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All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

Mark Batterson · Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

The Gospel costs nothing.  You can’t earn it or buy it.  It can only be received as a free gift compliments of God’s grace.  It doesn’t cost anything, but it demands everything.  It demands that we go “all in,” a term that simply means...
 
 
Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity

Anthony Esolen · Saint Benedict Press; 1st edition
Format: Book

Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity is a rousing, compelling defense of traditional, natural marriage. Here, Anthony Esolen—professor at Providence College and a prolific writer uses moral, theological, and cultural arguments to defend this holy and ancient institution,...
 
 
The Spiritual Nature of Animals: A Country Vet Explores the Wisdom, Compassion, and Souls of Animals

Karlene Stange DVM · New World Library
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Vets in rural practice face especially difficult illnesses, physical conditions, and emotional trials. Their work environment is not that of dog and cat vets who see their "patients" in sterile urban offices. Dr. Karlene Stange embraced these difficulties because her work led her to spiritual...
 
 
American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice

Albert Raboteau · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social activism was motivated by a deeply felt compassion for those suffering injustice.In this compelling and provocative book, acclaimed religious scholar...
 
 
Sacred Bliss: A Spiritual History of Cannabis

Mark S Ferrara · Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

One of the most important relationships that human beings have with plants is changing our consciousness - consider the plants that give us coffee, tea, chocolate, and nicotine. Sacred Bliss challenges traditional attitudes about cannabis by tracing its essential role in the spiritual and curative...
 
 
The Ramayana: A New Retelling of Valmiki's Ancient Epic--Complete and Comprehensive

Linda Egenes · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A delightfully straightforward and lyrical retelling of the ancient Indian epic of loyalty, betrayal, redemption, and insight into the true nature of life -- one of history's most sacred ethical works, rendered with completeness and sterling accuracy for the modern reader.Here is one of the world's...
 
 
Finding Heaven here

John C Robinson · O Books
Pages: 186
Format: Print book

Finding out that this world is Heaven is crucial for human survival. Otherwise in the frenzy of dissociation, our shadow games will annihilate the planet. John Robinson's passionate and finely researched book will inspire seekers to open their enlightened eyes and see the world as it is, and start...
 
 
The Miracle Myth: Why Belief in the Resurrection and the Supernatural Is Unjustified

Lawrence A Shapiro · Columbia University Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

There are many who believe Moses parted the Red Sea and Jesus came back from the dead. Others are certain that exorcisms occur, ghosts haunt attics, and the blessed can cure the terminally ill. Though miracles are immensely improbable, people have embraced them for millennia, seeing in them...
 
 
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...
 
 
Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son

Anthony Campolo · Harper One
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Bestselling Christian author, activist, and scholar Tony Campolo and his son Bart, an avowed Humanist, debate their spiritual differences and explore similarities involving faith, belief, and hope that they share.Over a Thanksgiving dinner, fifty-year-old Bart Campolo announced to his Evangelical...
 
 
Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism

Brook Ziporyn · Indiana University Press
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

Tiantai Buddhism emerged from an idiosyncratic and innovative interpretation of the Lotus Sutra to become one of the most complete, systematic, and influential schools of philosophical thought developed in East Asia. Brook A. Ziporyn puts Tiantai into dialogue with modern philosophical...