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God’s Echo by Sandy Sasso

About midway through her eminently accessible and perfectly tuned little book, Rabbi Sandy Sasso recounts a tale from Abraham Joshua Heschel’s childhood. When the future scholar, sage, and ecumenist first heard the story of the binding of Isaac, he began to weep inconsolably. “But, rabbi,” the future co-worker of Dr. King asked his teacher, “what if the angel had come a second too late?” Read the Review

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Roots and Wings by Margaret Silf

. . . Be not afraid, Silf tells those who are devoted to Jesus. Neither of science, nor of empirical evidence, nor of hard questions, nor of your own imagination. “Do you think creation has ‘peaked’ in homo sapiens, or are we going farther?” Before addressing questions like that, Silf says, Take a deep breath, stay calm, go only as far as you’d like. Read the Review

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The Poetics of Space and The Poetics of Reverie by Gaston Bachelard

Bachelard’s powers of meditative reflection and his profound reverence for the physical world deepened self-awareness about how I experience a dwelling and the significance my dwelling space has for me. Read the Review