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    • A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Vols. 1-3 (The End of Sorrow, Like a Thousand Suns, To Love Is to Know Me)
    • By: Eknath Easwaran
    • Narrated by: Paul Bazely
    • Length: 50 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • This audiobook includes all three volumes in the Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living series. A comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life, based on a verse-by-verse commentary on India’s timeless scripture - from the author of its best-selling translation....

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    • Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World
    • By: John O'Donohue, Krista Tippett - foreword
    • Narrated by: Pat O'Donohue
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • John O’Donohue’s friend and frequent collaborator John Quinn collects a series of talks and essays from the poet-philosopher on humanity’s relationship with the land, the ache of absence, our place in an often mysterious universe, and the great adventure of death itself....

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    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-05
    • Language: English
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    • In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis looks at the curriculum of the English "prep school" and begins to wonder if this subliminal teaching....

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    • Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    • By: Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Ball
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 878 ratings
    • Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices past and present....

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    • What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
    • By: Russ Ramsey, W. David O. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart, Russ Ramsey digs into these artists' stories for readers who may be new to art, as well as for lifelong students of art history, to mine the transcendent beauty and hard lessons we can take from their masterpieces and their lives.

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    • Reflections on Faith and Art
    • By: Madeleine L'Engle
    • Narrated by: Pamela Almand
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • In this classic book, L’Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Find out....

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    • Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
    • By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings
    • From the author of the critically acclaimed Interior States comes a strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence....

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    • By: Thomas Merton
    • Narrated by: Greg Chun
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Exploring the relationship between Christianity and Zen, especially through his dialogue with the great Zen teacher D.T. Suzuki, the book makes an excellent introduction to a comparative study of these two traditions, as well as giving the listener a strong taste of the mature Merton....

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    • Selected Writings on Enlightenment
    • By: Aldous Huxley
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In this anthology of 26 essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, eternity, and the divine. Huxley consistently examined the spiritual basis of both the individual and human society....

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    • On Nature and Supernature
    • By: David Bentley Hart
    • Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In recent years, the theological question of the supernatural has made an astonishing return from seeming oblivion. David Bentley Hart's You Are Gods presents a series of meditations on the vexed theological question of the relation of nature and supernature....

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    • Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    • By: Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Ball
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will engage you every step of the way. From the number one New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, comes this provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought....

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    • My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America
    • By: Helen Tworkov
    • Narrated by: Helen Tworkov
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Helen Tworkov explores the relationship between Buddhist wisdom and American values, presenting a wholly unique look at the developing landscape of Buddhism in the West....

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    • By: Saint Augustine
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 47 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • Written between A.D. 413 and 426, The City of God is one of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian thought....

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    • Removing Shame from a Gospel of Grace
    • By: Kurt Francom
    • Narrated by: Kurt Francom
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • As early as Primary, you may have absorbed this confusing message: "God loves us....but He's so disappointed in you". For a religion that preaches hope, the message of "do more" often seems to win out.

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    • A Vision of Hope for Our Time
    • By: Desmond Tutu
    • Narrated by: Desmond Tutu
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Reaching out to listeners of all religious backgrounds, Desmond Tutu shows us how to transform suffering into joy both in our lives and in our world....

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    • By: Marilynne Robinson
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as "deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity"....

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