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Christianity on Trial: A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith

W. Mark Lanier · IVP Books

Does the Christian faith hold up under scrutiny? What does science tell us about the plausibility of a god? Can we trust the alleged eyewitness testimony of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus? These questions are worth investigating in order to find an answer solidified in fact...
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7 Secrets to an Awesome Marriage: Strengthen Your Most Intimate Relationship

Kim Kimberling PhD , · Zondervan

All of us want an enduring marriage, a beautiful marriage we can believe in. That kind of marriage happens through intimacy. Intimacy requires hard work and a guide. Dr. Kim Kimberling is that guide and this book and its tools will show you how communication and intimacy in marriage can be yours. ...
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Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times, 25th Anniversary Edition

Howard Zehr · Herald Press; 25th Anniversary Edition edition

Does the criminal justice system actually help victims and offenders? What does justice look like for those who have been harmed? For those who have done harm? Twenty-five years after it was first published, Changing Lenses by Howard Zehr remains the classic text of the restorative justice...
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Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God

Lauren F. Winner · Harper One
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Lauren F. Winner - a leading writer at the crossroads of culture and spirituality and author of Still and Girl Meets God - joins the ranks of luminaries such as Anne Lamott and Barbara Brown Taylor with this exploration of little known - and, so, little used - biblical metaphors for God,...
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Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith

Jen Pollock Michel · IVP Books
Pages: 221
Format: Paperback

Logos Bookstores' 2015 Best Book in Spirituality/Devotional 2015 Christianity Today Book of the Year! Honorable Mention, 2014 Best Book of the Year from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore As Christians, we're squeamish about desire. Isn't wanting sinful and selfish?...
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The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age

John Thavis · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"The process by which these supernatural events are authenticated is expertly told by John Thavis, one of the world's leading Vaticanologists. In fact, that a book on so secretive and complex a topic is so deeply researched, beautifully written, and artfully told is something of a small...
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A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet

Nancy Ellen Abrams · Beacon Press
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

A paradigm-shifting blend of science, religion, and philosophy for agnostic, spiritual-but-not-religious, and scientifically minded readers Many people are fed up with the way traditional religion alienates them: too easily it can perpetuate conflict, vilify science, and undermine reason....
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In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It

Nita Belles · Baker Books

In recent years, Americans have woken up to the reality that human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. But what most still do not understand is that neither is it something that just happens to "other people" such as runaways or the disenfranchised....
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