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Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most

Marcus J. Borg · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the renowned Marcus J. Borg shares his "convictions" about Christianity and America, contending that they are both at their best when they focus on hope and transformation, and shares his thoughts on how American Christians can return to what...
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Karen Armstrong · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general...
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East

Gerard Russell , · Tantor Audio; Unabridged CD edition
Format: Audio CD

Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated...
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The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition

Amy Kittelstrom · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A history of religion's role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkersToday we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side...
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What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

Matthew Perman , · Zondervan

Do Work That Matters Productivity isn't just about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done---the things that count, make a difference, and move the world forward. In our current era of massive overload, this is harder than ever before. So how do you get more...
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Storm: Hearing Jesus for the Times We Live In

Jim Cymbala · Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

Storm What Jesus Is Saying to His Church is a book for every Christian who is concerned about the challenges that face believers today. Using powerful stories of people who have been transformed by Christ, it will strike a note of encouragement and hope, helping Christians to remember that...
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The Grand Paradox: The Messiness of Life, the Mystery of God and the Necessity of Faith

Ken Wytsma · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

If we were made for relationship with God, why do we often feel lost and distant from Him? The life of Christian faith is and always has been a beautifully awkward reality. Following Jesus is done—can only be done—in the messiness of this world into which we were all born. Yet many...
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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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Be the Best Mom You Can Be: A Practical Guide to Raising Whole Children in a Broken Generation

Marina Slayton · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

What if you could sit down with a wise, experienced mom--someone who has dealt with her child being bullied, who has seen the impact of permissiveness, who has been forced to depend on God for every single day, and still talks with grace and compassion?Through many years of tested faith,...
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Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

Diarmaid MacCulloch · Viking
Format: Hardcover

The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Reformation returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read-a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with...
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