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Zen Echoes: Classic Koans with Verse Commentaries by Three Female Chan Masters
Beata Grant · Wisdom Publications
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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The voices of three female Zen masters reverberate in this much-needed collection.Too often the history of Zen seems to be written as an unbroken masculine line: male teacher to male student. In this timely volume, Beata Grant shows us that women masters do exist - and have always existed.... |
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Navigating the Journey: The Essential Guide to the Jewish Life Cycle
Peter S Knobel · CCAR Press
Pages: 267
Format: Paperback
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This completely revised and updated classic resource serves as an introduction to the Jewish life cycle. The first part of the book uses a question and answer format to introduce ideas about moments in the Jewish life cycle, including birth, Jewish education, bar/bat mitzvah, the Jewish... |
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God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World
David F. Wells · Crossway
Format: Print book
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Building on years of research, writing, and cross-cultural ministry, renowned author and theologian David Wells calls our attention to that which defines God’s greatness and gives shape to the Christian life: the holy-love of God. In God in the Whirlwind, Wells explores the depths... |
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The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness
Raphael G Warnock · NYU Press
Pages: 263
Format: Print book
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What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community's... |
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The "Yoga Sutra of Patanjali": A Biography: A Biography
David Gordon White · Princeton University Press,
Pages: 273
Format: Print book
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Consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. As David Gordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study,... |
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Your Legacy: The Greatest Gift
James Dobson · FaithWords
Format: Hardcover
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We live in a culture that seeks to destroy the embryonic faith of our children and usher them into politically correct ideology, godless systems of belief, and gross immorality that would have shocked previous generations. This is what confronts todays Christian parents and many of them... |
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Beyond the Golden Rule: A Jewish Perspective on Dialogue and Diversity
David A. Kunin · Gaon Books
Format: Print book
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Commonalities were also the focus of interreligious conferences that I attended both in Europe and the United States. Peace and social justice, topics that fostered general agreement, were the dominant themes. The "Golden Rule," (do unto others as you would have others do unto... |
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Modern Challenges to Islamic Law
Shaheen Sardar Ali · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
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The diversity of interpretation within Islamic legal traditions can be challenging for those working within this field of study. Using a distinctly contextual approach, this book addresses such challenges by combining theoretical perspectives on Islamic law with insight into how local understandings... |
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How to Survive Mercury Retrograde: And Venus & Mars, Too
Bernie Ashman · Llewellyn Worldwide. Ltd., 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Go beyond the fear and negativity of retrograde periods and achieve success. Retrogrades can present unexpected opportunities when you approach them with creativity and patience. How to Survive Mercury Retrograde shows you how to be better prepared for retrograde cycles and handle those... |
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Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It
David L Bahnsen · Post Hill Press
Pages: 171
Format: Hardcover
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The left and right have gone to great lengths to blame the problems plaguing our society but neither Washington DC, Wall Street, Mexico, China, the Feds, nor the media are the cause of our problems - nor are they the cure. Across the globe a "revolt" of sorts is taking place... |
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UFO Hunters Book Two
William J Birnes · Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A young girl digs up a thousand-year-old humanoid skull from a cave in northern Mexico. But the skull contains no human DNA.An amateur videographer taking footage of lights over Mount Shasta, California, captures a giant floating triangle on tape. It's not a plane. It's not a helicopter.... |
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O Taste and See: A Biblical Reflection on Experiencing God
Bonnie Bowman Thurston · Paraclete Press, Inc.,
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback
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If you have always been troubled by the image of God as a punitive judge, this book will show you why this view is so mistaken. Psalm 34:8's "O taste and see how good the Lord is" contains in miniature the whole process of coming to and growing in faith. It gives us insight... |
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Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew: Entangled Lives in Morocco
Lawrence Rosen · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments of four ordinary Moroccans over the span of forty years. Walking and talking with Haj Hamed Britel, Yaghnik Driss, Hussein Qadir, and Shimon Benizri - in a country that, in a little... |
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