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‘"Change? What do you mean "change"?’

Changes in Our Lives and in the History of Christian Belief

presented by Stephenie Rose Cooper

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Session 3, continued:  Resources for an Expanding Consciousness/Expanding Spirituality

Resources for an Expanding Consciousness/Expanding Spirituality

Books - Fiction (Anything by this Author - book listed is especially good), Poets, and Artists

&    Adams, Douglas,  The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

&    Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid's Tale

&    Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice

&    Bantock, Nick, Griffin and Sabine

&    Baum, L. Frank, The Wizard of Oz

&    Bechard, Gorman, The Second Greatest Story Ever Told

&    Blake, William (Art and Poetry)

&    Bradbury, Ray, The Martian Chronicles

&    Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland

&    Celtic Art

&    Chopin, Kate, The Awakening

&    Clarke, Arthur C., Childhood’s End

&    Day, Marele, Lambs of God

&    Giotto (Art)

&    Golding, William, Lord of the Flies

&    Hansen, Ron, Mariette in Ecstasy

&    Heglund, Jean, Into the Forest

&    Heinlein, Robert, Stranger in a Strange Land

&    Herbert, Frank, Dune

&    Hesse, Herman, Siddhartha

&    Huxley, Aldous, Brave new World

&    Kazantzakis, Nikos, The Last Temptation of Christ

&    Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird

&    LeGuin, Ursula, The Lathe of Heaven

&    Lightman, Alan, Einstein’s Dreams

&    Otto, Whitney, Now You See Her

&    Martel, Yann, The Life of Pi

&    Morrison, Toni, Beloved

&    Rowling, J.K., Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

&    Saramago, Jose, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

&    Schoemperlen, Diane, Our Lady of the Lost and Found(+)

&    Sebold, Alice, The Lovely Bones

&    Tolkien, J.R.R., Lord of the Rings

&    Twain, Mark., The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

&    Verne, Jules, Journey to the Center of the Earth

&    Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five

&    Walker, Alice, The Color Purple

&    Wells, H.G., The Time Machine

&    Wolfe, Virginia, Orlando

&    Wülfing, Sulamith (Art)

 

Books - Non-Fiction (+ = Anything by this author)

&    Alfeyeva, Valeria, Pilgrimage to Dzhvari

&    Artress, Dr. Lauren, Walking a Sacred Path:  Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool

&    Bateson, Mary Catherine, Composing a Life (+)

&    Brother Lawrence, Practicing the Presence of God

&    Bundesen, Lynne, So the Woman Went Her Way

&    Campbell, Joseph, Myths to Live By  (+)

&    Catherine of Siena (St.), Dialog of Catherine of Siena

&    D’Sousa, Dinesh, What’s So Great About America

&    Davis, Stanley, Future Perfect

&    Ferguson, Marilyn, The Aquarian Conspiracy:  Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time

&    Hofstadter, Douglas, Godel, Escher, Bach

&    Irwin, William, editor, The Matrix and Philosophy

&    Jessey, Cornelia, The Prayer of Cosa

&    Julian of Norwich (St.), Revelations of Divine Love (+)

&    Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

&    Norris, Kathleen, Dakota:  A Spiritual Geography

&    Pagels, Elaine, Adam, Eve and the Serpent

&    Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospels

&    Spong, John Shelby, Why Christianity Must Change or Die

&    Steiner, Claude, Scripts People Live

&    Thurman, Howard, JEsus and the Disinherited

&    Toffler, Alvin, Future SHock

&    Tuchman, Barbara, A Distant Mirror:  The Calamitous 14th Century

&    Von Oech, Roger, A Whack on the  Side of the Head:  How to Unlock Your Mind

 

 Television programs or movies to watch out for:

C        "Agnes of God"

C        “Amelie”

C        “Art of the Western World”

C        "Becket"

C        "Black Narcissus"

C        “Blade Runner”

C        "Brother Sun, Sister Moon"

C        “The Burning Times”

C        "The Color Purple"

C        “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”

C        “Dark City”

C        “Einstein’s Universe”

C        “Fly Away Home”

C        “A Foreign Field”

C        "Inherit the Wind"

C        "Jesus Christ, Superstar"

C        "Jesus of Montréal"

C        "Jesus of Nazareth"

C        "To Kill a Mockingbird"

C        "The Last Temptation of Christ'

C        “Legacy”

C        "A Man for All Seasons"

C        “The Matrix”

C        "The Mission"

C        “Northern Exposure”

C        "Nova", especially "Children of Eve", "The Miracle of Life"'

C        "The Nun's Story"

C        "The Power of Myth", with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

C        “Run Lola Run”

C        “Schindler’s List”

C        “Sliders”

C        “Sliding Doors”

C        "The Sound of Music"

C        “Truly, Madly, Deeply”

C        "Whistle Down the Wind"

C        "Wings of Desire" (skip the "City of Angels" remake)

C        "A World of Ideas", Bill Moyers, especially interviews with Elaine Pagels, Mary Catherine Bateson

C        “The X-Files”

 

Other:

U       Abbeys, Cathedrals and their ruins, especially Coventry, Glastonbury, Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Westminster, York

U       Art Galleries and Museums

U       Jerusalem and the Holy Land

U       Monterey Bay Aquarium

U       Museums

U       Rosary beads

U       Sacred artifacts and objects

U       Taizé service, 1st Friday of each month, Mercy Center, Burlingame, CA

U       Walks on the beach

U       Waterfalls

U       Yosemite National Park

 

Websites:

:      Book of Common Prayer (online)
http://www.cruzio.com/~djj/bcp/top.html

:      Cursillo:  National Episcopal Cursillo
http://www.go4th.org/nec/

:      Cursillo:  Santa Clara Servant Community
http://www.stedwards.org/cursillo.html

:      Christian Classics Ethereal Library
http://ccel.wheaton.edu/

:      Christian Literature on the Internet
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-books.html

:      Christianity Today (Magazine) Online
http://www.christianity.net/

:      Ecole Initiative - Early Church History
http://cedar.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb/

:      Education for Ministry (EFM)
http://www.sewanee.edu/EFM/EFMhome.html

:      Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real
http://www.ecr.anglican.org/

:      Episcopal Church Home Page
http://www.dfms.org/

:      Episcopal Religious Communities
http://www.wthree.com/corl/

:      Homepage of God (Website is in Germany!)
http://www.netstore.de/~god/

:      Noncanonical Home Page
http://wesley.nnc.edu/noncanon.htm

:      Random Church Humor
http://www.gbgm-umc.org/rainierumc/rumc_humor.htm

:      Taizé Ecumenical Community
http://www.almac.co.uk/taize/taize.html

:      Whirlwind Bible Tour
http://www.pronetisp.net/~diana/wbt.htm

:      Worldwide Study Bible
http://ccel.wheaton.edu/wwsb/

 

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