TO READ: RELIGION | |
Wills, Garry | What Jesus Meant |
Wills, Garry | What the Gospels Meant |
Wills, Garry | What Paul Meant |
Wills, Garry | Why Priests? |
Wills, Garry | What the Qur’an Meant |
Wills, Garry | Why I Am A Catholic |
Gottwald, Norman | The Tribes of Yahweh |
Schmid, Konrad | The Making of the Bible |
Barton, John | A History of the Bible: The Book of Its Faiths |
Peterson, Eugene H. | The Pastor |
Dever et al. | The Rise of Ancient Israel |
Clendenin, Daniel B, | Eastern Orthodox Christianity |
Martin, Dale B. | New Testament History and Literature |
Shahab Ahmed | What is Islam? |
Smith, Mark S. | The Early History of God |
Pagels, Elaine | Why Religion?: A Personal Story |
Friedman, Richard Elliott | The Exodus |
Smith, Mark S. | The Early History of God |
Day, John | Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan |
Pelikan, Jaroslav | Whose Bible Is It? |
Brueggemann, Walter | Old Testament Theology: An Introduction |
Armstrong, Karen | The Bible: A Biography |
Steinsaltz, Adin | The Essential Talmud |
Collins, John J. | An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Third Edition) |
Wright, Robert | Why Buddhism Is True |
Doniger, Wendy | The Hindus: An Alternative History |
Doniger, Wendy | Hindu Myths |
Aslan, Reza | No God But God |
Ernst, Carl W. | Sufism: An Introduction |
Warraq, Ibn | What the Koran Really Says |
Hayes, Christine Elizabeth | Introduction to the Bible |
Friedman, Richard Elliott | Who Wrote the Bible? |
Friedman, Richard Elliott | The Bible with Sources Revealed |
Collins & Harlow | Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview |
Donin, Hayim Halevy | To Be A Jew |
Potok, Chaim | My Name is Asher Lev [a Novel] |
Dosick, Wayne D. | Living Judaism |
Wright, Robert | The Evolution of God |
Rahula, Wapola | What the Buddha Taught |
McLaren, Brian | Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed Cross the Road |
Kornfield, Jack | Teachings of the Buddha |
Craddock, Fred | Craddock Stories |
Bass, Diana Butler | A People’s History of Christianity |
MacCulloch, Diarmaid | Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years |
Gonzalez, Justo | The Story of Christianity: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation |
Gonzalez, Justo | The Story of Christianity: The formation to the Present Day |
Ware, Timothy | The Orthodox Church: A New Edition |
Spufford, Francis | Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense |
MacCulloch, Diarmaid | All Things Made New: The Reformation and Its Legacy |
Pagels, Elaine | The Gnostic Gospels |
Vanderkam, James C. | The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance for Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity |
Marshall, Peter | The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction |
Cahill, Thomas | Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World |
Carroll, James | The Truth at the Heart of the Lie: How the Catholic Church Lost Its Soul – A Memoir of Faith |
Holcomb, Justin S. | Know the Creeds and Councils |
Bowler, Kate | Everything Happens for a Reason … and Other Lies I’ve Loved |
Bowler, Kate | Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel |
Evans, Rachel Held | Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church |
Norris, Kathleen | Dakota |
Norris, Kathleen | The Cloister Walk |
Merton, Thomas | Seven Storey Mountain |
Turner, John G. | The Mormon Jesus |
Gates, Henry Louis | The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song |
Gutierrez, Gustavo | A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation (15th Anniversary Edition) |
FitzGerald, Frances | The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America |
Noll, Mark A. | The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind |
Barr, James | Fundamentalism |
Smullyan, Raymond | The Tao Is Silent |
I-Ming, Liu | Awakening to the Tao |
Ono, Sokyo | Shinto: The Kami Way |
Merton, Thomas | New Seeds of Contemplation |
Armstrong, Karen | Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet |
Lipovsky, Igor | Early Israelites: Two Peoples, One History |
Wallis, Jim | America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America |
Wallis, Jim | God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It |
Chesterton, G.K. | Orthodoxy |
Wills, Garry | Chesterton |
Clark, David | C.S. Lewis: A Guide to His theology |
Lewis, C.S. | Mere Christianity |
Witherington, Ben III | The Problem with Evangelical Theology |
Feiler, Bruce | Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths |
Palmer. Parker | Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit |
Author: larrydeaton1949
Some random thoughts in 2022
So long since I posted the last time … that’s my first thought
This is the beginning of the renamed and revised Blog. It’s now named This Book … These Words and reviews recently read books.
On finding good shows/podcasts on NPR stations … Stitcher SmartRadio is a good answer
Why do I use Stitcher SmartRadio instead of just subscribing to the podcast? Simple. It’s easy to find what I know I want and it also shows me other podcasts that I might want to hear.
We live in an age where amount of material to listen to is like the overflowing fruit from a cornucopia … it almost threatens to drown us. The number of shows alone on NPR stations is just overwhelming. I’m always behind in listening to shows and podcasts that I know that I like, much less trying to find new shows/podcasts to try out.
If you have a Sonos system (and that’s another posting in itself), you may want to try out Stitcher, downloading it as an app within Sonos. You can also download the Stitcher app for iPhones or iPads … or for Android devices. (Or you can try Stitcher on your Mac or PC by going to http://www.stitcher.com)
Once you have Stitcher, what do you do with it? It’s organization is great, with three main heading Stations, Sources, and Favorites. Stations, though, really isn’t radio stations. It’s a set of shows/podcasts.
The subheadings are Popular & Trending, New & Noteworthy, Comedy, Business & Industry, etc.
The Popular & Trending then has three subheadings: Top Shows, Top Movers, Most Shared
The Top Shows then gets you down to the actual shows and podcasts: Stuff You Should Know, Marketplace on Stitcher, Radiolab from WYNC, etc …
By the time you see the shows/podcast you want to hear you’ll probably see a lot of other ones you may want to try out. Just don’t drown in the thousands of shows/podcasts that are available!
Wonderings about the growth of NPR radio stations in Virginia?
Why have the number of public radio stations grown explosively over the past year or two in Virginia?
One of the mysteries of life is that Harrisonburg, VA now has six NPR stations (88.1, 88.5, 89.3, 90.7, 91.1, and 91.7) while the DC area still only has two (WAMU and WETA). And it’s not just Harrisonburg, either. Fredericksburg has four NPR stations and Charlottesville has six plus one other public radio station (WTJU) that isn’t formally an NPR station.
What is going on? Is there a collapse of commercial FM radio and a freeing of FM frequencies so that public radio is filling a vacuum?
It is obvious that some of the stations are so-called repeater stations. For example, I think that Virginia Tech (WVTF) has been expanding its stations into under the WVTW call sign, while its expansion into Fredericksburg and Harrisonburg has been using its original call sign, WVTF. In any case, I would guess that VA Tech takes real pleasure in penetrating into Cavalier territory.
But why now?
A list of the call letters and frequencies is below for the three cities mentioned follows:
FEDERICKSBURG
1430 – WTJU
88.3 – WVTF – RADIO IQ
88.5 – WAMU
89.5 – WYAU
HARRISONBURG
88.1 – RADIO IQ
88.5 – RADIO IQ WITH BBC
89.3 – WVTF
90.7 – WMRA
91.1 – WTJU
91.7 – WEMC
CHARLOTTESVILLE
88.5 – WVTW
89.3 – WVTU
89.7 – WVTW
91.1 – WTJU
96.7 – WVTW
101.1 – WVTU
103.5 – WMRY
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