Recommended Readings, Hymns and Films
The readings listed below have been presented as part of Other Voices or otherwise called to the attention of the congregation. The reader or recommender's name is in parentheses.
- A Statement of Faith of the United Church of Canada (Reader: Stuart Duke)
- Prayer of St. Francis (Mimi Neff)
- Jon Kabat-Zinn's Wherever You Go, There You Are (Louise Max)
- To Be of Use from Circles on the Water - selected poems by Marge Piercy (Bev Fonner)
- Kate Braestrip's Here If You Need Me (Chris Perry)
- Joni Mitchell's Clouds (Emma Bliss)
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Shirley Knowlton)
- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (Connie Sloterbeck)
- Before I forget ...... by Emily Dickinson (Connie Sloterbeck)
- Nostalgia by Billy Collins (Bev Fonner)
- Choices and Winter, two poems by Nicki Giovanni (Joel Kuhlberg)
- The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist (Chris Perry)
- Whale Rider (film)
- Powder (film)
- Cracked not Broken (film)
- Precious Lord, Take my Hand - This gospel hymn was a favorite of the Rev. Martin Luther King. (Sung by Morris Linman). http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/p/l/pltmhand.htm
- Mitch Albom's have a little faith (Nancy Perry)
- John Gardner's The Sunlight Dialogue (Jon Bliss)
- William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 (Jon Bliss)
- "Morning Has Broken" (sung by Emma Bliss)
- C. S. Lewis' Surprised By Joy (Jon Bliss)
- Rev. Frederich Buechner's The Hungering Dark and Telling the Truth
- Bishop John Shelby Spong's Here I Stand
- Go Down Moses, sung a cappella by Morris Lindman
- Clarence Jordan's The Cotton Patch Version of Paul' s Epistles (Jon Bliss)
- J. P. Mowbray's A Journey to Nature (John Hadden)
- Dylan Thomas's October and A Child's Christmas in Wales
- Faith by Emily Dickinson
- LIncoln's second Inaugural Address
- Theodore Roosevelt's Treatise on Church
- Mary Oliver's In Blackwater Woods
- Wendall Berry's The Peace of Wild Things
