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By Kathleen A. Cahalan, Douglas J. Schuurman. 2016
Comparative religious insights into the meaning of vocation in today's world The concept of "vocation" or "calling" is a distinctively…
Christian concern, grounded in the long-held belief that we find our meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in God. But what about religions other than Christianity? What does it mean for someone from another faith tradition to understand calling or vocation? In this book contributors with expertise in Catholic and Protestant Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism, and secular humanism explore the idea of calling from these eight faith perspectives. The contributors search their respective traditions' sacred texts, key figures, practices, and concepts for wisdom on the meaning of vocation. Greater understanding of diverse faith traditions, say Kathleen Cahalan and Douglas Schuurman, will hopefully increase and improve efforts to build a better, more humane world. CONTRIBUTORS Mark Berkson (Confucianism and Daoism) Kathleen A. Cahalan (Catholicism) Amy Eilberg (Judaism) John Kelsay (Islam) Edward Langerak (Secularism) Anantanand Rambachan (Hinduism) Douglas J. Schuurman (Protestantism) Mark Unno (Buddhism)By Gabriel Agbo, Leandro Padilha. 2015
A promessa da aliança de Deus não falha. Esse livro foi escrito para te ajudar a alcançar as promessas de…
Deus na tua vida. É um estudo cuidadosamente elaborado com testemunhos pessoais, sobre a capacidade e vontade de Deus para cumprir Sua palavra em nossas vidas. Ele disse que Ele zela por Sua palavra para trazê-la a existência. Aqui, nós analisaremos criticamente a dinâmica da promessa de Deus; com ela é estabelecida, mantida e nutrida para ser concretizada. Toda promessa de aliança tem um inicio, tempo e condição. Nós temos que saber disso para sermos capazes de nos encaixarmos perfeita e confortavelmente na vontade de Deus para a nossa vida. Realmente, todas as coisas são possíveis com Deus! Leia e seja abençoado! Gabriel AgboBy Karen Kingsbury. 2012
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes this e-short prequel to her upcoming novel, The Bridge, shedding…
light on the love story behind the bookstore and how it came to be a place of hope and encouragement.By Gabriel Agbo, Leandro Padilha. 2016
O Fim do Sofrimento Esse livro abrirá teus olhos para as conseqüências de todas as nossas ações e para nossos…
destinos e de nossos filhos; mesmo aqueles que ainda não nasceram. O assunto "maldições" tem sido negligenciado, e nós descobrimos que é necessário expô-lo aqui. Nós começamos indo as escrituras para saber exatamente o que Deus tem a dizer a respeito de maldições, como elas operam e como nós podemos ser livres deles completamente. Maldições Hereditárias são tão importantes que Deus as incluiu nas Tábuas dos Dez Mandamentos. Muitas pessoas estão amarradas pelo inimigo com instrumentos de escravidão invisíveis e não identificáveis. Neste estudo, nós ensinaremos como quebrar essas cadeias que se originam do inimigo. Nós exploramos profundamente áreas como idolatria (incluindo o Dia das Bruxas - Halloween), imortalidade, roubo, assassinato, etc. Eu acredito que assim que você ler esse livro e explorar suas verdades haverá uma agitação em você para examinar por si mesmo e você se esforçará para se libertar e viver uma vida santa se for para você mesmo, ao menos por conta de seus filhos e gerações que ainda não nascerão. Que Deus possa te abençoar durante a leitura deste livro e Eu peço que você o leia com um coração e mente aberto, e que teu entendimento possa ser afinado com o que realmente está a tua volta.From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and…
William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.By Gabriel Agbo, Olivier Kamenan KOFFI, Enseignant, Traducteur. 2018
Ce livre changera votre tristesse en chant d'allégresse. Il montre comment vous pouvez changer vos épreuves, chagrins, souffrances et problèmes…
en victoires. Après chaque épreuve, vient toujours un temps de joie et d'élevation. La lecture de ce livre changera radicalement votre vie à jamais.By Pia Sánchez. 2017
Una obra íntima que invita a la reflexión y a la búsqueda interior de la fe. Buscando a Dios es…
una obra íntima, una invitación a la reflexión y a la búsqueda interior de la fe en el sentido más amplio y generoso. En ella, la autora nos muestra cómo esta búsqueda es toda una emocionante aventura espiritual y, aunque también nos confiesa que no está ausente de dolor ni de angustia, si se persiste, un tropel de enseñanzas se abalanzará sobre nosotros, cambiándonos por dentro y haciéndonos dichosos.By Irene M. Bates, E. Gary Smith. 2018
Joseph Smith's father, Joseph Smith Sr., first occupied the hereditary office of Presiding Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ…
of Latter-day Saints. Thereafter, it became a focal point for struggle between those appointed and those born to leadership positions. This new edition of Lost Legacy updates the award-winning history of the office. Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith chronicle the ongoing tensions around the existence of a Presiding Patriarch as a source of conflict between the Smith family and the rest of the leadership. Their narrative continues through the dawning realization that familial authority was incompatible with the LDS's structured leadership and the decision to abolish the office of Patriarch in 1979. This second edition, revised and supplemented by author E. Gary Smith, includes a new chapter on Eldred G. Smith, the General Authority Emeritus who was the final Presiding Patriarch. It also corrects the text and provides a new preface by E. Gary Smith.By Barbara Brown Taylor. 2009
In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."--Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry…
to become a professor, a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World, she shares how she learned to encounter God beyond the walls of any church.From simple practices such as walking, working, and getting lost to deep meditations on topics like prayer and pronouncing blessings, Taylor reveals concrete ways to discover the sacred in the small things we do and see. Something as ordinary as hanging clothes on a clothesline becomes an act of devotion if we pay attention to what we are doing and take time to attend to the sights, smells, and sounds around us. Making eye contact with the cashier at the grocery store becomes a moment of true human connection. Allowing yourself to get lost leads to new discoveries. Under Taylor's expert guidance, we come to question conventional distinctions between the sacred and the secular, learning that no physical act is too earthbound or too humble to become a path to the divine. As we incorporate these practices into our daily lives, we begin to discover altars everywhere we go, in nearly everything we do.By William Hazelgrove. 2018
This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright brothers myth. They were not -- as we have all come…
to believe--two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first "flying machine."How could two misanthropic brothers who never left home, were high-school dropouts, and made a living as bicycle mechanics have figured out the secret of manned flight? This new history of the Wright brothers' monumental accomplishment focuses on their early years of trial and error at Kitty Hawk (1900-1903) and Orville Wright's epic fight with the Smithsonian Institute and Glenn Curtis. William Hazelgrove makes a convincing case that it was Wilbur Wright who designed the first successful airplane, not Orville. He shows that, while Orville's role was important, he generally followed his brother's lead and assisted with the mechanical details to make Wilbur's vision a reality. Combing through original archives and family letters, Hazelgrove reveals the differences in the brothers' personalities and abilities. He examines how the Wright brothers myth was born when Wilbur Wright died early and left his brother to write their history with personal friend John Kelly. The author notes the peculiar inwardness of their family life, business and family problems, bouts of depression, serious illnesses, and yet, rising above it all, was Wilbur's obsessive zeal to test out his flying ideas. When he found Kitty Hawk, this desolate location on North Carolina's Outer Banks became his laboratory. By carefully studying bird flight and the Rubik's Cube of control, Wilbur cracked the secret of aerodynamics and achieved liftoff on December 17, 1903. Hazelgrove's richly researched and well-told tale of the Wright brothers' landmark achievement, illustrated with rare historical photos, captures the excitement of the times at the start of the "American century."By Lester L. Grabbe. 2018
Many books have been written on the Bible and evolution by scientists, but this volume is written by a biblical…
specialist. In Faith and Fossils Lester Grabbe, a prominent Hebrew Bible scholar, examines the Bible in its ancient context and explores its meaning in light of emerging scientific evidence. Both the Bible and the fossil record raise significant questions about what it means to be human, and Grabbe expertly draws on both sources to grapple with who we are and where we came from. Written in uncomplicated language and featuring eleven spectacular color plates, Grabbe’s Faith and Fossilscreatively shows how science and faith intersect in questions about human origins.By Martin E. Marty, Dean K. Thompson, Cameron Murchison D, Jill Duffield. 2018
Positive mentoring relationships are held to be essential to the formation of strong Christian leaders—but why? How can theological and…
biblical insights inform mentoring relationships? And what do these vital relationships look like across a range of Christian experience? Opening multiple angles of vision on the practice of mentoring, Dean K. Thompson and D. Cameron Murchison here present a group of eminent scholars who explore mentoring from biblical-theological perspectives, within the context of diverse national and international communities, and across generations. CONTRIBUTORS: David L. Bartlett Walter Brueggemann Katie Geneva Cannon Thomas W. Currie Cristian De La Rosa Jill Duffield Elizabeth Hinson Hasty Luke Timothy Johnson Kwok Pui Lan Thomas G. Long Melva Lowry Martin E. Marty Rebekah Miles D. Cameron Murchison Camille Cook Murray Rodger Nishioka Douglas Ottati Alton B. Pollard III Cynthia L. Rigby Dean K. Thompson Theodore J. WardlawBy J Simmons, Nahum Brown. 2017
In this volume scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order to consider some of the oldest questions in…
the philosophy of religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry comprehension and expression The chapters engage different philosophical methodologies cross disciplinary boundaries and draw on varied cultural traditions in the effort to demonstrate that apophaticism can be a positive resource for contemporary philosophy of religionBy Mary Morton Cowan. 2018
In this middle-grade nonfiction title, award-winning author Mary Morton Cowan explores the extraordinary achievement of Cyrus Field and one of…
the greatest engineering feats of the nineteenth century: laying a transatlantic telegraph cable to create instant communication between two continents. Cyrus Field had a big dream to connect North America and Europe with a telegraph line, which would enable instant communication. In the mid-1800s, no one knew if it was possible. That didn’t dissuade Field, who set out to learn about undersea cables and build a network of influential people to raise money and create interest in his project. Field experienced numerous setbacks: many years of delays and failed attempts, millions of dollars lost, suspected sabotage, technological problems, and more. But Field did not give up, ultimately realizing his dream in the summer of 1866. Mary Morton Cowan brilliantly captures Field’s life and his steadfast determination to achieve his dream. Back matter includes an author’s note, timeline, bibliography, source notes, and index.By Dane Huckelbridge. 2019
A gripping, multifaceted true account of the deadliest animal of all time and the hunter on its trail, equally comparable…
to Jaws as to Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard. "A SUBURB WORK OF NATURAL HISTORY." —Booklist, starred review • "A GRIPPING PAGE-TURNER." —PW • "A REMARKABLE NARRATIVE." —Michael Wallis Nepal, c. 1900: The single deadliest animal in recorded history began stalking humans, moving like a phantom through the lush foothills of the Himalayas.As the death toll reached an astonishing 436 lives, a young local hunter was dispatched to stop the now-legendary man-eater before it struck again. One part pulse-pounding thriller, one part soulful natural history of the endangered Royal Bengal tiger, acclaimed writer Dane Huckelbridge’s No Beast So Fierce is the gripping, true account of the Champawat Tiger, which terrified northern India and Nepal from 1900 to 1907, and Jim Corbett, the legendary hunter who pursued it. Huckelbridge’s masterful telling also reveals that the tiger, Corbett, and the forces that brought them together are far more complex and fascinating than a simple man-versus-beast tale. At the turn of the twentieth century as British rule of India tightened and bounties were placed on tiger’s heads, a tigress was shot in the mouth by a poacher. Injured but alive, it turned from its usual hunting habits to easier prey—humans. For the next seven years, this man-made killer terrified locals, growing bolder with every kill. Colonial authorities, desperate for help, finally called upon Jim Corbett, a then-unknown railroad employee of humble origins who had grown up hunting game through the hills of Kumaon. Like a detective on the trail of a serial killer, Corbett tracked the tiger’s movements in the dense, hilly woodlands—meanwhile the animal shadowed Corbett in return. Then, after a heartbreaking new kill of a young woman whom he was unable to protect, Corbett followed the gruesome blood trail deep into the forest where hunter and tiger would meet at last.Drawing upon on-the-ground research in the Indian Himalayan region where he retraced Corbett’s footsteps, Huckelbridge brings to life one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. And yet Huckelbridge brings a deeper, more complex story into focus, placing the episode into its full context for the first time: that of colonialism’s disturbing impact on the ancient balance between man and tiger; and that of Corbett’s own evolution from a celebrated hunter to a principled conservationist who in time would earn fame for his devotion to saving the Bengal tiger and its habitat. Today the Corbett Tiger Reserve preserves 1,200 km of wilderness; within its borders is Jim Corbett National Park, India’s oldest and most prestigious national park and a vital haven for the very animals Corbett once hunted.An unforgettable tale, magnificently told, No Beast So Fierce is an epic of beauty, terror, survival, and redemption for the ages.By Camil Ungureanu, Paolo Monti. 2018
What is the place of religion in a pluralist democracy The continuous presence of religion in the public sphere…
has raised anew normative and practical issues related to the role of religion in a democratic polity generating spirited political debates in Western and non-Western contexts Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion provides an advanced introduction to and a critical appraisal of the major schools of political thought with a focus on the relationship between democracy and religion Key features of this book include Analyses of different political traditions liberalism republicanism deliberative democracy feminism postmodernism multiculturalism and interculturalism Critical discussions of key contemporary philosophers such as John Rawls J rgen Habermas Richard Rorty Charles Taylor Susan Moller Okin Martha Nussbaum Will Kymlicka Chandran Kukathas and Bhiku Parekh A pluralist approach that questions the strict divide between analytical and continental political philosophy Discussion on the place of religion in politics from multiple perspectives by drawing on a plurality of political contexts both Western and non-Western Analyses of legal and political cases related to different religious traditions for example Islam Confucianism Buddhism Christianity and Hinduism This comprehensive text will be of great use to students of religion and politics in the fields of political and legal theory and religious and theological studies while also offering critical insights and arguments that will be of interest to the experts in the fieldBy Natasha Stoynoff, Catherine Oxenberg. 2018
In this heartbreaking and shocking exposé, one of Dynasty’s biggest stars lays bare a secretive organization that is holding her…
daughter hostage and details her mission to save her in this powerful depiction of a mother’s love and determination. I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited. And I am not alone. In 2011, Catherine joined her daughter, India, at a leadership seminar for a new organization called NXIVM. Her twenty-year-old daughter was on the threshold of building a new company and they both thought this program might help her achieve her dream. But quickly, Catherine saw a sinister side to what appeared to be a self-help organization designed to help its clients become the best versions of themselves. Catherine watched in horror as her daughter fell further and further down the rabbit hole, becoming brainwashed by the organization’s charismatic leader. Despite Catherine’s best efforts, India was drawn deeper into the cult, eventually joining a secret, elite “sorority” of women members who are ordered to maintain a restricted diet, recruit other women as “slaves,” and are branded with their leader’s initials. In Captive, Catherine shares every parent’s worst nightmare, and the lengths that a mother will go to save her child. Featuring interviews with past members of NXIVM and experts in the field of cults, Oxenberg attempts to draw back the curtain on how these groups continue to lure in members. She relates her continuing journey to try to reach her daughter, to save her from what she believes is a dangerous, mind-controlling cult.By Doreen Virtue. 2002
By Laura F. Nielsen. 2017
Regarded as a mechanical genius, John Joseph Merlin is sadly remembered most for a party at the Carlisle House, where…
he careened into the hostesses' plate glass mirror, wearing his newly invented roller skates, and playing the violin.By Gabriel Agbo, Salma. 2017
Is homosexuality good or evil? What is the origin of this sexual preference and its implications on the society? Was…
this in the original plan of God (nature)? Who is actually behind it and for what purpose? Are the gays and lesbians truly lured and trapped by unseen forces? And what will be its effect on the presence and coming generations? What are the views of Christianity, Islam, traditional religion, etc, on the issue? How dangerous are Anal and Oral sex – any health risks? Can they result in anal and oral cancers and several other infections? Is homosexuality an occult practice? All these questions and more are what we will be trying to proffer answers for in this book.