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Julian of Norwich(Paperback / softback)In 1373, a thirty-year-old woman named Julian, living in East Anglia, England, began receiving visions--what she later called "sixteen showings"--that revealed to her the reality of the love of God. When she wrote these down, they became the first English-language book ever written by a woman. In this groundbreaking biograohy, AMy Frykholm recreates Julian's world and paints a vivid picture....
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Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy(Paperback / softback)Charles Hodge (1797-1878) was one of nineteenth-century America's leading theologians, owing in part to a lengthy teaching career, voluminous writings, and a faculty post at one of the nation's most influential schools, Princeton Theological Seminary. Surprisingly, the only biography of this towering figure was written by his son, just two years after his death. Paul Gutjahr's book, therefore, is the....
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Voice in the Night: The True Story of a Man and the Miracles That Are Changing Africa(Paperback / softback)The amazing true story of the miracles transforming Africa--starting with how the son of two witch doctors became God's chosen agent of hope and change.
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How My Death Saved My Life: And Other Stories on My Journey to Wholeness(Paperback)An autobiography that tells the story of author Denise Linn. From the mundane to the mystical, it lets you follow Denise's inner and outer journeys as she grows up in various homes from a renovated chicken coop, to abandoned army barracks, to the slums of Chicago, to an Ohio farming community.
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Hope Out Loud: A Tragic Accident, a Mother's Desperate Prayer, and a Daughter's Miracle(Hardback)On the night of November 5, 2006, the Barrick family was driving home from church when their van was struck by a drunk driver. Fifteen-year-old Jen suffered multiple skull fractures and severe brain trauma and was not expected to survive the night. But against all odds, she did. As she lingered in a coma, doctors warned that if Jen ever....
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Four Lamas of Dolpo: Autobiographies of Four Tibetan Lamas (15th-18th Centuries) Vol II(Paperback / softback)A primary source on Tibetan lives, culture and religion as it was practiced in the 15th/16th centuries and as it continues to be today.
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Four Lamas of Dolpo: Autobiographies of Four Tibetan Lamas (15th-18th Centuries) Vol. I(Paperback / softback)An English translation of the autobiography of four medieval Tibetan Buddhism monks, a work shedding much light on traditional Tibetan culture and religion.
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Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: Wonder of the Age(Paperback / softback)In the many dimensions of his lifetime of achievement as well as in his personality and character, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877 1960) was and, through his continuing influence, still is an important thinker and writer in the Muslim world. At a time when science and philosophy were tools of an aggressive ideology of secularism, Nursi strove for the revival of....
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The Presidents & Their Faith: From George Washington to Barack Obama(Hardback)The old adage "never discuss religion and politics" is roundly rejected in this incisive exploration of Presidential history and religious faith. The Presidents & Their Faith is a fascinating and informative look at how every U.S. president exercised their personal faith, exerted presidential power, and led a religiously diverse nation. Has there ever been a stranger prayer than Truman's, offered....
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The Vow: The True Story Behind the Movie(Paperback / softback)Now a major motion picture starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, "The Vow" tells the true story of Kim and Krickett Carpenter, a couple that defied the odds and fell in love with each other again after Krickett suffered brain damage and memory loss following a car accident. ....
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Nueve Vidas: En Busca de Lo Sagrado En La India de Hoy(Paperback / softback)The product of a 25-year exploration of India's cultural and religious traditions, this collection of biographies introduces the reader to nine unforgettable characters. They include a Buddhist monk who takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet and then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags....
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Emancipation of Robert Sadler: The Powerful True Story of a Twentieth-century Plantation Slave(Paperback)At age 5, Robert Sadler was sold into slavery. This is his story of his quest for freedom and his determination to serve others, updated edition.
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A Controversial Churchman: Essays on George Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand and Lichfield, and Sarah Selwyn(Paperback)New Zealand's first Anglican bishop, George Selwyn, was a towering fgure in the young colony. Denounced as a 'turbulent priest' for speaking out against Crown practices that dispossessed Maori, he brought a vigorous approach to episcopal leadership. His wife Sarah Selwyn supported all her husband's activities, in a life characterised as one of 'hardship and anxiety'; she expressed independently her....
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Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest(Paperback / softback)As the host of one of National Public Radio's most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge and perceptive intelligence to a thoughtful and thought-provoking exploration of belief -- and lack of belief. Many....
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The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith(Paperback / softback)Partly autobiographical, partly historical, The Rage Against God, written by Peter Hitchens, brother of prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens, assails several of the favorite arguments of the anti-God battalions and makes the case against fashionable atheism.
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Unshaken: Rising from the Ruins of Haiti's Hotel Montana(Paperback)Reporters have told Dan Woolley's story of being trapped for three days after Haiti's devastating earthquake. They focused on how he used his iPhone and digital camera to survive injuries. They showed pictures of the bloody journal where he wrote notes for his wife and sons. Now, here's the rest of the story ...
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Rethinking the South English Legendaries(Hardback)A collection of saints' lives in medieval English. This title creates a fresh platform for thinking about this work. It draws on the hagiographic scholarship, attends to textual, socio-cultural, political and other issues, reprints a handful of key articles and includes a section on performance.
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Angels Walk Among Us: From Every Tribe, Kindred and Nation(Paperback / softback)This is the story of a Maasai tribal village chief from Kenya who was born under an acacia tree outside of his parent's hut in Africa, because there was no hospital in his village. For the first nine years of Joseph's life, his existence was consumed with work and caring for siblings. But his thirst for knowledge drove him to....
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Max Lilienthal: The Making of the American Rabbinate(Hardback)Explores the life and thought of Rabbi Max Lilienthal, who created a new model for the American rabbinate.
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Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso(Hardback )'I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope.' Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully understand its implications. He became a troubled conscience during the white-hot period of colonisation, maintaining his dissident voice throughout....
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