6/11/2023 0 Comments Jennifer michael hecht books![]() ![]() “Bon Journée” by Chad Crouch / CC BY-NC 3.0 “Idle Ways” by Blue Dot Sessions / CC BY-NC 4. Look for the June/July 2023 issue of Free Inquiry magazine, which will feature an excerpt from The Wonder Paradox: “On Choosing a Code to Live By.” This Week’s Music. ![]() sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. 7,461 ratings 768 reviews 15 distinct works Similar authors More books by Jennifer Michael Hecht Quotes by Jennifer Michael Hecht () How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. shelved 23,945 times Showing 11 distinct works.In a conversation with Free Inquiry editor Paul Fidalgo, Hecht discusses how poems offer all of us-secular and religious alike-a way to think and feel more deeply, and provide us with a foundation for ritual to mark the milestones of life. Jennifer Michael Hecht Average rating 4.05 In it, she shows us how encounters with poems can help us get through our toughest moments, enrich our celebrations, and cultivate a sense of awe and meaning-all without appeals to the supernatural. Her most recent book is The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of our Lives. She’s the author of books such as Doubt: A History, The Happiness Myth, and Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It. Hecht is our guest on this episode of Point of Inquiry. “It seems to me the remedy to this suffering is a shift in the way we think about ritual and the poetry of our lives.” ![]() “Many of us who are happy to live outside religion still suffer from a lack of things religion gives its members,” writes historian and poet Jennifer Michael Hecht. ![]()
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