Author: 379 books
White As Snow
A Christmas Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
COLORADO TERRITORY 1864 Young Charlie is alone on the ranch that sits between the empty prairie and the Rocky Mountains. As he cares for his dying grandpa and tries to figure out how to survive the winter, he keeps remembering the old man's words: "Failure is not an option, son."
As...
The Evangelicals You Don't Know
Introducing the Next Generation of Christians
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
So you have a problem with evangelical Christians? Which ones?
These are the provocative questions Tom Krattenmaker poses to his fellow progressives in The Evangelicals You Don’t Know. He challenges stereotypes about evangelical Christians and introduces readers to a movement of “new evangelicals”...
by Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) (Author), Henry George Bohn (Translator),
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Humor and Satire from the ancient world!
Check out the old epigrams from Martial as translated by Henry George Bohn for the Bohn Classical Library Series in 1897. Fourteen books in all!
With an extensive active and navigable table of contents.
Social Justice and the Power of Compassion
Meaningful Involvement of Organizations Improving the Environment and Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Social Justice and the Power of Compassion looks at how a single person, or a small organization, working at the grassroots level can make great strides in helping the marginalized and disenfranchised. Marguerite Guzman Bouvard weaves the personal stories of the founders and directors of such organizations...
by Author Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1995
This informative treatise offers a concise collection of existing, expert data summarizing the composition of milk. The Handbook of Milk Composition summarizes current information on all aspects of human and bovine milk, including: sampling, storage, composition, as well as specific chapters on major...
Flesh and Blood
The Harrowing and Moving Story of a Mother's Fight to Bear Her Late Husband's Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Diane Blood first hit the headlines in 1996 when she went to court to fight for the right to use her late husband's sperm to try for the child they had planned together before his sudden death from meningitis. Diane's case caused an ethical storm and was debated in the courts, in Parliament and in...
by UNKNOWN AUTHOR
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 1979
Functional integration and quantum physics
Unwrapping Wonder
Finding Hope in the Gift of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Heeding technology's cry to get connected can result in overloaded circuits of the mind. Frenetic connections cause frazzled lives. Unwrapping Wonder: Finding Hope in the Gift of Nature will restore the reader's soul as they step outside to cultivate a connection with creation and, in the process,...
by Gerard Kelly (Author)
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
The most basic questions everyone faces in life is Why am I here? What is my purpose? Gerard Kelly presents the stories that make up the overall story of God in the world. And here we find our purpose for each of our individual Christian lives. Our purpose is as distinctive as our fingerprint and...
Occupy Religion
Theology of the Multitude
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Occupy Religion introduces readers to the growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement and asks provocative questions about how people of faith can work for social justice. From the temperance movement to the Civil Rights movement, churches have played key roles in important social movements, and Occupy Religion shows this role is no less critical today.
A Modern-Day Lydia
The Sister Dorris Gilbert Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
A Modern-Day Lydia: The Sister Dorris Gilbert Story tells of a humble woman who overcame a myriad of obstacles and challenges to become a stalwart prayer warrior in her home church. Although her youth was completely devoid of religion, she became keenly aware of the need for the salvation of God....
by Allan Aubrey Boesak, Mark G. Brett, Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Religion has power structures that require and justify its existence, spread its influence, and mask its collaboration with other power structures. Power, like religion, is in collaboration. Along this line, this book affirms that one could see and study the power structures and power relations of...
Open Source Church
Making Room for the Wisdom of All
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Open source software makes the basic program instructions available for anyone to see and edit. An 'open source church,' likewise, is one in which the basic functions of mission and ministry are open to anyone. Members feel free to pursue their callings from God that are consistent with what God has...
The Honest to God Church
A Pathway to God's Grace
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
Doug Bixby knows that many of us have had enough of the liberal vs. conservative battles in the church. In The Honest to God Church, Bixby demonstrates how these extremes have distracted us from our true calling as conduits for God's grace--both individually and as congregations. Many churches see...