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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Anne Lamott writes about community, family and faith in essays that are wise, irreverent, funny and poignant--a style that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott has once again written a brilliant and insightful book that offers a message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardships and pain may be small, they may be infrequent, but they keep us going and they often come...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
[2010].
Physical Desc
16 audio discs (19 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This interesting study takes its findings from two of the largest, most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on religion and public life in America, plus in-depth studies of diverse congregations, among them a megachurch, a Mormon congregation, a Catholic parish, a reform Jewish synagogue, and an African American congregation.
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Series
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Shares the author's minute-by-minute account of his religiously transformative near-death experience and revealing week-long coma, describing his scientific study of near-death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness. "Near-death experiences are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Each chapter of Girl, Wash Your Face begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body and relationships, she speaks with the insight and kindness of a BFF, helping women unpack the limiting mind-sets that destroy their self-confidence and keep them from moving forward."--Amazon.com....
8) God's brain
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
In a concise, lively, accessible, and witty style, the authors combine zoom-lens vignettes of religious practices with discussions of the latest research on religion's neurological effects on the brain. Among other topics, they consider religion's role in providing positive socialization, its seeming obsession with regulating sex, how religion's rules of behavior influence the law, the common biological scaffolding between nonhuman primates and humans...
Author
Series
Angels walking volume 2
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the second novel in a brand-new series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life--the dramatic story of a woman desperate to find deeper meaning in her life. Growing up in a comfortable home, Mary Catherine wanted for nothing. Though she loves her wealthy parents, their lifestyle never appealed to her. Instead, Mary Catherine pursues meaning through charity work,...
Author
Publisher
Xulon Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
433 pages
Description
The book contains 365 daily words for "lion-like" living. In a world of discouragement, one needs words of encouragement. The author encourages the reader to not let circumstances be bigger than they are. He takes a cue from Peter when Peter wrote as recorded in 1 Peter 5:12: "My purpose in writing is to encourage you and assure you that the grace of God is with you no matter what happens. The author uses picture stories that will be remembered and...
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Can God be revived in a skeptical age? What would it take to give people a spiritual life more powerful than anything in the past? Deepak Chopra tackles these issues with eloquence and insight in this book. He proposes that God lies at the source of human awareness. Therefore, any person can find the God within that transforms everyday life. God is in trouble. The rise of the militant atheist movement spearheaded by Richard Dawkins signifies,...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Description
"Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and “The Eye of Faith,” the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the Olmec heads of early Mesoamerica, the colossal statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and the nudes of classical Greece, Beard explores the power, hierarchy, and gender politics of the art of...
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Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"In this original and groundbreaking book, Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Robert Waldman turn their attention to the pinnacle of the human experience: enlightenment. Through his brain- scan studies on Brazilian psychic mediums, Sufi mystics, Buddhist meditators, Franciscan nuns, Pentecostals, and participants in secular spirituality rituals, Newberg has discovered the specific neurological mechanisms associated with the enlightenment experience--and...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The people within the Himalayan Kingdom of Mustang, one of the last authentic Tibetan sanctuaries, have struggled to keep their monasteries, art, and culture alive. On the edge of collapsing, learn how they are restoring their sacred sites and saving what they hold most dear.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Amish intercuts historical analysis with contemporary footage to provide an unprecedented look at this highly private, little understood, and utterly unique community whose beliefs raise important questions about religious liberty in American life.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In 2014's Jesus on Trial, David Limbaugh made a case for the Gospels as hard evidence of the existence of God, drawing on his own spiritual journey from skeptic to believer. Now Limbaugh looks deeper into the Scriptures and discovers that Jesus Christ's very being reveals itself in a close reading of the sacred texts. The Emmaus Code is a journey toward an understanding of Christ as man, savior, and son of God.
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Publisher
Shambhala
Description
"We live in difficult times. Life sometimes seems like a roiling and turbulent river threatening to drown us and destroy the world. Why, then, shouldn't we cling to the certainty of the shore--to our familiar patterns and habits? Because, Pema Chödrön teaches, that kind of fear-based clinging keeps us from the infinitely more satisfying experience of being fully alive. The teachings she presents here--known as the 'Three Commitments'--provide a...
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