Christian Science category: 744 books
The Furnace of Affliction
Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.
Initially, state and...
Dogs to the Rescue
Inspirational Stories of Four-Footed Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
From the beloved author of Four Paws from Heaven (nearly 125,000 copies sold) comes a new devotional for everyone who’s ever loved a dog. This collection of short devotions features inspirational stories of rescue dogs, therapy dogs, and dogs that help their humans in unexpected ways. Discover
what...
Tea Party Catholic
The Catholic Case for Limited Government, a Free Economy, and Human Flourishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Targeting core tenets of the Tea Party movement, including political economy and economic history, Samuel Gregg makes the case for a new breed of conservative—the Tea Party Catholic. Long married to the conventional liberal ideologies of the past, American Catholics were largely wed to the political...
The Formal Requirements of the Celebration of Marriage:
A Comparative Study of Canon Law, Nigeria Statutory Law and Nigeria Customary Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The book is an extract from my doctorate degree thesis dealing with the formal requirements for the celebration of marriage: a comparative study of canon law, Nigerian statutory law, and customary law. It is universally recognized that consent of parties brings about marriage. But for consent to result...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This volume offers a view of modern Russian intellectual culture as shaped by the dynamic of conversions. The individual contributions examine a rich variety of personal conversions occurring in a culture in which the written word enjoyed a privileged status and, historically, was closely linked to...
In Our Backyard
Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In recent years, Americans have woken up to the reality that human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. But what most still do not understand is that neither is it something that just happens to "other people" such as runaways or the disenfranchised. The human...
Pleasure Factory
Horrors of the Singapore Flash Trade
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Underneath Singapore’s squeaky-clean exterior is a dark realm like no other. Based on interviews with hundreds of prostitutes in Singapore and years of research, we bring you Pleasure Factory. In the Pleasure Factory, women advertise pleasure by the hour, but the only real product is pain. Night after...
by Mary Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Life seems to have a way of whirling out of control once in a while. During those times it is our faith in God, the presence and support of our families, and the power in the prayers of fellow Christians that pull us through the diffi culties.
Some of the poems in this book were written during...
Beyond Colorblind
Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
• 15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Also Recommended in Racial Reconciliation
• 2017 Foreword INDIES Award Finalist
For a generation or so, society has tried to be colorblind. People say they don’t see race. But this approach has limitations. In our broken world, ethnicity...
The Evidence Of Things Not Seen
Orthodox and Modern Physics
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, a frequent lecturer on the philosophy of quantum physics. Archbishop Lazar is a hesychastic theologian who explores the complimentarity between the processes of Orthodox theology and quantum physics in a compelling and knowledgeable text.
Taboo and Transgression
Jesus of Nazareth
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Using the analytical tools of cultural anthropology, Ida Magli delves into the familiar material of the New Testament the same way as she would any other historical text, and separates the myth and mysticism from the narrative accounts, to discern what is most likely to be historical fact, and what...
Why Not Today
Trafficking, Slavery, the Global Church . . . and You
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Three hundred million - that's the number of people subjected to slavery, sex-trafficking, discrimination, and unspeakable poverty in India. That's the same number of people as live in the entire United States. They are the Dalit people, the untouchables.
When Matthew Cork, a California pastor,...
You Welcomed Me
Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
"Wait, Dad. Are we for them or against them?" Kent Annan was talking with his eight-year-old son about the immigrant and refugee crises around the world. His son's question, innocent enough in the moment, is writ large across our society today. How we answer it, Annan says, will reveal a...
Living Gently in a Violent World
The Prophetic Witness of Weakness
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
How are Christians to live in a violent and wounded world? Rather than contending for privilege by wielding power and authority, we can witness prophetically from a position of weakness. The church has much to learn from an often-overlooked community—those with disabilities. In this fascinating...