Dr. Steven Clark Cunningham was born in Denver, Colorado. After graduating from Creighton University with majors in chemistry and Spanish, he attended medical school at George Washington University, finished residency in general surgery at the University of Maryland, and completed a fellowship in surgery of the liver and pancreas at Johns Hopkins University. A list of Dr Cunningham’s medical writings is found here. In addition to his medical training, he is currently a graduate student and at the Harvard Extension School, with a focus on religious studies. He also has served there as a teaching assistant for HarvardX’s MOOC (massive open online course) “Religion, Conflict and Peace.”
Note: Please do not jump to conclusions about me (or anyone) based on a list of books. Just because I read it does not mean I like, support, endorse, or recommend it, and many books I like, support, endorse, and recommend may not be present in this sample. I am always happy to have a constructive conversation about books I have read or am reading.
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Muhammad, by Karen Armstrong
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam, by Lesley Hazleton
How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee, by Bart D. Ehrman
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad, by Lesley Hazleton
Christ of the Celts: The Healing of Creation; by J. Philip Newell
The Case for God, by Karen Armstrong
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan
God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question-Why We Suffer, by Bart D. Ehrman
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, by Bart D. Ehrman
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, by Karen Armstrong
Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, by Lesley Hazelton
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is, by N. T. Wright
The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View, by Tim Crane
Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions, by Daniel Smith-Christopher
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith, by Marcus J. Borg
Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
Living Religions, 10th ed., by Mary Pat Fisher and Robin Rinehart
Anthology of Living Religions, 3rd Ed, by Mary Pat Fisher and Lee W. Bailey
Jesus: The Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary
The Righteous Mind
When Peace is Not Enough
A History of God
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Daniel C. Dennett
God is Not Great
Choosing Civility
The Bible Challenge
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World, by Bart D. Ehrman
The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction,
by A. C. Grayling
The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus, by Leo Tolstoy
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by by Jonathan Haidt
Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today, by John Shelby Spong
Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America, by James W. Fraser
Educating the Right Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality, by Michael W. Apple
Palestinian Art, by Gannit Ankori
Intersectionality (Key Concepts)
by Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge
Wittgenstein: A Religious Point of View? by Normal Malcolm
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife, by Bart Ehrman
Happiness: A Very Short Introduction, by Daniel M. Haybron
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It, by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Logic and Sin in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, by Philip Shields
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