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The Gift of Asking
A Woman's Guide to Creating Personal Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
'The Gift of Asking' provides insight into why many women struggle to ask for what they need and want. Kemi Nekvapil breaks down cultural myths about asking, which many of us have learned in childhood. She reminds us that asking is not necessarily greedy or selfish, but can allow us to feel empowered,...
Laughing with God
Humor, Culture, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
When Sarah overhears God tell Abraham that she will give birth to a son, she laughs. She laughs to herself at the impossibility of her, in her old age, bearing a child (Gen 18:12). But God’s ways are not Sarah’s ways; God is far more wonderful than Sarah imagines. Of course, Sarah does give birth...
Philosophy
The Quest for Truth and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Philosophy begins, Aristotle said, with wonder; it addresses the great questions of life. This process of self-discovery through philosophy leads one to ask questions not only about human existence but also about God. In *Philosophy: The Quest for Truth and Meaning,*Andrew Beards introduces readers...
by Paul V. Niskanen
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The last chapters of the book of Isaiah offer a vision of new hope at the dawn of the postexilic period. The dense and complex imagery of light, espousal, and victory gives expression to the joyful reality of a return to Jerusalem and to the as-yet-unrealized dreams of rebuilding and repopulating...
Beauty's Vineyard
A Theological Aesthetic of Anguish and Anticipation
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Beauty’s Vineyard: A Theological Aesthetic of Anguish and Anticipation, part spiritual memoir, part systematic theology, opens with an interpretation of the parable of the tenants and concludes with the parable of the workers in the vineyard. In between unfolds a systematic theology of anguish and...
by Chris Raschka
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Two-time Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka's dazzling fiction debut. Now that the whole thing is over (and we all survived!), I can tell you what happened. Picture this for a second. Rock wall six inches on my left. Sheer cliff hundreds of feet down on my right, my best friend Norman in front of me,...
Time to Eat
Delicious meals for busy lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
You'll love Nadiya's brand new cookbook, packed with over 100 time-saving and mouth-watering recipes.
WITH ALL THE RECIPES FROM NADIYA'S BBC 2 COOKERY SERIES
'This collection of speedy, oven-ready recipes is full of good ideas. It is a friendly hand on the shoulder for anyone too busy...
Being about Borders
A Christian Anthropology of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In an age of globalization, where borders seem to be disappearing everywhere 'between nations, religions, and even within families 'it is easy to believe our reactions to difference are vanishing as well. Bringing together the latest insights from constructive theology, contemporary continental theory,...
Wealth, Wages, and the Wealthy
New Testament Insight for Preachers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Fulfilling what he has called a “grave responsibility,” Pope Francis has often addressed the issue of economic inequality and the use of personal, corporate, and national wealth. Francis’s teaching is rooted in the teaching of Jesus, preserved in the pages of the New Testament. The Bible has...
Scripture
History and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
"Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ." What Saint Jerome said centuries ago is surely still true today; any serious theological study must be grounded in Scripture. While there are plenty of biblical scholars today, few authors are able to introduce Scripture to students the way...
Sexual Diversity and Catholicism
Toward the Development of Moral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The Roman Catholic Church has in recent decades sent mixed signals with regard to discrimination based on sexual identity. On the one hand, official documents have condemned violence and verbal abuse directed at persons of different sexual orientation; on the other hand, the Church has approved and...
by Jerome T. Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
The pages of the Hebrew Bible are filled with stories - short and long, funny and sad, histories, fables, and morality tales. The ancient narrators used a variety of stylistic devices to structure, to connect, and to separate their tales - and thus to establish contexts within which meaning comes...
by Tod Linafelt, Timothy K. Beal
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Some ancient works of literature survive in fragments that appear so simple and complete it's hard to imagine them as being part of a larger narrative. Such is the case with Ruth and Esther. On first reading they appear so simple, so whole, and their meanings so completely self-evident. Yet the closer...
Berit Olam: The Twelve Prophets
Volume 2: Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
There is generally no common material that binds together the works of the individual prophets that comprise the Twelve, but through Sweeney's commentary they stand together as a single, clearly defined book among the other prophetic books of the Bible.
The Book of the Twelve Prophets is a...