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Jonathan Edwards: Writings from the Great Awakening

Jonathan Edwards · Library of America
Format: Print book

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is recognized today as a great theologian and philosopher. The historian Perry Miller has called him “one of America’s five or six major artists,” a writer possessed of “an intelligence which, as much as Emerson’s, Melville’s,...
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The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

Adam Leith Gollner · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

What have we not done to live forever? Adam Leith Gollner, the critically acclaimed author of The Fruit Hunters, weaves together religion, science, and mythology in a gripping exploration of the most universal of human obsessions immortality. Raised without religion, Adam Leith Gollner...
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Hanukkah in America: A History

Dianne Ashton · NYU Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In New Orleans, Hanukkah means decorating your door with a menorah made of hominy grits. Latkes in Texas are seasoned with cilantro and cayenne pepper. Children in Cincinnati sing Hanukkah songs and eat oranges and ice cream. While each tradition springs from its own unique set of cultural...
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Believers, Thinkers, and Founders: How We Came to Be One Nation Under God

Kevin Seamus Hasson · Image Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

In Believers, Thinkers and Founders: How We Came to be One Nation Under God, Kevin Seamus Hasson - founder and president emeritus of the Becket Fund for Religious liberty - offers a refreshing resolution to the age-old dispute surrounding the relationship of religion and state: a return...
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Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

Anne Lamott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it."Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book,...
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You Can Begin Again: No Matter What, It's Never Too Late

Joyce Meyer · FaithWords
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover

It's never too late for a new beginning. Look closely and you'll see that theme all through the Bible. Page after page, God delights in turning tragic endings into new beginnings. A childless woman conceives in her old age; a fearful, self-conscious shepherd becomes a leader of millions;...
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The Gods of Olympus: A History

Barbara Graziosi · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

An elegant and entertaining account of the transformations of the Greek gods across the ages, from antiquity to the Renaissance and the present dayThe gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just...
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City of God: Faith in the Streets

Sara Miles · Jericho Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Paradise is a garden...but heaven is a city. From the acclaimed author of Take This Bread and Jesus Freak comes a powerful new account of venturing beyond the borders of religion into the unpredictable territory of faith. On Ash Wednesday, 2012, Sara Miles and her friends left their church...
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The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View

Tim Crane · Harvard University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers...
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The Reason for My Hope: Salvation

Billy Graham · W Group
Pages: 207
Format: Hardcover

Back cover: What is the most hopeful word in History?For Billy Graham, that word is SALVATION.Salvation from what?From our selfish and self-destructive selves.From the messes we get ourselves into.From the sin that has haunted humanity from the beginning of time and the evil that pulls...
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Colin Dickey · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

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7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life

MARY C M D NEAL · Convergent Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

In this inspired follow-up to her million-selling To Heaven and Back, Dr. Mary Neal shares untold stories about her encounters with Jesus and powerful insights about how the reality of heaven can make each day magnificent. Dr. Mary Neal's unforgettable account of a 1999 kayaking accident...
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The Religions Book

DK Publishing · DK
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Surveying the world's religions, from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism, and providing succinct yet thought-provoking insight into the philosophy and practices of each, The Religions Book is ideal for anyone seeking to gain a better understanding of the world's religions. With intriguing artwork,...
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The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

Niall Ferguson · Penguin Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networksMost history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers and field marshals. It's about states,...
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The Church of Mercy

Pope Francis · Loyola Press
Format: Hardcover

"A magnificent book, bursting with profound spiritual insights, from a man who has quickly become one of the greatest spiritual teachers of our time." --James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A PilgrimageIn the year since he was elected, Pope Francis's simple message of mercy,...
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