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So God Made a Dog
90 Devotions for Dog People
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Every dog is different, but each loves his or her human in a special way. Often they are brave, noble, and strong. Sometimes they make us laugh, at them and at ourselves. Always they make us feel less alone and more loved. These ninety devotions will encourage and inspire you as you see how God is revealed in the antics and actions of our four-legged friends.
Insider Outsider
My Journey as a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
God boldly proclaims throughout the book of Acts, "There is no ethnic home team when it comes to Christianity." But the minority experience in America today--and throughout history--too often tells a different story.
When Pastor Bryan Loritts wrote an op-ed piece in Christianity Today...
No Freedom Without Law
Without law there is no real freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
People everywhere fight and strive for greater freedom. At the same time, they fight against law. That shows a dangerous misunderstanding of the nature of true freedom and the need for righteous law. The fact is, without law there is no real freedom. Do you have the attitude toward law that leads...
Looking for Mary
(Or, the Blessed Mother and Me)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Entering her fortieth year, Beverly Donofrio, a "lapsed Catholic," inexplicably begins collecting Virgin Mary memorabilia at yard sales. Her search for kitsch, however, soon becomes a spiritual quest, leading her to make a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medjugorje. There, she learns that Mary comes...
by Jonathan P. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Jonathan P. Hill is assistant professor of sociology at Calvin College. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on higher education and religious faith and coauthor of the book Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church (Oxford, 2014). He is also the...
Arriesgando la gracia
Amando a nuestros familiares y amigos gais como lo haría Jesús
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
ARRIESGANDO LA GRACIA
Amando a nuestros familiares y amigos gais como lo haría Jesús
Al ser una de las personas que en 1987 ayudó a escribir un libro que proponía la terapia reparativa para las personas homosexuales, fue con amor desgarrante que mi esposa y yo no dejamos ir a nuestra...
Life and Love
Opening Your Heart to God's Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Human life. We marvel at its complexity, we wonder at its fragility, and as Catholics we embrace its dignity. But as far back as 1880, the Church has faced the reality that our culture often stands in opposition to God’s loving design for life, love, marriage, and family.
In Life and Love:...
by Marv Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
When children are sold into slavery-what good is Jesus? When wretched disease takes a loved one's life-what good is Jesus? When marriages crumble and jobs disappoint-what good is Jesus? Many know...
The Next Mormons
How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an exception: nearly three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon stayed that way into adulthood. In...
Thrift Store Graces
Finding God's Gifts in the Midst of the Mess
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This “ridiculous” religious thinking—that when we help the poor, they end up helping us—is at the heart of the 30 stories that Jane Knuth shares in Thrift Store Graces, the sequel to her popular Thrift Store Saints. Similar to the first book, Thrift Store Graces contains personal accounts...
Moving by the Spirit
Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, Naomi Haynes explores Pentecostal Christianity in the kind of community where it often flourishes: a densely populated neighborhood in the heart of an extraction economy. On the Zambian Copperbelt, Pentecostal adherence embeds believers in relationships...
by Helen Thorne
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
If only this book weren’t needed. If only men and women didn’t beat their partners. If only spouses didn’t cruelly manipulate and control. If only people didn’t bully elderly relatives . . .
Most incidents go under the radar, and it is estimated that only around a third come to the...
by Todd Hafer, Jedd Hafer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Dogs. Early in our relationship with them, dogs lived on the fringes of villages or encampments, but it wasn’t long before canines were welcomed into the heart of civilization—and into the hearts of women, men, and children.
Thousands of years before the birth of Christ, dogs assisted people...
by Todd Hafer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Cats. They were worshipped in ancient Egypt and persecuted in medieval Europe. Today, they are America’s favorite pet, over 93 million strong. More than one-third of American households boast at least one feline friend.
Inside this book you will discover truly amazing things about cats and the...