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New Beginning, New Hope: Words of Pope Francis Holy Week Through Pentecost
Francis Pope · Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division,
Pages: 111
Format: Print book
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"Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! Do not let hope be stolen! The hope that Jesus gives us." - Pope FrancisPope Francis' homilies and audiences from Holy Week through Pentecost reflect his joy, compassion, and love for all people, which has captivated the world.The... |
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Midcentury Christmas: Holiday Fads, Fancies, and Fun from 1945 to 1970
Sarah Archer · W W Norton
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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A celebration of Christmas in the 1950s and '60sMidcentury America was a wonderland of department stores, suburban cul-de-sacs, and Tupperware parties. Every kid on the block had to have the latest cool toy, be it an Easy Bake Oven for pretend baking, a rocket ship for pretend space travel,... |
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Holy Daring: The Earthy Mysticism of St. Teresa, the Wild Woman of Avila
Tessa Bielecki · Adam Kadmon Books
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback
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"Tessa's deep intimacy with Teresa of Avila . . . creates an invitational space for readers of any tradition (or none) to enter into their own transformational relationship with the 'wild woman of Avila.'" - Mirabai StarrThis fresh, upbeat, and deftly profound book... |
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Walking with Jesus: A Way Forward for the Church
Pope Francis · Loyola Press
Format: Print book
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Two thousand years ago, Jesus said, Follow me. What if the 21st-century Church actually heeded that call? What would the world look like if the Church were truly on the move? Simply put, very different. But these ponderings beg one more critical question What exactly should the Church be moving... |
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Francis of Rome and Francis of Assisi: A New Springtime for the Church
Leonardo Boff · Orbis
Pages: 160
Format: Book
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In choosing his name, Pope Francis was indicating an agenda, a vision, and a sense of mission. Saint Francis, the most universally beloved saint, reformed the church by imitating Christ - in simplicity, poverty, and love for those on the margins. The spirit of St. Francis calls the church... |
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The Ground Has Shifted: The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America
Walter E Fluker · New York University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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If we are in a post-racial era, then what is the future of the Black Church? If the U.S. will at some time in the future be free from discrimination and prejudices that are based on race how will that affect the church's very identity?In The Ground Has Shifted, Walter Earl Fluker passionately... |
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Our Great Big American God: A Short History of Our Ever-Growing Deity
Matthew Paul Turner · Jericho Books
Format: Hardcover
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Americans love God. We stamp God on our money, our bumper stickers, and our bodies. With a church on nearly every street, it's hard to deny our country's deep connection with the divine. Yet culture critic Matthew Paul Turner says that God didn't just change America-America... |
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Saint Katharine: The Life of Katharine Drexel
Cordelia Frances Biddle · Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Powerful and profoundly moving, Saint Katharine is a book of rich and lively scholarship and of deeply felt devotion. You will not be able to put it down." - Donald Spoto, author of Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi When Katharine Drexel was born in 1858, her grandfather,... |
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Christ for Unitarian Universalists: A New Dialogue with Traditional Christianity
Scotty McLennan · Skinner House Books
Pages: 276
Format: Print book
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Christ for Unitarian Universalists is an engaging and thoughtful inquiry into Christianity for Unitarian Universalists and other spiritual seekers -- including skeptics, non-religious people, liberal Christians, and those who consider themselves "spiritual but not religious."... |
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Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
Thich Nhat Hanh · HarperOne
Pages: 189
Format: Print book
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The Zen master and one of the world's most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide to understanding and developing our most powerful inner resource - silence - to help us find happiness, purpose, and peace.Many people embark on a seemingly futile search for happiness, running... |
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John Birch: A Life
Terry Lautz · Oxford University Press
Pages: 317
Format: eBook
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John Birch was better known in death than life. Shot and killed by Communists in China in 1945, he posthumously became the namesake for a right-wing organization whose influence is still visible in today's Tea Party. This is the remarkable story of who he actually was: an American missionary-turned-soldier... |
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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This groundbreaking book from Pulitzer PrizeÂÂ-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America - from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election.The evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth... |
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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
Gerald Posner · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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