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A Case of the Human Condition: Do Books Have Rights? This One Didn’t. I Threw It in the Trash.

It was a book. But I dumped it in the garbage anyway. I threw it out the way I would toss out a dead flashlight battery or a slab of moldy cheddar.

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Book Openers: Jon Krakauer — He Hooks Me in Every Time

I don’t want to read a book about people dying on the slopes of Mt. Everest. I don’t want to read about murderous Mormon polygamists. Unless, that is, it’s Jon Krakauer telling the story. In which case, I’m hooked.

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Book Openers: I Still Haven’t Figured Out How to Pray — But I’m in Good Company

“I am a failure at prayer,” author Barbara Brown Taylor confesses . . . Now there’s a woman after my own heart.

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Book Openers: Simone Weil on Prayer — First, Pay Attention

Simone Weil’s Waiting for God is a dense, highly politicized book. But Weil’s startling insights into the nature of God and God’s relationship to humanity are truly worth stuggling through this imposing text.

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Book Openers: Green for God

A review of two new books that explore the confluence of spiritual and environmental concerns, “Holy Ground: A Gathering of Voices on Caring for Creation” from Sierra Club books, and “The Green Bible: Understand the Bible’s Powerful Message for the Earth” from HarperOne.

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