Books

Books

Walking a Literary Labyrinth: A Spirituality of Reading

Nancy M. Malone

Bibliotherapy

Mar 09, 2004 reviewed by Barbara Brown Taylor
There are some of us who read more than we pray. We know we should pray more. We mean to pray more. But something happens to us when we read that does not happen when we pray. We find our lives by losing them. We enter into communion with people whom we have never met, some of whom never existed in the world we call real.

Douglas Horton and the Ecumenical Impulse in American Religion

Theodore Louis Trost

Douglas Horton and the Ecumencial Impulse in American Religion

Mar 09, 2004 reviewed by Paul A. Crow Jr.
Now, when the ecumenical movement seems to be at low tide, there appears a scintillating biography of one of the premier 20th-century American ecumenists. In both status and leadership gifts Douglas Horton (1891-1968) was a prince of ecumenism.

The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War

Elisabeth Sifton

Reinhold's era

Feb 24, 2004 reviewed by Gary Dorrien
From the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s Reinhold Niebuhr spent his summers in the northwestern Massachusetts village of Heath, where he often spoke at the Heath Union Church.

Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination

A. D. Nuttall

Dead from the Waist Down

Feb 24, 2004 reviewed by Patrick Henry
When such luminaries as Harold Bloom, Frank Kermode and John Hollander prepare the way for a book by calling it “thoroughly alive and enlivening,” “all the pleasure I expected” and “a major work of scholarship and of imaginative thought,” prudence warns me to mute my more tepid opinion.<

The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith

Marcus J. Borg

Believing again

Feb 24, 2004 reviewed by Walter Brueggemann
Marcus Borg has emerged as the Jesus Seminar scholar with the keenest theological sensibility and the most accurate read of the pulse of old-line U.S. Protestantism.