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Breathing Love: Meditation in Action

Jennie Lee · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Offering hope to a world in turmoil, Breathing Love is a spiritual guide to living love as an embodied meditation practice. Uniting us in a universally understandable goal, Jennie Lee builds immediate bridges of peace by changing how we look at love; from something to be acquired and preserved,...
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You Can Adopt Without Debt: Creative Ways to Cover the Cost of Adoption

Julie Leanne Gumm · Abingdon
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Many families want to adopt, but do not have the large amount of money it takes to complete a private domestic or international adoption. Some quickly give up the idea of adopting and are left feeling frustrated, overwhelmed, and discouraged. Those who choose to proceed often take out large...
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Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Dalai Lama · Wisdom Publications
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover

"The material in this volume is invaluable for those who sincerely wish to understand the Buddhist path and begin to follow it." - Venerable Sangye Khadro, author of How to MeditateIn this new book from the Dalai Lama, the reader will discover the mind's infinitely vast potential,...
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Stars at Dawn: Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha's Life

Wendy Garling · Shambhala
Pages: 316
Format: Print book

A contemporary and provocative examination of the life of the Buddha highlighting the influence of women from his journey to awakening through his teaching career--based on overlooked or neglected stories from ancient source material. In this retelling of the ancient legends of the women...
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Days? or Ages? the Genesis Question: A Layman Looks at Creation's Calendar

Jerry Harmon · WestBow Press
Pages: 203
Format: Print book

Days? or Ages? offers a fresh look at a centuries-old debate. Does the Bible say creation was accomplished within one week of time beginning a few thousand years ago, or over countless millennia beginning millions or even billions of years in the distant past? Opinions abound from biblical...
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The Francis Effect: A Radical Pope's Challenge to the American Catholic Church

John Gehring · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 267
Format: Print book

The Francis Effect explores how a church once known as a towering force for social justice became known for a narrow agenda most closely aligned with one political party, and then looks at the opportunities for change in the "age of Francis." Pope Francis has become an unlikely...
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Letters to an Atheist: Wrestling with Faith

Peter Kreeft · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In Letters to an Atheist, esteemed philosopher and author Peter Kreeft corresponds with a young atheist who is wrestling with the question of God. Together they work through some of the primary reasons people don’t believe in God, including violence committed in the name of religion,...
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Soul Feast, Newly Revised Edition: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life

Marjorie J. Thompson · Westminster John Knox Press; New Rev edition
Format: Book

First released in 1995, this spiritual classic continues to be a best-seller, as thousands each year accept Marjorie Thompson's invitation to the Christian spiritual life. Offering a framework for understanding the spiritual disciplines and instruction for developing and nurturing those...
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The Will of God

Leslie D Weatherhead · Abingdon
Pages: 97
Format: Print book

During the tumultuous era of World War II, the city of London shattered under unrelenting bombs dropped by Nazi Germany. Millions of buildings were destroyed or damaged, tens of thousands of civilians were killed, and survivors were left to ask: How can this destruction be part of God's...
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Woman Most Wild: Three Keys to Liberating the Witch Within

DANIELLE DULSKY · New World Library
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Discover an Ancient Path to Power, Wisdom & MagickWhat do you think of when you hear the word witch? Through centuries of persecution, our society has been indoctrinated into thinking that witches are evil villains. Author and proud witch Danielle Dulsky debunks this interpretation...
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A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is

John McHugo · Georgetown University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The 1,400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shi'is is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iran -- with no apparent end in sight. But how did this conflict begin, and why is it now the focus of so much attention?Charting the history...
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Theology: The Basic Readings

Alister E McGrath · Wiley-Blackwell
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback

This highly successful and popular book is now available in a thoroughly expanded and updated new edition. Alister E. McGrath, one of the world's leading theologians, provides readers with a concise and balanced introduction to Christianity as it has been interpreted by many of its greatest...
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The Heart of Charles Wesley's Theology

Patrick A Eby · Emeth Press
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

The Heart of Charles Wesley's Theology gives the reader an interesting and informative survey of the central theological theme of the life and thought of poet laurette of early Methodism; the formation "of the life of God in the soul of man." Known by many names, "purity...
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NIV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Hardcover, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture

Craig S. Keener · Zondervan
Pages: 2400
Format: Print book

"How I wish someone had put a book like this into my hands 50 years ago." - N.T. Wright, Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, University of St. Andrews, Scotland "I cannot recommend a study Bible any more than this one: Five stars!" - Scot McKnight,...
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The Qur'an and the Bible: Text and Commentary

Gabriel Said Reynolds · Yale University Press
Pages: 1008
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking comparative study that illuminates the connections between the Qur'an and the Bible While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred scripture of Islam, the third Abrahamic faith, has generally been considered separately. Noted...
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