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Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy, and Making Peace with My Sister’s Killer
Jeanne Bishop · Westminster John Knox Press |
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"Change of Heart is a tragic story of senseless violence, horrific loss, and, in the end, forgiveness that is astonishing. I kept asking myself - 'As a Christian, could I be as strong and merciful as Jeanne Bishop? ' I have my doubts." -- John Grisham, bestselling authorChange... |
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Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy
Donald Miller · Thomas Nelson |
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After decades of failed relationships and painful drama, Donald Miller decided he’d had enough. Impressing people wasn’t helping him connect with anyone. He’d built a life of public isolation, yet he dreamed of meaningful relationships. So at forty years old he made... |
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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal
Hubert Wolf , · Knopf |
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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,... |
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The Day I Met Jesus: The Revealing Diaries of Five Women from the Gospels
Frank Viola · Baker Books; Frank Viola and Mary DeMuth edition |
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Popular author and veteran novelist combine their talents to help readers discover firsthand what it was like to encounter Jesus and his life-changing power. Includes insights and interactive application-perfect for small groups. ... |
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The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives
Lee Strobel · Zondervan |
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The Case for a Creator explored the scientific evidence for God; The Case for Christ investigated the historical evidence for Jesus; The Case for Faith responded to eight major objections about Christianity; The Case for The Real Jesus refuted the current challenges to the Bible and Christ... |
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Confucius: And the World He Created
Michael Schuman · Basic Books; First Edition edition |
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Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius’s influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards... |
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Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Kathryn Gin Lum · Oxford University Press; 1 edition |
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Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collective consciousness--hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm... |
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Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers
Edward Mendelson · New York Review Books |
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A deeply considered and provocative new look at major American writers—including Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and W.H. Auden—Edward Mendelson’s Moral Agents is also a work of critical biography in the great tradition of Plutarch, Samuel Johnson, and Emerson. Any important... |
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Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering
Rosemarie Freeney Harding
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An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian Candomblé. Remnants, a multigenre memoir, demonstrates... |
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Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
Joyce Meyer · FaithWords |
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The average person has 70,000 thoughts every day, and many of those thoughts trigger a corresponding emotion. No wonder so many of us often feel like we're controlled by our emotions. Our lives would be much improved if we controlled them.In LIVING BEYOND YOUR FEELINGS, Joyce Meyer... |
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