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Spirituality and Religion May 2017
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Meditation Saved My Life: A Tibetan Lama and the Healing Power of the Mind
by Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho
A remarkable story of adversity, transformation, and ultimately, spiritual and physical triumph. Beginning with escape from a Chinese prison in Tibet following years of torture and imprisonment, the book traces Phakyab Rinpoché’s journey to refuge in the city of New York and Bellevue Hospital’s Clinic for Survivors of Torture.
Upon hearing of his unprecedented recovery, from gangrene, pleurisy, and spinal tuberculosis, the Dalai Lama told Rinpoché to tell his story, a personal journey of healing through meditation and yogic discipline that is an example for the world.
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Nothing to Fear: Principles and Prayers to Help You Thrive in a Threatening World
by Barry C Black
Our times are turbulent ones, and questions and worries like these can haunt us and keep us awake at night. Yet is it possible that, ultimately, there is actually nothing to fear? Barry C. Black is the spiritual “leader of leaders” for the US Senate—shepherding those on the front lines of the decisions that shape our culture. Now, Chaplain Black shows all of us how to thrive in the midst of today’s turbulence and confusion by following eight principles that Jesus gave his disciples prior to sending them into a dangerous world. These teachings are as relevant today as when Jesus first spoke them two thousand years ago.
Containing Scriptural insights and powerful prayers to help you seek God’s guidance and blessing, Nothing to Fear will illuminate the way to live boldly, bravely, and faithfully in the face of today’s perils.
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| May Cause Love: An Unexpected Journey of Enlightenment After Abortion by Kassi UnderwoodAt age 19 and far from home, an unmarried Kassi Underwood learned that she was pregnant and decided that her only choice was to have an abortion. Three years later, she was overwhelmed by sadness when she found out that her ex-boyfriend had a daughter with someone else. In May Cause Love, Underwood relates her search for emotional and spiritual healing on a road trip across America. Recounting a Buddhist ceremony for women who have had abortions, consultations with therapists, a Roman Catholic pro-life retreat, and other efforts to seek healing, she poignantly charts her map to recovery and offers it to those (or their friends and family) who have lost a child through miscarriage or abortion. |
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Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age
by Katherine Ozment
An award-winning journalist takes on the fundamental issue of the non-religious by setting out on a journey across the frontier of American secular life, seeking guidance in science and the humanities, talking to noted scholars and wrestling with her own family’s attempts to find meaning and connection after religion.
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Focus on: Spiritual Memoirs
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| The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy by Rainn WilsonBest known as Dwight Schrute on television's The Office, comedian Rainn Wilson didn't fit in while growing up (and never was a bassoon phenom), and he struggled financially early in his acting career. He also floundered spiritually until he reconnected with Baha'i, the faith of his childhood. In The Bassoon King, Wilson irreverently and movingly details the challenges of his youth, dishes gossip on The Office, and shares the importance of openly embracing Baha'i and living according to its teachings. Whether you're a fan of his career (which he broadcasts on Twitter) or interested in his spiritual life, be sure to pick up this autobiography. |
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Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
by Nadia Bolz-Weber
A standup comic-turned-pastor describes her experiences with "accidental saints"--individuals with whom she has found the meaning of grace--including a drag queen, a felonious bishop, and a gun-toting member of the NRA
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Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Author Barbara Ehrenreich, who wrote Nickel and Dimed and Bright-Sided, was raised by vehemently atheist parents and regards herself as an unbeliever. However, when she was a teenager she noted an unexplained sensation of expanded consciousness in her journal, and this was just one of many such events throughout her life. In Living with a Wild God, Ehrenreich relates how she rediscovered that journal entry and decided to explore both the nature of her own experiences and the phenomenon of mysticism. Though this "powerful, honest" (Kirkus Reviews) autobiography takes an unusual approach to spirituality, it offers absorbing reflections on human awareness of the external world.
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