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Weird Encounters: True Tales of Haunted Places

Joanne Austin · Sterling
Format: Hardcover

Scarier and stranger than any multiplex horror movie, Weird Encounters features more than 75 supernatural stories contributed by writers from across the country. Compiled by Joanne M. Austin, editor of the hugely successful Weird Hauntings, this chilling anthology tells of “Historic...
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Networked Theology: Negotiating Faith in Digital Culture

Heidi Campbell · Baker Academic
Pages: 175
Format: Print book

The Theological Implications of Digital CultureThis informed theology of communication and media analyzes how we consume new media and technologies and discusses the impact on our social and religious lives. Combining expertise in religion online, theology, and technology, the authors synthesize...
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The Bible's Cutting Room Floor: The Holy Scriptures Missing From Your Bible

Joel M. Hoffman · Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The Bible you usually read is not the complete story. Some holy writings were left out for political or theological reasons, others simply because of the physical restrictions of ancient bookmaking technology. At times, the compilers of the Bible skipped information that they assumed everyone...
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More Than a Fisherman

James E Grassi · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 145
Format: Paperback

Spiritual mentoring, or discipleship, is a relational process that requires people to become actively involved in their faith. Authentic discipleship is about developing a caring concern and a genuine love for others through modeling Christlike attitudes and behavior in the context of relational...
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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 Art of Vinyasa: Awakening Body and Mind through the Practice of Ashtanga Yoga

Richard Freeman · Shambhala
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A radical presentation of the most rigorous form of contemporary yoga as meditation in motion.The Art of Vinyasa takes a unique look at Ashtanga yoga as meditation in motion that produces profound inner change. Two of the most well-respected teachers of the Ashtanga style of yoga, Richard...
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Folktales and Ghost Stories of North Carolina's Piedmont

Theresa Bane · Schiffer Pub Ltd
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Folklore and ghost stories from the Piedmont area of North Carolina come to life as told by the region's favorite performer, Cynthia Moore Brown. Hear the sad tale of "The Gentleman Ghost of Uwharrie Mountain" in Asheboro; "Lydia," the phantom hitchhiker of Jamestown;...
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Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam's War Against the Jews

Mitchell G. Bard · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover

For more than a century, much of the attention given to the Middle East has focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The rise of a Palestinian offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, transformed the nature of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians....
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Being Human in God's World: An Old Testament Theology of Humanity

J G McConville · Baker Academic
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A Biblical Perspective on What It Means to Be HumanThis major work by a widely respected Old Testament scholar and theologian unpacks a biblical perspective on fundamental questions of what it means to be human. J. Gordon McConville explores how a biblical view of humanity provides a foundation...
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A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century

PAUL KENGOR · Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Pages: 648
Format: Hardcover

A Singular Bond That Changed HistoryEven as historians credit ­Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders.Acclaimed scholar and bestselling author...
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The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible

Carel van Schaik · Basic Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

How reading the Bible as a work of cultural and scientific evolution can reveal new truths about how our species conquered the Earth
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A Palace of Pearls: The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

Nah?man, of Bratslav · Oxford University Press
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) is widely considered to be one of the foremost visionary storytellers of the Hasidic movement. The great-grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov, founder of the movement, Rabbi Nachman came to be regarded as a great figure and leader in his own right,...
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UFO Hunters Book Two

William J Birnes · Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A young girl digs up a thousand-year-old humanoid skull from a cave in northern Mexico. But the skull contains no human DNA.An amateur videographer taking footage of lights over Mount Shasta, California, captures a giant floating triangle on tape. It's not a plane. It's not a helicopter....
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Islam Evolving: Radicalism, Reformation, and the Uneasy Relationship with the Secular West

Taner Edis · Prometheus Books
Pages: 340
Format: Print book

How is Islam adapting to the rapid changes of the 21st century? Despite political unrest and terrorism, the author argues that many Muslim societies are successfully developing their own versions of modern life. In contrast to the secular liberal model that prevails in the West, Islam is demonstrating...
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A Year of Learning, Laughter, and Life: 365 Motivational Parables

Jaishen Rajah · Partridge Singapore
Pages: 446
Format: Paperback

Learn, laugh, live-and do it all through parables. Perhaps the world's secondworst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore. A Year of Learning, Laughter, and Life is a oneofakind collection of parables designed to entertain and enlighten anyone with a thirst for knowledge, wisdom,...
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