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Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship by John Swinton

Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship

John Swinton

255 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0ben_smitty's review
nonfiction informative slow-paced
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn

God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

Meghan O'Gieblyn

304 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0ben_smitty's review
nonfiction essays memoir philosophy religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs

Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

Alan Jacobs

192 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0ben_smitty's review
nonfiction psychology reflective slow-paced
Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine by Khaled Anatolios

Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine

Khaled Anatolios

340 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0ben_smitty's review
history dark informative medium-paced
Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel by Rowan Williams

Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel

Rowan Williams

144 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

5.0ben_smitty's review
nonfiction religion reflective medium-paced
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

Gilead #1

Marilynne Robinson

247 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

5.0ben_smitty's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Interior States: Essays by Meghan O'Gieblyn

Interior States: Essays

Meghan O'Gieblyn

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0ben_smitty's review
nonfiction essays memoir religion reflective slow-paced
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Anna Lembke

304 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0ben_smitty's review
nonfiction health psychology science informative reflective medium-paced
Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Our Town

Thornton Wilder

208 pages • first pub 1938 (editions)

5.0ben_smitty's review
fiction classics play emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Embracing Obscurity: Becoming Nothing in Light of God's Everything by Anonymous

Embracing Obscurity: Becoming Nothing in Light of God's Everything

Anonymous

192 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0ben_smitty's review
nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced