I've resolved to study and re-read more spiritual texts this year (starting 2022), and share quotes I like. (note that this isn't meant to be a list of recommendations, just a record. not all of these have been spiritually edifying to me. also here's a list of just progressive christian books) List of what I've read so far:
Anglicanism/ Episcopalianism
The Book of Common Prayer
Buddhism
The Dhammapada- translation by Eknath Easwaran
Peace is Every Step- Thich Nhat Hanh
Radical Acceptance- Tara Brach
Catholicism
(read a countless amount growing up Catholic, so listing just a few of those)
The Faith Explained- Leo J Trese
Theology For Beginners- Frank Sheed
True Devotion to Mary- Louis de Montfort
The Modern Saints- Gracie Morbitzer
The Secret of the Rosary- Louis de Montfort
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Good News About Sex & Marriage- Christopher West
The Story of A Soul- St Therese of Lisieux
Christianity (general)
The New Testament
The Screwtape Letters- CS Lewis
The Heart of Christianity- Marcus J Borg
God Can't- Thomas J Oord
Mere Christianity- CS Lewis
The Wisdom Jesus- Cynthia Bourgeault
The Universal Christ- Richard Rohr
The Case For Christ- Lee Strobel
The Great Divorce- CS Lewis
Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul- John Philip Newell
Searching for Sunday- Rachel Held Evans
Unlearning God- Phillip Gulley
Saving Jesus From the Church- Robin R Meyers
God Didn't Make Us to Hate Us- Rev Lizzie McManus-Dail
Black Liturgies- Cole Arthur Riley
Pastrix- Nadia Bolz-Weber
Separation of Church and Hate- John Fugelsang
The Wood Between the Worlds- Brian Zahnd
Christianity (biblical analysis)
Inspired- Rachel Held Evans
What is the Bible? - Rob Bell
The Uncensored Bible- Kaltner, Kilpatrick, & McKenzie
The Gay Gospels- Keith Sharpe
The Bible Doesn't Say That- Joel M Hoffman
The Sins of Scripture- John Shelby Spong
Paul and Jesus- James D Tabor
Reclaiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World- John Shelby Spong
Forged- Bart D Ehrman
Jesus, Interrupted- Bart D Ehrman
Zealot- Reza Aslan
Jezebel- Lesley Hazleton
101 Myths of the Bible- Gary Greenberg
Divine Feminine
The Way of the Rose- Clark Strand & Perdita Finn
God is a Black Woman- Christena Cleveland, PHD
Missing Mary- Charlene Spretnak
Circle of Mysteries- Christine Lore Weber
The Goddess in the Gospels- Margaret Starbird
Now is the Hour of Her Return- Clark Strand
Waking Up to the Dark- Clark Strand
Wild Mercy- Mirabai Starr
The Woman With the Alabaster Jar- Margaret Starbird
Goddess: 50 Goddesses, Spirits, Saints and Other Female Figures Who Have Shaped Belief- Ramírez & Walsh
The Cosmic Shekinah- Sorita d'Este & David Rankine
Druidry/ Celtic Paganism
The Book of Hedge Druidry- Joanna van der Hoeven
The Druidry Handbook- John Michael Greer
The Druid Path- John Michael Greer
The Book of Celtic Myths- Jennifer Emmick
Forest Magic- Nikki Van De Car
Wild Magic- Danu Forest
The Awen Alone- Joanna van der Hoeven
Druid Mysteries- Philip Carr-Gomm
The Celtic Book of Living and Dying- Juliette Wood
Ecospirituality
Sacred Nature- Karen Armstrong
Wisdom of the Wild- Sheri Mabry
Rooted- Lyanda Lynn Haupt
The Serviceberry- Robin Wall Kimmerer
Earth Prayers- Elizabeth Roberts
Filianism/ Déanism
The Gospel of Our Mother God
Hellenistic Paganism
The Iliad- Homer
The Odyssey- Homer
Mythology- Edith Hamilton
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths- Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
Hinduism
The Bhagavad Gita- translation by Barbara Stoler Miller
The Upanishads- translation by Eknath Easwaran
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Hinduism- Rasamandala Das
Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction- Kim Knott
The Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God in Simplified English- Edward Viljoen
Indigenous
Spirit Wheel- Steven Charleston
Islam
The Qur'an- translation by Abdullah Yusufali
Judaism
The Tanakh
When Bad Things Happen to Good People- Harold S Kushner
Mormonism
The Book of Mormon
Norse Paganism/ Heathenry
Norse Mythology- Neil Gaiman
Hávamál- from the Poetic Edda
D'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths- Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
Paganism (general) / Wicca
The Spiral Dance- Starhawk
Paganism- Joyce & River Higgenbotham
Drawing Down the Moon- Margot Adler
The Path of a Christian Witch- Adelina St Clair
Tarot Fundamentals- Sasha Graham
Astrology- Carole Taylor
Tarot Magic- Donald Tyson
Wicca: A Guide For the Solitary Practitioner- Scott Cunningham
Cunningham's Book of Shadows- Scott Cunningham
The Witch's Book of Power- Devin Hunter
The Deep Heart of Witchcraft- David Salisbury
A Book of Pagan Prayer- Ceisiwr Serith
Quakerism
Faith and Practice- Baltimore Yearly Meeting
A Testament of Devotion- Thomas R Kelly
Living the Quaker Way- Philip Gulley
A Quaker Book of Wisdom- Robert Lawrence Smith
Letters to a Fellow Seeker- Steve Chase
Satanism
The Satanic Bible- Anton LaVey
Sikhism
Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition- Guru Nanak
Taoism
The Tao Te Ching- translation by Stephen Mitchell
The Tao of Pooh- Benjamin Hoff
Other/ Interfaith/ General Theism
A World of Prayer- edited by Rosalind Bradley
The Interfaith Prayer Book- compiled by Ted Brownstein
God of Love- Mirabai Starr
A New Earth- Eckhart Tolle
How to Believe in God- Clark Strand
Holy Envy- Barbara Brown Taylor
The Power of Now- Eckhart Tolle
Mala of the Heart- Ravi Nathwani
Atheism
Atheism and the Case Against Christ- Matthew S McCormick
I’m thinking of the Christian Goddess concept of being in the womb of God, and how that could entail darkness since that’s what we experience in the human womb. We are enveloped in God’s womb at all times, but this is clearest at night. It brings us back to our origins, and indeed, the origins of the universe of which we are a part.
at its root, genesis 3 (the fall of humanity) is a mythology that tells a story of humans transitioning into agricultural societies and civilizations... and all the messiness that entails.
This is legitimately one of my favorite parts of the Bible. Like intellectually I knew the Agricultural Revolution came with a huge increase of disease and malnutrition and a decrease in human life expectancy but I thought "Well maybe it was worth it to them" and then the Bible's like "nah it was not"
Thinking about how extremely funny it is that homophobes on this site have accused me of idolatry because I'm queer, specifically that I've recreated God in my own image and am worshipping myself.
These are cishet men who believe God is a man in the sky who can only be called Father and referred to with he/him pronouns, can only be represented by the male body, and can only be served in positions of highest leadership by men.
I, on the other hand, believe that God is genderless, can be called Mother and Father and referred to with any non-objectifying singular pronoun, recognized in every human body, and served in any position by people of any gender.
Tell me again WHICH of us has created God in our own image?
I forgot to post this crayon drawing of Jesus I was very proud of. I've been lowkey a jesuspilled christcel. a bit of a Jesus freak but in an actually freaky way. I put this on an extra page in my art college sketchbook
all animals have a place in the ecosystem and that includes humans and im sick of encountering edgelords who say the earth would be better off if we were wiped out. you wanna mess things up for every species that has adapted to live alongside us? as far as i can tell our existance is pretty intertwined with the world we live in, and caring about animals should include caring about humans because we're also animals. so we should probably focus on doing good with the resources we have instead of fantasizing about a big nuclear reset button. you sound like a pokémon villain.
Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers."
What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from."
It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem."
It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."
It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.
People also get angry at this concept thinking it'd mean non-native people getting mass evicted from their homes but 1) your home is already owned by a bank or big business or government, the difference would mainly be who you're now paying rent to and 2) most of the land in America isn't residential anyway.
This topic isn't about your house that you're already struggling to pay for, it's about thousands of miles of the planet rotting away under the monopoly of big agriculture and oil, but hypothetically speaking I think a local tribe would treat you a shitload better than whatever inhuman real estate brand you're already at the mercy of.
Made: November 28-29th, 2025 | Digital Art
(Inspired by/Referenced something found on Pinterest, could not find information on the original old oil painting.)
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i've said it before and i will continue to say it religion and God and life are so so so much bigger and more astonishingly beautiful than fundamentalism will ever allow you to see and once you and your God can get yourselves out of those tiny pathetic boxes they try to fit the two of you into you can find more genuine joy and meaning in religion and spirituality than you ever thought possible. if you want. i promise
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
--Swami Vivekananda
Art by Dan Hillier