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searching for truth: November 2008
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A website for young adult readers and thinkers. discover books, movies, and websites that relate to spirituality, faith and reason. John Green, Nerdfighter. Discusses the virtues of Shakespearean insults and gives us a tour of his newly organized home library (in which books on Christianity and books on Islam are separated by a wicker basket). After a tragedy, how can we possibly keep faith that life is worthwhile? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Librarian Behind the Curtain. View my complete profile.
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searching for truth: Punk Rock Islam
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A website for young adult readers and thinkers. discover books, movies, and websites that relate to spirituality, faith and reason. The Koran, punk rock and lots of questions. November 19, 2008, LA Times. This much Hiba Siddiqui knows: She is a Muslim teenager living in America. But what does that mean for her? Cool feature in the LA times about modern Muslim American teens and the Muslim punk subculture. Mentions of Muslim punk rock and Michael Muhammad Knight's novel The Taqwacores. Where Am I Now?
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searching for truth
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A website for young adult readers and thinkers. discover books, movies, and websites that relate to spirituality, faith and reason. Must be going insane. Why else would he be friends with Frank, a giant, sinister Bunny who says the world will end in 28 days? Enter the strange, dark world of a teenager who nearly escapes death when a plan crashes into his home, who is interested in time travel, and discover the gateways between past and present, between life and death. Try reading Don DeLillo's White Noise.
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searching for truth: Books About Grappling with Faith
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A website for young adult readers and thinkers. discover books, movies, and websites that relate to spirituality, faith and reason. Books About Grappling with Faith. Craig is a pious teen who is an outcast, even at religious camp. Rather than trash-talk, Craig actually reads the Bible and also draws. When he meets beautiful Raina, he must reconcile is feelings about love, spirituality, God and the church. (graphic novel). 2 The Autobiography of Malcolm X. By Malcolm X and Alex Haley. By Caroline B. C...
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searching for truth: Mystical Poets
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A website for young adult readers and thinkers. discover books, movies, and websites that relate to spirituality, faith and reason. Hankering, gross, mystical, nude.". Walt Whitman, Song of Myself. Looking for mystical poetry? Want to go into the great metaphysical beyond? Think about these old favorites:. Behind Me - dips Eternity -. Before Me - Immortality -. Myself - the Term between -. Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray,. Dissolving into Dawn away,. Before the West begin -. Where everything is music.
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searching for truth: Books About Death and Afterlife
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A website for young adult readers and thinkers. discover books, movies, and websites that relate to spirituality, faith and reason. Books About Death and Afterlife. After Liz’s grandmother dies, her mother becomes deeply depressed and finds solace only at her spiritualist church, whose members claim to communicate with the dead. Liz’s atheist father disapproves, and Liz is caught in the middle. When Liz meets Nathan, she begins to deal with her complicated feelings about loss, love and faith. The stepson...
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searching for truth: New Takes on the Old Book
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A website for young adult readers and thinkers. discover books, movies, and websites that relate to spirituality, faith and reason. New Takes on the Old Book. Looking for movies that deal with Christianity in new or surprising ways? Two fallen angels find a loophole in the church dogma that may allow them back into heaven. Irreverant and sometimes disgusting, always funny. Alanis Morrisette plays God and Chris Rock is the 13th Apostle! 2 The Last Temptation of Christ. 4 The Life of Brian. I'll keep you p...
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searching for truth: In the Not-So-Distant Future
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A website for young adult readers and thinkers. discover books, movies, and websites that relate to spirituality, faith and reason. In the Not-So-Distant Future. 1 Parable of the Sower. This dystopian tale set in Los Angeles in 2025 centers around Lauren Olamina, a young black woman who flees her community to seek a better life. Lauren suffers from hyperempathy (she feels the pain of others as if it were her own), but dreams of a better world through her religion, Earthseed. 2 A Clockwork Orange. A deadl...
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searching for truth: December 2008
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A website for young adult readers and thinkers. discover books, movies, and websites that relate to spirituality, faith and reason. The Koran, punk rock and lots of questions. November 19, 2008, LA Times. This much Hiba Siddiqui knows: She is a Muslim teenager living in America. But what does that mean for her? Cool feature in the LA times about modern Muslim American teens and the Muslim punk subculture. Mentions of Muslim punk rock and Michael Muhammad Knight's novel The Taqwacores. 2 A Clockwork Orange.
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searching for truth: Defending Your Life
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A website for young adult readers and thinkers. discover books, movies, and websites that relate to spirituality, faith and reason. A lighter look at the afterlife. Is the tale of a man who dies in a car accident and finds himself in Judgement City, the purgatory where the fate of souls are determined. When Daniel falls in love with a perfect woman sure to get to heaven, he is more determined than ever to get to heaven too. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Librarian Behind the Curtain.