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Book List for Summer Reading

Laura Scherzer:

Bonaventure: The Life of St. Francis - Translation by Ewart Cousins

A Deeper Beauty:  Buddhist Reflections on Everyday Life
  by Paramananda
 
Everyday Comfort: Readings for the First Month of Grief by Randy Becton
 
The Gifts of the Jews (How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels) by  Thomas Cahill
 
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris
 
Getting Involved With God: Rediscovering the Old Testament (Alison's book) by Ellen F. Davis

The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Traditions of Mary Magdalene, the Companion of Jesus by Marvin Meyer

From Laura's former church:
Everything Belongs:  The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
by Richard Rohr
 
American Gospel
- by Jon Meacham 
Nathan the Wise - A play written in the 1700's 
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life  by James Hollis

Barb Miles:

From Jesus to Christianity (How four generations of visionaries & storytellers created the New Testament and Christian Faith)  by L. Michael White  (Harper, San Francisco)
 
Peculiar Treasures (A biblical who's who) by Frederick Buechner  (Harper & Row)  -- dated 1979, but funny and timeless
 
The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley  with a beautiful introduction by W.H. Auden  (c) 1978 -- a beautiful set of essays...
 
The Time Trilogy by Madeleine L'Engle -- for those of you who haven't read this piece of fantasy written back in the 1960s.. book 1 is A Wrinkle in Time; 2 is  A Wind in the Door; 3 is A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Margie Campbell

Non-fiction:
The Faith Club by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
In the Wake of the Goddessess: Women, Culture, and The Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth by Tikva Frymer Kensky
The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot by Herbert Krosney [a glimpse into the shady world of the antiquities trade]
Silent Night: The story of the World War I Christmas Truce by Stanley Weintraub
Jane Austen: a Companion by Josephine Ross
 
Fiction:
Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
What Look Like crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Siegfried by Harry Mulisch
The Assault by Harry Mulisch
Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan
The Alienist by Caleb Carr