Last update: 4/15/09
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Religion |
Writing |
This one is techinically fiction, but religion is such a major topic of the book that I am listing it here also...
The Shack
by William P. Young
Traveling Mercies
Some Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott
Perhaps not for people who are easily offended or have conservative, traditional views about religion. However I found this book to be truly wonderful. I highly recommend it. I couldn't begin to quote you all the rare and beautiful moments in this book, we'd be here for months. It's a perfect book for imperfect people, people like me who are just a little bit messed up but still believe strongly, deeply, and constantly, even in the worst moments, even in the cold dark. My absolute favorite section is around page 49 when she talks about how she finally let Jesus into her life. It had me weeping at the bus stop. See blog entries: 7/24/06, 7/10/06, and 7/5/06
A Woman’s Journey to God
Finding the Feminine Path
by
Joan Borysenko
A great book, although perhaps not for everyone. It's perhaps not for people who have very traditional, conservative, patriarchal views about religion. Still, I loved it and found it both helpful and inspiring. Different things bring different people closer to the divine. You gotta go with what works for you and let others go with what works for them. I don't think God cares so much what route you take so long as you get there.
In Memory of Her
A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins
by
Elisabeth Schussller Fiorenza
In college I took a great class called "Women in the Christian Tradition." This was one of the books we studied. I love it for its depiction of early Christianity as a "discipleship of equals" where men and women were equal before God and the only father/authority figure you had to answer to was God. It talks about how the patriarchal structure got added on after in order to make the movement more socially acceptable. Again, this book is perhaps not for everyone, but it certainly worked for me.