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Bestsellers
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
- American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
- By: Tim Alberta
- Narrated by: Tim Alberta
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today.
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Looked forward to this a long time and wasn’t disappointed!
- By Josh Hulbert on 12-08-23
By: Tim Alberta
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Under the Banner of Heaven
- A Story of Violent Faith
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities....
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Interesting @ arm's length
- By pixychild on 07-17-09
By: Jon Krakauer
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I Once Was Lost
- My Search for God in America
- By: Don Lemon
- Narrated by: Don Lemon
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In a deeply personal follow-up to his #1 bestseller This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism, a modern media iconoclast faces a test of faith—and reveals how such tribulations can make us stronger, as individuals and as a nation.
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An Inspiring Journey of Faith and Self-Discovery
- By noavjoe on 10-03-24
By: Don Lemon
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Waking Up
- A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....
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I don't completely agree. BUT THAT SAID...
- By World Peace on 09-11-14
By: Sam Harris
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The Exvangelicals
- Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
- By: Sarah McCammon
- Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Art memoir, part investigative journalism, The Exvangelicals is the first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the church....
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Multiple Reasons
- By Meghan Smith on 03-30-24
By: Sarah McCammon
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Let Your Life Speak
- Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- By: Parker J. Palmer
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Finding one's calling is not just about finding something we can do - it is about finding what we can't not do....
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Deep Wisdom in these pages
- By Julia Davis Coffey on 01-30-11
By: Parker J. Palmer
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
- American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
- By: Tim Alberta
- Narrated by: Tim Alberta
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today.
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Looked forward to this a long time and wasn’t disappointed!
- By Josh Hulbert on 12-08-23
By: Tim Alberta
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Under the Banner of Heaven
- A Story of Violent Faith
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities....
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Interesting @ arm's length
- By pixychild on 07-17-09
By: Jon Krakauer
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I Once Was Lost
- My Search for God in America
- By: Don Lemon
- Narrated by: Don Lemon
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In a deeply personal follow-up to his #1 bestseller This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism, a modern media iconoclast faces a test of faith—and reveals how such tribulations can make us stronger, as individuals and as a nation.
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An Inspiring Journey of Faith and Self-Discovery
- By noavjoe on 10-03-24
By: Don Lemon
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Waking Up
- A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....
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I don't completely agree. BUT THAT SAID...
- By World Peace on 09-11-14
By: Sam Harris
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The Exvangelicals
- Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
- By: Sarah McCammon
- Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Art memoir, part investigative journalism, The Exvangelicals is the first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the church....
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Multiple Reasons
- By Meghan Smith on 03-30-24
By: Sarah McCammon
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Let Your Life Speak
- Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- By: Parker J. Palmer
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Finding one's calling is not just about finding something we can do - it is about finding what we can't not do....
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Deep Wisdom in these pages
- By Julia Davis Coffey on 01-30-11
By: Parker J. Palmer
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God Is Not Great
- How Religion Poisons Everything
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris' recent best-seller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion....
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5-Star Writing. Perfect Author Narration.
- By Michael on 12-13-09
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The End of Faith
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is an impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith....
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Good book, bad narrator
- By wlong on 09-17-10
By: Sam Harris
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The Four Horsemen
- The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
- By: Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. Now, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants and an introduction by Stephen Fry....
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Short
- By Cole Brandon Eckhardt on 03-22-19
By: Christopher Hitchens, and others
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Why You Think the Way You Do
- The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home
- By: Glenn S. Sunshine
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world.
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"Christian's view of the western world"
- By Bradley on 03-21-10
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Going Clear
- Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Morton Sellers
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack....
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Shockingly Great
- By Michael on 01-27-13
By: Lawrence Wright
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Circle of Hope
- A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
- By: Eliza Griswold
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold crafts an intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis.
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Very boring story, no revelations
- By Vanderlene L Kung on 09-24-24
By: Eliza Griswold
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Letter to a Christian Nation
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Jordan Bridges
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....
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the examined life
- By Stanley on 12-20-06
By: Sam Harris
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The Theft of America’s Soul
- Blowing the Lid Off the Lies That Are Destroying Our Country
- By: Phil Robertson
- Narrated by: Phil Robertson
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The Theft of America’s Soul is a prophetic wake-up call for all who desire to see our nation thrive, challenging listeners to exchange these 10 lies for truths that will bring peace of mind, harmony, and prosperity back to our country....
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Mr. Robertson is a straight shooter
- By DaDB on 02-11-19
By: Phil Robertson
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American Zion
- A New History of Mormonism
- By: Benjamin E. Park
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The first major history of Mormonism in a decade draws on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation....
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Lots of commentary and broad non-Mormon historical generalities, thin on detailed Mormon history.
- By anonymous on 02-13-24
By: Benjamin E. Park
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Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
- By: Katrina Hazzard-Donald
- Narrated by: Sharell Palmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, the author argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters"....
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more books about hoodo and atr By black writers!!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-15-20
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Free Will
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality.....
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Wrong Question
- By Jennifer on 11-15-14
By: Sam Harris
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Uncanceled
- Finding Meaning and Peace in a Culture of Accusations, Shame, and Condemnation
- By: Phil Robertson
- Narrated by: Phil Robertson, Milton Bagby
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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After Phil Robertson quoted Scripture in an interview with a national magazine, his hit show, Duck Dynasty, put him on “indefinite hiatus.” Phil immediately knew what had happened: he had become a target of cancel culture.
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warning
- By Amazon Customer on 02-09-22
By: Phil Robertson
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How Christianity Changed the World
- By: Alvin J. Schmidt
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A survey of the various ways--often unrecognized and overlooked--whereby Christianity has impacted the world, making the world a better place and enriching our everyday living....
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Too much trumpet
- By TaxSage on 11-10-18
By: Alvin J. Schmidt
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Lost Boy
- By: Maia Szalavitz, Brent W. Jeffs
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet's compound....
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Interesting male view of polygamy
- By Karen on 09-17-13
By: Maia Szalavitz, and others
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The Moral Landscape
- How Science Can Determine Human Values
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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In this explosive new book, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values....
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Read it
- By Paul on 11-23-10
By: Sam Harris
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We of Little Faith
- Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too)
- By: Kate Cohen
- Narrated by: Kate Cohen
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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An atheist’s impassioned call for nonbelievers to be honest with themselves and their families about their lack of belief—and help change the American cultural conversation....
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Honest, gently forthright, and very much needed
- By Rosencrantz Jones on 10-09-23
By: Kate Cohen
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God Is Not One
- The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World - and Why Their Differences Matter
- By: Stephen Prothero
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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At the dawn of the 21st century, for good and for evil, religion remains the single greatest influence in the world....
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Useful, but doesn't live up to its introduction
- By Nassir on 11-03-10
By: Stephen Prothero
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The Devil's Best Trick
- How the Face of Evil Disappeared
- By: Randall Sullivan
- Narrated by: Lane Hakel
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping and comprehensive search for the origins of belief in a Satanic figure across the centuries, The Devil’s Best Trick is a keen investigation into the inescapable reality of evil.
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Patience Required or Bust
- By LK on 06-04-24
By: Randall Sullivan
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American Idolatry
- How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
- By: Andrew L. Whitehead
- Narrated by: Andrew L. Whitehead
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity. Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities....
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Excellent & Much Needed
- By David Dominguez on 04-30-24
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The Case for God
- By: Karen Armstrong
- Narrated by: Karen Armstrong
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
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Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao....
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Great recasting of how God should be interpreted
- By John Doyle on 02-18-11
By: Karen Armstrong
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Not in It to Win It
- Why Choosing Sides Sidelines the Church
- By: Andy Stanley
- Narrated by: Andy Stanley
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Is it possible to disagree politically and love unconditionally? The reaction of evangelicals to political and cultural shifts in recent years revealed what they value most. Lurking beneath our Bible-laced rhetoric, faith claims, books, and sermons is a relentless drive to WIN....
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Brave challenge for FOLLOWERS of Christ
- By Nana D on 05-11-22
By: Andy Stanley
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Your Daily Phil
- 100 Days of Truth and Freedom to Heal America's Soul
- By: Phil Robertson
- Narrated by: Milton Bagby
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Strengthen your faith with a daily dose of truth, morality, and biblical wisdom from A&E Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson in this 100-day devotional.
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True to what you’d expect
- By bb on 10-06-22
By: Phil Robertson
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The Enlightenment Trap
- Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain
- By: Scott Carney
- Narrated by: Scott Carney
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2012, 38-year-old Ian Thorson's search for spiritual transcendence ended in tragedy on a remote Arizona mountaintop. His wife, a woman anointed as a goddess by an eccentric Buddhist community, held him in her arms as he slowly died from dehydration and dysentery....
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Sure you want to reach enlightenment?
- By Kjetil Alisøy Søvig on 01-29-24
By: Scott Carney
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The Big Picture
- What the Religions of the World Teach Us About the Nature of Ultimate Reality
- By: Huston Smith
- Narrated by: Huston Smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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In The Big Picture, Smith draws from his lifetime of scholarship to describe for us the nature of ultimate reality....
By: Huston Smith