More than half the people in the Western world lead non-- religious, secular lives. And many of these non-- religious people are seeking spirituality. Can you have spirituality without being religious? Can you have spirituality and still be rational? Is there an ethical dimension to spirituality? Do beauty and the arts fit into spirituality? Are science and spirituality in conflict? Can we learn from the mysticism of the past? Do Zionism and Israel have a spiritual dimension? Is spiritual the best word we can find for the experience? Can secular spirituality enrich my life? The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism's 2001 conference explored the relevance of secular spirituality, its roots, progression over time, and expression in the arts, literature and science. This volume offers the collected proceedings of the conference. Included are presentations by noted author Andre Aciman; Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder of the Humanistic Judaism movement; Yaakov Malkin, founder of the first Jewish community center in Israel, and other scholars.

Secular Spirituality: Passionate Journey to a Rational Judaism

Dan Cohn-Sherbok

André Aciman

Yaakov Malkin

Sherwin T. Wine

Joseph Chuman

Rachel Elior

Mitchell Silver

Daniel Friedman

Norbert Samuelson

Harry T. Cook

International Institute for Secular Humanisitic Judaism

Once, Detective Buck Schatz patrolled the city of Memphis, chasing down robbers and killers with a blackjack truncheon and a .357. But he's been retired for decades. Now he's frail and demented, and Rose, his wife of seventy-two years, is ill and facing a choice about her health care that Buck is terrified to even consider. The future looks short and bleak, and Buck's only escape is into the past. But Buck's past is under attack as well. After thirty-five years on death row, convicted serial killer Chester March finally has an execution date. Chester is the oldest condemned man in the United States, and his case has attracted the attention of NPR producer Carlos Watkins, who believes Chester was convicted on the strength of a coerced confession. Chester's conviction is the capstone on Buck's storied career, and, to save Chester's life, Watkins is prepared to tear down Buck's reputation and legacy.

Running Out of Road (The Buck Schatz Series) (Buck Schatz Series, 3)

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Blackstone Publishing

Don't Ever Get Old: A Mystery (Buck Schatz Series Book 1)

Minotaur Books

[Library Edition Audiobook CD format in vinyl case.] [Read by Nick Sullivan] This is the first in a one-of-a-kind, spectacularly well-written mystery series featuring Buck Schatz, an eighty-seven-year-old retired Memphis cop with a know-it-all, plugged-in grandson as his sidekick. When Buck learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, he decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But lots of people want a piece of the stolen treasure, and Buck's investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a Mississippi loan shark, a seven-foot-tall Hasidic Jew, and a bloodthirsty maniac hell-bent on rubbing out everybody who knows anything about the stolen gold. Readers who love Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, early Jonathan Lethem, and superlative detective fiction in general will not want to miss Don't Ever Get Old.

Don't Ever Get Old (Buck Schatz)

Blackstone Audiobooks

[Read by Nick Sullivan] This is the first in a one-of-a-kind, spectacularly well-written mystery series featuring Buck Schatz, an eighty-seven-year-old retired Memphis cop with a know-it-all, plugged-in grandson as his sidekick. When Buck learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, he decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But lots of people want a piece of the stolen treasure, and Buck's investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a Mississippi loan shark, a seven-foot-tall Hasidic Jew, and a bloodthirsty maniac hell-bent on rubbing out everybody who knows anything about the stolen gold. Readers who love Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, early Jonathan Lethem, and superlative detective fiction in general will not want to miss Don't Ever Get Old.

Don't Ever Get Old

[Read by Nick Sullivan]Written in Buck's signature voice and featuring a mystery that will knock your socks off, Don't Ever Look Back is another home run by an author with a long and starstudded career ahead of him. Don't Ever Look Back is Daniel Friedman's sequel to Don't Ever Get Old, a huge critical and wordofmouth success which garnered four starred reviews, a movie deal with a major Hollywood producer, and an Edgar Award nomination for Best First Novel. Now his unforgettable protagonist Buck Schatz is back, and once again this eightyeightyearold retired Memphis cop refuses to go gently into that good night. Having sustained injuries in Don't Ever Get Old, Buck is living at a retirement home with his wife, and he's downright miserable being treated like the elderly person he is. But soon, Elijah, a man from his past, pays Buck a visit. Elijah offers Buck a tidy sum to do him a favor, and Buck is eager to close the book on a series of robberies that he could never solve. But things soon go downhillway downhill.

Don't Ever Look Back (Buck Schatz series, Book 2)

United States

Blackstone Audio

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