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Steve’s favorite books

Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr

Resurrection by John Shelby Spong

John Adams by David McCullough

Theology for Skeptics by Dorothee Sölle

A History of God by Karen Armstrong

White Gold by Giles Milton

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The First Paul by Marcus J. Borg

Mink River by Brian Doyle

In the Valley of the Shadow by James L. Kugel

Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker J. Palmer

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Madame Bovary

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Anne Lamott

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth

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