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Whisper and Blade: The Complete Series

by S.W. Clarke (Goodreads Author)

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Eruption

by Michael Crichton

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Ascension (The Ethereal Gods, #1)

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The Gospel of Christian Humanism: Christianity Without God by Arthur G Broadhurst

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Without rational inquiry and critical thinking Christian thought devolves into literalism and fundamentalism, mythology becomes historical event, religious beliefs become unbelievable.

“Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.”
― Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

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“As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

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“An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.”
― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder

tags: childhood, nature, parenting

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“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
― Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

tags: being, life, life-plan, vocation

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“I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

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