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A Midwife in Amish Country: Celebrating God's Gift of Life
Kim Woodard Osterholzer · Regnery Faith
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Kim Osterholzer, a midwife who's caught over 500 babies since 1993, ushers readers behind the doors of Amish homes as she recounts her lively, entertaining, and life-changing adventures learning the heart and art and craft of midwifery. In A Midwife in Amish Country, Kim chronicles... |
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Present over perfect : leaving behind frantic for a simpler, more soulful way of life
Shauna Niequist · Zondervan
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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LIVE A LIFE OF MEANING AND CONNECTIONInstead of pushing for perfectionA few years ago, I found myself exhausted and isolated, my soul and body sick. I was tired of being tired, burned out on busy. And, it seemed almost everyone I talked with was in the same boat: longing for connection,... |
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Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father
THOMAS S KIDD · Yale University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage... |
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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
Lyndal Roper · Random House
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive biography reveals the complicated inner life of the founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism ushered in a century of upheaval that transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. On October 31, 1517, so the story... |
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Christmas: A Biography
JUDITH FLANDERS · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the Christmas holiday, from the original festival through present day traditions.Christmas has always been a magical time. Or has it? Thirty years after the first recorded Christmas, the Pope was already warning that too many... |
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Talking God: Philosophers on Belief
Gary Gutting · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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"[Some say] Buddhism is not a religion because Buddhists don't believe in a supreme being. This simply ignores the fact that many religions are not theistic in this sense. Chess is a game, despite the fact that it is not played with a ball, after all." -- Jay Garfield, Yale... |
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Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change
Ralph Abraham · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
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Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced; it multiplies all forms of global social injustice: hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality, deadly viruses, war. Environmental leader Reverend Jim Antal presents a compelling... |
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Wrestling with God: Finding Hope and Meaning in Our Daily Struggles to Be Human
Ronald Rolheiser · Image
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of The Holy Longing provides an inspiring message of hope and perseverance for all of us struggling with our faith in tumultuous times The last few decades have rapidly birthed a modern world that would have been unrecognizable fifty years ago. As long-held beliefs... |
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A Future of Faith: The Path of Change in Politics and Society
NOT AVAILABLE. · St. Martin's Essentials
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Pope Francis met with French reporter and sociologist Dominique Wolton for an unprecedented series of twelve fascinating and timely conversations -- open dialogues revolving around the political, cultural, and religious issues dominating communication and conflict around the world -- now published... |
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Methodist Morals: Social Principles in the Public Church's Witness
Darryl W Stephens · The University of Tennessee Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Methodist Morals offers keen insight into the public church, interpreting the United Methodist Social Principles as a dynamic discourse about morality and human rights in light of faith. Revised every fouryears by the General Conference of the United Methodist Church, the Social Principles... |
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Blessed in the Darkness: How All Things Are Working for Your Good
Joel Osteen · FaithWords
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The same God who leads us to green pastures guides us through the valleys. #1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen shares how God uses the darkness in life for good.All of us will go through dark times that we don't understand: a difficulty with a friend, an unfair situation at work,... |
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