About the Book Shipwrecked Love Civilization is the story of Michael I Killarney a castaway on islands after a tsunami. Michael reviews science, human knowledge and several religions. Michael... More > describes his own apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Yuma Arizona and his Mother’s death bed visions. The community of castaways builds a love civilization. Michael tells with science religious Catholic Encyclopedia information how his soul is immortal and goes to be with God.
The Legend of Starky Mallarky Starky explains the Jesus Beatitudes. His attempts are strange. He teaches people the Coffee Shop Game. The story makes you laugh but teaches the beatitudes and the struggles of an idealist.
Old Jim’s Passing is sentimental about a slave who recounts history, religious faith and views on his death bed. Jim dies free at last and is back home with God.< Less
This book was created for the exhibition "Things change, you know" at the New Gallery London, 15th to 20th June 2011. Each of the books in this series is a classic text and has had the... More > author and title removed so that it creates a new reading.
I was inspired to try this out after reading an electronic version of 'As We Were Saying' by Charles Dudley Warner without knowing the title, author and date of production.
An electronic copy of this book can be downloaded for free.< Less
This book was created for the exhibition "Things change, you know" at the New Gallery London, 15th to 20th June 2011. Each of the books in this series is a classic text and has had the... More > author and title removed so that it creates a new reading.
I was inspired to try this out after reading an electronic version of 'As We Were Saying' by Charles Dudley Warner without knowing the title, author and date of production.
An electronic copy of this book can be downloaded for free.< Less
When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of... More > individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." He undertook a project that stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance indeed, respect the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades.< Less
This classic book is the travel literature of famous author Mark Twain, as he journeys on board a cruise-ship going through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of religious pilgrims. It was the... More > best selling of Twain's works during his lifetime and is a fascinating record of his observations and cultural critiques during the journey. This popular book has been newly typeset to professional standards, making it available to everyone at reasonable cost, along with many other books in the same series. Thoroughly recommended reading for everyone at all ages.< Less
This classic book is the travel literature of famous author Mark Twain, as he journeys on board a cruise-ship going through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of religious pilgrims. It was the... More > best selling of Twain's works during his lifetime and is a fascinating record of his observations and cultural critiques during the journey. This popular book has been newly typeset to professional standards, making it available to everyone at reasonable cost, along with many other books in the same series. Thoroughly recommended reading for everyone at all ages.< Less
Fictional Stories with Religious Themes
Shipwrecked Love Civilization
Michael I Killarney a tsunami castaway writes a diary about science and God, an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and his... More > Mother's death bed
visions. He makes copious notes about Catholic religion from the Old Catholic Encyclopedia cerca 1907-1912, and his encounters with other tsunami castaways survivors, men and women. Finally the
survivors create after needless human suffering trials a love civilization.
Legend of Sparky Mallarky
Eccentric Sparky tries to do the Jesus Beatitudes, Works of Mercy, and the Coffee Shop Game. He creates new and risky ideas for the betterment of mankind and human decency or maybe "just a bunch of Mallarky". He does time in jail and a mental hospital. It's serious and funny.
Old Jim's Passing
Jim, a slave, relates the history he knows,and religious ideas. The story relates Jim's death bed scene under an old peach tree. Old Jim proclaims his freedom at last.< Less
Fictional Stories with Religious Themes
Shipwrecked Love Civilization
Michael I Killarney a tsunami castaway writes a diary about science and God, an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and his... More > Mother's death bed
visions. He makes copious notes about Catholic religion from the Old Catholic Encyclopedia cerca 1907-1912, and his encounters with other tsunami castaways survivors, men and women. Finally the
survivors create after needless human suffering trials a love civilization.
Legend of Sparky Mallarky
Eccentric Sparky tries to do the Jesus Beatitudes, Works of Mercy, and the Coffee Shop Game. He creates new and risky ideas for the betterment of mankind and human decency or maybe "just a bunch of Mallarky". He does time in jail and a mental hospital. It's serious and funny.
Old Jim's Passing
Jim, a slave, relates the history he knows,and religious ideas. The story relates Jim's death bed scene under an old peach tree. Old Jim proclaims his freedom at last.< Less
