- a page of links to some recent inspirations. I love the “Book Club” potential of the web generally and blogging in particular. I’m often drawn to a book because a friend has been reading / is recommending it – a magpie, as you’ll have gathered, but aren’t we all? I welcome virtual and face to face discussions about what’s making others buzz …
updated late June 2011 …
A Secular Bible
- A C Grayling
THE STORY WE FIND OURSELVES IN
- Brian D McLaren
- Abraham Verghese
- Robert Hughes
- Richard Lischer
Hymns and Songs
- Andrew Pratt
JESUS AND THE FUNDAMENTALISM OF HIS DAY
- William Loader
- Rabindranath Tagore
An Introduction to Christian Theology
- Mark A McIntosh
- Michael Sadgrove
The Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies
- David Bentley Hart
- Tea Obreht
- Joshua Foer
- T. David Gordon
AS GOOD AS GOD, AS CLEVER AS THE DEVIL
- Rodney Bolt
INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL
- Harriet Jacobs
- Jan L Richardson
- Cynthia Bourgeault
CENTERING PRAYER & INNER AWAKENING
- Cynthia Bourgeault
- Cynthia Bourgeault
- Cynthia Bourgeault
- Jean-Yves Leloup
- Jean-Yves Leloup
- Jean-Yves Leloup
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Martin Seligman
PRACTICING THE SACRED ART OF LISTENING
- Kay Lindahl
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Randy Komisar
- David Steindl-Rast OSB
- Benjamin and Rosamond Zander
- Gerald G May
- Gerald G May
- Gerald G May
- Gerald G May
- Walter Brueggemann
Visa and the Rise of Chaordic Organization (Kindle)
- Dee Hock
- Dee Hock
The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum, 1941-43
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- John Neihardt
- Diarmuid O’Murchu
- Diarmuid O’Murchu
- Diarmuid O’Murchu
- Diarmuid O’Murchu
- Diarmuid O’Murchu
- Rob Bell
Walking the way of passionate humility - Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2011
- Stephen Cherry
- Meister Eckhart (with fabulous Foreword by brother David Steindl-Rast OSB)
POETRY
- Jo Shapcott
- Jo Shapcott
- Jo Shapcott
- Daljit Nagra
- David Scott
- David Scott
- Diarmuid O’Murchu
- Julia Esquivel
COLLECTED POEMS, 1934 – 1952
- Dylan Thomas
- Sally Purcell
- John Agard
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Winter 2010 …
A Christian Account of Life and the Universe
- Mark Hart
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The spiritual memoir of a twenty-first-century Christian
- Sara Miles
- Sara Miles
God’s Call out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond
- Wes Howard-Brook
- Rowan Williams and Joan Chittister, OSB
Gillian Rose’s reception and gift of faith
- Andrew Shanks
- Lucy Winkett
- Stanley Hauerwas
- Keith Ward
The Language of Reconciliation in a Culture of Violence
- Richard Lischer
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Word that Moved America
- Richard Lischer
ALL SAINTS SERMON
- Richard Lischer (29 minutes into this video)
CARING FOR WORDS IN A CULTURE OF LIES
- Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
- Robert Bly
- Kim Rosen
- Stephen Cottrell
- Antonio Machado
a huge fan of Roger Housden’s poetic commentaries, I’ve loved this, his wife Maria’s autobiographical gift, perhaps more than anything else I’ve read in twenty years or more
- Maria Housden
THE LAST WORD AND THE WORD AFTER THAT
A Tale of Faith, Doubt and a new Kind of Christianity
- Brian McLaren
- Essays by Jane Hirshfield
- Barbara Brown Taylor
LEAVING CHURCH – a memoir of faith
- Barbara Brown Taylor
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
- Barbara Brown Taylor (29 minutes into this video)
- Cynthia Bourgeault
- Andrew Shanks
- Alice Walker
- Alice Walker
NOW IS THE TIME TO OPEN YOUR HEART
- Alice Walker
- Sam M Intrator and Megan Scribner
- Parker J Palmer
- Gerald May
THE INEFFABLE NAME OF GOD: MAN
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Roger Housden
- Frederick Buechner
- David Whyte
HOW REMBRANDT REVEALS YOUR BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECT SELF
- Roger Housden
- Dave Tomlinson
- Rabindranath Tagore
A memoir of faith and discovery
- Richard Lischer
Interpreting the New Testament
- John Denniston
- Joan Chittister, OSB – see also …
Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation
- Miroslav Volf
AGAINST THE TIDE:
Love in a Time of Petty Dreams and Persisting Enmities
- Miroslav Volf
A provocative assessment of culture and ministry for people who know something is wrong
- Stanley Hauerwas and William H Willimon
- May Sarton
- William Stafford
‘A Book of Silence grapples with ideas at the very heart of what it is to be human’ – The Times
- Sara Maitland
a history of the Scriptures through the ages
- Jaroslav Pelikan
Reading the Bible in a Postmodern World
- A K M Adam
- Raymond Briggs
THE COLLECTED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF MAYA ANGELOU
- Maya Angelou
Ten Questions That Are Transforming The Faith
- Brian McLaren
NEW AND SELECTED POEMS Volume 1 and Volume 2
- Mary Oliver
Many thanks for the book link, Simon. What an interesting pile by your bed – I hope you also manage to sleep!
I haven’t heard of a lot of these books but I was soo happy on seeing that you liked Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali! He is such a beautiful writer. His words weave absolute magic!