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Appointments with heaven: the true story of a country Doctor's healing encounters with the hereafter
By Jennifer Schuchmann, Reggie Anderson. 2013
Physician describes working with patients at the end of their lives and the feelings and sensations he experiences at the…
time of their deaths that he attributes to the patient passing to heaven or hell from their earthly existence. Discusses his struggles with his Christian faith over the years. 2013Sacred instructions: indigenous wisdom for living spirit-based change
By Sherri L. Mitchell. 2018
An attorney, activist, and member of the Penobscot Nation presents a guide for using indigenous wisdom to effect change at…
home and in the wider world. Topics include building a foundation, understanding the wayward path, imagining the path forward, and reaching back and moving forward. 2018The beekeeper: rescuing the stolen women of Iraq
By Max Weiss, Dunya Mikhail, Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl. 2018
Journalist shares her trip to Iraq to meet with Yazidi women who escaped captivity by Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) and the beekeeper…
who assisted them with his network of helpers. Discusses the impact of traumas experienced. Translated from the original 2018 Arabic edition. Violence. 2018Zorba the Buddha: sex, spirituality, and capitalism in the global Osho movement
By Hugh B. Urban, Hugh B Urban. 2015
Religious studies professor examines the growth and expansion of the Osho-Rajneesh movement which came to notoriety in America in the…
1980s. Analyzes the movement's early years, its move to America, the role of sexuality in its spirituality, growth after controversy, and more. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2015The four roads to heaven: France and the Santiago pilgrimage
By Edwin Mullins. 2018
The author follows four French roads cited in a twelfth-century manuscript considered to be one of the world's first travel…
guides for pilgrimage tours to Santiago de Campostela. Recounts the historical context of the sites listed as well as the author's own experiences tracing the routes. 2017Produced by faith: enjoy real success without losing your true self
By Tim Vandehey, DeVon Franklin. 2012
Hollywood studio executive and author of The Wait (DB 84471) uses the constructs of the movie business to present a…
faith-based process to turn your career into a success. Broken into "Development" and "Production," topics include the "Big Idea," selling it, getting notes, casting, marketing and publicity, and sequels. 2011No es por vista: Solo la fe abre tus ojos
By Cash Luna. 2018
El popular pastor evangélico Carlos Enrique "Cash" Luna Arango--fundador de la iglesia cristiana Casa de Dios en Guatemala--explora su concepción…
de la fe. Citando ejemplos tanto de la Biblia como de la cultura popular, describe el poder de las creencias religiosas para transformar a las personas y al mundoUnshakable hope: promise book : student edition
By Max Lucado. 2018
Offers encouraging, practical advice for overcoming difficult circumstances. Suggests that by focusing on God's promises, Christians can meet challenges, find…
security, and make wise decisions. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2018Still here: embracing aging, changing, and dying
By Ram Dass. 2001
A spiritual teacher offers advice on living with mindfulness, focusing on the path from aging to dying and beyond. He…
shares stories from his own life and provides meditations for dealing with the ups and downs of aging. 2000The darkening age: the Christian destruction of the classical world
By Catherine Nixey. 2018
Journalist examines the rise of Christianity in the ancient world and the destruction of Mediterranean literature and cultural artifacts that…
led to the time known as the Dark Ages. Discusses the loss of architecture, intellectual and technological advancements, and art. Analyzes the reasoning behind zealotry and targeted attacks. 2017A thousand lives: the untold story of Jonestown
By Julia Scheeres. 2012
The experiences of five members of the People's Temple Full Gospel Church, a cult founded by Jim Jones in 1954.…
Discusses the group's beginning, its eventual relocation to Guyana, the US government's investigation, and the mass murder-suicide that shocked the world in 1978. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2011My year of dirt and water: journal of a Zen monk's wife in Japan
By Tracy Franz. 2018
An American living in Japan recounts the year she spent on personal growth and reflection while her husband left for…
a year of training as a Zen monk. Discusses her devotion to making pottery during this time and reflects on the nature of love, art, suffering, and more. 2018Radio show host shares stories from her life and her faith journey. Discusses why her philosophy is to "love someone."…
Presents ways she lives this philosophy and suggestions for readers to do the same. 2001More church folk
By Michele Andrea Bowen. 2010
Twenty-five years after the events of Church Folk (DB 93002), the Reverend Theophilus Simmons and the preachers of St. Louis's…
Gospel United Church are preparing for the Triennial General Conference. Family life and shenanigans by other pastors promise that the conference will be one to remember. 2010Once you go in: a memoir of radical faith
By Carly Gelsinger. 2018
Woman recounts joining a fundamentalist church at the age of thirteen. Discusses her experiences in social situations under the watchful…
eye of church elders, relationships she formed, and her life after leaving, when she had to learn ways to navigate the secular world. 2018Muhammad: prophet of peace amid the clash of empires
By Juan Cole, Juan Ricardo Cole. 2018
Historian presents an analysis of the Middle East in the seventh century, when the prophet Muhammad developed the religion of…
Islam. Discusses the region's warring empires and the emphasis of peace in Muhammad's teachings. 2018Sé las manos y los pies de Cristo
By Nick Vujicic. 2018
Vujicic, an Australian motivational speaker born without limbs, describes how the example of Jesus in the Gospels informed his own…
personal journey of faith and engagement with others. Spanish language. 2018The tragic death of thirteen-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for twenty years until the Boston…
abuse scandal—a string of assaults taking place within the Catholic Church—exploded in the early 2000s. Despite numerous indications, including forty claims of sexual misconduct with minors, pointing to him as Croteau's killer, Reverend Richard R. Lavigne remains "innocent." Drawing on more than ten thousand pages of police and court findings and interviews with Danny's friends and family, fellow abuse victims, and church officials, the author uncovers the truth—church complicity in the cover-up and masking of priests' involvement in a ring of abusive clergy—behind Croteau's death and those who had a hand in itSlonim woods 9: A memoir
By Daniel Barban Levin. 2021
A stunning firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a…
group of college roommates &“Chilling . . . eloquent . . . a powerful portrayal of a young man&’s ability to emerge whole from an experience intended to break him.&”— Publishers Weekly In September 2010, at the beginning of the academic year at Sarah Lawrence College, a sophomore named Talia Ray asked her roommates if her father could stay with them for a while. No one objected. Her father, Larry Ray, was just released from prison, having spent three years behind bars after a conviction during a bitter custody dispute. Larry Ray arrived at the dorm, a communal house called Slonim Woods 9, and stayed for the whole year. Over the course of innumerable counseling sessions and &“family meetings,&” the intense and forceful Ray convinced his daughter&’s friends that he alone could help them &“achieve clarity.&” Eventually, Ray and the students moved into a small Manhattan apartment, beginning years of manipulation and abuse, as Ray tightened his control over his young charges through blackmail, extortion, and ritualized humiliation. After a decade of secrecy, in 2020, Larry Ray was finally indicted on charges of extortion, sex trafficking, forced labor, and money laundering. Daniel Barban Levin was one of the original residents of Slonim Woods 9. Beginning the moment Daniel set foot on Sarah Lawrence&’s idyllic campus and spanning the two years he spent in the grip of a megalomaniac, this brave, lyrical, and redemptive memoir reveals how a group of friends were led from college to a cult without the world even noticingUnder jerusalem: The buried history of the world's most contested city
By Andrew Lawler. 2021
A sweeping history of the hidden world below the Holy City—a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval…
"These untold stories of archeological digs near and under Jerusalem&’s sacred sites convey all the colorful and violent and contentious history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ... A compulsive read.&” —Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author of The Outlier In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he claimed, belonged to an Old Testament queen. News of his find ricocheted around the world, evoking awe and envy alike, and inspiring others to explore Jerusalem&’s storied past. In the century and a half since the Frenchman broke ground, Jerusalem has drawn a global cast of fortune seekers and missionaries, archaeologists and zealots, all of them eager to extract the biblical past from beneath the city&’s streets and shrines. Their efforts have had profound effects, not only on our understanding of Jerusalem&’s history, but on its hotly disputed present. The quest to retrieve ancient Jewish heritage has sparked bloody riots and thwarted international peace agreements. It has served as a cudgel, a way to stake a claim to the most contested city on the planet. Today, the earth below Jerusalem remains a battleground in the struggle to control the city above. Under Jerusalem takes readers into the tombs, tunnels, and trenches of the Holy City. It brings to life the indelible characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape. With clarity and verve, acclaimed journalist Andrew Lawler reveals how their pursuit has not only defined the conflict over modern Jerusalem, but could provide a map for two peoples and three faiths to peacefully coexist.