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The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand-Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels

Philip Jenkins - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Format: Print book

The standard account of early Christianity tells us that the first centuries after Jesus' death witnessed an efflorescence of Christian sects, each with its own gospel. We are taught that these alternative scriptures, which represented intoxicating, daring, and often bizarre ideas,...
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The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters

J W Ocker - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover

Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond!Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states. From the infamous Jersey Devil to the obscure Snallygaster, travel writer and chronicler...
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How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation

John Dominic Crossan - HarperOne; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus and God Empirethe greatest New Testament scholar of our generation John Shelby Spong grapples with Scriptures two conflicting visions of Jesus and God, one of a loving God, and one of a vengeful God, and explains how Christians...
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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican

Gerald Posner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A deeply reported, New York Times bestselling expos of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican - the world's biggest, most powerful religious institution - from an acclaimed journalist with "exhaustive research techniques" (The New York Times)...
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The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care

Anne Boyer - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

"The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable...
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Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US

Lenny Duncan - Augsburg Books
Format: Paperback

Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) . Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make all the headlines, but Duncan sees...
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

Robert Hillman - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A tender and wise novel about love, family, and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his world turned upside down by a vibrant woman determined to open the first bookstore his town has ever seen--and to leave her haunting memories of the Holocaust far behind."Beautifully...
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How to Read the Bible

Harvey Cox - HarperOne
Format: Print book

Renowned religion expert and Harvard Divinity School professor Harvey Cox deepens our experience of the Bible, revealing the three primary ways we read it, why each is important, and how we can integrate these approaches for a richer understanding and appreciation of key texts throughout...
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UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says

Donald R Prothero - Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover

UFOs. Aliens. Strange crop circles. Giant figures scratched in the desert surface along the coast of Peru. The amazing alignment of the pyramids. Strange lines of clouds in the sky. The paranormal is alive and well in the American cultural landscape. In UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens, Donald...
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The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View

Tim Crane - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers...
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