Ditch this list and read these instead :)
1. The Old and New Testament
2. Mere Christianity
3. Tolstoy’s A Confession
4. Brothers Karamazov
5. Crime and Punishment
6. Anna Karenina
7. Ivanhoe
8. Moby Dick
9. The Once and Future King
10. The Four Loves
11. The Great Divorce
12. The Screwtape Letters
13. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy
14. The Way of the Pilgrim
15. The Count of Monte Cristo
16. The Lord of the Rings
17. All of Shakespeare
18. Beowulf
19. Doctor Faustus
20. The Chronicles of Narnia
21. The Canterbury tales
22. Pilgrim’s progress
23. The Divine Comedy
24. Wuthering Heights
25. Jane Eyre
26. Pride and Prejudice
27. The Mill on the Floss
28. The Old Man and the Sea
29. Nicholas and Alexandra
30. Hemingway’s short stories
The Ethiopian Bible is the oldest and most complete Bible on Earth.
Written in Ge’ez, an ancient Ethiopian language, it is nearly 800 years older than the King James Version. It contains 81-88 books, compared to the KJV’s 66. This includes the Book of Enoch, Esdras, Baruch, all three Books of Maccabees, and many others excluded from the KJV.
What if I told you the most powerful portraits of an emperor and empress in history aren’t in Rome or Constantinople but in a quiet basilica in Ravenna, Italy?
Inside San Vitale, mosaics built 1,500 years ago still glow with imperial ambition. 🧵✨
I am the dust in the sunlight.
I am the ball of the sun.
I am the mist of morning, the breath of evening.
I am the spark in the stone, the gleam of gold in the metal, the rose and the nightingale drunk with its fragrance.
I am the chain of being, the circle of the spheres, the scale of creation, the rise and the fall.
I am what is and is not.
I am the soul in all.
~ Rumi
"In nature, I find a divine simplicity and an eternal truth that whispers to the soul."
~Henry David Thoreau.
🎨 by Zhou Yansheng
(Chinese, b.1942),
"Gentle Breeze and Bright Moon", 1994.