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      • Migglism: A Beginner’s Guide to Middle Way Philosophy by Robert M Ellis
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      • ‘The Buddha’s Middle Way’ by Robert M. Ellis
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      • ‘After Buddhism’ by Stephen Batchelor
      • ‘Emptiness and Joyful Freedom’ by Goode and Sander
      • ‘Greek Buddha’ by Christopher I. Beckwith
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      • ‘The Christian Middle Way’ by Robert M Ellis
      • ‘The Ethics of Uncertainty’ by R. John Elford
      • ‘Treasure beneath the hearth’ by Edward Walker
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      • ‘The Master and his Emissary’ by Iain McGilchrist
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      • ‘The Wisdom of the Ego’ by George E Vaillant
      • ‘The Biology of Desire’ by Marc Lewis
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      • ‘Being Wrong’ by Kathryn Schulz
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      • ‘Pyrrho’s Way’ by Douglas C. Bates
      • ‘The Intelligence Trap’ by David Robson
      • ‘The Matter with Things’ by Iain McGilchrist
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      • Steering past the eco-crisis, one balanced judgement at a time
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      • ‘Thinking in Systems’ by Donella Meadows
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      • The Coddling of the American Mind, by Lukianoff and Haidt
      • The Dawn of Everything
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      • ‘The God of the Left Hemisphere’ by Roderick Tweedy
      • ‘Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature’ by Alva Noë
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      • Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
      • ‘The Runaway Species’ by Brandt and Eagleman
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The Middle Way in Christianity books

The Christian Middle Way: The Case against Christian Belief but for Christian Faith by Robert M Ellis (Christian Alternative – 2018)

 

Reviews of related books

Treasure beneath the Hearth by Edward Walker (2015)

(Review by Robert M Ellis)

 

The Ethics of Uncertainty by R. John Elford (2000)

(Review by Robert M Ellis)

 

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Recent Blog Posts

  • The MWS Podcast 165: Jamie Bristow on a Middle Way approach to the Climate Crisis December 3, 2024
  • The MWS Podcast 164: Chris Rose on the Amos Trust June 18, 2024
  • The MWS Podcast 163: Rupert Read on the Climate Majority Project April 15, 2024
  • The MWS Podcast 162: Member profile, George Glen, the new Chair of the Middle Way Society March 7, 2024
  • ‘How Minds Change’ by David McRaney January 14, 2024
  • The MWS Podcast 161: Robert M Ellis on the new Middle Way Philosophy Series. October 20, 2023
  • The MWS Podcast 160: Sukhema on the Art of Doing Nothing July 23, 2023
  • The Matter with ‘The Matter with Things’ June 18, 2023
  • MWS Podcast 159: Margaret Wheatley on Who do We Choose to Be June 11, 2023
  • Lenni Sykes: Obituary May 22, 2023

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