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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head provides a revolutionary path to embracing a healthy relationship with your emotions, one that leads to life-giving connection with God and others as well as to a richer understanding of yourself"--
Author
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This inspiring volume features John Pavlovitz's most important writing from the past several years alongside original essays to provide the encouragement, stamina, and direction we need to keep going, even when things feel bleak"--
Author
Publisher
Zondervan Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Join Dr. Emily Smith, creator of the popular Facebook page Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist, as she dives into what loving your neighbor--as illustrated in the parable of the Good Samaritan--truly means and how it helps us bridge the gap of society's disparities and inequities in a more practical, global way as we refocus on who our neighbors are"--
Author
Publisher
Awake in the Wild
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this clear and methodical field guide, author Mark Coleman shows you step-by-step how to develop a nature-based meditation practice every week of the year. Through systematic cultivation of mindfulness techniques, he'll teach you how to attune to your senses and connect with the richness of the sensory world. Through 52 engaging practices, you will learn to meditate in a variety of settings, in different landscapes, and in all kinds of weather...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A Podcast host, spiritual director and best-selling author offers guidance to help readers recognize when to leave situations that are no longer useful, including how to navigate endings without closure and differentiate between peace and discomfort avoidance."--
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An engaging exploration of the unique history and biology of fasting--an essential component of many traditional health practices, religions, and philosophies, resurging in popularity today--perfect for readers of Breath by James Nestor and Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. We fast all the time, even when we're not conscious of doing so. A fast manifests the idea of holding back, resisting the animal impulse to charge ahead. Its flip side is similarly...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Becoming Homeschoolers, parenting author, podcaster, and homeschool mom Monica Swanson tackles your legitimate doubts and fears about homeschooling, as well as questions you want answered before you commit--questions like where to start and how to choose a curriculum, build social skills, teach what you're not good at, and prepare for college"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"By using principles from a variety of scientific disciplines, Yale Professor Samuel Wilkinson provides a framework for human evolution that reveals an overarching purpose to our existence. Generations have been taught that evolution implies there is no overarching purpose to our existence, that life has no fundamental meaning. We are merely the accumulation of tens of thousands of intricate molecular accidents. Some scientists take this logic one...
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What is grace? How does grace work? How do I know if I've ever had an experience of grace in my life? For decades, readers and students have turned to medical intuitive Caroline Myss for answers to these essential questions. In these pages, she takes readers on a transformative journey to investigate the "holy authority" of grace and find tools to heal themselves and their lives"--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society and modes of thought. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made humans universally numerate, although numbers were not central to their everyday lives. Over the next two centuries, rising literacy rates and the increasing availability of printed...
Author
Publisher
NavPress, in alliance with Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Batman stares down the laughing Joker. Luke Skywalker clashes lightsabers with Darth Vader. Iron Man sacrifices himself with a snap of his fingers to save the world. Our eyes are glued to the screen. Why? Movies combine humor, action, and drama to create stories that amplify the fight between good and evil. Along the way, they impart inspiring life lessons on justice, purpose, courage, strength, faith, and love. They also teach us about our Creator....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Based on extensive scholarship, an innovative biography of the central text of Islam Over a billion copies of the Qur`an exist, yet it remains an enigma. Its classical Arabic language resists simple translation, and its non-linear style of abstract musings defies categorization. Moreover, those who champion its sanctity and compete to claim its mantle offer widely diverging interpretations of its core message at times with explosive results. Building...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Treating the work of hip-hop artists from the last several decades like sacred scripture, this book traces the history of hip-hop and uses it as a conduit to tell the modern story of Black Liberation in this country, following the bloody trail from the end of the Civil Rights era until the day George Floyd was sacrificed on the streets of America"--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India is a study of ancient Indic theories of personhood. It relies on an extensive historical and textual analysis to trace the development of Indic thinking about persons (puruṣas) from the earliest beginnings in Vedic India through the first centuries CE. Puruṣa discerns a sustained, paradigmatic understanding that persons are deeply confluent with the world. Personhood is worldhood. It argues for the centrality...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they've long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward.Frances Mae Livingston's firm grip of her family's destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she's losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and her mama that she's enough....
