Some More Books to Brag About & A New Picture of Me!! ♥

The past two weeks or so have seen me inundated with an amazing array of great reading material!
In addition to a shit ton of magazines & journals, I've been blessed with some mighty fine books.

Here is a partial list, which also includes some older books I've yet to read fully.
I did get thoroughly into a book I picked up several weeks ago, "Petrus Romanus: the Final Pope is Here"  by T. Horn & C. Putnam.   Despite it's obvious anti-Catholic bigotry, it's very interesting and an exciting read!




"A Short Reader of Medieval Saints"
  -ed by M.A. Stouck

"Greece, the Hidden Centuries: Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence"
  -by D. Brewer

"Three Byzantine Saints: Contemporary Biographies of St. Daniel the Stylite, St. Theodore of Sykeon, and St. John the Almsgiver"
  -trans. by E. Dawes & N.H. Baynes

"Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes: Eastern Influence on Rome and the Papacy from Gregory the Great to Zacharias, A.D. 590 - 752"
  -by A.J. Ekonomou

"How Do Catholics Read the Bible?"
  -by Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.

"Listen to the Desert: Secrets of Spiritual Maturity from the Desert Fathers & Mothers"
  -by G. Mayers

"Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy"
  -by Frederica Mathewes-Green

"Burn Collector" fanzine #11
  -by Al Burian

"Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and the Modern Russo-Jewish Question"
  -by Nathan D. Larson

"The Politicization of Russian Orthodoxy: Actors & Ideas"
  -by Anastasia V. Mitrofanova

"Holy Icons: A Study on the Meaning, Style, Painting, and Use of Icons"
  -by Bishop Nathaniel Popp

"Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk"
  -by Shozan Jack Haubner

"Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife"
  -by E. Alexander, M.D.

"The Man in the High Castle"
  -by Philip K. Dick   (here we have an exception to my not posting novels. This is a pure classic!)

"Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God, a Guide to Contemplation"
  -by James Finley

"Israel and the United States: Six Decades of US - Israeli Relations"
  -ed. by R.O. Freedman

"An Innovative Introduction to Philosophy"
  -by M. Boylan and C. Johnson

"The Other Bible: Gnostic Gospels, Dead Sea Scrolls, Visionary Wisdom Texts, Christian Apocrypha, Jewish Pseudepigrapha, and Kabbalah"
  -ed. by Willis Barnstone

"The Gospel According to Star Wars: Faith, Hope, and the Force"
  -by J.C. McDowell

"Four Views on Christian Spirituality"
  -with B. Nassif, S. Hahn, J.D. Driskill, E. Howard 

"How to Pray Always"
  -by Raoul Plus, S.J.

"The Way of Zen"
  -by Alan Watts

"The Last Pagan, Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World"
  -by A. Murdoch

"God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution"
  -by J.F. Haught

"Autobiography of a Yogi"
  -by Paramhansa Yogananda

"The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts & Pictures"
  -ed. by J.B. Pritchard

"Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation"
  -by Elaine Pagels

"I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist"
  -by N.L. Geisler & F. Turek


..........plus many, many others I will post about later.  I also have some brief reviews, excerpts, and links to post as well.  Keep reading & keep on keepin' on!  

meeeeeeeee-- (my friend the doctor, used to call me "the illustrated man" a nod to Bradbury)