Our Universal Origin Stories
The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth by Michael Marshall - A Review
Michael Marshall, The Genesis Quest: …
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Language for Comfort and Clarity Helps Us All Grope Toward Truth
A Review of Embracing the Other: The Transformative Spirit of Love by Ji-Sun Kim (2015)
Grace Kim is one of the leading feminist lights in the Asian evangelical Christian community in the United States, which is the winner among church-building communities in American Christianity. She is a prolific writer and public…
Inter-religion Talk Time
A Book Review of Shared Stories, Rival Tellings: Early Encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims by Robert Gregg (2016)
Robert Gregg’s book , Shared Stories, Rival…
Slow Justice Work, Reflective with Spiritual Practices
A Book Review of Kent Annan, Slow Kingdom Coming: Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy, and Walking Humbly in the World (2016)
Kent Annan, author of Slow Kingdom Coming: Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy, and Walking Humbly in the World …
Death
A Book Review of J. Todd Billings, The End of the Christian Life: How Embracing Our Mortality Frees Us to Truly Live (Brazo Press, 2020)
J. Todd Billings, The End of the Christian Life: How Embracing Our Mortality Frees Us to Truly Live …
Hastened Death Preparations: A New/Old Means for Providing a Healthy and Peaceful Death
A Book Review of T. Quill et al, Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely Available Option for Hastening Death (2021)
Thanks to medicine, nutrition, sanitation, good government, trade, and peace, human life expectancy has grown longer. But, we all die. For most of human history, life expectancy was about 30 years and people died of accidents primarily.
For sound families, what are the standards?
The Secrets of Happy Families, by Bruce Feiler - A review
For sound families, what are the standards to which we hold ourselves? Should all families be the same all the time or are there, for families, both universal standards and culturally relative standards to be respected? …
Testimony
The New Testament: A Translation by David Bentley Hart (2017)- A Book Review
D. Hart, The New Testament: A Translation …
Responsible Death
A Book Review of Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart, The Peaceful Pill Handbook (2021)
Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart, The Peaceful Pill Handbook …
Animal Consciousness
A Book Review of David Sibley, What It’s Like to be a Bird
What It’s Like to be a Bird by David Sibley(Knopf, 2020) is an addition to other books about human observation of other…