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Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face
John Eldredge · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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The Challenge Before You Is a Bold One: To Accept the Wild, Daring Adventure of Becoming a Man We want to be self-sufficient. Find our own direction as we pursue our dreams. Know it all and never ask for help. Isn't this how most guys approach manhood? On our own, pretending we are doing... |
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Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms
Tim Tebow · WaterBrook
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover
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Who are you when life is steady? Who are you when storms come? Most of us have been on the receiving end of rejection, a broken dream, or heartbreak. And while this is not an easy space to go through, when we are grounded in the truth, we can endure the tough times. In this powerful book,... |
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Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
MICHAEL SHERMER · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author and skeptic Michael ShermerIn his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific... |
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Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea
Faisal Devji · Harvard University Press
Format: eBook
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Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India’s Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many observers, a failed state. Muslim Zion cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue... |
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Sacred Divorce: Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and Ending Life Partnerships
Kathleen E. Jenkins · Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback
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Even in our world of redefined life partnerships and living arrangements, most marriages begin through sacred ritual connected to a religious tradition. But if marriage rituals affirm deeply held religious and secular values in the presence of clergy, family, and community, where... |
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Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions
Timothy Keller · Dutton; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Encounters With Jesus, New York Times bestselling author and renowned pastor Timothy Keller shows how people were changed when they met Jesus personally—and how we can be changed today through our own encounter with him. What is my purpose in life? What is a good life? Why is there... |
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Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
Ayaan Hirsi Ali · Harpercollins
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors... |
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Kaddish: Women's Voices
Michal Smart · Urim Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of:2013 National Jewish Book AwardFor centuries, Jews have turned to the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer upon experiencing a loss. This groundbreaking book explores what the recitation of Kaddish has meant specifically to women. Did they find the consolation, closure, and community... |
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The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God
Peter Watson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 626
Format: Paperback
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014 From one of England's most distinguished intellectual historians comes "an exhilarating ride ... that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of" (The Boston Globe) one of the West's most important intellectual movements:... |
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The Ox-Herder and the Good Shepherd: Finding Christ on the Buddha's Path
Addison Hodges Hart · Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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In the twelfth century, the Chinese Zen master Kakuan Shien produced the pictures, poems, and commentaries we know as the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures. They trace a universally recognizable path of contemplative spirituality, using the metaphor of a young ox-herder looking for his lost ox.According... |
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Boswell's Enlightenment
Robert Zaretsky · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout his life, James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might, he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Boswells Enlightenment examines the conflicting credos of reason and faith, progress and tradition... |
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Preaching in Hitler's Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich
Dean G. Stroud · Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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What did German preachers opposed to Hitler say in their Sunday sermons? When the truth of Christ could cost a pastor his life, what words encouraged and challenged him and his congregation? This book answers those questions.Preaching in Hitler's Shadow begins with a fascinating look... |
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Wal-Mart Wars: Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century
Rebekah Peeples Massengill · New York Univ. Press
Pages: 225
Format: Print book
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Wal-Mart is America's largest retailer. The national chain of stores is a powerful stand-in of both the promise and perils of free market capitalism. Yet it is also often the target of public outcry for its labor practices, to say nothing of class-action lawsuits, and a central symbol in America's... |
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Mecca: The Sacred City
Ziauddin Sardar · Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mecca is, for many, the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction to which Muslims turn when they pray, and the site of pilgrimage that annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet the significance of Mecca is more than purely religious.... |
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