Mother's Day Reading Assignment: Read Books by Women

A couple of years ago, I think it was on Mother's Day, the minister at the church we were attending suggested that we should make a point to read some women authors for spiritual assistance.  I have forgotten the context.  The memory of that popped into my mind recently that I have been reading some women authors.  Had never set out to make it a point to read or not read women authors but it just happened.  A couple of nights I fell asleep trying to list them in my mind.  Before the mid-nineties and Amazon, the list is probably incomplete.  Will add to this as more come to mind.  This illuminates my interests.


Religion, Philosophy, Biography,  Novels and Spiritual Writing 

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels   - early eighties

Adam, Eve and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity (1988),

The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics (1995),

Ancient Israelite Religion - Susan Niditch 1997

Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (2003)

A History of God - Karen Armstrong - late nineties

Beloved - Toni Morrison 2004

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith - Kathleen Norris  ~ 2005 give or take

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand 2005

Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Ethics  Murphy, Nancey  2005

Beyond Liberalism and Fundamentalism: How Modern and Postmodern Philosophy Set the Theological Agenda (Rockwell Lecture Series) - Murphy, Nancey 2006

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith  - Anne Lamott 2006

Everyman Revived: The Common Sense of Michael Polanyi

Scott, Mrs. Drusilla  2006

Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? (Current Issues in Theology)

Nancey Murphy  2007

The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance

Dorothee Solle   2007

Great Emergence, The: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Phyllis Tickle   2008

Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity - Elaine Pagels and Karen King - 2008

An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith  - Barbara Brown Taylor - 2009

Betraying Spinoza:  The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity - Rebecca Goldstein - 2009

The Case for God - Karen Armstrong - 2009

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith: Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy And Art

Crystal L. Downing  2009

Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion

Barbara Brown Taylor 2010

Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions - Rachel Held Evans  2010

Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (The Terry Lectures Series) - Marilynne Robinson - 2010

Mysticism: A Study of the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1911)  Evelynn Underhill - 2011

Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History - Diana Wells - 2011

Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman  -Jeanine Thweatt-Bates  2012

Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening - Diana Butler Bass  2012

Emergence Christianity: What It Is, Where It Is Going, and Why It Matters - Phyllis Tickle  2012

Theology for Skeptics - Dorothee Soelle - 2012 

Christ in Evolution  Ilia Delio - 2012

The Emergent Christ Ilia Delio - 2012

The Age of the Spirit: How the Ghost of an Ancient Controversy Is Shaping the Church - Tickle, Phyllis - 2013

The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love

Ilio Delio - 2013

Changing Signs of Truth: A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication - Crystal L. Downing - 2013

Wife Material: A Novel of Misbehavior and Freedom - Deborah Cox - 2015

Embracing a Beautiful God: Tenth Anniversary Edition - Patricia Adams Farmer - 2015

On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity In Process - Catherine Keller - 2015

Meditation: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind - Pema Chödrön - 2015

Welcome to the Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity - Frederica Mathewes-Green - 2016

The Empathy Exams: Essays - Leslie Jamison - 2017

Mike and Maxine: Whither Thou Goest...: Two Alzheimer's Journeys - Jan Fielder Ziegler, Heather Tyler, Melody Walker - 2017

Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel - Zora Neale Hurston - 2018

The Complete Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor - 2018

Christ in Evolution and the Emergence of Technosapiens

Ilia Delio, in the closing words of her book, Christ in Evolution, says, of Teilhard du Chardin,

His "mysticism of action" includes the creative development of technology and realizes that human creativity and the emergence of technosapiens give new expression to Christ in evolution.  Christ is the unifying mystery of what we are about with God if we are to have any hope in God.  Because we humans are in evolution we must see Christ in evolution as well -- Christ's humanity is our humanity, Christ's life is our life.  ....
Christ is the power of God among us and within us, the fullness of the earth and of life in the universe.  We humans have the potential to make Christ alive; it is what we are created for.  

This is beautiful and I want this to be true.  I think we are making this to be true whether we realize it or not.  Despite, on the one hand, the secularization of recent centuries.  And on the other hand, despite large segments of the Christian World holding to what it views as Tradition and rejecting knowledge that continues to unfold as technosapiens evolves.