moore reflects on how slowing down, paying attention, and spending time in nature can help restore a sense of meaning in a distracted world. His observations are both familiar and uniquely tuned to the contemporary world we are all navigating. |
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| The Others: UFOs, AI, and the Secret Forces Guiding Human Destiny by D. W. PasulkaReligious scholar D. W. Pasulka gathers an unlikely cast of characters -- from UFO experiencers and Catholic mystics to science fiction writers and artificial intelligence -- to explore how humans grapple with forms of intelligence that seem to exceed our own. The result is a wide-ranging meditation on reality, consciousness, and belief. |
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| This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have by Joshua Luke SmithPoet Joshua Luke Smith writes about learning to stop chasing a different life and begin paying attention to the one already in front of him. Using three spiritual practices which he names as Lamentation, Consecration, and Adoration, he weaves together reflections on loss, addiction, faith, and family, exploring how sorrow and joy can deepen our experience of the sacred.
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| The Green Soul: Returning to Our Sacred Belonging in Nature by Lucinda M. VardeyWritten over two decades, this reflective work grew out of a period of illness that led the author to rediscover the natural world in a new way. Blending Christian spirituality, personal experience, and insights from mystics and saints, she invites readers into a deeper relationship with creation and the sacred rhythms of life, connecting with God in the here and now.
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