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A child peeling an orange on the subway. A bearded man with gentle eyes holding a tin cup on the corner. When we see life through the lens of faith, everyday moments become a source of hope and strength. In this collection of essays, chaplain Andrea Raynor reveals the unexpected places she has experienced the Divine and shows us how we, too, might come to see life as a spiritual adventure - one on which we are never truly alone.

The view of Christ in America has changed rapidly since the nation's birth. The author will bring forth facts and prove how America started out as a Christian nation and how the first colonists wanted to be different from England. You will also hear quotes from some of America's founding fathers as well as other leaders on how important God is for America and how America needs God.

An American journalist named Ben Harris, who works for Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), is traveling the world in search of stories about Jews in their various communities. This lively interview with Harris, the "Wandering Jew", about his travels and traveling, was done mostly by email, with two conversations via webcam on Skype. When this writer spoke to Harris off the record for background, he was in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency offices in New York City, but the reported interview via email comes mostly while he was abroad.

My adventure started one day as I considered writing a fiction story using Heaven as the main stage. You know - bright lights, angels, and wonderful people living in pleasant villages. That was the beginning of an adventure that would be 60 pages of scribbled wonder. So I could write about Heaven, I decided to ask God to allow me to visit there. Putting it mildly, going to Heaven would steal away my breath. Since the visit in 1991 my thinking and outlook on life changed me. I was already a Christian - but this was different.

Much has been written about the concept of Trinity or three parts over the centuries. From simply meaning God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit to what we hear in many churches is disturbing. Debates about predestination and subordination seem to never end. Due to the great number of denominations, the definition of a Christian has suffered, watered down in a corrupt world. From the simplicity of the Bible has come a rash of new doctrines that boggles the mind. What used to be straightforward in the 1st century is now twisted and turned into many ways of thinking about the Bible.

La nube della non-conoscenza (The Cloud of Unknowing) è una guida spirituale pratica scritta nel XIV secolo da un anonimo scrittore inglese.

È considerato uno dei più begli scritti di argomento ascetico e spirituale del XIV secolo. Il suo argomento principale è la preghiera contemplativa, che viene affrontata con un linguaggio semplice e comprensibile a tutti. Nell'esperienza mistica descritta nella "nube della non-conoscenza" si sono riscontrati molti punti di contatto e di convergenza con la meditazione come viene intesa nel Buddhismo Zen[1].

In much of the history of Christianity, Christian women have been disqualified from church leadership and relegated to ministerial silence. Few New Testament passages are often thrown to the forefront to justify this relegation. A Biblical Defense of Women in Christian Ministry and Leadership holds a different view. It contends that, according to the Scriptures, men and women are equally called to participate in Christian ministry and leadership whatever their nature. One of the central advocacies of the book is that patriarchal translations and interpretation of the Scriptures, not the ...

Come join me on our journey together, with tales of hope, inspiration, and redemption - and our long dark journey back into the light of God....

A Flaming Arrow in God's Bow is a mixture of narrative or prose poetry, autobiography, and thoughts on God. Jesus Christ plays a major role in this book, as is fitting since he's really stepped up to playing a major role in my day to day life. I wrote this book with boldness, trying to show one person's unique view on sin, forgiveness, hope, repentance, and reawakening of the spirit. I wanted the book to be unique, and I believe I accomplished that goal. Buy this book, and judge for yourself.

Il Cristianesimo come fatto mistico rappresenta una tappa nel cammino dell'evoluzione umana, mentre i processi dei Misteri e gli effetti che ne conseguirono sono la preparazione di questo fatto mistico. Il Cristianesimo, secondo Steiner, trasse il contenuto dei Misteri dall'oscurità dei Templi alla chiara luce del giorno.

Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakespeare and His Works This Essay is an expansion, in accordance with a preconceived scheme, of two papers, one on The Witches in Macbeth, and the other on The Demonology of Shakespeare, which were read before the New Shakespeare Society in the years 1877 and 1878.

Friends, the next voice you hear might be God's! Wouldn't it be wonderful if this were true? Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could hear the Voice of God? And perhaps we can. Perhaps we all have heard the Voice of God but haven't recognized it.

C'è un'ansia di cambiamento nel mondo. Papa Francesco la raccoglie nei suoi gesti e nelle sue parole, specialmente in un tempo di crisi quale quello che stiamo vivendo. È chiaro che abbiamo tutti bisogno di capire che cosa ci sta accadendo, di dare una lettura umana e spirituale di quel che viviamo. Francesco, come si comprende in questo volume, assimila la visionedi sant'Ignazio di Loyola così come emerge negli Esercizi Spirituali.

Father Paul Keenan was Director of Radio Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York and co-host of WABC’s "Religion on the Line" for over twelve years. From 1992 - 2002, he hosted "As You Think," a weekly inspirational radio program on which celebrities such as Larry King, Dick Cavett, Steve Allen, Harry Smith, Deepak Chopra, Annette Funicello, Joyce Randolph and Thomas Moore spoke informally with Father Paul about spirituality and inspiration. He served as commentator for such national broadcasts as the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (CBS Television); the funeral of Mother Teresa (...

In this galloping collection of twenty pointed essays, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) nimbly punctures the philosophical pretensions of modern non-Christian thinkers and artists—heretics, as he calls them. Chesterton good-naturedly takes on contemporaries Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, James McNeill Whistler, and even his good friend George Bernard Shaw, exposing the muddled logic of their popular ideas with his characteristic wisdom and razor-sharp wit. He also begins to lay the groundwork for Orthodoxy, his subsequent account of a rational and coherent Christian faith.

This book is about wisdom of heart. Wisdom of heart these days has been lost and the world does not believe that the Wise God the very loving Creator still speaks to the living man. But it is good to truly know that as of yet there are some wise men that God the very loving Creator only speaks through His wisdom. And those that truly want to directly or personally know of God they should seek of wisdom of heart, because wisdom of heart is not for the entire world, but it can be shared with every one as God is shared with all of those that want God. And it is also good to truly know that God...

Billions of people across the world and across time have followed the words of this ancient book. Countless numbers have died defending it. Even today, in the 21st century heated debates are fought every day over the truth which lies within. Great thinkers and intellectuals have seen something of pure wisdom and truth in it and others simply see it as an historical document, written by people from a different time and place.

El buen y simple título lo dice todo, pero Ensayos de un Salvador es un libro sobre el significado real o el significado verdadero de la salvación real. Y la salvación real tiene todo que ver en verdad con vida real y la vida real o la salvación real en verdad tiene todo que ver con gozo real o gozo verdadero y con la alegría real o alegría verdadera. La salvación tiene nada que ver en verdad con sacrificio de sangre o con muerte, porque todo aquel que llega a morir pues todo aquel ha perdido en verdad la salvación real. La salvación real tiene todo que ver con pedido de vida o con...

Muy largo en verdad y muy estrecho, muy triste en verdad y muy doloroso y muy desolado en verdad el camino verdadero hacia la salvación verdadera de Dios. Y solamente aquel con fe verdadera de Dios puede caminar ese camino. Y aquel que en verdad va por ese camino, ¡aquel en verdad es siervo amado de Dios y primogénito de la desolación! ¡Gozoso y alegre aquel que también camina por ese grandioso camino porque aquel en verdad encontrará la salvación verdadera de Dios!

The good book has everything to do with a very grandiose or tall personal search, a very grandiose or tall personal search of a unique writing style, and what greater way then crossing over the shortest verse possible, even though the shortest way is not the easiest! But even so, it was my way of developing one of many tall writing styles which have brought me to write much better and even though I no longer write in those styles, they are reflected in my other styles with more knowledge and inspiration! But see for yourselves...and thanks, much thanks in advance... Now, in The Need of ...