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Community / DestinationAbbey of Gethsemani
A silent, unstructured retreat house at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, open to guests of all faiths.
BookAngela Chen
Journalist Angela Chen combines reporting, memoir, history, and interviews to introduce asexuality and the wider ace spectrum. She explores attraction, libido, romance, compulsory sexuality, consent, race, disability, gender, relationship structures, and the difficulty of recognizing an identity in a culture that treats sexual desire as universal and essential to maturity, intimacy, liberation, and a meaningful life.
BookC. Baxter Kruger
C. Baxter Kruger presents a relational and participatory account of salvation grounded in the Trinity and Christ's union with humanity. Sin appears as alienation, wounded perception, and life inside fear rather than actual separation from God; Christ enters human darkness to reveal and restore participation rather than persuading a distant or hostile Father.
Podcast EpisodeClear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Astrophysicist Adam Frank distinguishes the scientific case for widespread cosmic life from the much weaker case that reported UFOs are extraterrestrial visitors.
Eliot Deutsch
A compact philosophical reconstruction of Advaita Vedanta’s accounts of reality, the self, ignorance, knowledge, and liberation.
Inner Atlas MapAnantanand Rambachan
Rambachan explains Advaita Vedanta through its teachings about brahman, the world, human identity, liberation, and ethical life.
BookSallie Tisdale
Writer, nurse, and Buddhist practitioner Sallie Tisdale offers direct practical counsel for dying and accompanying someone who is dying. She addresses bodies, diagnosis, caregiving, communication, fear, pain, planning, last days, deathbed presence, grief, and the physical handling of a corpse, weaving clinical experience with Buddhist reflection and candid accounts of uncertainty, irritation, tenderness, and the limits of control.
BookJohn S. Mbiti
A landmark African scholar’s synthesis that challenged Western dismissal of African religious worlds and philosophies.
BookDavid P. Gushee
David Gushee addresses readers who can no longer inhabit white American evangelicalism but have not necessarily abandoned Christianity. After diagnosing evangelical identity, authority, politics, and moral formation, he proposes a post-evangelical path organized around Jesus, the kingdom of God, Christian humanism, responsible interpretation, and a different public ethic. The book therefore moves beyond departure: it is a concise constructive proposal for what Christian faith might become afterward.
BookJack Kornfield
Accounts from practitioners across traditions about integrating awakening, failure, relationship, and ordinary responsibility after peak experience.
Greg Eghigian
A global history of how flying-saucer reports, investigators, institutions, media, and public expectations produced the modern UFO phenomenon after 1947.
BookN. T. Wright
N. T. Wright presents Christian ethics as the formation of character for God’s promised new creation. Rejecting both rule-only morality and the idea that authentic action should simply feel spontaneous, he retrieves virtue language: repeated choices, communal practices, worship, Scripture, and the Spirit gradually form people able to act with wisdom. The Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love orient this training toward humanity’s vocation within renewed creation.
BookBruce Greyson
Psychiatrist Bruce Greyson reviews decades of research and clinical encounters involving near-death experiences, including recurring reports of leaving the body, altered time, light, beings, life review, peace, and lasting changes in values. He considers neurological, psychological, and survival interpretations while arguing that the reports deserve disciplined study rather than automatic dismissal.
BookDwight J. Zscheile
Zscheile presents congregational learning, experimentation, and local participation as responses to rapid social and religious change.
BookLesley Hazleton
Journalist Lesley Hazleton defends agnosticism as an active stance of intellectual and spiritual openness rather than indecision awaiting a final answer. Blending memoir, history, philosophy, science, and religious observation, she resists both dogmatic belief and dogmatic disbelief, exploring mystery, mortality, awe, doubt, uncertainty, and the human impulse to make certainty protect us from the vulnerability of not knowing.
Bookbell hooks
hooks treats love as an ethic and practice of care, knowledge, responsibility, respect, trust, and commitment rather than sentiment alone.
Podcast ShowAnderson Cooper
A journalist grieving his own family creates room for public figures and listeners to speak without making grief a problem to solve.
Community / DestinationAlpha
A finder for local or online Alpha courses that introduce core Christian claims through a hosted series of talks and discussion.
Podcast EpisodeDrew Jackson; Corey Wayne; Brian McLaren
Introduces an inhabitable alternative orthodoxy through conversation at much lower commitment than a theology book.
BookD. W. Pasulka
A religious-studies account of how UFO experience, secrecy, media, technology, and new forms of authority can generate worlds of meaning that resemble religious formation.
Community / DestinationAmerican Ethical Union
A directory of Ethical Culture societies that combine ethical learning, community rituals, service, and non-theistic congregational life.
BookMichael W. Cuneo
Reports on American exorcism and deliverance cultures after extensive observation, placing their growth within media, institutional, and social change.
BookRichard Kearney
Philosopher Richard Kearney proposes anatheism—a return to the question of God after both inherited theism and confident atheism have been disrupted. Through philosophy, biblical stories, literature, art, hospitality, and interreligious reflection, he explores encounters with the stranger in which the divine may be received again without restoring the sovereign, certain, or coercive God that critique has made untenable.
Podcast EpisodeJim Stump; Colin Hoogerwerf
Connects archaeological and evolutionary accounts of Homo sapiens with questions about symbolic life, sacred landscapes, and relationship to the divine.
Podcast EpisodeGood Faith
Explores how Christians might respond theologically and pastorally if persuasive evidence of extraterrestrial life emerged.
Podcast EpisodeData Over Dogma
Examines what biblical texts call angels and demons and contrasts those texts with later popular images.
Podcast EpisodeThe Lord of Spirits
Introduces an Eastern Orthodox account of angels, demons, and the spiritual world from within that tradition’s scriptures and theology.
BookDavid Albert Jones
A compact history of angels across Jewish, Christian, Islamic, philosophical, artistic, and popular-cultural settings.
Podcast EpisodeSean Carroll
Makes a leading neuroscientist’s physicalist account of consciousness available in direct comparison with emergence and information theory.
BookPeter Singer
An influential utilitarian argument that animal suffering deserves serious moral consideration and that species membership alone is not decisive.
Podcast EpisodeRotating scholar hosts
Contemporary Afghan Sufi authority, gender and civil society appear through ethnography rather than generic mystical universalism. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
Podcast ShowRichard Rohr; Brie Stoner; Paul Swanson
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BookMichael Sells
Michael Sells introduces selected early revelations of the Qur’an through new translations, brief commentary, and recordings of Arabic recitation. He pays close attention to sound, rhythm, imagery, and the movement between warning, mercy, creation, and human response. The book helps English-speaking readers encounter why the Qur’an is heard and recited as well as read.
BookRobert Alter
A landmark demonstration of how Hebrew Bible stories create meaning through repetition, dialogue, type-scenes, and narrative craft.
BookPriya Parker
Facilitator Priya Parker argues that meaningful gatherings begin with a specific purpose and require intentional choices about invitation, boundaries, authority, conflict, beginnings, and endings. Through examples from meals, meetings, conferences, and civic life, she challenges hosts to stop relying on convention and design around what people are actually gathering to do.
BookJohn of the Cross
John’s extended account of detachment, prayer, spiritual perception, and the path toward union with God.
Podcast ShowN. T. Wright; hosts
Ask N.T. Wright Anything earns a place as traditional but non-fundamentalist New Testament theology; its recurring Q&A format gives listeners an ongoing way into Jesus and resurrection.
BookAndrew Davison
A systematic theological study of how possible life elsewhere bears on creation, angels, the image of God, sin, incarnation, Christology, revelation, and salvation.
Nicholas Campion
Historian Nicholas Campion studies modern Western astrology as a form of popular religion and lived cosmology. Rather than asking only whether predictions are accurate, he examines how astrologers understand an enchanted or purposeful cosmos, negotiate fate and free will, relate astrology to science and psychology, and locate the practice within New Age culture.
Peter Whitfield
Peter Whitfield follows astrology across more than two millennia, from ancient celestial interpretation through Greek and Roman thought, its contested relationship with Christianity, medieval and Renaissance revivals, and its later separation from modern astronomy. Richly illustrated and relatively brief, the book helps readers see astrology as a changing intellectual and religious tradition rather than a timeless set of personality labels.
BookSarah Bakewell
Bakewell narrates existentialism through the lives, arguments, friendships, and conflicts of its major twentieth-century thinkers.
BookParamahansa Yogananda
Yogananda’s spiritual autobiography moves from his Bengali childhood and search for a guru through discipleship under Sri Yukteswar, encounters with saints and yogis, and his work establishing Kriya Yoga in the United States. Memoir, spiritual instruction, interreligious interpretation, and hagiographic wonder stories combine to present yoga as a path toward direct realization of God rather than primarily physical exercise.
Lisa Miller
Clinical psychologist Lisa Miller combines personal narrative with research on spirituality, development, depression, resilience, and the brain. She argues that a capacity for spiritual awareness is part of human life and that cultivating connection to something larger than the isolated self can support meaning and psychological well-being.
Dacher Keltner
Psychologist Dacher Keltner explores awe through research, stories, art, music, nature, moral courage, collective movement, birth, and death. He shows how encounters with what feels larger than the self can alter attention, soften self-focus, and deepen connection—without requiring readers to begin with religious belief.
BookRamana Maharshi; edited by David Godman
Selections organize Ramana Maharshi’s teachings on self-inquiry, awareness, mind, surrender, and liberation.
BookRam Dass
Ram Dass combines memoir, hand-drawn visual teaching, yoga, meditation, devotional practice, and practical instruction in one of the defining books of American countercultural spirituality. He tells how psychologist Richard Alpert’s experiments with psychedelics led him to India, a guru, and a new identity, then invites readers into present-moment awareness and spiritual practice.
BookJoanne Cacciatore
A bereavement researcher and practitioner offers compassionate reflections and practices for living with devastating loss.
Podcast EpisodeBlake Chastain
An exvangelical conversation turns belonging toward actual neighborliness and place rather than another identity label. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
BookJoe Dispenza
Joe Dispenza combines meditation instruction, workshop reports, personal transformation stories, and language drawn from neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics. He argues that people can move beyond habitual identity and biology toward unusual healing and changes in lived reality.
BookAtul Gawande
Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande examines how medicine, families, and institutions respond when cure is no longer possible and frailty makes independence harder to sustain. Through patients, clinicians, nursing homes, hospice programs, and his own father’s illness, he explores autonomy, safety, serious-illness conversations, assisted living, risk, caregiving, and the practical question of what makes life worth living near its end.
BookKathryn Schulz
Journalist Kathryn Schulz explores error as a basic human condition whose defining feature is that being wrong usually feels exactly like being right—until the moment a belief breaks against reality. Moving through philosophy, psychology, memory, perception, politics, love, grief, and comic failure, she examines why certainty is seductive, why error threatens identity, and how fallibility can produce curiosity, revision, empathy, and surprise.
BookAnil Seth
Neuroscientist Anil Seth explains consciousness through the brain's ongoing predictions about the world and the body. Perception, in his account, is a controlled construction constrained by sensory signals; the experienced self is likewise assembled through embodied processes rather than located in a single inner essence. He connects experiments, illusions, clinical cases, and theory while defending biological naturalism.
BookJohn Polkinghorne
Physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne argues that science and theology are distinct but intellectually related searches for truth. Drawing on the intelligibility and relational structure of the physical world, quantum theory, cosmology, divine action, and critical realism, he proposes that Christian belief can be rationally warranted without competing with scientific explanation or being reducible to a proof derived from nature.
Ralph Blumenthal
A biography of Harvard psychiatrist John Mack follows his controversial study of people reporting alien encounters and the professional, ethical, and metaphysical questions that followed.
BookMichael Shermer
A popular account of pattern detection, motivated reasoning, and how people form and defend beliefs.
Stuart A. Vyse
Psychologist Stuart Vyse examines why intelligent people develop and retain superstitious beliefs and rituals. Drawing on research into learning, coincidence, uncertainty, control, cultural transmission, and cognitive bias, he explains how meaningful patterns can become convincing even when a causal connection has not been demonstrated. Astrology appears within a wider human landscape of divination, luck, ritual, and magical thinking.
Bookjohn a. powell and Stephen Menendian
A framework for building belonging without defining community through exclusion, domination, or forced sameness.
Bookbell hooks
Essays on Kentucky, Black life, land, memory, class, regional identity, and the difficult work of returning home.
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