My my my... here's a really interesting blog meme. And since I've been targeted by the Lonely Dissertator (well, he is the Lonely Dissertator, ya know), I'll do it:

1. Provide a list of the books you’re currently reading.

Bruce Davis, Monastery Without Walls (Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 1990).

E.A. Burtt (ed.), The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha (NY: The New American Library, 1955).

John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994).

John Paul II, That They May Be One: On Commitment to Ecumenism (Rome: Vatican, 1995).

Richard P. McBrien, Catholicism (NY: HarperSanFranciso, 1994).

2. Pick up the nearest book.

3. Open to page 123.

4. Find the fifth sentence.

5. Post the next three sentences.

Since we are not called upon to be anything in particular, we need no space. We are free. If we were anything, we would not be free.

6. Tag five more people.
Blogpastor
Drifting Sojourner
Dr Alex Tang

Sivin and Wilful Sunflower have been tagged. Really, I don't know anyone else who reads my blog and who might respond to being tagged. So I'll have to settle with just three.