James Wetherbee

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World Religions in Seven Sentences: A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic

This title is better at assuring Christians of their own position than challenging their interlocutors. Readers are left with little understanding of other religions’ appeal.
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He Called Me Sister: A True Story of Finding Humanity on Death Row

This deeply moving book is a personal challenge to doctrinaire notions of justice verses the Christian conviction that each person is redeemable.

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Home Is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold Path

What initially looks like a reworking of Buddhism becomes a recovery of it from the dominant culture. A great and intriguing source for readers to work through, featuring stories, analyses, and proposed exercises.
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Wake Up to Wonder: 22 Invitations to Amazement in the Everyday

Although all of the subjects March commends to the reader are Christians, the suggested practices are not bound by any religious faith and open to anyone who strives to live deliberately.
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The New Fight for Life: Roe, Race, and a Pro-Life Commitment to Justice

Watson challenges his evangelical audience to look beyond legal restrictions on abortion and consider more compassionate responses.
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QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross: Christianity and Conspiracy Theories

This book treats conspiracy theories like an aberration, instead of confronting the possibility that recent events might be a natural development within the evangelical movement itself.
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The Dalai Lama: Leadership and the Power of Compassion

That Chih is captivated by the Dalai Lama is beyond question. But this effusive narrative falls just shy of a hagiography. Perhaps for this reason, Chih’s biography fails to capture the depth of this remarkable human being, the Tibetan people, and the distinctiveness of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Streams in the Wasteland: Finding Spiritual Renewal with the Desert Fathers and Mothers

Although there are not enough anecdotes from desert mothers and fathers to fully appreciate them, Arndt’s book (citing Anglican, Orthodox, and Catholic sources) succeeds in showing that they were not some curious aberration but a genuine response that has repeated itself throughout Church history.
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How To Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment

Cleary brings a modern and neglected voice in applied ethics to a level that readers have recently seen with Aristotle and the Stoics.
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