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Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious
David Dark · IVP Books
Pages: 199
Format: Print book
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For many of us, the word "religious" immediately evokes thoughts of brainwashing, violence and eye-rubbingly tiresome conversations. Why not be done with it? David Dark argues that it's not that simple. The ease with which we put the label on others without applying it to ourselves... |
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The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles
Robert C Knapp · Harvard University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Ordinary people of antiquity interacted with the supernatural through a mosaic of beliefs and rituals. Exploring everyday life from 200 BCE to the end of the first century CE, Robert Knapp shows that Jews and polytheists lived with the gods in very similar ways. Traditional interactions... |
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Lies We Believe About God
Wm Paul Young · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the twenty million plus copy bestselling novel The Shack and the New York Times bestsellers Cross Roads and Eve comes a compelling, conversational exploration of the wrong-headed ideas we sometimes have and share about God.Wm. Paul Young has been called a heretic for the ways... |
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In Good Faith: Secular Parenting in a Religious World
Maria Polonchek · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
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Part memoir, part cultural exploration, this book covers the author's journey as she grows up in an evangelical Christian home, leaves religion behind as a young adult, and goes on to raise children in a family outside of religious belief. Maria Polonchek weaves a personal story with... |
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WHISPERS OF GLORY : a story of choosing hope and finding home
KATIE DAVIS MAJORS · Multnomah
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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How do you hold on to hope when you don't get the ending you asked for?When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally founded a booming organization, and later became the mother of thirteen girls through the miracle of adoption, she determined to weave her life together with the people... |
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Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Eric Metaxas · Viking
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document... |
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
KATE BOWLER · Random House
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying,... |
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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
DAN JONES · Viking
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover
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A narrative history of the Knights Templar draws on extensive original sources to separate fact from myth, exploring their actual work and influence, the reasons they fell out of favor, and whether or not they were guilty of heresy. |
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The Missing Matisse: A Memoir
Pierre H Matisse · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Nazi planes were bombing Paris the day a lifelong, more personal war began for Pierre. It was the day he lost his identity.Born into a famous family, Pierre Matisse grew up immersed in the art world of Paris and the French Riviera, spending time with some of the most famous artists of the twentieth... |
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The Light Within Me: An Inspirational Memoir
Ainsley Earhardt · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller!The celebrated Fox News star and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a powerful, uplifting look at her life and her spiritual journey, reflecting on her family, her faith, and her successful career.In her bestselling children's book Take Heart, My Child,... |
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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
Lyndal Roper · Random House
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive biography reveals the complicated inner life of the founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism ushered in a century of upheaval that transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. On October 31, 1517, so the story... |
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Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely
Lysa TerKeurst · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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The enemy wants us to feel rejected . . . left out, lonely, and less than.In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection--from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father.... |
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Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously
David Green · Zondervan
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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David Green believes that generosity and building a legacy based on giving can lead to getting back what you really want: a family that stays together, prays together, and shares life joyfully. Green tells the story of caring for the small things and starting Hobby Lobby in their garage.... |
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