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  Recently,  An Afternoon's Dictation  (Greenebaum), reached #15 on the Amazon bestseller list of books on Ecumenism; the book has been on this and other bestseller lists many times.  Book Description:  In 1999 Steven Greenebaum felt he'd hit the wall. Fifty years old, he could not make sense of his life or the world around him. For several months he angrily demanded answers from God, if God were there. One afternoon, an inner voice told him to get a pen and paper and write. Steven then took dictation - three pages, not of commandments but guidance for leading a meaningful life.   An Afternoon's Dictation  grapples with, organizes, and deeply explores the revelations Steven received and then studied for over ten years. His sharing is NOT offered as the only possible way to understand it the dictation. It is offered, rather, as a start. The book's sections include deep explorations into "The Call to Interfaith," "The Call to Love One Another," "T...

  Today's book back story is about Seeking Balance in an Unbalanced Time by Steven Greenebaum. From the publisher: In 2020, everyone was reeling, caught off-guard by the coronavirus that descended quickly and viciously. Work places closed, families grouped together in lockdown (and sometimes the coronavirus ran right into those families, and people were dying. There was much confusion and much fear. At that time, MSI Press asked its authors, who are nearly all specialists in one domain or another, to prepare "little" books (a few dozen pages) of information in their fields for people coping with the pandemic. Fifteen responded; that become our popular pandemic series. One of those little books was Seeking Balance in an Unbalanced Time . The contents still apply in many cases today! Book Description: The notion of a worldwide pandemic has been ripped out the realm of "someday" and dumped in our laps. We can feel lost. How do we cope? How do we find our way? How ...

  Recently,  An Afternoon's Dictation  (Greenebaum), reached #15 on the Amazon bestseller list of books on Ecumenism; the book has been on this and other bestseller lists many times.  Book Description:  In 1999 Steven Greenebaum felt he'd hit the wall. Fifty years old, he could not make sense of his life or the world around him. For several months he angrily demanded answers from God, if God were there. One afternoon, an inner voice told him to get a pen and paper and write. Steven then took dictation - three pages, not of commandments but guidance for leading a meaningful life.   An Afternoon's Dictation  grapples with, organizes, and deeply explores the revelations Steven received and then studied for over ten years. His sharing is NOT offered as the only possible way to understand it the dictation. It is offered, rather, as a start. The book's sections include deep explorations into "The Call to Interfaith," "The Call to Love One Another," "T...

  Today's book excerpt comes from  An Afternoon's Dictation  by  Steven Greenebaum . PART ONE: THE CALL TO INTERFAITH CHAPTER ONE   In 1999, I’d reached the end of my tether. Over the years, there had been one crushing event after another. The woman I’d intended to spend my life with, who had intended to spend her life with me, had been killed in a senseless traffic accident. My mother, who had lived her life fettered by the chains of patriarchy, had at last broken free and blossomed, recognizing her own self-worth, only to be struck down by cancer after just a few short years of truly enjoying life. And then my father, with whom I’d had major disagreements but whom I loved and honored as my father, had died a humiliating death, plagued by dementia. These were just the tips of the iceberg. I was one angry human. In the privacy of my house, I kept saying, sometimes out loud and sometimes in my mind, “God, you’re there? Really? I want five minutes, and I want ...