White Religion

Amateur investigator Dave White and his husband, Chris Thorson. are are back in the fourth volume of this unusual series. If you enjoy the local color, characters and humor in Stephen Stanley's two mystery series featuring Professor Luke Littlefield or Jesse Ashworth, you will want to meet gay senior couple Dave and Chris in this series also. These Dave White series novels deftly combine strange thematic bedfellows such as murder, religion, history, humor, gay romance, commitment and open relationships. Dave and Chris are drawn into solving three murders at St. Matthew's Episcopal Cathedral...

Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two decades outside of it. In Testimony, Ward tells the engaging story of his upbringing in, and eventual break from, an influential evangelical church in the 1980s and 1990s. Ward sheds light on the evangelical movement's troubling political and cultural dimensions, tracing the ways in which the Jesus People movement was seduced by materialism and other factors to become politically captive rather than prophetic.

The Lotus Sūtra is one of the most important Mahāyāna texts and the most widely read, chanted and revered, particularly in Asian Buddhist countries, notably China and Japan. It is certainly a remarkable document, replete with the Mahāyāna characteristics of fantastical images, extraordinary appearances, magical happenings, views of time and space which are galactic in size; and pronouncements which are definite, unequivocal, practical in some areas and dependent upon a faith commitment in others.

Ten million people each year suffer - often in private shame and pain - because they’ve been told that they can never conceive children of their own as a couple (literally billions of dollars are spent each year on fertility cures); or because they’ve been conditioned to believe that it’s normal to struggle through a painful and difficult pregnancy; or because they fear whether they have what it takes to be affirming, joyful parents.

Intra Muros ('Between the Walls'), or My Dream of Heaven, was written in 1898. It was a vision given to the author during a severe illness. On reflection, she came to understand the short book as a series of basic truths about heaven, offering readers both confidence that God had prepared a place for them and that awaiting them there was a wonderful reunion with loved ones who had gone before.

The politically incorrect ministry of John the Baptist was the prelude to the person and work of Jesus Christ. John was the opening act. If we want “Jesus” in our life, home, church, and culture, then we must embrace ourselves for “John’s” abrasive message of repentance. The message that will eternally change you will first immediately confront you and offend you. The messenger, like John the Baptist, will offend you as well.

Ellen G. White, pioneer and prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, published Steps to Christ in 1892 as a methodical guide for the evangelical. She describes the steps needed to be taken in order to become close to Christ on a personal level. The book expands greatly on topics, such as repentance, confession, acceptance, and prayer.

This audiobook is nothing but the pure, beautiful sounds of brown noise, pink noise and white noise. Relax and close your eyes as you let the experience of Pure Brown Noise, Pure Pink Noise and Pure White Noise wash over you and feel the stress melt away.

Just like we do today, the writers and chief actors of the Old Testament felt a deep longing for the presence of God. It is symbolized in the temple ruins, and before it the temple itself, and before that the ark of the covenant and the tabernacle that housed it, and before that the Garden of Eden. In response to this longing, God shares his ultimate mission, in which his people play a part: the expansion of Eden, the temple of God's presence, to all peoples throughout the earth.

Total obedience to Christ can transform an ordinary life into a remarkable journey. This is the hope found in the liberating message of Lysa TerKeurst - president of Proverbs 31 Ministries. In What Happens When Women Say Yes to God, Lysa shares inspiring stories from her own life along with compelling biblical insights as she describes what it means to partner with God in all decisions and actions. Readers will learn to: discern the voice of God and truly say yes to His call see what wholehearted obedience looks like on a daily basis give themselves to God and let Him affect lives around them.

In a world that glorifies romance and sex, many of us have fallen for the lie that singleness is second-best...or that even we are second-best compared to our married friends. So how can you learn to believe singleness is good and truly experience its blessings?

Más que aprender sobre la oración necesitamos aprender de quiénes oran. Descubra como la oración puede transformar nuestra relación con Dios, con la vida cotidiana, y aún nuestra actitud antes las pruebas y la muerte.

The notion that some might have it better than others, for no good reason, offends our sensibilities. Yet, until we talk about privilege, we’ll never fully understand it or find our way forward. Amy Julia Becker welcomes us into her life, from the charm of her privileged southern childhood to her adult experience in the Northeast, and the denials she has faced as the mother of a child with special needs. She tells us how a life behind a white picket fence can restrict even as it protects and how it can prevent us from loving our neighbors well.

The Passion of Love goes beyond the physical suffering and explores the deeper spiritual significance of Christ's sacrifice. You'll not only understand more about the intricacies of Jesus' suffering, but you will also learn of a greater suffering that no insult, no lash, no nail could ever inflict.

Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir supplemented with prodigious research, Elizabeth White and Joanna Sliwa, professional historians and Holocaust experts, have uncovered the full story of this remarkable woman. They interweave Mehlberg’s sometimes harrowing personal testimony with broader historical narrative.

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation.

American history has profoundly shaped, and been shaped by, Christianity. This engaging introduction provides a brisk and lively yet deeply researched survey of these intertwined forces from the colonial period to the present. Elesha Coffman tells the story of Christianity in the United States by focusing on thirteen key events over four centuries of history. The turning points are as varied as the movements they track, including a naval battle, a revival, a schism, a court case, an outpouring of the Spirit, an act of terrorism, the election of a bishop, and the election of a president.

Hay alegría y triunfo en la vida cristiana. Pero la victoria puede venir a través de la lucha. John White conoce este equilibrio y nos da el aliento para perseverar. Aquí hay una guía a través de las áreas básicas de la vida cristiana con la que luchamos a lo largo de nuestra vida: fe, oración, tentación, evangelismo, guía, estudio bíblico, comunión, trabajo. En este audiolibro muy personal ofrece a los nuevos cristianos que suenan los primeros pasos y a los cristianos mayores refrescando las ideas sobre las luchas y las alegrías de la libertad en Cristo.

The world of sound healing is one that can show you the joy of living. It can recenter your focus, give you more energy, do away with the stresses that come with everyday existence, and all in all, just make things so much better!

Grounded in mindfulness and neuroscience, this pioneering book redefines discipline and outlines the five essential elements necessary for children to thrive: unconditional love, space to be themselves, mentorship, healthy boundaries, and mistakes that create learning and growth opportunities. In this book you will also discover parenting practices such as setting limits with love, working with difficult emotions, and forgiveness and compassion meditations that place discipline within a context of mindfulness.