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Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

James Carroll · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A New York Times bestselling and widely admired Catholic writer explores how we can retrieve transcendent faith in modern times Critically acclaimed and bestselling author James Carroll has explored every aspect of Christianity, faith, and Jesus Christ except this central one: What can we believe...
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A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts

Hal Taussig · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Over the past century, numerous lost scriptures have been discovered, authenticated, translated, debated, celebrated. Many of these documents were as important to shaping early Christian communities and beliefs as what we have come to call the New Testament; these were not the work of shunned...
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Get Unstuck, Be Unstoppable: Step into the Amazing Life God Imagined for You

Valorie Burton · Harvest House Publishers
Format: Print book

You're stuck. You thought you were on the path to your dream job, but you've been in the same cubicle for four years. You thought you'd found the right person, but you're starting to understand the relationship was never anything but a dead end. You hopped on the scale...
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Live Love Lead: Your Best Is Yet to Come!

Brian Houston · Faith Words
Pages: 258
Format: Print book

Whether a person is searching for their calling or wholeheartedly pursuing their life's purpose, LIVE LOVE LEAD will help them navigate a faith path that is all their own and discover unique gifts tailored perfectly for their journey.
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The American Miracle: Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic

Michael Medved · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In the first of two books on the topic, conservative radio host with 5 million daily listeners and bestselling author Michael Medved discovers amazements in early American history that each suggest an "intelligent design" to America's story, making the case that Divine Providence...
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The "Dead Sea Scrolls": A Biography

John J. Collins · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and more controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time...
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The Lost Way: How Two Forgotten Gospels Are Rewriting the Story of Christian Origins

Stephen J. Patterson · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

In this rigorously researched and thoughtful study, a leading Jesus Seminar scholar reveals the dramatic story behind the modern discovery of the earliest gospels, accounts that do not portray Jesus exclusively as a martyr but recover a lost ancient Christian tradition centered on Jesus...
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The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao

Ian Johnson · Pantheon
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today - its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world's great...
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Out of the Ashes: A Layman's Guide to Rebuilding Our Culture

Anthony M Esolen · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

It's not your imagination: civilized human societythe institutions and values that separate man from beast and bring us closer to Godis collapsing. Communities are no longer directed towards a common good; children are no longer our first priority; businesses no longer value "good...
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What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

ROB BELL · HARPER ONE
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep into the Bible to show how it is more revelatory, revolutionary, and relevant than we ever imagined - and offers a cogent argument for why we need to look at it in a fresh, new way.In Love...
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Secular Buddhism: Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World

Stephen Batchelor · Yale University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor's most probing and important work on secular Buddhism As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little...
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Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn

Melanie Shankle · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback

"There is really no better indicator you're a mother than acquiring the ability to catch throw-up in a plastic bag, disinfect your hands, and immediately ask your friend to pass the beef jerky as you put on another Taylor Swift song and act as if nothing has happened."This...
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The Three Heavens: Angels, Demons and What Lies Ahead

John Hagee · Worthy Publishing
Format: Book

BATTLES ARE RAGING BETWEEN ANGELS AND DEMONS OVER YOU John Hagee's breathtaking biblical tour of the three heavens takes you inside the timeless clash between the Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of Darkness and explains why that battle makes all the difference in this world and the world...
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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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Revelation: A Search for Faith in a Violent Religious World

Dennis Covington · Little
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Acclaimed journalist Dennis Covington examines how faith and violence shape our world.In war zones witnessing widespread conflict, what makes life at all worth living? When chaos becomes a way of life in places where religion and violence intersect, what do people hold on to? If religious...
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