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Spirituality and Religion January 2026 |
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| Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging by Angela BuchdahlBorn to a Korean Buddhist mother and Jewish father, Angela Buchdahl shares her remarkable journey from outsider to one of America’s most influential rabbis. Both memoir and spiritual guide, this inspiring account explores identity, resilience, and the power of faith to create belonging in a fractured world.
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| Guided: The Secret Path to an Illuminated Life by Laura Lynne JacksonA celebrated psychic medium shares stories of connection and intuition, offering practical tools for tuning in to life’s unseen currents. Warm and reassuring, this account blends personal experience with spiritual insight, making it perfect for readers curious about signs, synchronicity, and the possibility of guidance beyond the physical world. |
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As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story From Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us
by Sarah Hurwitz
Part memoir and part manifesto, this urgent book confronts centuries of antisemitism and its impact on Jewish identity. With clarity and conviction, Hurwitz reclaims the beauty of Jewish tradition and invites readers to live unapologetically. It is timely, impassioned, and deeply personal.
Available on Libby
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| Surviving an Unwanted Divorce: A Biblical, Practical Guide to Letting Go While Holding... by Lysa TerKeurst, Dr. Joel Muddadelle, and Jim CressWritten by the hosts of the Therapy & Theology podcast, this compassionate resource offers biblical insight and practical strategies for navigating the heartbreak of divorce. Addressing tough questions about anger, loneliness, and moving forward, it provides hope and guidance for those facing the pain of an unexpected ending to a relationship. |
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The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World
by Jennifer Higgie
The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by the author of The Mirror and the Palette. It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men--including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee--without repercussion. The fact that so many radical female artists of their generation--and earlier--also drank deeply from the same spiritual well has been sorely neglected for too long. In The Other Side, we explore the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women, from the twelfth-century mystic, composer, and artist Hildegard of Bingen to the nineteenth-century English spiritualist Georgiana Houghton, whose paintings swirl like a cosmic Jackson Pollock; the early twentieth-century Swedish artist, Hilma af Klint, who painted with the help of her spirit guides and whose recent exhibition at New York's Guggenheim broke all attendance records to the 'Desert Transcendentalist', Agnes Pelton, who painted her visions beneath the vast skies of California. We also learn about the Swiss healer, Emma Kunz, who used geometric drawings to treat her patients and the British surrealist and occultist, Ithell Colquhoun, whose estate of more than 5,000 works recently entered the Tate gallery collection. While the individual work of these artists is unique, the women loosely shared the same goal: to communicate with, and learn from, other dimensions. Weaving in and out of these myriad lives while sharing her own memories of otherworldly experiences, Jennifer Higgie discusses the solace of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the contemporary relevance of myth, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art. A radical reappraisal of a marginalized group of artists, The Other Side is an intoxicating blend of memoir, biography, and art history.
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Aflame: Learning from Silence
by Pico Iyer
Extolling the virtues of silence and meditation, author and traveler Pico Iyer shares insights from his regular visits -- spanning three decades -- to a Benedictine monastery in California. Part personal reflection, part philosophical musing, his observations reveal how a contemplative life can better equip us to deal with the modern age.
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