[Oe List ...] Book Question--response

[Lynda Cock]

Some MUSTS from Doris Conway (note new address below) sent to me:  LLC 

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From: djconway40 at windstream.net [mailto:djconway40 at windstream.net] 
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 8:14 PM
To: Lynda Cock
Subject: Book Question--response


I am really excited about a book I just started:  Saving Paradise--How
Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire by Rita
Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker.  It is long--500 pages. But a fresh
take on Bible and Church History.

These authors wrote another book together earlier:  Proverbs of Ashes.  It
was a hard book to read because it showed how a lot of Xn. theology
undergirds domestic violence.

Marcus Borg, Reading the Bible for the First Time is really good to help
people begin to read and appreciate the Bible in a new Way.   Spong's latest
book, Re-claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World, also has a similar
focus and is easy to read.

If you have read Eboo Patel's Acts of Faith, it is a must.  He is a young
American Muslim who has started a youth movement to have youth work together
and learn to appreciate the depths of their own heritage. He says the faith
line in our time is inclusiveness vs. isolation or totalitarianism and that
we cannot sit and do nothing about this.  He is very articulate and looks at
the dangers of conservatism in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.

A book that changed my adult class in Indy, so that instead of serving the
poor they began to stand in solidarity with the poor, is called Same Kind of
Different as Me.  It is a true story about the friendship of two men in the
Dallas area--one very homeless and one very rich, and what they taught each
other.  by Ron Hall and Denver Moore.  They have written later stories, too.

A personal book I use daily is The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo.

Henri Nouwen's Prodigal Son and Homecoming, both about the Prodigal Son
story have given me new insights over the last couple of years.

Well, I'd better stop.

My new address is
Doris Jane Conway
210 Shannon Lane
Granville, OH 43023
djconway40 at windstream.net

P.S.  I also meant to say that I think the education that we got in simply
RS-I was irreplaceable.