Monday, June 4, 2007
book list from arts ministry and practicality class presentation
some of my fellow seminarians were asking for a soft-copy compiled list of the books from my powerpoint presentation in class, so rather than just emailing it around (and leaving unavailable to my non-seminary friends), i figure i'll post it here with a link from email. enjoy.
2007:
•Proverbs of Ashes – Rebecca Parker
•The Writer as an Artist – Pat Schneider
•Islam for Dummies – Malcolm Clark
•The Second Greatest Story Ever Told – Gorman Bechard
•Webmastering for Dummies
•Review my Care Through Touch materials
•The Foucault Reader – Michel Foucault
•Breathe! You Are Alive – Thich Nhat Hanh
•Parallelities – Alan Dean Foster
•Recovering the Scandal of the Cross - Joel B. Green and Mark D. Baker
•A Chosen Faith: Intro to UU – John Buehrens and Forrest Church
•Structure, Style and Usage: Rhetoric and Reasoning – Hulon Willis
2008:
•The 3-Dimensional Voice – Joni Wilson
•The Early History of Heaven – J. Edward Wright
•George Lakoff – Metaphors We Live By
•Faith Without Certainty – Paul Rasor
•On Liberty – John Stuart Mill
•JPod – Douglas Coupland
•Stony the Road we Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation – Cain Hope Felder
•Set Your Voice Free – Roger Love
•Becoming Christ: Transformation through Contemplation - Brian C. Taylor
•Daily Life at the Time of Jesus - Miriam Feinberg Vamosh
•Washington and Rome: Catholicism in American Culture – James R. Kelly
•The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
2009:
•A Testament of Hope – The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
•Leaves of the Heaven Tree: The Great Compassion of the Buddha
•Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought - George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
•Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate – Naomi Klein
•The Coming of the Cosmic Christ – Matthew Fox
•God’s Politics – Jim Wallis
•A Marxist Looks at Jesus – Milan Machovec
•Faith of a Heretic – Walter Kaufmann
•Liberating Eschatology - Letty M. Russell and Serene Jones
•Towing Jehovah – James Morrow
•The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You – Dorothy Bryant
•Speak to Influence: How to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Voice – Susan Berkley
•The Lotus Sutra
•Godel, Escher, Bach – Douglas Hofstadter
•Saccidananda: A Christian Approach to Advatic Experiences – Abhishiktananda et. al.
•Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
•World Without End: Christian Eschatology From A Process Perspective - Joseph A. Bracken
•The Bondage of the Will – Martin Luther
2010:
•Thinking for a Change – John C. Maxwell
•She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb
•A Path with Heart – Jack Kornfield
•The New Human Revolution – Daisaku Ikeda
•Selections from Emerson
•Review Care Through Touch materials
•The Postman – David Brin
•Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity – Bruce Bawer
•The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipatthna - Nyanaponika
•The Music of the Primes – Marcus du Sautoy
•The Political Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr – Colm McKeogh
•The Ancient Wisdom of Origen – John Clark Smith
•The Culture of Make-Believe – Derrick Jensen
•Dawn - Octavia Butler
•Pedagogy of the Heart – Paolo Freire
•The Souls of Black Folks – W.E.B. Du Bois
2011:
•The Man Who Loved Only Numbers – Paul Hoffman
•The Qur’an
•Tools for Speaking and Singing – Gertrude Wheeler Beckman
•Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Shunryu Suzuki
•Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field – Barbara Ann Brennan
•The Gospel According to America: A Meditation on a God-Blessed, Christ-Haunted Idea – David Dark
•America’s God – Mark A. Noll
•The Life of God (As Told by Himself) – Franco Ferrucci and Raymond Rosenthal
•Understanding the Bible – John Buehrens
•The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power – Joseph Murphy
•City of Quartz – Mike Davis
•There is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Lewis V. Baldwin
•Drumming at the Edge of Magic – Mickey Hart and Jay Stevens
2012:
•The Gospel According to America: A Meditation on a God-Blessed, Christ-Haunted Idea – David Dark
•America’s God – Mark A. Noll
•The Life of God (As Told by Himself) – Franco Ferrucci and Raymond Rosenthal
•Understanding the Bible – John Buehrens
•Seven Years in Tibet – Heinrich Harrer
•The New Ambidextrious Universe – Martin Gardner
•The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ – Nicolas Notovitch
•Plants of the Gods: The Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers - Richard Evans Schultes, et. al.
•Afterburn: Reflections on Burning Man – Lee Gilmore, Et. al.
•Strange Birds from Zoroaster’s Nest – Laina Farhat-Holzman
•Confuscius – The Analects
•A History of the Devil – Gerald Messadie
•Saved – From What? - Early Ashby Johnson
•After Christianity – Gianni Vattimo
•Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian Realism – Robin W. Lovin
2013:
•The Constitution of the U.S.A.
•Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the U.S. from Washington to Kennedy
•Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
•All Men Are Brothers – Mohandas K. Gandhi
•Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa – Joan Jacobs Brumberg
•Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh
•Planet Drum – Mickey Hart and Fredric Liebermann
•The Mystery of Quaker Light – Peter Bien
•In Search of the Christ Sophia - Jann Aldredge-Clanton
•A History of Collective Joy – Barbara Ehrenreich
•Sikhism: Its Impact – Mehervan Singh
•The Ecology of Commerce – Paul Hawken
•The Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future – Bill McKibben
•Universal Salvation: The Current Debate – Robin A. Parry
•Einstein’s God: Albert Einstein’s Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God - Robert N. Goldman and Albert Einstein
•Behind the Eurocentric Veils – Clinton M. Jean
2014:
•Review Resources from Care Through Touch materials
•James Cone – The Spirituals and the Blues
2015:
•Inferno - Dante
•The Dead Sea Scriptures
•Walden & The Essay on Civil Disobedience – Thoreau
•Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism – Peter R. D’Agostino
•Great People of the Bible and How They Lived
•Bridges to Infinity: The Human Side of Mathematics
•Purgatorio - Dante
•What’s So Amazing About Grace? – Philip Yancey
•A Sound of Thunder – Ray Bradbury
•On the Road – Jack Kerouac
•Soul Work: Anti-Racist Theologies in Dialogue – Marjorie Bowen’s Wheatley and Nancy Palmer Jones
•Paradiso – Dante
•The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
2016:
•Footprints of a Dream: The Story of the Church for the Fellowship of all Peoples – Howard Thurman
•The Woundedland – Stephen R. Donaldson
•The Republic of Plato
•The Bhagavad-Gita
•Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
•The One Tree – Stephen R. Donaldson
•The Teaching of Buddha – Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
•The Late Great Planet Earth – Hal Lindsey
•Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
•Uprooting Racism – Paul Kivel
•White Gold Wielder – Stephen R. Donaldson
•The Jazz of Preaching: How to Preach with Great Freedom and Joy – Kirk Byron Jones
•Love Meets the Dragons – Tom Owen-Towle and Reed Farrington
•Transformer (Lou Reed) – Victor Bokris
•The Dancing Wu Li Masters – Gary Zukav
ALSO, the name of the software I used to make that diagram for the presentation is called "Freemind" which is available from http://freemind.sourceforge.net. And its provided free of charge, donations appreciated however. Another piece of similar, and likely more powerful software, is called Inspiration, which costs $70, but is more powerful (than Freemind beta 0.8). For me, its overkill, since I just need something to map my mind, and the tight form of Freemind's default diagramming saves me a little time. In the parenthetical statement above, I mentioned the Freemind is a beta version. It never crashed on me, and other than needing to install a Java runtime library prior to using it, it was simple and easy to use.
lyrics: "Dance of the Mad," by Pop Will Eat Itself. Lyrics worth reading. Much of their music I don't get crazy about, but the single this song was on, which also includes "Preaching to the Perverted," has a strong upbeat vibe worth listening to, if you can find it.
colors: same as before I guess.
mood: same as before.
chant/prayer/mantra: so many books, so little time.
pax hominibus,
joel
2007:
•Proverbs of Ashes – Rebecca Parker
•The Writer as an Artist – Pat Schneider
•Islam for Dummies – Malcolm Clark
•The Second Greatest Story Ever Told – Gorman Bechard
•Webmastering for Dummies
•Review my Care Through Touch materials
•The Foucault Reader – Michel Foucault
•Breathe! You Are Alive – Thich Nhat Hanh
•Parallelities – Alan Dean Foster
•Recovering the Scandal of the Cross - Joel B. Green and Mark D. Baker
•A Chosen Faith: Intro to UU – John Buehrens and Forrest Church
•Structure, Style and Usage: Rhetoric and Reasoning – Hulon Willis
2008:
•The 3-Dimensional Voice – Joni Wilson
•The Early History of Heaven – J. Edward Wright
•George Lakoff – Metaphors We Live By
•Faith Without Certainty – Paul Rasor
•On Liberty – John Stuart Mill
•JPod – Douglas Coupland
•Stony the Road we Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation – Cain Hope Felder
•Set Your Voice Free – Roger Love
•Becoming Christ: Transformation through Contemplation - Brian C. Taylor
•Daily Life at the Time of Jesus - Miriam Feinberg Vamosh
•Washington and Rome: Catholicism in American Culture – James R. Kelly
•The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
2009:
•A Testament of Hope – The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
•Leaves of the Heaven Tree: The Great Compassion of the Buddha
•Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought - George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
•Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate – Naomi Klein
•The Coming of the Cosmic Christ – Matthew Fox
•God’s Politics – Jim Wallis
•A Marxist Looks at Jesus – Milan Machovec
•Faith of a Heretic – Walter Kaufmann
•Liberating Eschatology - Letty M. Russell and Serene Jones
•Towing Jehovah – James Morrow
•The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You – Dorothy Bryant
•Speak to Influence: How to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Voice – Susan Berkley
•The Lotus Sutra
•Godel, Escher, Bach – Douglas Hofstadter
•Saccidananda: A Christian Approach to Advatic Experiences – Abhishiktananda et. al.
•Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
•World Without End: Christian Eschatology From A Process Perspective - Joseph A. Bracken
•The Bondage of the Will – Martin Luther
2010:
•Thinking for a Change – John C. Maxwell
•She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb
•A Path with Heart – Jack Kornfield
•The New Human Revolution – Daisaku Ikeda
•Selections from Emerson
•Review Care Through Touch materials
•The Postman – David Brin
•Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity – Bruce Bawer
•The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipatthna - Nyanaponika
•The Music of the Primes – Marcus du Sautoy
•The Political Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr – Colm McKeogh
•The Ancient Wisdom of Origen – John Clark Smith
•The Culture of Make-Believe – Derrick Jensen
•Dawn - Octavia Butler
•Pedagogy of the Heart – Paolo Freire
•The Souls of Black Folks – W.E.B. Du Bois
2011:
•The Man Who Loved Only Numbers – Paul Hoffman
•The Qur’an
•Tools for Speaking and Singing – Gertrude Wheeler Beckman
•Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Shunryu Suzuki
•Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field – Barbara Ann Brennan
•The Gospel According to America: A Meditation on a God-Blessed, Christ-Haunted Idea – David Dark
•America’s God – Mark A. Noll
•The Life of God (As Told by Himself) – Franco Ferrucci and Raymond Rosenthal
•Understanding the Bible – John Buehrens
•The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power – Joseph Murphy
•City of Quartz – Mike Davis
•There is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Lewis V. Baldwin
•Drumming at the Edge of Magic – Mickey Hart and Jay Stevens
2012:
•The Gospel According to America: A Meditation on a God-Blessed, Christ-Haunted Idea – David Dark
•America’s God – Mark A. Noll
•The Life of God (As Told by Himself) – Franco Ferrucci and Raymond Rosenthal
•Understanding the Bible – John Buehrens
•Seven Years in Tibet – Heinrich Harrer
•The New Ambidextrious Universe – Martin Gardner
•The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ – Nicolas Notovitch
•Plants of the Gods: The Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers - Richard Evans Schultes, et. al.
•Afterburn: Reflections on Burning Man – Lee Gilmore, Et. al.
•Strange Birds from Zoroaster’s Nest – Laina Farhat-Holzman
•Confuscius – The Analects
•A History of the Devil – Gerald Messadie
•Saved – From What? - Early Ashby Johnson
•After Christianity – Gianni Vattimo
•Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian Realism – Robin W. Lovin
2013:
•The Constitution of the U.S.A.
•Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the U.S. from Washington to Kennedy
•Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
•All Men Are Brothers – Mohandas K. Gandhi
•Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa – Joan Jacobs Brumberg
•Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh
•Planet Drum – Mickey Hart and Fredric Liebermann
•The Mystery of Quaker Light – Peter Bien
•In Search of the Christ Sophia - Jann Aldredge-Clanton
•A History of Collective Joy – Barbara Ehrenreich
•Sikhism: Its Impact – Mehervan Singh
•The Ecology of Commerce – Paul Hawken
•The Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future – Bill McKibben
•Universal Salvation: The Current Debate – Robin A. Parry
•Einstein’s God: Albert Einstein’s Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God - Robert N. Goldman and Albert Einstein
•Behind the Eurocentric Veils – Clinton M. Jean
2014:
•Review Resources from Care Through Touch materials
•James Cone – The Spirituals and the Blues
2015:
•Inferno - Dante
•The Dead Sea Scriptures
•Walden & The Essay on Civil Disobedience – Thoreau
•Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism – Peter R. D’Agostino
•Great People of the Bible and How They Lived
•Bridges to Infinity: The Human Side of Mathematics
•Purgatorio - Dante
•What’s So Amazing About Grace? – Philip Yancey
•A Sound of Thunder – Ray Bradbury
•On the Road – Jack Kerouac
•Soul Work: Anti-Racist Theologies in Dialogue – Marjorie Bowen’s Wheatley and Nancy Palmer Jones
•Paradiso – Dante
•The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
2016:
•Footprints of a Dream: The Story of the Church for the Fellowship of all Peoples – Howard Thurman
•The Woundedland – Stephen R. Donaldson
•The Republic of Plato
•The Bhagavad-Gita
•Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
•The One Tree – Stephen R. Donaldson
•The Teaching of Buddha – Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
•The Late Great Planet Earth – Hal Lindsey
•Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
•Uprooting Racism – Paul Kivel
•White Gold Wielder – Stephen R. Donaldson
•The Jazz of Preaching: How to Preach with Great Freedom and Joy – Kirk Byron Jones
•Love Meets the Dragons – Tom Owen-Towle and Reed Farrington
•Transformer (Lou Reed) – Victor Bokris
•The Dancing Wu Li Masters – Gary Zukav
ALSO, the name of the software I used to make that diagram for the presentation is called "Freemind" which is available from http://freemind.sourceforge.net. And its provided free of charge, donations appreciated however. Another piece of similar, and likely more powerful software, is called Inspiration, which costs $70, but is more powerful (than Freemind beta 0.8). For me, its overkill, since I just need something to map my mind, and the tight form of Freemind's default diagramming saves me a little time. In the parenthetical statement above, I mentioned the Freemind is a beta version. It never crashed on me, and other than needing to install a Java runtime library prior to using it, it was simple and easy to use.
lyrics: "Dance of the Mad," by Pop Will Eat Itself. Lyrics worth reading. Much of their music I don't get crazy about, but the single this song was on, which also includes "Preaching to the Perverted," has a strong upbeat vibe worth listening to, if you can find it.
colors: same as before I guess.
mood: same as before.
chant/prayer/mantra: so many books, so little time.
pax hominibus,
joel
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