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SkipSandwichDX

SkipSandwichDX@bookwyrm.social

Joined 3 years, 8 months ago

Pretending I did the reading for book club.

Reading about social topics, religion, and whatever friends have told me is fun lately.

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Danya Ruttenberg: On Repentance And Repair (AudiobookFormat, 2022, Beacon Press)

A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to …

Grateful for wider perspectives

A view of repentance that is divorced from the pervasive combination of American protestant individualism and internet PR apologies was incredibly refreshing to read. Some very powerful observations, and a sharp eye on the dominant US culture that's tough to read at first but absolutely worth sitting with.

David Brakke: The Gnostics (2010, Harvard University Press)

Longtime topic of curiosity. And I'm about to replay the Xenosaga games so it'd be fun to know more about Gnosticism to see if any of the messaging in those games is even remotely coherent.