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Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation
Richard Rohr O.F.M. · Franciscan Media; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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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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Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby
Candida R. Moss · Princeton University Press
Pages: 223
Format: Hardcover
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How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a "Bible nation"Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded on a "biblical worldview as a Christian nation."... |
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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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Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
David A Hollinger · Princeton University Press
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
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They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those... |
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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
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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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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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Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
James J. O'Donnell · Ecco Press
Pages: 288
Format: Book
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A provocative and contrarian religious history that charts the rise of Christianity from the point of view of traditional" religion from the religious scholar and critically acclaimed author of Augustine. Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint:... |
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Hiking Naked: A Quaker Woman's Search for Balance
IRIS GRAVILLE · Homebound Publications
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
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Knocked off her feet after twenty years in public health nursing, Iris Graville quit her job and convinced her husband and their thirteen-year-old twin son and daughter to move to Stehekin, a remote mountain village in Washington State's North Cascades. They sought adventure; she yearned... |
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Caring for Creation: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis
Francis Pope · Franciscan Media
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty ... - Pope Francis, "A Prayer for the Earth" Since his inaugural... |
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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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Resist and Persist: Faith and the Fight for Equality
Erin Wathen · Westminster John Knox Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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Over the past few decades, the roles women play in public life have evolved significantly, as have the pressures that come with needing to do it all, have it all, and be all things to all people. And with this progress, misogyny has evolved as well. Today's discrimination is more subtle... |
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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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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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Worry-Free Living: Trading Anxiety for Peace
Joyce Meyer · Faith Words
Pages: 138
Format: Print book
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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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