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This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us | Cole Arthur Riley

“I used to think that Christian contemplation was reserved for white men who leave copies of C.S. Lewis's letters strewn about and know a great deal about coffee and beard oils. If this is you, there is room for you here. But I am interested in reclaiming a contemplation that is not exclusive to whiteness, intellectualism, ableism, or mere hobby. And as a Black woman, I am disinterested in any call to spirituality that divorces my mind from ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …my body, voice, or people. To suggest a form of faith that tells me to sit down alone and be quiet? It does not rest easy on the bones. It is a shadow of true contemplative life, and it would do violence to my Black-woman soul.” 1d

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Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness | Kevin Nye

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I learned of this book from a podcast. The guest was reminding listeners how individuals and churches are called to help the poor and the marginalized and how having secure housing can help stabilize the issues that contribute to homelessness. I was compelled to track down his book. For me his work is a five ⭐️ pick. It is teaching me how a change in perspective and a willingness to do small and big things may make a difference.

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A SECULAR AGE | Charles Taylor

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My beloved finally noticed this morning that everything in the world is terrible before I‘ve had a cup of coffee. Shout out to observant partners everywhere. ☕️#chatterday

May all the protesters stay safe today— if you don‘t have any homemade revolution, store-bought is fine. Reading books fights fascism, too.

Charles Taylor again today. It‘s brilliant & won lots of awards for it, all rightfully earned.

@AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit @BookwormAHN

Chrissyreadit 🙌😘 4d

dabbe ✊💙✊ 4d

kspenmoll ✊🏻 attended protest today. So energizing. 3d

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Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness | Kevin Nye

“It is past time for us to get into some holy trouble on behalf of the unhoused.” pg 179 ❤️

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Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir | Scott Pomfret

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The author's account of how as an adult his Catholicism re-asserted itself and what that meant as the Church hierarchy threw itself into the fight against even secular civil gay marriage in the mid 2000s. ⬇

rwmg In the beginning I thought the author was trying a bit too hard to be witty but once he settled down, this became an interesting and readable account of a tumultuous time. The book dates from 2008 and it does show sometimes with its cultural references to celebs I'd forgotten about if indeed I was ever aware of them. I would read another edition with a retrospective afterword as a properly edited ebook - this one had far too many OCR mistakes. 5d

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Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir | Scott Pomfret

#teaandabook #pride🌈

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Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness | Kevin Nye

“Above all else, homelessness, dehumanizes. It isolates, it discards, and it amplifies fear and anxiety. In your daily interactions with people experiencing homelessness, their homelessness is not truly at stake. Their humanity though is.”

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God: an Anatomy | Francesca Stavrakopoulou

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God: An Anatomy, by Francesca Stavrakopoulou (2022)
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Premise: A reassessment of common ideas about the biblical God‘s body (or lack thereof) in light of parallels in neighbouring ancient civilizations.

Review: This book has a simple and incontrovertible premise: Since the Bible talks about God the same as neighbouring cultures did, there‘s no reason to think ancient Israelites believed God not to have a body. Cont.

Mattsbookaday From this premise, it then demonstrates just what this God looked like. While I do think it could have done this in a third the length, and I wish she‘d exercised both more academic humility in some of her conclusions and more curiosity towards the traditions that shifted belief into the more abstract conception of God that has been standard for centuries, this is very successful.
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Other Worlds, Other Gods | Mayo Mohs

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A book of SF short stories with religious themes written between 1940 and 1970. It has one of my favourite of such stories, Arthur C. Clarke's “The Nine Billion Names of God“, which I still think has one of the best last sentences ever.

Of course it is noticeable from a 2020s standpoint what or rather who is left out of this collection of 13 stories, but I don't know which of these stories I would omit to make room for other voices.

CatLass007 Volume 2? There‘s always a need for more short story anthologies. 1w

rwmg @CatLass007 Since this book dates from 1971, I suspect we are not going to get a Volume 2. But I would like one that includes women writers and although Buddhism and Hinduism are referenced the stories are mostly from within or against the Judaeo-Christian tradition, so stories from within other traditions would be good as well. 1w

CatLass007 I suspect you‘re right. But I wonder who might make a good editor for the type of anthology we‘re discussing? And/or who would be a good publisher? I know there are some authors on Litsy. I‘m wondering about editors? I‘m just sort of thinking out loud on paper. Let‘s get the ball rollin‘! Who can we write with the suggestion of such a book? 1w

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