Book Reviews Archive

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

Posted June 2nd, 2009 in Book Reviews 2 Comments

by James Gustave Speth, Yale University Press, 2008 Speth’s latest book, published last year, adds another volume to the long list of books predicting imminent ecological disaster if we do not act fast.  His message is urgent.  He realizes we are running out of time. It’s the messenger as much as the message that matters.  [...]

Ancestral Grace

Posted February 2nd, 2009 in Book Reviews 0 Comments

I have been reading Diarmuid O’Murchu for several years now.  His books open up our worldview, our spiritualities and religiosities, to the enormity of the evolutionary process of which we are a part.  He allows the full impact of science — what we know now of the vast expanses of time and space — to [...]

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Blessed Unrest

Posted October 27th, 2008 in Book Reviews 2 Comments

…How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming by Paul Hawken, Viking Penguin, 2007 The books that matter most to me are those that do not diminish or attempt to downplay the extent of the crises we face, but offer hope in the face of them. [...]

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God Is Red: A Native View of Religion 30th Anniversary Edition

Posted June 27th, 2008 in Book Reviews 1 Comment

by Vine Deloria, Jr

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