Several of the Things I'm reading today~

The Faithful Steward, issue 39  This is a 16 page newsletter of the Orthodox Church of N. America!  It has some short articles & interesting write-ups of Orthodox happenings & church issues.

The Biographies of the Prince of Martyrs, St. George the Roman, St. George the Alexandrian & St. George Al-Mozahem.  Edited by Ms. Amani Shawky

Voices: Women for Faith & Family.  --Pentecost Season 2011
  A beautiful looking magazine put together by some Catholic women's group.


Saint Nersess Theological Review, vol. 13 2008.  Journal of the Armenian Seminary
 Lots & lots of compact & heady articles.

30 Days Magazine .... several older issues a friend sent to me recently.  This is a Vatican magazine,
subtitled, "In the Church & in the World."   I love it.  One issue has a great article about the Orthodox Christians and the Holy Theotokos (birth-giver of God).

Immaculate Heart Messenger, Oct - Dec. 2011
Religious Life (from the Institute on Religious Life.)
The Catholic World Report
The American Conservative
The Word  (Orthodox Christian monthly magazine. Beautifully
put together & insightful to read!) 

Light...on a New World   Attractive 1/2 sized Protestant magazine from England.

Parabola   That informative & educational 'New - Age-ish' magazine. Lots & lots
of cool articles on Buddhism.

Adoremus Bulletin  Monthly newspaper published by The Society for the
Renewal of the Sacred Liturgy

Horizons  Newspaper of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma (Ohio)
Saudi Aramco World  Magazine published by the
oil company of the same name. Cool articles on what's happening in the Middle East.

The Melkite Handbook & A Guide for the Domestic Church   A couple of  large sized
books put out by the Melkite Church in MA.

The Journal of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives   This is really cool!  Just received this from a super cool Rev. at a Buddhist monastery in California.  Great articles & stories!  I can't wait to read more...I've got two thick issues.  Looks like a cut-n-paste punk 'zine!

Pure Land, Pure Mind   This great book is a collection of talks by a Buddhist monk of the
Pure Land sect of Buddhism.  You didn't know there were different sects within Biddhism?
Neither did I until I started exploring that religion.  I obtained about twenty books from these
monks in Taiwan.  All free of charge, of course. Buddhists are just like that!

"A Great, Big 'Ole, Pile of Books Was Dumped in My Backyard Recently"

"Mary Magdalene: The True Life Story of the Legendary Figure"
   -by Lynn Picknett

"The Divine Commodity: Discovering Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity"
   -by Skye Jethani

"Cyril of Alexandria"
   -by N. Russell

"Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned"
   -by K.C. Davis

"Barlaam and Josaphat: A Christian Tale of the Buddha"
   -by Gui de Cambrai

"Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz"
   -by Shlomo Venezia

"Black Holes in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Conspiracy, The History, The Meaning, The Truth"
   -by Robert Feather

"An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt"
   -by K.A. Bard

"Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling"
   -by Normndi Ellis & Gloria Taylor Brown

"Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters"
   -by L.J. Lawrence

"Ancient Egypt 39,000 BCE: The History, Technology, & Philosophy of Civilization X"
   -by Edward Malkowski

"The Sign: The Shroud of Turin & the Birth of Christianity"
   -by Thomas de Wesselow

"The How-to Book of Catholic Devotions" (I won this in an email contest from The Coming Home organization, part of the "Coming Home Network" t.v. show on EWTN channel!  I love winning things!
This book is a bit rudimentary, but I can brush up on some things I may have forgotten. Then I'm gonna' give it to my friend Shaun who just became fully Catholic this Easter!♥)
   -by Mike Aquilina & Regis J. Flaherty

"Atlantis Beneath the Ice: The Fate of the Lost Continent"
   -by Rand & Rose Flem-Ath

"The Three Ages of Atlantis: The Great Floods that Destroyed Civilization"
   -by Diego Marin, Ph.D., Ivan Minella, & Erik Schievenin

"The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments"
   -by Miroslav Verner

"A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries, and Recluses"
   -by Isabel Colgate

"Maximus the Confessor"
   -by A. Louth

"Hungry Souls: Supernatural Visits, Messages, and Warnings from Purgatory"
   -by Gerard J.M. Van Den Aardweg

"The Cross & the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims"
   -by Richard Fletcher

"Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America"
   -by Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.

"The Parapsychology Revolution: A Concise Anthology of Paranormal & Psychical Research"
   -by Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., and Logan Yonavjak

"The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution"
   -by G. Cochran & Henry Harpending

"The Book of God: The Bible as a Novel"  (This is awesome!!)
   -by Walter Wangerin, Jr.

"Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparable Genocide"
   -ed. by Alan S. Rosenbaum

"The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the 20th Century"
   -by T. Berry

"The Age of the Sages: The Axial Age and the Near East"
   -by M.W. Muesse

"Eichmann's Jews: The Jewish Administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938 - 1945"
   -by Doron Rabinovici

"The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon"
   -by Jason D. BeDuhn

"How to Read the Bible Book by Book"
   -by G.D. Fee & D. Stuart

"How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth"
  -by G.D. Fee & D. Stuart

"Born Divine: The Births of Jesus & Other Sons of God"
   -by R.J. Miller

"The Miracle Detective"
   -by R. Sullivan

"A Guide to the Buddhas"
   -by Vessantara

"A Guide to the Bodhisattvas"
   -by Vessantara

"Return to the Golden Age: Ancient History and the Key to Our Collective Future"
   -by Edward Malkowski

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

"Muslims & Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities"
   -ed. by Reza Aslan & Aaron J. Hahn Tapper

"From Coffin to Heaven: A Psychological Study of Christian Conversion in Drug Rehabilitation"
   -by Ho-yee Ng

"The Occult in Mediaeval Europe"
   -ed. by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart


"The Medieval Christian Philosophers"
   -by R. Cross


"The Bosnian Church Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century"
   -by John Fine


"Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt"
   -by J. Tyldesley

"In Due Season: A Catholic Life"
   -by Paul Wilkes


"Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn & Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar"
   -by R. Lebling


"Tutankhamen: The Search for an Egyptian King"
   -by Joyce Tyldesley


"The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to its History, Doctrine, & Spiritual Culture"
   -by John Anthony McGuckin


"The Rig Veda"
   -trans. by W. Doniger  (Penguin Classics--I love the huge selection of these books!)


"Desert Fathers and Mothers: Early Christian Wisdom Sayings"
   -sayings, prayers, advise, etc from the worlds first Christians

Wise Words from Dr Carl Jung--

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. Thus we demand that the world grant us recognition for qualities which we regard as personal possessions: our talent or our beauty. The more a man lays stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is his life. He feels limited because he has limited aims, and the result is envy and jealousy. If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change. In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody . . .
     — Carl Jung

"Words of Wisdom: The Paradox of Our Times"

Words of Wisdom: The Paradox of Our Times

There are taller buildings... but shorter tempers; 
Wider freeways... but narrower viewpoints. 
We spend more... but have less; 
We buy more... but enjoy it less. 
We have bigger houses... and smaller families; 
More conveniences... but less time. 
We have more degrees... but less sense; 
More knowledge... but less judgement; 
More experts... but more problems; 
More medicine... but less wellness. 
We have multiplied our possessions... but reduced our values. 
We talk too much, love too seldom... and hate too often. 
We have learned how to make a living... but not a life. 
We've added years to life... but not life to years. 
We've been all the way to the moon and back... 
But we have difficulty crossing the street to meet the neighbors. 
We've conquered outer space... but not our inner space. 
We've cleaned the air... but polluted the soul. 
We have split the atom... but not our prejudice. 
We have higher incomes... but lower morals. 
We've become long on quantity... but short on quality. 
These are the times of tall men... and short character; 
Of steep profits... and shallow relationships. 
These are times of world peace... but domestic warfare. 
These are days of more leisure... but less fun; 
Of more kinds of food... but less nutrition. 
These are days of two incomes... but more divorce; 
Of fancier houses... but broken homes. 
We can choose to ignore these sad facts of life... 
Or we can choose to make a difference. 
Christ has no body on earth but ours, 
He has no hands but our hands... 
We have only one life, which soon will pass, 
And those acts we perform for Christ are the only that will last! 
We must sacrifice ourselves for souls! 

"Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth" A Great Book From Columbia University Press--

Here's a link to a cool book from CUP:

Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth (link to book)

" Diadochos of Photiki: Philosophical Poems & Quotes " This Is Great!--

A fantastic site I found with extensive quotes & information from Holy Masters. Lots of great quotes from wise Christian hermits, Buddhist monks, and Hindu holy men. This is most certainly not dedicated to any one spiritual tradition, as it encompasses wisdom from all of the world's great traditions!  Loving it! ♥♥♥ m//r


Diadochos of Photiki: Philosophical Poems & Quotes (link)

" Finding the Way to the Heart " Great Blog to Check Out!!!

...and this story about the lure of Buddhism for us Christians. [external link to blog]

**While I don't agree with everything written here, I think this is a great story!  And this 

is a top-notch blog.