if you've been reading, you know i work at the library at my seminary. while working there, i write down in my PDA the titles of books that attract my attention. all of the books on this list are books that i would like to read, or at least peruse and ponder. i know that i would never be able to read all of the books on my list, so if i can spend 30 minutes to an hour on most books, just to discover the tasty nuggets within that inspire, i'd consider that better than par.

some of these books, i'd like to read as a matter of cultural relevancy, some for personal inspiration/development, some to better the depth and breadth of my theology, and some for other reasons, or just because it looked interesting. here's the list:

1. th scroll of th war of th sons of light and th sons of darkness. - yadin
2. storm warning - billy graham
3. seeing children, seeing god: a practicl theo of childrn & poverty - pamela couture
4. mapping paradise: a history of heavn on earth - scafi (bL 540 s23, size 2)
5. salvation & suicide (jonestown) - chidester - bp 605 p46 c48
6. shaman's path - doore
7. techgnosis: myth, magic, & mysticism in th info age - davis
8. maría's metaphysical anthropology - lópez-morillas
9. dharma art - trungpa
10. postmetaphysical thinkin - habermas
11. th voyage of no return: ibn arabi - addas
12. talks on beelzebub's tales - bennett
13. soul, body, and survival: essays on th metaphysics of human persons - corcoran
14. godlust: facing th demonic, embracing th divine - walters
15. drones, clones, & alpha babes: retrofitting star rek's humanism, post 9/11 - relke
16. those preachin' women - mitchell
17. th eschat econ: time & th hospitality of god - knight
18. fr th healing of nations. th bk of revelation in an age of cultural conflict - gonzalez
19. shoes tht fit our feet: srcs fr a constructive blk theo - hopkins
20. why r we deaf to th cry of th earth? - mcdonagh
21. th hum: call & response in af-amer preachng - crawford
22. cognitive neuroscience: th biology of th mind - qp 360.5 g39 2002
23. th cherry tree - ikeda/wildsmith (pz 7 m4784133, size 2)
24. discover yr conflict mgmt style - leas
25. th bible frm scratch: a lightning tour from gen-rev - jenkins
26. th power of th poor in history - gutierrez
27. pendle hill pamphlet #289: quakers & hindus - bx 7615 p39 v.280-289
28. tattooed walls - (size 2) nd 2638 n4 r67
29. th origins of om manipadme hum -studholme
30. th doctrinal theo of th evangelical luth chrch - heinrich schmid
31. my ministry - goodell - bx 8333 g6 m88
32. blasphemy: art that offends - (size 2) n 72 r4 p53
33. reviving ophelia: saving th selves of adolescent girls - pipher
34. imagery of lynching - apel
35. jesus' strayegy fr social xformation - nacpil - bx 8349 s65 n33
36. *distributive justice - rescher
37. th faith of 50 million: basebal, relig, & amer culture - evans/herzog
38. purity & danger - douglas
39. a thoughtful soul: refl frm swedenborg: bx 8711 a7 d65
40. th art of crossing cultures - storti
41. dirt, undress, & diff: crit persp's on th body's surface - masquelier
42. th elem forms of relig life - durkheim
43. an alternative future fr america II - hn 65 t44 1970 - theobald
44. institution of th xtian relig - calvin
45. history & th triune god - moltmann
46. thbible tells me so: uses & abuses of holy scripture - hill/cheadle
47. bible of th oppressed - tamez
48. th psychology of relig - bL 53 p825
49. homo deva: evolution's next step - belknar
50. mass leisure - larrabee
51. money & power - ellul
52. colour & healing - mayer - rm 840 m39
53. elecric liturgy - benson
54. a psych study of relig conversion - jones
55. dostoevsky's concept of sporitual rebirth - khrapovitsky
56. xtianity, poverty & wealth - taylor
57. our pro-socialist churches - bx 6 f4 j65
58. basic principles of monastic spirituality - merton
59. th interrogation of joan of arc - sullivan
60. th intrareligious dlg - bL 87 p26
61. th queer god - marcella althaus-reid
62. radhakrishnan: th profile of a universalist - b 5134 r34 h3
63. i am that - muktananda
64. th god that failed (on soviet communism) - hx 59 c75 1963
65. th muqaddimah: an intro to history - ibn khaldun (xlated frm arabic)
66. *fritz eichenberg: works of mercy - ne 1112 e32 a4
67. three essays on universal law: karma, will & love - singer
68. agnosis: theo in th void - pattison
69. realist xtian theo in a po-mo age - patterson
70. *ethics: th fundamentals - driver
71. parables fr our time - oldenhage
72. th homiletical plot: th sermon as narrative art form - lowry
73. put on yr own oxygen mask first: redscovering ministry - easum

lyrics: from "the ridge" by Information Society,
Now she's walking slowly onward
Through the garden you can't know
Her dance so beautiful so twisted
A spinning madness in the snow

She's got a black hole in there with her
She's got the sun all in there too
They're her partners in her eternal dance
She's not aware of time moving past her
She's not aware of getting any further

She walks the ridge
So glassy sharp
You can't find her now
You can't speak to her now

colors: green and gray, with rainbows.

mood: psychically crushed, but surviving

chant/prayer/mantra: bring it on, but not just yet please.


pax hominibus,
joel

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