In the Land of Believers is the story of Gina Welch, a secular Jew who decided to go undercover as a Christian convert to figure out what makes evangelical Christians tick. She certainly picked a…
Posts tagged Religion
The Faith Instinct
Religion evolution seems to be the latest trend in the world of intellectuals, seculars, and atheists trying to model religion into something logical. These new trendsetters, offering a softer, yet still intellectual examination of religion's…
His Holiness
His Holiness, by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi, is the third biography I have read on John Paul II (JPII), the former leader of the Roman Catholic Church (Garry O'Connor's Universal Father and George Weigel's…
Yawn, Ben Reviews Yet Another Book About Religion
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki wrote Mysticism, Christian and Buddhist in 1957 as a way of comparing Buddhist and Christian mysticism, particularly the concepts of infinity, eternity, and the transmigration of souls. Suzuki was a Japanese writer…
Quaker Spirituality for Everyone
Robert Lawrence Smith’s A Quaker Book of Wisdom is a perspective of Quaker spirituality and philosophy. Smith descended from a long line of Quakers that go back to founder George Fox. A former headmaster of…