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The Big Question: Why We Can't Stop Talking About Science, Faith and God

Alister McGrath · St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

Richard Dawkins's groundbreaking book The God Delusion created an explosion of interest in the relation of science and faith. This often troubled relationship between science and religion was seemingly damaged by the rise of the New Atheism, which insisted that science had essentially disproved...
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Light as a Feather

Mary Jo Varn · Christian Faith Publishing, Inc
Pages: 42
Format: Paperback

After the much anticipated birth of their first grandchild, the unthinkable occurs. This is a story of how a family's faith and belief in signs help ease the pain of their tragic loss, all with the help of an ordinary item-a feather.
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Pope Francis Among the Wolves: The Inside Story of a Revolution

Marco Politi · Columbia University Press,
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Marco Politi takes us deep inside the power struggle roiling the Roman Curia and the Catholic Church worldwide, beginning with Benedict XVI, the pope who famously resigned in 2013, and intensifying with the contested and unexpected election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos...
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Difference You Make, The: Changing Your World through the Impact of Your Influence

Pat Williams · Revell
Format: Hardcover

Every one of us has influence, whether we realize it or not. In everything we say and do, we are influencing those around us. What if we became more aware, more intentional, and more strategic about our own influence? Well, we might just change the world. True influence, says Pat Williams,...
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Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

T. D. Jakes · FaithWords; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An instant 1 New York Times bestseller for six weeks, Bishop T.D. Jakess smash-hit INSTINCT shows readers how to tap into their God-given intuition to achieve ultimate success. Whether you call it following your heart, a gut feeling, a hunch or intuition, instinct-the inner knowledge bubbling...
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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

ROBERT WRIGHT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human...
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The Anunnaki Chronicles: A Zecharia Sitchin Reader

Zecharia Sitchin · Bear & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

An insider's look into the decades of research behind Zecharia Sitchin's books as well as an in-depth overview of his theories and discoveries * Includes carefully selected chapters from the Earth Chronicles series as well as never-before-published letters, articles, and lectures...
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If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C. S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life

Alister McGrath · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 241
Format: Hardcover

What if you could ask C. S. Lewis his thoughts on some of the most difficult questions of life? If you could, the result would be Dr. Alister McGrath's provocative and perceptive book, If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis. Best-selling author, prominent academic, and sought-after speaker,...
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Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife

Leslie Kean · Crown
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

"While exploring the evidence for an afterlife, I witnessed some unbelievable things that are not supposed to be possible in our material world. Yet they were unavoidably and undeniably real. Despite my initial doubt, I came to realize that there are still aspects of Nature which are neither...
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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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How God Became God: What Scholars Are Really Saying About God and the Bible

Richard Smoley · Tarcher
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

This epic, thrilling journey through Bible scholarship and ancient religion shows how much of Scripture is historically false--yet the ancient writings also resound with theologies that crisscrossed the primeval world and that direct us today toward a deep, inner, authentic experience of the truly...
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Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

Steven Furtick · Multnomah Books, 2014.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Crashing the chatterbox = Overpowering lies of insecurity, fear, condemnation, and discouragement with the promises of God. "I used to think that someone who struggled with the kinds of weaknesses I deal with daily was useless to God. I felt so often like I was drowning in internal...
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Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America

Margaret M. McGuinness · NYU Press; 1st Edition edition
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

For many Americans, nuns and sisters are the face of the Catholic Church. Far more visible than priests, Catholic women religious teach at schools, found hospitals, offer food to the poor, and minister to those in need. Their work has shaped the American Catholic Church throughout its history....
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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal

Hubert Wolf · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A true, never-before-told story - discovered in a secret Vatican archive - of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant...
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Christmas Greetings from the Presidents

Various Authors · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Every Christmas since Calvin Coolidge in 1927, the President of the United States has delivered a holiday message to the American people. Gathered in this volume are selections from those messages along with a brief glimpse into the history unfolding at that time. For example, what FDR said...
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