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Affirmations
For a Life of Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Positive affirmations are made because you want to achieve something. It may be more money, a new car or a better job. On a more personal level, it may be for love, health, happiness or peace. We all have such desires, it would bone abnormal if we didn’t.
The path to achieving...
by Henry T. Sell
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
Bible Studies in the Life of Paul is designed to follow the author's Bible Studies in the Life of Christ and to show the work of the Great Apostle in carrying the gospel to a Gentile world. The aim is to present the work of Paul in a constructive and historical way. While there has been a careful...
Cachita's Streets
The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, intellectuals,...
by David Bentley Hart
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Currently it is fashionable to be devoutly undevout. Religion’s most passionate antagonists—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others—have publishers competing eagerly to market their various denunciations of religion, monotheism, Christianity, and Roman Catholicism....
by John M Allegro
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In 1970, John M. Allegro published The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, arguing that the early Christians belonged to a drug cult, their sacrament consisting of hallucinogenic mushrooms. The book contained a large amount of linguistic data to support Allegro’s speculations. In his follow-up book, The...
Seeking Enlightenment... Hat by Hat
A Skeptic's Path to Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
A refreshingly honest spiritual exploration from the New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon novels.
Actor, adventuress, seeker of truth, and author of the New York Times bestselling Anna Pigeon mystery series, Nevada Barr beckons readers to share her spiritual search for meaning...
Ridiculous Packaging
Or, my long strange journey from atheist to Episcopalian in two acts
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Karen Favreau is a Generation X seeker who has run the spiritual gamut. Raised Catholic, she lapsed into atheism and began a long, strange journey back to Christian faith. In Ridiculous Packaging she chronicles her trip, offering a humorous, non-preachy, and heartfelt memoir in which she attempts...
by C. B. Brooks, C. B. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Even for the most ardent skeptic, it's hard not to be curious about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Maybe you've seen the hit musical comedy The Book of Mormon. Maybe you've read about Holocaust victims and deceased celebrities like Elvis being posthumously baptized in Mormon churches....
More Welcome Speeches
Responses for All Occasions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
A handy, inexpensive resource, More Welcome Speeches can be used by persons frequently or rarely asked to make welcome speeches. Sample speeches and responses are included which can also be used as a prototype for creating a welcome speech.
More Welcome Speeches provides a quality resource...
The Search for Beauty in Islam
A Conference of the Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2005
Khaled Abou El Fadl is a classically-trained Islamic jurist, an American lawyer and law professor, and one of the most important Islamic thinkers today. In this updated and expanded edition of The Search for Beauty in Islam, Abou El Fadl offers eye-opening and enlightening insights into the contemporary...
The Age of Atheists
How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014
From one of England’s most distinguished intellectual historians comes “an exhilarating ride…that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of” (The Boston Globe) one of the West’s most important intellectual movements: Atheism.
In...
Inner Christianity
A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
Inner Christianity is the first introduction to mystical and esoteric Christianity for the general reader. It speaks from a nonsectarian point of view, unearthing insights from the whole of the Christian tradition, orthodox and heretical, famous and obscure. The esoteric tradition has traditionally...
by Neil Paynter
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Here, in the 'Celtic' tradition, are prayers from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community for the whole of life: for starting an engine, for keeping us engaged and on the road to God's Kingdom; for taking a daily walk, for refugees travelling dangerous seas; an Iona Abbey kitchen prayer...
The Jewish Festivals
A Guide to Their History and Observance
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Why is the Jewish New Year designated on the Jewish calendar as the first day of the seventh month, and not of the first month? Why do women cover their eyes when reciting the blessing over the Sabbath candles? How did the Seder originate? Does the Book of Esther, read on Purim, mirror any real historical...