Dignity Washington Book Club Books Read (10 April 2014)
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DIGNITY WASHINGTON BOOK CLUB BOOKS READ (10 APRIL 2014) Acimen, Andre. Call Me By Your Name. NY, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2007. 248 pp. Akhtar, Ayad. American Dervish: a Novel. NY, Little, Brown & Co., 2012. 357 pp. Alison, James. Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay. NY, Crossroad, c2001. 239 pp. Alison, James. On Being Liked. NY, Crossroad, c2003. 150 pp. Armstrong, Karen. The Great Transformation: the Beginning of Our Religious Traditions. NY, Knopf, c2006. 469 pp. Armstrong, Karen. Islam: a Short History. NY, Modern Library, c2010, 222 pp Aslan, Reza. Zealot: the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. NY, Random House, 2013. 336 pp. Barnett, Sylvan, William Burto, William E. Cain. An Introduction to Literature: Fiction, Poetry and Drama, 14th ed. NY, Pearson Longman, c2006. 1854 pp. Selections: Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado (p. 180); Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace (p. 413); Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (p.500); Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find (p.192); William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily (p. 448); Eudora Welty, A Worn Path (p. 165); John Updike, Separating (p. 493); Alice Elliott Dark, In the Gloaming (p. 119); Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown (p. 147); W. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra (p. 73); Handouts: William Faulkner's Speech at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies; Diane Ackerman, Lives: the Husband's Speech. Berendt, John. The City of Falling Angels. NY, Penguin Books, 2006. 414 pp. Bering, Jesse. Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. NY, Scientific Bks, 2013. 263 pp. Borg, Marcus J. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally. NY, HarperCollins, 2002. 321 pp. Boswell, John. Same-Sex Unions In Premodern Europe. NY, Vintage Books, c1994, 1995. 412 pp. Brown, Dan. The Lost Symbol. NY, Doubleday, c2009. 509 pp. Church, Forrest. So Help Me God: the Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State. NY, Harcourt, c2007. 530 pp. Curran, Charles E. Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian. Washington, DC, Georgetown Univ. Pr., c2006. 297 pp. Daly, Michael. The Book of Mychal: the Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge. NY, St. Martin's Pr., 2008. 388 pp. Doyle, Dennis M. The Church Emerging From Vatican II: a Popular Approach to Contemporary Catholicism. Mystic, CT, Twenty Third Pubns., c1992, 2002. 358 pp. Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Christianities: the Battle For Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. NY, Oxford Univ. Pr., c2003. 294 pp. Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus: the Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. NY, HarperCollins, c2005. 242 pp. Elie, Paul. The Life You Save May Be Your Own: an American Pilgrimage: Flannery O'™Connor, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, Dorothy Day. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2003. 554 pp. Fahy, Christopher. Matinee at the Flame. Hiram, GA, Overlook Connection Pr., c2006. 253 pp. Fields, L. A. My Dear Watson. Maple Shade, NJ, Lethe Press, 2013. 276 pp. Forster, E. M. Maurice, a Novel. NY, Norton, c1971. 256 pp. Greeley, Andrew. The Catholic Imagination. Berkeley, CA, Univ. of California Pr., c2000, 2001. 213 pp. Greeley, Andrew. The Senator and the Priest. NY, Tom Doherty, c2006. 302 pp. Heim, S. Mark. Saved From Sacrifice: a Theology of the Cross. Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans, 2006. 346 pp. Helminiak, Daniel A. The Transcended Christian: Spiritual Lessons for the Twenty-First Century. NY, Alyson Books, c2007. 315 pp. Helminiak, Daniel A. What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality. San Francisco, CA, Alamo Square Pr., 2000. 121 pp. Herrada, Gilles. The Missing Myth: a New Vision of Same-Sex Love. NY, SelectBooks, Inc., 2013. 365 pp, Hiaasen, Carl. Bad Monkey. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. 317 pp. Hoffman, Wayne. Sweet Like Sugar. NY, Kensington Books, 2011. 290 pp. Holleran, Andrew. Dancer from the Dance, a Novel. NY, Perennial, c1978, 2001. 250 pp. Hughes, Robert. Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 498 pp. Isay, Richard A. Becoming Gay: the Journey To Self-Acceptance. NY, Henry Holt, c1996. 210 pp. Jenkins, Philip. Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe For the Next 1,500 Years. NY, HarperCollins, c2010. 328 pp. Jennings, Jr., Theodore. Jacob's Wound: Homoerotic Narrative In the Literature Of Ancient Israel. NY, Continuum, c2005. 288 pp. Jennings, Jr., Theodore. The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives From the New Testament. Cleveland, OH, Pilgrim Pr., c2003. 246 pp. Jennings, Jr. Theodore W. Plato or Paul: The Origins of Western Homophobia. Cleveland, OH, Pilgrim Pr.,2009. 244 pp. Johnson, Fenton. Keeping Faith: a Skeptic's Journey. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, c2003. 324 pp. Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Real Jesus: the Misguided Quest For the Historical Jesus and the Truth Of the Traditional Gospels. San Francisco, CA, HarperCollins, c1996, 1997. 182 pp. Jordan, Mark D. The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality In Modern Catholicism. Chicago, IL, Univ. of Chicago Pr., c2000. 322 pp. Kennedy, Kerry. Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest For Meaning. NY, Crown, c2008. 247 pp. King, Ursula. Spirit Of Fire: the Life and Vision of Teilhard de Chardin. Maryknoll, NY, Orbis Books, c1996. 245 pp. Kung, Hans. The Beginning of All Things: Science and Religion. Grand Rapids, MI., Eerdmans, c2005, 220pp. Lambert, Roystton. The Story of Hadrian & Antinous. NY, Carol Pub. Group, 1992. 298 pp. Lodge, David. Souls and Bodies. NY, Penguin Books, c1980, 1990. 243 pp. McBride, Denis. The Parables of Jesus. Liguori, MO, Liguori, 1999. 195 pp. McBrien, Richard P. The Church: the Evolution of Catholicism. NY, HarperCollins, c2008. 496 pp. McClory Robert. Faithful Dissenters: Stories of Men and Women Who Loved and Changed the Church. Maryknoll, NY, Orbis Books, c2000. 180 pp. McGinley, Dugan. Acts of Faith, Acts of Love: Gay Catholic Autobiographies as Sacred Texts. NY, Continuum, c2004 2006. 246 pp. McLennan, Scotty. Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning. NY, HarperCollins, c1999. 242 pp. McLennan, Scotty. Jesus Was a Liberal: Reclaiming Christianity for All. NY, Palgrave Macmillan, c2009. 260 pp. McNeill, John J. Sex as God Intended: a Reflection on Human Sexuality as Play. NJ, Lethe Pr. c2008. 263 pp. Mallon, Thomas. Fellow Travelers. NY, Pantheon, c2007. 353 pp. Martin James. Becoming Who You Are: Insights On the True Self From Thomas Merton and Other Saints. Mahwak, NJ, HiddenSpring, 2006. 98 pp. Meier, Gary M. Hidden Voices: Reflections of a Gay, Catholic Priest. Lexington, KY, 2013. 128 pp. Moore, Gareth. A Question of Truth: Christianity and Homosexuality. London, Continuum, c2003. 308 pp. Murray, Paul. Life in Paradox: the Story of a Gay Catholic Priest. UK, Circle Books, 2008, 231 pp. O'Murchu, Diarmuid. Reclaiming Spirituality: a New Spiritual Framework For Today's World. NY, Crossroad, c1997, 2000. 197 pp. Pagels, Elaine. Adam, Eve, and the Serpent. NY, Vintage Books, 1989. 189 pp. Pagels, Elaine. Beyond Belief: the Secret Gospel Of Thomas. NY, Random House, c2005. 257 pp. Pomfret, Scott. Since My Last Confession: a Gay Catholic Memoir. NY, Arcade, c2008, 288 pp. Ray, Darrel W. The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture. Bonner Springs, KS, IPC Press, c2009. Robinson, Geoffrey. Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus. Collegeville, MN, c2008. 307 pp. Rohr Richard. Jesus' Plan for a New World: the Sermon On the Mount. Cincinnati, OH, St. Anthony Messenger Pr., c1996. 175 pp. Sachs, Jonathan. The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations. NY, Continuum, c2002, c2003. 216 pp. Spong, John Shelby. Jesus for the Non-Religious. NY, HarperSanFrancisco, c2007. 316 pp. Tartt, Donna. The Goldfinch. NY, Little Brown, 2013, 784 pp. Tobias, Andrew. The Best Little Boy in the World. NY, Ballantine Books, c1973, 1993. 247 pp. Trevor, William. Selected Stories. NY, Penguin Books, 2008. 567 pp. Walter, Jess. Beautiful Ruins: A Novel. NY, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition, 2013. 368 pp. Warren, Patricia Nell. The Front Runner. Beverly Hills, CA, Wildcat Pr., c1974, 1996. 320 pp. Weakland, Rembert G. A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop. Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans, c2009. 429 pp. Welch, John, Spiritual Pilgrims: Carl Jung and Teresa of Avila. NY, Paulist Pr., c1982. 228 pp. White, Edmund. The Beautiful Room Is Empty. NY, Vintage, c1988, 1994. 227 pp. White, Edmund. The Farewell Symphony. NY, Knopf, c1997. 413 pp. Wills, Garry. Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit. NY, Doubleday, c2000. 326 pp. Wills, Garry. What Jesus Meant. NY, Viking, c2006. 143 pp. Wills, Garry. Why I Am a Catholic. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Co., c2002. 390 pp. Wink, Walter. The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium. NY, Galilee Book, c1998. 224 pp. Wroblewski, David. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, a Novel. NY, HarperCollins, c2008. 562 pp. Young, Wm. Paul. The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity. Newbury Park, CA, Windblown Media, c2007. 252 pp. .