"Extraordinary people will say extraordinary things, especially when it is Bob Abernethy and his team at PBS’ Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly doing the asking. The Life of Meaning presents fifty-nine contributors speaking candidly about their search for meaning in their own personal lives, their experience of God, and for some, the struggle to reconcile faith and doubt. They include Jimmy Carter, Francis Collins, the Dalai Lama, Robert Fran ..."
The Life of Meaning(1st Edition) Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World by BobAbernethy, William Bole, Tom Brokaw Hardcover, 438 Pages, Published 2007 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-758-9, ISBN: 1-58322-758-X
"Praise for the PBS Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly show:“Finally something intelligent on TV about religion.”—San Francisco Chronicle“The best spot on the television landscape to take in the broad view of the spiritual dimension of American life as well as insightful glimpses of developments abroad.”—The Christian Science MonitorIn this thoughtful collection, extraordinary people who have been guests on the celebrated PBS show Religion & E ..."
"What would you do for twenty-four hours if the only criteria were to pursue your deepest joy?Dan Allender's lyrical book about the Sabbath expels the myriad myths about this "day of rest," starting with the one that paints the Sabbath as a day of forced quiet, spiritual exercises, and religious devotion and attendance. This, he says, is at odds with the ancient tradition of Sabbath as a day of delight for both body and soul. Instead, th ..."
"What would you do for twenty-four hours if the only criteria were to pursue your deepest joy?Dan Allender’s lyrical book about the Sabbath expels the myriad myths about this “day of rest,” starting with the one that paints the Sabbath as a day of forced quiet, spiritual exercises, and religious devotion and attendance. This, he says, is at odds with the ancient tradition of Sabbath as a day of delight for both body and soul. Instead, th ..."
"Augustine and Hal McElwaine Helms, The Confessions of St. Augustine: A
Modern English Version (Orleans, Mass: Paraclete Press, 1986), 142–54. 17.
Joseph Mali, “Counterclockwise: Notes toward an Ecology of Time,” European
Legacy 3, no. 3 (1998), 13; Brian Edgar, “Time for God: Christian Stewardship
and the Gift of Time,” Evangelical Review of Theology 27, no. 2 (2003), 129. 18.
Deborah Bird Rose, “To Dance with Time: A Victoria Rive ..."
The Life of Meaning Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World by BobAbernethy, William Bole Ebook, 449 Pages, Published 2011 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60980-000-0, ISBN: 1-60980-000-1
"For years, Orthodox rabbi Irving Greenberg—a theologian and former chair of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Council—agonized over this question. He
respects those who could not make the leap of faith after the Holocaust, those
who stand on the other side of what he terms a “thin line” between belief and
doubt. Greenberg's spiritual turning point came when he realized that God suffers
together with humans, but he still had to m ..."