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Welcome to Iran!
Christian Encounters with Shia Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
During their four years of living in Iran and sharing their lives with the Iranian people, Evelyn and Wallace Shellenberger encountered and experienced God many times and in many ways. In Welcome to Iran! they narrate how their years in Iran transformed their thinking on religion, politics, and the...
An Anxious Age
The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of...
by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is one of the foremost spiritual thinkers of the twentieth century. Though he lived a mostly solitary existence as a Trappist monk, he had a dynamic impact on world affairs through his writing. An outspoken proponent of the antiwar and civil rights movements, he was both...
by Jim Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Who was Jesus? Why did he come? Some people think it was to save them from their sins, so their spiritual focus is personal salvation. Others appreciate Jesus's teachings but see little connection between the wise teacher of old and how they live life here and now.
Both groups have lost the...
by Donald Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The subject of Professor Meyer's superb study concerns the dissolution of the Protestant ethic, its relationship to a general failure of nerve within the American community, and the consequent rise of a pseudo-theology in the guise of a pseudo-psychology, as reflected through the work of certain "mind-cure"...
Rogue Hearts
Making Sense of the Boston Marathon Bombings
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
In Rogue Hearts, Moss says, “Out of all of the people in Boston, Massachusetts, two bloody hearts went rogue and paralyzed a city of one million…it’s not the last of mayhem. With radical Muslims and extremists running rampant, along with those influenced by violence on the big screen and television, there will be more. Therefore, what do we do as a nation...or is it too late?
The Legacy of Jihad
Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
This book reveals how, for well over a millennium and across three continents - Asia, Africa, and Europe - non-Muslims who were vanquished by jihad wars became forced tributaries (called dhimmi in Arabic) in lieu of being slain. Under the dhimmi religious caste system, non-Muslims were subjected to...
A Nun on the Bus
How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In the summer of 2012, Sister Simone Campbell and a group of fellow Roman Catholic nuns toured parts of the country to rally support against Congressman Paul Ryan's budget, a plan that cut vital social programs for the hurting poor and the struggling middle class. Prayer groups turned into rallies,...
God's Economics (Ebook Shorts)
Principles for Fixing Our Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The collapse of financial systems and the resulting economic crisis have caused a growing distrust of the way things operate. Why has the global economy become so unfair, unsustainable, and unstable, with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? A conversation about how the market should...
Split Ticket
Independent Faith in a Time of Partisan Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Split Ticket takes on one of the most critical issues in the public eye right now: the complicated relationship between religious belief and political engagement. This collection of essays reflects the many different perspectives on this subject, not only on the reductive “liberal-conservative”...
by Joseph E. Lowery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
From the earliest meetings of the Civil Rights Movement to offering the benediction for the first African American President of the United States, Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery has been an eyewitness to some of the most significant events in our history. But, more important, he has been a voice that speaks...
by John L. Esposito
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
John L. Esposito is one of America's leading authorities on Islam. Now, in this brilliant portrait of Islam today--and tomorrow--he draws on a lifetime of thought and research to sweep away the negative stereotypes and provide an accurate, richly nuanced, and revelatory account of the fastest growing...
How Long O Lord?
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Voices from the Ground and Visions for the Future in Israel/Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2003
How Long O Lord? The prophet's ancient cry for justice sounds as plaintively and passionately today as it ever has. In this penetrating and provocative collection of essays, Maurine and Robert Tobin have brought together a group of peacemakers—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—whose religious convictions...
The Apostates
When Muslims Leave Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Muslims leave Islam and become irreligious. Apostasy in Islam is a deeply controversial...