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Inside the Soul of Islam: A Unique View into the Love, Beauty, and Wisdom of Islam for Spiritual Seekers of All Faiths

Mamoon Yusaf · Hay House, Inc.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Today, Islam is the most controversial religion in the world. The mere mention of it conjures up images of oppressed women, backward cultures, and of course, the tragedy of terrorism. And yet, Islam is the source of Sufism and the spiritual fountain of Love, from which Rumi and Hafiz drank.Inside...
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The Power of Eight: Harnessing the Miraculous Energies of a Small Group to Heal Others, Your Life, and the World

Lynne McTaggart · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Discover how to tap into your extraordinary human capacity for connection and healing, using astonishing new findings about the miraculous power of group intention and its boomerang effect, in this new book by the author of the international bestsellers The Intention Experiment and The Field....
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Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ

Ravi Zacharias · Faithwords
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale defend the absolute claims of Christ against modern belief in the "secular gods" of atheism, scientism, relativism, and more. The rise of these secular gods presents the most serious challenge to the absolute claims of Christ since the founding...
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The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

Robert E Buswell · Princeton University Press
Pages: 1265
Format: Print book

With more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese,...
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Haunted Springfield, Missouri

Edward L. Underwood · The History Press
Format: Paperback

Echoes of a dynamic history still linger in Springfield, Missouri. The town square was the scene of a Civil War battle, a Wild Bill Hickok shootout and a tragic 1906 lynching. From the phantom landlord of Jefferson Avenue to the spectral bride of Grove Park Bridge, meet figures from the town's...
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The Amish Book of Prayers for Women

Esther Stoll · Harvest House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Everyones prayer closet could use a cool breath of fresh air once in a while Whether you need to talk with God about your joys or your sorrows simple pleasures or heartrending pain youll find new inspiration in these brief prayers from the heart of a young Amish wife and mother They touch...
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The Christian Writer's Market Guide 2015-2016: Everything You Need to Get Published

Jerry B. Jenkins · Thomas Nelson
Format: Print book

For more than 25 years, The Christian Writer's Market Guide has been the most comprehensive and highly recommended resource available for Christian writers, agents, editors, publishers, publicists, and writing teachers. Wherever an author is at on the spectrum of writing - from beginner...
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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...
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God and the Afterlife

Jeffrey Long · Harperone
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Based on the largest near-death experience study in history, involving 3,000 people from diverse backgrounds and religious traditions, including nonbelievers, God and the Afterlife presents startling evidence that a Supreme Being exists - and there is amazing consistency about what he is like.In...
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The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

Alicia von Stamwitz · Franciscan Media
Format: Hardcover

Pope Francis cares deeply about the health and happiness not only of today's families, but also of tomorrow's families. The pope continues to keep the theme of the family in the forefront through his speeches, homilies, addresses, and writings. Published in cooperation with the Vatican,...
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Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics:

Reinhold Niebuhr · Library of America
Pages: 850
Format: Hardcover

A definitive collection of the theologian and public intellectual who was the conscience of the American Century. "One of my favorite philosophers," remarked Barack Obama about the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) in 2007. President Obama is but one of the many American...
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A.D. The Bible Continues: The Revolution That Changed the World

David Jeremiah · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 217
Format: Print book

When Pontius Pilate ordered the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he thought he was putting an end to the Jewish uprising that had been threatening the authority of the Roman Empire. What Pilate didn't realize, however, was that real revolution was just getting started.Based on the epic...
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Finding Your Way Back to God: Five Awakenings to Your New Life

Dave Ferguson · Multnomah Books
Format: Hardcover

God, if youre real, make yourself real to me.   Each of us spends our lives on a journey toward God. Yet often our most deeply felt longings—for meaning, for love, for significance—end up leading us away from, instead of toward, our Creator and the person he made us to be.   Finding...
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The Evangelicals You Don't Know: Introducing the Next Generation of Christians

Tom Krattenmaker · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

So you have a problem with evangelical Christians? Which ones? These are the provocative questions Tom Krattenmaker poses to his fellow progressives in The Evangelicals You Don’t Know. He challenges stereotypes about evangelical Christians and introduces readers to a movement of “new...
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