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Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother

Kate Hennessy · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The life and work of Dorothy Day - the iconic, celebrated, and controversial Catholic whom Pope Francis called a "great American" - told with illuminating detail by her granddaughter.Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social activist, and co-founder of a movement...
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One Beautiful Dream: The Rollicking Tale of Family Chaos, Personal Passions, and Saying Yes to Them Both

JENNIFER FULWILER · Zondervan
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Pursue your passions, love your family, and say goodbye to guilt - pipe dream or possibility? Work and family, individuality and motherhood, the creative life and family life - women are told constantly that they can't have it all. One Beautiful Dream is the deeply personal, often humorous...
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Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World

ALEC RYRIE · VIKING
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of Luther's theses, a global history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world Five hundred years ago an obscure monk challenged...
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Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country

Tim Scott · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship -- even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church shooting.Tim Scott, an African-American US senator, and Trey...
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Unshakeable Trust: Find the Joy of Trusting God at All Times, in All Things

Joyce Meyer · FaithWords
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In her new book, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer explores a life lived in complete and total dependence on God. Drawing on her own experiences and inspiration from the Word of God, Joyce makes the case that in every area of your life--spiritually, relationally, emotionally,...
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Faith Forward Future: Moving Past Your Disappointments, Delays, and Destructive Thinking

Chad Veach · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Popular Southern California millennial pastor Chad Veach casts a vision for a future beyond what most dare to imagine and guides readers toward the abundant plans God has for his children. Pastor Chad Veach lives in Los Angeles, a place many have dubbed the "City of Broken Dreams....
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PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire

John H Wigger · Oxford University Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

In 1974 Jim and Tammy Bakker launched their television show, the PTL Club, from a former furniture store in Charlotte, N.C. with half a dozen friends. By 1987 they stood at the center of a ministry empire that included their own satellite network, a 2300-acre theme park visited by six million...
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Leonie Martin: A Difficult Life

Marie Baudouin-Croix · Ignatius Press
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback

A sister of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Léonie Martin (1863-1941) was one of the five daughters of Zélie and Louis Martin, who were canonized by Pope Francis. She was the least gifted of the five Martin sisters, an emotionally disturbed child who suffered much and caused much anguish...
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The True Jesus: Uncovering the Divinity of Christ in the Gospels

David Limbaugh · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

David Limbaugh, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus on Trial and The Emmaus Code, now approaches the question of Jesus Christ's divinity--In what sense was Jesus God? How do we know?--with the same precise, methodical form of enquiry he has employed in his career as lawyer and law professor....
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Madison Park: A Place of Hope

Eric L. Motley · Zondervan
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determination, hope, and unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he needed...
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Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice

Rebecca Todd Peters · Beacon Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In an age where Roe v. Wade is in danger of being overturned, a minister and ethicist offers a Christian defense of abortion, arguing that we need to trust women to make moral decisions about their pregnancies, their families, and their futures.Here's a fact that we often ignore: unplanned...
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The Execution of Jesus the Christ

Mark J Kubala · WestBowPress
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback

For seventy years, we have been taught that Jesus died on the cross from asphyxiation (strangulation) because in the hanging position he was unable to exhale. This theory is not based on sound science. This book explains the medical cause of Jesus's death and why even Pilate was surprised...
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Looking for Lovely: Collecting the Moments that Matter

Annie F Downs · B & H Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

"I want you to take every step of your life with excitement for where you are headed. And I want you to feel beautiful and confident as you do." But how? When the enemy whispers lies that we are not smart enough, pretty enough, or rich enough? Or are you too dumb, too loud, too quiet,...
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Ten Prayers That Changed the World: Extraordinary Stories of Faith That Shaped the Course of History

Jean-Pierre Isbouts · National Geographic Books, 2016.
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

From time immemorial, prayer has provided comfort in our darkest hours, stirred us to action beyond what we thought possible, and shown us the way through seemingly insurmountable challenges. In this engaging tour of world history, author and historian Jean-Pierre Isbouts takes us on an inspiring...
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Courageous Faith: My Story From a Life of Obedience

Charles F Stanley · Howard Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

As trusted pastor Dr. Charles Stanley comes to the later years of his life, he is ready to share his personal story - on a more intimate level than ever before. As he walks us through his ups and downs, he shares how the biblical principles he's taught all his life affected the way he's...
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