Buddhism

Congregations today face both old and often new, unprecedented challenges--spiritual, moral, technological, and economic--for which there are no easy solutions.

The Flood, Noah, angels, demons, dinosaurs, monsters, archaeology, ancient history, epic fantasy, John Stringer brings us a fearsome, captivating, ultimately redemptive and realistic glimpse at the war in heaven and the pre-Flood earth, where terrible nephaliim stalk the ground.

This book shares one pastor's journey to uncover the inherent barriers that cause many African American parishioners not to receive the help they need regarding their mental and emotional health.

Why does it feel like most of the world today considers irrelevant the gospel we cherish and so faithfully proclaim in our churches?

What factors contribute to active Christians in ministry leaving their church and becoming exiting statistics?

With the onslaught of books on how to do worship, Dr.

Pastors and ministers have one of the most challenging jobs on Earth.

Street Cop is the exciting story of one man's career in Law Enforcement.

"e;We tend to use words like miracle and mystery in the context of serendipity.

Here's a different angle on humor--it can be a spiritual practice, an expression of a theology of joy, hope, and grace.

By bringing four contemporary companioning narratives into dialogue with gospel descriptions of Jesus' encounters with people, this book demonstrates how wonderfully diverse interpersonal ministry--pastoral care, counselling, chaplaincy, mentoring, spiritual companioning, and spiritual direction--is active participation in his shepherding, healing, restorative, and guiding purposes.

In this compact, fluently written survey of logical fallacies, Adam Murrell provides myriad examples of ways we go about being illogical--how we deceive ourselves and others, how we think and argue in ways that are uncritical, disorganized, or irrelevant.

More than at any time in the past, today's evangelicals struggle to understand what the essence of the Christian faith really is.

We know guilt, if at all, by the message of badness that it seems to communicate to us.

In this book, Vivian Houk acknowledges that parenting is really hard work.

In Giving Voice to the Silent Pulpit, author Barry Blood explores the many differences that exist between Popular Christianity, (the doctrine as taught from the pulpit) and Academic Christianity, (the doctrine as taught in our colleges and seminaries).

What drives you?

Street Cop II: Reloaded picks right up where Street Cop left off.

The work of American Baptist missionaries among the Telugu people in India in the nineteenth century came to fruition in 1897, when Telugus established their own indigenous missionary organization, the Telugu Home Missionary Society.

Too often, Christ followers are content to live inside the church walls with other Christians.

Seeking Wisdom: Inclusive Blessings and Prayers for Public Occasions provides clergy and laypersons with a unique resource to use in community settings, healthcare institutions, and faith communities.

They were seeking religious freedom and the Second Coming of Christ in Central Asia.

"e;In my continuing spiritual journey I have become increasingly convinced of two truths: first, that each individual has the capacity to be touched by the divine and thereby to be made whole; second, that the combination of reason and materialism are literally destroying the world and its creatures, human and otherwise.

Research in the roots of evangelicalism and revivalism uncovers its share of peculiarities, but nothing is more unusual than what follows.

The Light in the Mirror focuses on Richard Hawkins, raised by his Uncle Mac, following the death of his family.

In Balanced Living: Don't Let Your Strength Become Your Weakness, Robert Knight develops the theme of balance as central to good mental health, to moral and spiritual health, to emotional well-being, and to social functioning.

Buddhism & Hinduism: Premium Collection gathers Edwin Arnold's influential poetic and devotional engagements with Indian religious thought, presenting Buddhism and Hinduism through the refined idiom of Victorian literary humanism.

Jay Goulding's Daoist Phenomenology represents a lifelong project of interpolating the works of Martin Heidegger with the interweavings of Daoism and Zen.

In a probing analysis of the oldest Buddhist texts, Julius Evola places the doctrine of liberation in its original context.

This guide brings Chinese astrology back to its ancient roots, providing all the information you need for understanding one of the world's oldest systems of divination.

A guide to the internal martial arts exercises of short-form Wu-Style Tai Chi Details the 8 core forms of Wu-Style Tai Chi with fully illustrated instructions Ideal for older practitioners as well as those with health disabilities due to the small frame primary stance, slower and smaller movements, and conservation of energy Explains how Wu Style provides a natural introduction to martial arts boxing Reveals how Wu Style eases stiffness, relieves back pain, and reduces abdominal fat Following the flow of chi energy, rather than directing it as in traditional Tai Chi, Wu-Style Tai Chi focuses on internal development, seeking to conserve chi energy and gather jin power from the Earth through the tan tien.

Lessons of the Wild creates an awareness of the essential lessons that Nature teaches us, and provides a guidebook for men and women--particularly those in their forties, fifties, and sixties--who are seeking greater significance in their lives.

Gold has always symbolized material riches.

This book reveals the truth of self Leo Buscaglia has discovered on two trips to Asia by traveling the "e;way of the bull,"e; as well as describing the people and physical locales of Southeast Asia prior to the Vietnam War.

Denis Kelly's life is part Hunter S.

Explores rare sacred sites in Tibet

"e;Seamlessly narrated, this book reveals the varied paths available to women seeking to dedicate their lives to Buddhist practice"e; (Buddhadharma).

Based on the author's cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence.

Based on the author's cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence.

These two volumes present Pye's methodological, theoretical, and field-based interests in the study of religions.

A testimony to the invaluable contributions made by the women who were direct disciples of the Buddhaand a source of inspiration to Buddhist women today.

A fascinating investigation into the formation and transmission of the early Buddhist oral tradition.

Discover His Holiness the Dalai Lama's advice for finding happiness, helping others, and applying insights from Buddhist thought to everyday lifefor a life of greater harmony, meaning, and joy, for ourselves, others, and in our world.

Discover ancient Tibetan breath practices for calming your mind and improving your health in this plain-English guide.

A collection of talks, photos, and calligraphy by Jakusho Kwong-roshi, exploring the profound beauty of Zen history and practice, nature, and the philosophy of the ancient Zen master Eihei Dogen.