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Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love: How a Violent Klansman Became a Champion of Racial Reconciliation

Thomas A. Tarrants · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"Riveting, inspiring, at times hard to believe but utterly true...it gives some measure of hope in these rancorous times." -- John GrishamHow a bomb-making white supremacist, once called "the most dangerous man in Mississippi," met Jesus in prison and emerged a committed...
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Gracious Uncertainty: Faith in the Second Half of Life

Jane Sigloh · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Gracious Uncertainty: Faith in the Second Half of Life reflects on issues that concern everyone but intensify as we grow older - loving more fully, dealing with loss, finding consolation, and having the courage to gaze (even while shaking inwardly) at the nearing reality of death. Author...
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The Miracle Lady: Kathryn Kuhlman and the Transformation of Charismatic Christianity

Amy Collier Artman · Eerdmans
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

A smart, powerful, charismatic preacher brought back to lifeOn October 15, 1974, Johnny Carson welcomed his next guest on The Tonight Show with these words: "I imagine there are very few people who are not aware of Kathryn Kuhlman. She probably, along with Billy Graham, is one of the best-known...
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How to Human: An Incomplete Manual for Living in a Messed-Up World

Alice Connor · Fortress Press
Pages: 150
Format: Hardcover

Being human is hard. Being a good human is even harder. Practicing kindness, honesty, and self-awareness in the face of doubt, failure, ambiguity, and vulnerability can feel insurmountable.How to Human is here to help. Alice Connor draws on nearly a decade of experience as a college chaplain...
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The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church

Jana Riess · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an exception: nearly three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon stayed that way into adulthood....
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Jesus, King of Strangers: What the Bible Really Says about Immigration

Mark W. Hamilton · Eerdmans
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback

Recovering the church's native language for migrants

Nationalistic tribalism is on the rise around the world. How we treat strangers (foreigners, immigrants, migrants) is a promi­nent political, economic, and religious issue. Drawing on his personal experiences and expertise...

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Ripple Effects: Discover the Miraculous Motivating Power of a Woman's Influence

Pam Tebow · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Discover the God-inspired difference only you can make in the world . . . using the key you never knew you had.

Tim Tebow credits his mom with being the key to his success -- but Pam never expected that she would be known on a national stage. For most of her life, she was serving...
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From Fire, By Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith

Sohrab Ahmari · Ignatius Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Sohrab Ahmari was a teenager living under the Iranian ayatollahs when he decided that there is no God. Nearly two decades later, he would be received into the Roman Catholic Church. In From Fire, by Water, he recounts this unlikely passage, from the strident Marxism and atheism of a youth...
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Common Sense Catholicism: How to Resolve Our Cultural Crisis

Bill Donahue · Ignatius Pr
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback

This work analyzes how the goals of the French Revolution?freedom, equality, and fraternity?have been corrupted by intellectuals and policy makers who do not understand the limitations of the human condition. Their lack of common sense has wrought nothing but social and cultural problems....
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The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Account of the Conclave That Changed History

Gerard O'Connell · Orbis Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Here is a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of history in the making-- the election in 2013 of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope, and the first pope to choose the name Francis. The author, a friend the Pope, now reveals what actually happed...
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The Pope: Francis, Benedict, and the Decision That Shook the World

Anthony McCarten · Flatiron Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour comes the fascinating and revealing tale of an unprecedented transfer of power, and of two very different men - who both happen to live in the Vatican. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE...

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The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results

Andy Andrews · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

This is how it's done. This is why it's done this way. This is the result you can expect if you do it.These three pieces of information inform a conclusion about every part of each of our lives. Yet it is these three pieces of information that most often set an insidious trap - a trap...
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The Rational Bible: Exodus

Dennis Prager · Regnery Faith
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover

For many, the Bible is anything but rational. It is often seen as a collection of religious fairy tales. In this remarkable new work, The Rational Bible: Exodus, the second book of the Bible, is explained by Dennis Prager, not employing faith but reason.
Stories and laws which...
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The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe

Richard Rohr · Convergent Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called "Christ," and how this forgotten truth can transform everything we see, hope for, and believe.

In his decades as a globally recognized teacher,...
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