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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,568 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 152 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 297 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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    • 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 876 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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    • By: Thomas Merton
    • Narrated by: Greg Chun
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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 247 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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    • 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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    • 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 87 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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    • 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 48 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • Whose Design Is It Anyway?
    • By: John C. Lennox
    • Narrated by: William Crockett
    • Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Oxford mathematician and author John Lennox takes a closer look at Hawking's logic regarding what brought the universe into being. In lively, layman's terms, Lennox guides us through the key points in Hawking's arguments....

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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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    • Essays
    • By: Marilynne Robinson
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind....

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