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Finding Spiritual Whitespace: Awakening Your Soul to Rest

Bonnie Gray · Revell
Format: Book

Popular incourage blogger invites readers into a deeply personal journey to experience the spiritual rest and renewal that we all crave.,
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Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler

Mark Riebling · Basic Books
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback

Hailed as "powerful and provocative" (Washington Post) , "heart-pounding" (New York Times) and "brilliant" (Kirkus) , intelligence expert Mark Riebling's groundbreaking book Wedge inspired "no fewer than seven assorted congressional committees, internal...
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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican

Gerald Posner · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A deeply reported, New York Times bestselling exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican - the world's biggest, most powerful religious institution - from an acclaimed journalist with "exhaustive research techniques" (The New York Times)...
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A Call to Serve

Stefan von Kempis · The Crossroad Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

Want to know the inside story of the recent abdication by one Pope and the election of a startling new one--complete with colorful photos and analysis by the noted journalist Philip Lawler?  Well, here it is.—Fr. C. J. McCloskey, Church historian and Research Fellow at the Faith...
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The Francis Miracle: Inside the Transformation of the Pope and the Church

John L. Allen · Time
Format: Hardcover

There is no other organization whose inner workings are more secretive than the Vatican - the spiritual and physical center - of the Catholic Church. Now, with a dynamic new leader in Pope Francis, all eyes are upon the church, as this immensely popular Pope seeks to bring the church back...
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Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century

Marcus J Borg · Harper One
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Showcasing some of his most enduring and insightful writings, including many previously unpublished works, a concise and illuminating introduction to Marcus J. Borg, the late spokesman for progressive Christianity and one of the most revered and influential theologians of our time.In his acclaimed...
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The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

Ptolemy Tompkins · Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

The author of the 1 New York Times bestseller Proof of Heaven teams up with the sages of times past, modern scientists, and with ordinary people who have had profound spiritual experiences to show the reality of heaven and our true identities as spiritual beings. The Map of Heaven takes...
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Worry-Free Living: Trading Anxiety for Peace

Joyce Meyer · Faith Words
Pages: 138
Format: Print book

In this compact adaptation of "Be Anxious for Nothing, " #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Joyce Meyer shows readers how to rid themselves of worry and fear by drawing on the peace of God. Difficult times are part of living in this world. However, God has provided...
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Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation

Richard Rohr O.F.M. · Franciscan Media; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Richard Rohr was selected as one of a small group of “world renowned experts on contemplative practice and compassion” to speak at the “Sacred Silence: Pathway to Compassion” event in Louisville, Ky., in mid-May 2013, that featured His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Franciscan...
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The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope

Austen Ivereigh · Henry Holt; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his position to challenge and redirect one of the world's most formidable religionsAn expansive and deeply contextual work, at its heart The Great Reformer is about the intersection of faith...
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The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims

Mustafa Akyol · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

When Reza Aslan's bestseller Zealot came out in 2013, there was criticism that he hadn't addressed his Muslim faith while writing the origin story of Christianity. In fact, Ross Douthat of The New York Times wrote that "if Aslan had actually written in defense of the Islamic...
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Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

Richard Rohr · Whitaker House
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Invitation to a DanceThe Trinity is supposed to be the central, foundational doctrine of our entire Christian belief system, yet we're often told that we shouldn't attempt to understand it because it is a "mystery. " Should we presume to try to breach this mystery? If we could,...
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Like a Child: Restoring the Awe, Wonder, Joy and Resiliency of the Human Spirit

Rev. Timothy J. Mooney · SkyLight Paths; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

By breaking free from our misperceptions about what it means to be an adult, we can reshape our world and become harbingers of grace."In our desire to grow up, mature, become adults, we become enamored with who we are supposed to be. When we have finally 'grown up' we realize...
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The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential

N. T. Wright · HarperOne
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

Widely regarded as the modern C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, one of the world's most trusted and popular Bible scholars and the bestselling author of Simply Christian and Surprised by Hope, presents a manifesto urging Christians to live and pray the Bible's Psalms in The Case for the Psalms.

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Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

Lysa TerKeurst · Nelson Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The enemy wants us to feel rejected . . . left out, lonely, and less than.
In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection--from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father....
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