Seeking Enlightenment... Hat by Hat: A Skeptic's Path to Religion, (Paperback)

from readingraven

When I love an author's work, I will read anything they right. I have proven that, I guess with this choice. Perhaps it was also a matter of the right tone at the right time. Nevada Barr writes a series of essays about her enlightenment -- her coming around from a lost and lonely soul to a happy ...

from LivelyLady

Light reflections and musings by this author who usually writes National Park setting mysteries.

from tjsjohanna

This collection of Ms. Barr's thoughts and experiences about becoming religious are interesting because they explore spirituality from a different side than many get from within organized religion. Although her thoughts aren't 'outside' organized religion either. But they are her ways of making t...

from librisissimo

Barr recounts the history of her conversion to Christianity and why her church membership became important in her life. As the blurb says, this really is "the beguiling story of her journey from arrogance and atheism toward humility and a sense of being part of something greater than herself." Ba...

from arnoldvl

Nevada Barr is better known for her murder mystery series featuring Anne Pidgeon as a U. S. National Park law enforcement ranger than she is as a philosopher but I found "Seeking Enlightenment Hat by Hat" to be both interesting and "enlightening". Not surprisingly, Anne is Nevada's alter ego and ...