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BookEknath Easwaran
The Gita places a warrior's moral crisis inside a teaching on dharma, disciplined action, devotion, knowledge, and the nature of the self. Easwaran's edition offers substantial orientation while preserving the scriptural dialogue.
BookAbdallah ibn Alawi al-Haddad; translated by Mostafa al-Badawi
A concise classical manual of intention, prayer, remembrance, conduct, and spiritual discipline from the Hadrami Sufi tradition.
BookThe Episcopal Church
The authorized Episcopal liturgical book of daily prayer, Eucharist, rites, psalms, and pastoral offices.
BookShane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and Enuma Okoro
A year-round collection of daily prayer, song, Scripture, saints, and justice-oriented remembrance for communities and individuals.
BookSwami Tapasyananda
A complete Gita translation with extensive commentary from the Ramakrishna-Vedanta tradition, deepening beyond the accessible Easwaran edition.
BookFarid ud-Din Attar; translated by Dick Davis and Afkham Darbandi
A Persian Sufi allegory in which birds journey through spiritual valleys toward the Simorgh and discover what their seeking requires.
BookEknath Easwaran
Easwaran translates and introduces a widely read collection of verses on mind, conduct, attention, and liberation attributed to the Buddha.
BookDaniel C. Matt
Brief translated passages introduce Kabbalistic images of Ein Sof, creation, divine immanence, and human action.
BookBhikkhu Bodhi
A thematic anthology of discourses from the Pali Canon with introductions by a major Theravada translator.
BookAmy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, editors
Edited by Jewish scholars Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, this study edition presents the New Testament with essays, annotations, maps, and historical context focused on its Jewish worlds and its reception. Contributors explain Jewish practices, texts, movements, and interpretive debates while identifying passages and later readings that have fostered anti-Judaism. The second edition expands engagement with Jewish–Christian relations and diverse Jewish contexts.
BookAdele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, editors
The Tanakh presented with Jewish scholarly notes and essays that orient readers to Hebrew, history, interpretation, and Jewish reception.
BookLao Tzu; translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin’s spare interpretive version foregrounds humility, noncoercion, usefulness, and the ordinary mystery of the Tao.
BookPope Francis
Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical develops an integral ecology joining climate change, biodiversity, water, pollution, poverty, urban life, technology, economics, consumerism, and spiritual responsibility. Drawing on scientific findings, Scripture, Catholic social teaching, bishops’ conferences, and dialogue beyond Catholicism, it argues that care for the earth and care for vulnerable people are one moral crisis rather than separable causes.
BookMarcus Aurelius; translated by Gregory Hays
Private Stoic reflections on attention, mortality, duty, judgment, and living within what cannot be controlled.
BookTarif Khalidi
A collection and study of sayings and stories about Jesus in classical Arabic Islamic literature.
BookAthanasius
Athanasius explains creation, human corruption, the incarnation, death, and restoration in a compact patristic work. It helps visitors encounter early Christian theology directly rather than only through later summaries.
BookG. E. H. Palmer; Philip Sherrard; Kallistos Ware
The first English volume gathers early Orthodox ascetical texts on watchfulness, prayer, passions, discernment, and the transformation of attention.
BookM. A. S. Abdel Haleem
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem translates the Qur'an into contemporary English with attention to textual flow, context, and the connections among passages. The volume includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and a thematic index, offering English-language readers access to Islam's scripture as sustained proclamation about God, guidance, mercy, judgment, prophetic history, worship, ethics, and community.
BookBlack Elk; recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown
A consequential account of Lakota sacred rites and cosmology transmitted by Black Elk through Joseph Epes Brown.
BookSeyyed Hossein Nasr, editor-in-chief; Caner K. Dagli, Maria Massi Dakake, Joseph E. B. Lumbard, general editors; Mohammed Rustom, assistant editor
An English Quran translation with extensive commentary drawing on Sunni and Shia, legal, theological, philosophical, and mystical sources, plus scholarly essays and reference material.
BookLao Tzu; translated by Red Pine
Red Pine translates the Tao Te Ching and places each brief chapter beside selections from roughly two millennia of Chinese commentary. The result presents the Dao, virtue, noncoercive action, humility, simplicity, governance, desire, usefulness, and return not as a single modern paraphrase but as a text repeatedly interpreted by poets, monks, officials, scholars, and religious practitioners.
BookEknath Easwaran
Easwaran translates selected Upanishads exploring ultimate reality, the self, death, knowledge, and liberation.
BookShantideva; translated by the Padmakara Translation Group
A classic Mahayana poem and practice text on compassion, patience, wisdom, and the bodhisattva commitment.
BookElizabeth Cady Stanton and the Revising Committee
A foundational nineteenth-century feminist critique of biblical texts and their use in restricting women.
BookEdwin F. Bryant, translator and commentator
A detailed translation and tradition-rich commentary on the foundational aphorisms of classical Yoga philosophy and practice.
BookZhuangzi; translated by Brook Ziporyn
A complete contemporary translation of the playful, paradoxical Daoist classic with scholarly notes.