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Thank You, Sisters: Stories of Women Religious and How They Enrich Our Lives

John Feister · Franciscan Media
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Since the April 2012 announcement of the Doctrinal Assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, there has been considerable media attention focused on Catholic Sisters. The first report, and the consequent naming of bishop-oversight...
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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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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican

Gerald Posner · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A deeply reported, New York Times bestselling exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican - the world's biggest, most powerful religious institution - from an acclaimed journalist with "exhaustive research techniques" (The New York Times)...
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Monster Trek: The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot

Joe Gisondi · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback

Bigfoot sightings have been reported in every state except Hawaii. Interest in this creature, which many believe to be as mythical as a leprechaun, is as strong today as ever, with the wildly popular show Finding Bigfoot persisting on the Animal Planet network and references to bigfoot...
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Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture

Mark A. Yarhouse · IVP Academic
Format: Print book

Few topics are more contested today than gender identity. In the fog of the culture war, complex issues like gender dysphoria are reduced to slogans and sound bites. And while the war rages over language, institutions and political allegiances, transgender individuals are the ones who end up being...
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Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things

Ken Wytsma · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The ONLY way to find abundant life and happiness is to give your life away. If God designed us to experience true happiness and abundant life, why do so many Christians feel dissatisfied and purposeless?  We try to make our lives better by chasing our own dreams, but that only makes...
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Psalm Hymns, Books 1, 2, & 3: Dramatic, Contemplative, Singable, Recitable Psalms!

L L Larkins · Capture Books
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

Raw, classic prayers for a creative's portfolio. Use to perform or study dramatic historical pleas with worship and praises to God. This volume of 89 singable Psalm Hymns guides you through anchored lyrics in dramatic poetry yet, allows you to interpret the intent and style at will....
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Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions

Phil Zuckerman · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

David Brooks, The New York TimesAs secularism becomes more prominent and self-confident, its spokesmen have more insistently argued that secularism should not be seen as an absence — as a lack of faith — but rather as a positive moral creed. Phil Zuckerman, a Pitzer College sociologist,...
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Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers

Donald B. Kraybill · Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover

On the night of September 6, 2011, terror called at the Amish home of the Millers. Answering a late-night knock from what appeared to be an Amish neighbor, Mrs. Miller opened the door to her five estranged adult sons, a daughter, and their spouses. It wasn't a friendly visit. Within...
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

Daniel C Dennett · Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

One of America's foremost philosophers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind.

How did we come to have minds?

For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed...

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Putting God Second: How to Save Religion from Itself

Donniel Hartman · Beacon Press, 2016.
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

Why have the monotheistic religions failed to produce societies that live up to their ethical ideals? A prominent rabbi answers this question by looking at his own faith and offering a way for religion to heal itself.In Putting God Second, Rabbi Donniel Hartman tackles one of modern life's...
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The new Dare to discipline

James C Dobson · Tyndale House Publishers

Many of today's parents grew up without proper role models at home. They have no clear vision of what it means to be a good mother or father.
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Blood Moons Rising: Bible Prophecy, Israel, and the Four Blood Moons

Mark Hitchcock · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Has the final countdown to the end days begun? Are the heavens telling us we are nearing the end? Astronomers have noticed it is coming. Historians have noted its significance. In 2014 and 2015, there will be a phenomenon in the skies of four blood moons falling during Jewish feasts. This...
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The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State

Graeme Wood · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "What ISIS Really Wants" has written the definitive, electrifying account of the strategy, psychology, and theology driving the Islamic State

Tens of thousands of men and women have left comfortable, privileged lives...
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The Financially Confident Woman: What You Need to Know to Take Charge of Your Money

Mary Hunt · Revell; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Personal finance expert offers nine practical habits that help women be just as smart and capable with money as they are in other areas of their lives.
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