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Rev. Greg McDonell, former AAIM Board President and Pastor of Central Presbyterian Church hosts a Spirituality Book Club to discuss contemporary texts addressing the intersections of faith and public life. The Book Club is open to the community and suggestions for works to discuss in the coming months are welcome. All Book Club meeting take place at Book People, 7:00-8:30pm.
Book People
603 N Lamar Blvd
Austin, Texas 78703
Coming Up!
June 14, 2010
Jain Path - translation by Aidan Ranken
July 12, 2010
Dalai Lama's Little Book of Wisdom
Past Selections and Other Suggested ReadingsBaha'i
Hatcher, William S. & Martin J. Douglas, The Baha�I Faith, The Emerging Global Religion (April '03 selection)
Buddhist
Chadron, Pema, Places That Scare Us (Apr. '04 selection)
Chodron, Pema, Start Where You Are � A Guide to Compassionate Living (Nov.'03 selection)
Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada (June �05 selection)
Gautama Buddha, The Diamond Sutra
Hahn, Thich Nhat, Going Home, Jesus and Buddha As Brothers
Hahn, Thich Nhat, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Riverhead Books (June �07 selection)
Hahn, Thich Nhat, Zen Keys
Hahn, Thich Nhat, The Art of Power (Nov. '08)
Henry, Patrick, Benedict�s Dharma (Mar. '05)
Herrigel, Eugen, Zen & the Art of Archery
Irine, The Five Wisdoms
Kabat-Zinn, Jon, Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness (Feb. '09)
Kapleau, Philip, The Three Pillars of Zen
Suzuki, Shunryu, Not Always So
Suzuki, Shunryu, Zen Buddhism
Suzuki, Shunryu, Zen Mind, Beginner�s Mind (Oct.'02 selection)
The Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet
Thurman, Robert, The Jewel Tree of Tibet (Nov. '06)
Christian
Augustine, Confessions
Barr, Nevada, Seeking Enlightenment Hat by Hat (Mar. �08)
Borg, Marcus, The Heart of Christianity
Borg, Marcus, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
Borg, Marcus, The God We Never Knew-Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith (Aug. 06)
Brown, Robert MacAfee, Looking at the Bible from Third World Eyes
Camara, Dom Helda, The Desert Is Fertile
Carter, Jimmy, Our Endangered Values (Jan. 07)
Chittester, Sr. Joan, Scared by Struggle � Transformed by Hope
Chittister, Sr. Joan, Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir (March �09)
Claiborne, Shane, The Irresistible Revolution (October �07)
Crossan, J.D. & Reed, Jonathon, In Search of Paul
Crossan, John Dominic, Jesus, A Revolutionary Biography (Oct. �03)
Crossan, John Dominic, The Historical Jesus
De Mello, Anthony J., Awareness
deWaal, Esther, Q Seven Day Journey with Thomas Merton
Eldridge, John, Waking the Dead
Eckhart, Meister, Selected Witness
Ehrman, Bart, Misquoting Jesus (August 2007)
Farley, Edward, Faith and Beauty: A Theological Aesthetic
Foster, Richard, A Celebration of Discipline
Fox, Matthew, One River, Many Streams
Freke, Timothy & Gandy, Peter Jesus and the Goddess
Freke, Timothy & Gandy, Peter, The Jesus Mysteries
Gibran, Kahil, The Prophet
Gospel of Thomas, The (various translations) (September, �07)
Hart, Phd., Tobin, The Secret Spirituality of Children (Aug. '05 selection)
Hellwig, Monika, The Meaning of the Sacraments
Hill, Craig, In God�s Time
Howe, Mary Blye, Sitting with Sufis � A Christian Experience of Learning Sufism (May '06)
Jacobs, AJ, The Year of Living Biblically
Jansen, David H., In the Company of Others � A Dialogical Christology
Keating, Thomas, Open Mind, Open Hear: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel
Kierkegaard, Soren, Daily Readings with Soren Kierkegaard
LaHaye, Tim, Left Behind
Lawrence, Brother, The Practice of the Presence of God (Aug. �02 selection)
Lewis, C.S., Mere Christianity
Marion, Jim, Putting On the Mind of Christ � The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality
Marsh, W. Eugene, The Wide, Wide Circle of Divine Love: A Biblical Case for Religious Diversity (July �08)
Mathew Fox, Original Blessing (July. �03 selection)
Merton, Thomas, Mystics and Zen Masters (June. �03 selection)
Miles, Jack, God: A Biography
Monks of the New Skete, In the Spirit of Happiness (Jan. �03 selection)
Moore, Thomas, The Soul�s Religion
Mountain Sisters: From Covenant to Community in Appalachia
Needleman, Jacob, Lost Christianuty
Needleman, Jacob, Original Christianity
Nolan, Albert, Jesus Before Christianity
Norris, Kathleen, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
Norris, Kathleen, Dakota, A Spiritual Geography
Norris, Kathleen, The Cloister Walk
Nouwen, Henri, The Return of the Prodigal Son (Jan. �09)
O�Donohue, John, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Pagels, Elaine, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent
Pagels, Elaine, Beyond Belief (Nov. �04 selection)
Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospels
Peck, M. Scott, The Different Drum
Pelikan, Jaroslav, Whose Bible Is It? � A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages
Phillips, J.B., Your God Is Too Small
Rilke, Ranier Maria, The Selected Poetry of Ranier Maria Rilke
Robinson, Marilynne, Gilead
Rogers, Jack, Jesus, the Bible and Homosexuality � Explode the Myths, Heal the Church
Rohr, Richard, Everything Belongs � The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Ruether, Rosemary Radford, Women and Redemption: A Theological History
Rossing, Barbara, The Rapture Exposed
Shartle, Gretchen Lara, Awakening Courage
Smith, James Bryan, Embracing the Love of God
Smith, Ron, Hooked on the Word
Spong, Bishop John, The Sins of Scripture
Spong, Bishop John, This Hebrew Lord: A Bishop�s Search for the Authentic Jesus (Feb. �07)
St. Bonaventure, The Tree of Life
Teasdale, Wayne, The Mystic Heart
Thurman, Howard, Jesus and the Disinherited
TuTu, Bishop Desmond, God Has a Dream
Wallis, Jim, God�s Politics: Why the Right Get It Wrong, and the Left Doesn�t Get It (Dec. �06)
Warren, Rick, The Purpose Driven Life (May �05)
Wink, Walter, The Powers That Be (Feb. 05)
Yancey, Phillip, Finding God in Unexpected Places
Yancey, Phillip, Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
Hindu
Misra, Mamata, Winter Blossoms
Patanjali, Yoga Sutra
Bhagavad Gita (Translated by Stephen Mitchell)
Saraswati, H.D. Swami Prakashanand, Santana Dharm, International Society of Divine Love
Saraswati, H.D. Swami Prakashanand, The Philosophy of Divine Love (Feb. 03 selection)
Satchidanandam Sri S., Yoga Sutras of Patanjali�s
Sharkaracharya, Six Stanzas of Liberation Upanishads
Yogananda, Paramahansa, Autobiography of a Yogi
Jewish
Buber, Martin, I & Thou (Aug. 04)
Cahill, Thomas, The Gift of the Jews (Sept. 03)
Frankl, Victor, Man�s Search for Meaning (Sept. �02 selection)
Hamashiach, Yeshua, The Bridegroom
Harrelson & Falk, Jews & Christians: A Troubled Family
Klinghoffer, David, Why the Jews Rejected Jesus � The Turning point in Western History (Aug. �05)
Levine, Amy Jill, The Misunderstood Jew (April �08)
Rosenblatt, Naomi Harris, Lust and Longing
Rosenblatt, Naomi Harris, After the Apple � Women in the Bible � Timeless Stories of Love (Apr. �09)
Rosenblatt, Naomi Harris, Wrestling with Angels
Steinsaltz, Adin, Thirteen Petaled Rose
Weiss, Rabbi Abner, Connecting to God: Ancient Kabbalah and Modern Psychology
Wiesel, Elie, Wise Men and Their Tales, Portrait of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters
Winkler, Gershon, Magic of the Ordinary
Wouk, Herman, This Is My God
Taoist
Blofeld, John, The Taoist Immortals
Cleary, The Inner Tao
Cleary, Vitality, Energy, Spirit
Tsu, Lao, Tao Te Ching (Oct. �04 selection)
Muslim/Sufi
Aslan, Reza, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Isalm.
Cleary, Thomas, The Essential Koran (July �06 selection)
Field, Reshad, The Last Barrier: A Journey Into the Essence of Sufi Teachings (Nov. �02 selection)
Gurdjieff, G.I., Meetings with Remarkable Men
Hafiz, The Gift (July �04)
Khan, Hazrat Inayat, The Purpose of Life
Khan. Hazrat Inayat, The Heart of Sufism (Jan. �04 selection)
Ouspensky, P.D, In Search of the Miraculous (May �08)
Ouspensky,P.D. The Fourth Way
Patel, Eboo, Acts of Faith
Rumi, The Essential Rumi (Apr.�05)
Tweedie, Irina, Chasm of Fire
Unitarian
Goldstone, Lawrence and Nancy, Out of the Flames
Loehr, Davidson, America, Fascism and God (Dec. �05)
Parker, Rebecca & Brock, Rita Nakashima, Proverbs of Ashes
Welch, Sharon, A Feminist Ethic of Risk
Mayan
Prechtel, Martin, The Way of the Talking Jaguar (Dec. �04)
Native American
Boyd, Doug, Rolling Thunder
Chief Seattle, How Can One Sell the Air
McGaa, Ed, Native Wisdom
McGaa, Ed, Mother Earth Spirituality
McGaa, Ed, Rainbow Tribe
Neihardt, John, Black Elk Speaks (Sept. �06)
Thunder, Rolling, Rolling Thunder Speaks
Other
Adler, Drawing Down the Moon
Armstrong, Karen, A History of God (May & June �08)
Armstrong, Karen, The Battle for God (Oct. �05)
Aurelius, Marcus, Meditations
Bartley, Western Philosophy � Retreat to Commitment
Bird, Christopher & Tompkins, Brad, The Secret Life of Plants
Bly, Robert, (ed.), The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy
Brown, Dan, The DaVinci Code (May �04)
Cady, Emilie, Lessons in Truth
Chopra, Deepak, The Way of the Wizard
Choprah, Deepak, Peace Is the Way (April �06)
Coehlo, Paulo, Victoria Decides to Die
Coehlo, Paulo, The Alchemist
D�Aquili, Eugene G., Why God Won�t Go Away
Das, Ram, Still Here
Dawkins, Richard, The God Delusion
Dick, Anthony, Spiritual Choices
Endo, Shusaku, Silence
Epictetus, The Art of Living (Sept. �04)
Emerson, Michael, People of the Dream � Multicultural Congregation in the US
Ernst Berendt, Joachim, The World Is Sound-Nada Brahma
Feiler, Bruce, Walking the Bible � Journey by Land � Thoughts on the Five Books of Moses
Freeman, Charles, The Closing of the Western Mind
Freud, Sigmund, Civilization and its Discontents
Gawande, Atul, Better
Gandhi, Arun, Legacy of Love (June �06)
Gilber, Elizabeth, Eat Pray Love (Dec. �07)
Hall, Ron & Moore, Denver, Same Kind of Different as Me
Hentschel, G. S, All This Useless Beauty
Harris, Sam, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Hosseini, Khaled, The Kite Runner (Nov. �07)
Ideleby, Ranja; Oliver, Suzanne; Warner, Pricilla, The Faith Clun
James, Wm., Varieties of Religious Experience
James, Wm., Essays in Pragmatism (July �07) With focus on the Conclusion on Varieties of Religious Experience
Jones, Alan, Soul Making
Ladinsky, Daniel, Love Poems for God (Aug �03)
Lakoff, George, Don�t Think of an Elephant! (Feb. �06)
Lowen, Alexander, Betrayal of the Body
Master, William Lee, The Dancing
Mesle, Robert, Introduction to Process Theology
Mortenson, Greg, Three Cups of Tea (Jan. �08)
Newton, Michael, Journey of Souls
Palmer, Harry, Living Deliberately (Mar.�07)
Parker, Palmer, Let You Life Speak
Quinn, Daniel, Ishmael
Redfield, James, The Celestine Prophesy
Roger, Walsh, M.D. Phd., Essential Spirituality (March �06)
Rubinstein, When Jesus Became God (Nov. �05)
Schlain, Leonard, Sex, Time, and Power
Schumacher, E.F., Small Is Beautiful
Shield, Benjamin, ed., For the Love of God (Jan. �06)
Smith, Houston, The World�s Religions
Smith, Huston, Why Religion Matters � The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief (Mar. �04)
Starhawk, The Spiral Dance (March �03 selection)
The Tao of Physics
Thoreau, Waldon
Tolle, Eckhart, A New Earth: Awakening to You Life�s Purpose
Tolle, Eckhart, The Power of Now (Feb. �04 selection)
Tzu, Sun, Art of War, translation by Tomas Cleary
Ullman, Robt., & Richenberg-Ullman, Judyth, Mystice, Masters, Saints, and Sages (July �05)
Warren, Rick, The Purpose Driven Life (May �05)
Walsh, Neal Donald, Tomorrow�s God (May 07)
Watts, Alan, Wisdom of Insecurity � Become What You Are
Weiss, Brian, Many Lives, Many Masters
Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass (Sept. �05 selection)
Wilber, Ken, Spectrum of Consciousness
Wiber, Ken, Integral Spirituality
Wilber, Ken, No Boundary (Oct. �06)
Woodruff, Paul, Reverence (June �04)
Onellion, Marshall; Fortney, Stephen, Seeking Truth: Living with Doubt
Yunus, Muhammad, Banker to the Poor (Feb. �08)
Wilson, Patricia & Vidyarthi, Varub, Development from Within
Young, William P. , The Shack (Dec. �08)
Zander, Rosamund Stone & Benjamin, The Art of Possibility
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