|
October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World
Martin E Marty · Paraclete Press
Pages: 114
Format: Print book |
|
Released in time for the 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther's 95 Theses, and the Protestant Reformation. "This is an invitation to a party, one which commemorates events that began five hundred years ago in Europe and have consequences throughout the world today. My title suggests... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Why Suffering?: Finding Meaning and Comfort When Life Doesn't Make Sense
Ravi Zacharias · FaithWords
Format: Hardcover |
|
Why would a loving and powerful God allow so much pain and suffering? In WHY SUFFERING? Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale carefully walk you through a variety of responses that considered together provide a clear, comprehensive, and convincing answer. Responses like Where there is the possibility... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Colliding With Destiny: Finding Hope in the Legacy of Ruth
Sarah Jakes · Bethany House Publishers; Expanded edition
Format: Hardcover |
|
Find a fuller, richer life by letting God direct your destiny. The story of Ruth is a journey of transformation. By allowing God to transform her circumstances, Ruth went from a widow who would be excluded from society to a wife with a secure and protected future, a future that ultimately... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV · Shambhala
Pages: 168
Format: Print book |
|
His Holiness the Dalai Lama provides intimate details on an advanced meditation practice called Dzogchen using a visionary poem by the 19th-century saint Patrul Rinpoche, author of the Buddhist classic Words of My Perfect Teacher. The Dalai Lama deftly connects how training the mind in compassion... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal
Hubert Wolf · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover |
|
A true, never-before-told story - discovered in a secret Vatican archive - of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Exhortations to Pray
Vera Armstrong · Vera Armstrong
Pages: 130 |
|
This book was written in Vera's 9th year of Salvation but is just now going to print. She says, "all the suffering had not been complete for this work to be published but now the price has been paid." |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion
Susan Jacoby · Pantheon Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover |
|
In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Ethical Wills
Rabbi Jack Riemer (Editor), · Jewish Lights; 2 edition |
|
Leave your loved ones a legacy of blessings, wisdom, gratitude and hope. "Done right, an ethical will is a gift of love, a way of saying, 'This is what I found gave me satisfaction and gave my life meaning. It animated my relationship to you and to your mother (or father). May it do the same... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
