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Q&A about Religious Readings

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My brain is as pure as driven snow on this one, my friend. I read nothing, know nothing, have not the slightest inkling of anything.

My faith is probably the only thing in my life that I haven’t intellectualized. I had a mystical experience as a child, and that decided things for me. I accepted that I don’t need to understand. That it’s fine sometimes to bow your head and accept what is.

So I’m useless on this subject but, readers who are less intellectually barren on this subject, please share your sources of reading and inspiration.

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  1. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    “I had a mystical experience as a child, and that decided things for me”

    I for one would love to know more to the extent that you can verbalize it (I understand if it’s too personal or you just don’t want to).

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      Clarissa

      I’ll gladly share it in several posts.

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    Anonymous

    I like CS Lewis’s writing – The Great Divorce, the screwtape Letters, the Four Loves and others.

    Rome Sweet Home by Scott Hahn was influential.

    Amanda

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    methylethyl

    Lewis is very accessible. I got a lot out of reading St. Basil the Great, and St. John Chrysostom– obviously they were writing in Greek, but one of the perks of that is, modern translations of old Greek writings are often much more direct and easy to understand than modern theological writings. They were not writing for M-Div students. I think a lot of people are really intimidated by the idea of reading the early church fathers, and it’s so unnecessary. Chrysostom was writing sermons, for his congregation.

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