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Companion to Saint Joseph
Father, Worker and Guardian of our Redeemer
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Thanks to a richness of varied sources, the figure of Joseph is carefully set out before us in the pages of this small CTS Companion. Drawing from Scripture, the Church Fathers, the teaching of Pope John Paul II, the history of the devotions to Joseph, images in art, and the liturgy and relevant feasts,...
by R. Travers Herford
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
PREFACE
Most of the contents of the following pages were given as lectures in Manchester College, Oxford, in the autumn of 1911. I have thought it better to confine myself within the limits of what I then said, rather than to expand and recast the lectures into a complete monograph on the Pharisees....
The Good Atheist
Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Leaving Fundamentalism: Personal Stories
Personal Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
In a time when religious conservatives have placed their faith and values at the forefront of the so-called “culture wars,” this book is extremely relevant. The stories in Leaving Fundamentalism provide a personal and intimate look behind sermons, religious services, and church life, and promote...
by Patrick J. Palombo
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
Here is a no-holds barred acerbic, satirically humorous diatribe cauterizing religions and gods and doing so without the need to rely on scientific evidence. The book challenges believers to compare everyday common sense to grossly oxymoronic "non-sense" beliefs of the supernatural. Quotations...
by Michael Parenti
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
A noted author and activist brings his critical acumen and rhetorical skills to bear in this polemic against the dark side of religion. Unlike some popular works by stridently outspoken atheists, this is not a blanket condemnation of all believers. Rather the author's focus is the heartless exploitation...
by AtheistSocial
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2011
Humanists are Atheists and Freethinkers are too is a book that discusses the issues facing the godless peoples of the world and the need for unity amongst us.
Topics & persons mentioned in this book: Gene Roddenberry & Star Trek, Vashti McCollum V. Board of Education, CBN & the...
Living the Secular Life
New Answers to Old Questions
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
“A humane and sensible guide to and for the many kinds of Americans leading secular lives in what remains one of the most religious nations in the developed world.” —The New York Times Book Review
Over the last twenty-five years, “no religion” has become the fastest-growing religious...
The Nonreligious
Understanding Secular People and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of existing social scientific research...
Love Letters to God
Deeper Intimacy through Written Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Women yearn to share their experiences with the Lover of their souls in a way that is honest and simple, yet deeply satisfying. The key to this intimate self-expression is prayer-journaling. By pouring her heart out on paper to God, a woman can enjoy God's loving presence, explore her purpose and...
GUARDIANS of FIRE
An Anthropological Novel of the Sentinelese
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
An anthropological novel about The Sentinelese who are an untouched race that live on North Sentinel Island. It is an inaccessible island in the Andaman Ocean, only 25 miles from a modern port settlement in the Andaman Islands off the coast of Burma, but belonging to India.
They are unknown...
Emblem of Faith Untouched
A Short Life of Thomas Cranmer
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Relates one of the most remarkable lives in the tumultuous English Reformation
Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the author of the Book of Common Prayer, and a central figure in the English Protestant Reformation. Few theologians have led...
Passover Haggadah
As Commented Upon By Elie Wiesel and Illustrated b
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A Passover Haggadah, enhanced with more than fifty original drawings, Elie Wiesel and his friend Mark Podwal invite you to join them for the Passover Seder—the most festive event of the Jewish calendar.
Read each year at the Seder table, the Haggadah recounts the miraculous tale of the liberation...
by Rabbi Nathan Laufer
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Enrich Your Passover Seder with Renewed Meaning and SignificanceWhether you are planning to participate in, contribute to, or lead a Passover Seder, Leading the Passover Journey will help you relive the Jewish Peoples legacy of survival, hope, and redemption, and reconnect with the rich heritage celebrated...