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The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World
Lisa Harper - B&H Books
Format: Paperback
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Imagine hearing your physician tell you that chips and queso contain more nutritional benefits than kale and quinoa. In her new book, The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World, Lisa Harper unveils a similarly extravagant, unexpected surprise, declaring that happiness... |
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Objects of Devotion: Religion in Early America
Peter Manseau - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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Objects of Devotion: Religion in Early America tells the story of religion in the United States through the material culture of diverse spiritual pursuits in the nation's colonial period and the early republic. The beautiful, full-color companion volume to a Smithsonian National... |
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The Polygamist's Daughter: A Memoir
Anna LeBaron - Tyndale House Publishers
Format: Print book
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"My father had more than fifty children."So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. With her father wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his cult -- a radical branch of Mormonism -- Anna and her siblings... |
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Frederick Douglass: America's Prophet
D H Dilbeck - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation... |
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To Change The Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism
Ross Douthat - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times columnist and one of America's leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis's efforts to change the church he governs.Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, today Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis's stewardship of the Church,... |
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Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World
ALEC RYRIE - VIKING
Format: Print book
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Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of Luther's theses, a global history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world Five hundred years ago an obscure monk challenged... |
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Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization
Os Guinness - InterVarsity Press
Format: Print book
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The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever,... |
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Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World
Paul Collins - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authorityIn 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals... |
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Cherish Study Guide: The One Word That Changes Everything for Your Marriage
Gary Thomas - Zondervan
Format: Paperback
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Millions of couples getting married have pledged to "love and to cherish, until death do us part." Most of us understand and get the love part... but what does it mean to cherish our spouse? Why do we say it once at the wedding and then rarely even mention it again? In this six-session... |
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