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Spirituality and Religion May 2024
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| Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine ColdstreamIn this candid and thought-provoking memoir, former nun Catherine Colstream reflects on her time as a Carmelite at Akenside Priory in northern England, the circumstances that motivated her to join the order, and the internal conflicts that eventually led to her departure. |
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
by Sarah McCammon
NPR correspondent Sarah McCammon examines the recent, relatively sharp decline in membership in evangelical churches, drawing interviews with others who left their churches and on her own experience being raised in a strict religious environment. Don't miss: the exploration of how responding to large cultural shifts has shaped evangelical churches since the 1970s.
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Thunder song : essays
by Sasha taqwéseblu LaPointe
The author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint presents essays that segue from the miraculous to the mundane, from the spiritual to the physical, examining the role of art and community to help a new generation of Indigenous people claim their heritage while defining their own path in the contemporary world.
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Devout : a memoir of doubt
by Anna Gazmarian
A woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder shares how she learned to reconcile the stigma that her devout Christian fundamentalist community attached to her diagnosis and how she was able to overcome it to find the help she needed.
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All things are too small : essays in praise of excess
by Becca Rothfeld
A cultural critic advocates for embracing imbalance, obsession and gluttony across all aspects of life, contending that our contemporary culture's misguided pursuit of equality in love and art, coupled with economic disparities, has left us spiritually impoverished. Illustrations.
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The unclaimed : abandonment and hope in the City of Angels
by Pamela Prickett
In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, two sociologists investigate the rising number of unclaimed dead in America today, following four individuals in Los Angeles at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.
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| God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible by Candida MossEngaging and richly detailed, God's Ghostwriters looks at Christianity and the crucial role that enslaved people played in spreading the faith and even compiling the the Bible to begin with, with a particular focus on the inescapable role that Roman imperial rule played in keeping people in bondage. |
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Slow productivity : the lost art of accomplishment without burnout
by Cal Newport
Harnessing the wisdom of history's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists and writers who mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power, this timely book provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment.
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| Imagine Freedom: Transforming Pain into Political and Spiritual Power by Rahiel TesfamariamGrounded in her history with liberation theology, journalist, activist, and minister Rahiel Tesfamariam urges Black Americans to reconnect with continental Africans as a means of decolonizing the mind, body, and spirit and to explore Christian ideas of resilience, resistance, and redemption. |
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The Anunnaki: And the Sacred Science of the Black God
by Muhammad, Wesley Ph.D.
The Anunnuaki were a group of gods that we encounter in ancient Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Akkadian) texts. They are very popular in certain ufological circles today, but much of the popular discussion about them is misguided. This is largely due to the work of author Zecharia Sitchin. He made popular the claim that these ancient Mesopotamian gods were extraterrestrials - aliens from a distant planet beyond Pluto that Sitchin called Nibiru. Sitchin further claimed that the UFOs that are flying around Earth’s atmosphere are piloted by robotic aliens created by the Anunnaki who remotely control them from a base on Mars.
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