History of religion

Religion is a funny thing.

Award-winning journalist and popular blogger Deacon Greg Kandra gently guides readers through Lent with thought-provoking spiritual reflections on the daily gospel readings.

Experience how the power of the cross unleashes meaning and purpose in the midst of your daily life.

In Daily Devotions for Advent 2019, the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles share their distinctive spirituality, which seamlessly blends contemplative lives of prayer with active ministry in schools, healthcare centers, and retreat houses.

Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization.

In Daily Devotions for Advent 2019, the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles share their distinctive spirituality, which seamlessly blends contemplative lives of prayer with active ministry in schools, healthcare centers, and retreat houses.

'A Garland of Gold' is a history of the early masters of the great Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, such as Saraha, Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa and their spiritual heirs.

An exploration of the increasingly popular phenomenon of solitary practice within contemporary paganismSolitary Pagans is the first book to explore the growing phenomenon of contemporary Pagans who practice alone.

Judy Willey, sometimes called an ear in the body of Christ, is now putting her book, Pearls for the Saints, We'll Fly Away, in a second printing.

Award-winning journalist and popular blogger Deacon Greg Kandra gently guides you through Lent with thought-provoking spiritual reflections on the daily gospel readings.

The pastoral insight of Deacon Charles Paolino and the spiritually rich Lenten Gospel readings enliven the popular five-step format of The Living Gospel devotional series.

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';Somewhere deep inside each one of us is a burning desire to finally become the person God created us to be.

This powerful and inspiring prayer book from the Apostleship of Prayer(The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network)engages and inspires readers with the Church's daily scripture readings from the beginning of Advent to Epiphany, introducing Catholics and other Christians to the traditional spiritual devotion known as lectio divina, or sacred reading, in a new way.

The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically.

An unlikely friendship between Colette Lafia and a silent monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, where Thomas Merton lived, comes to life through seven years of shared letters.

Buddhism is said to be universal because it transcends all notions of time and culture.

Helping Catholics enter into the season of renewed prayer and penance, Sacred Reading for Lent 2019 from the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Networkan international ecclesial ministry served by the Jesuitswill engage and inspire you with the Church's daily scripture readings.

For forty years, James Finley's Mertons Palace of Nowherehas been the standard text for exploring, reflecting on, and understanding the rich vein of Thomas Mertons thought.

In her book Rooted in Love Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle, bestselling author and popular EWTN television and radio personality, accompanies Catholic women through the ups and downs of their lives, encouraging them to be reflections of Christ in all things.

This beloved prayer book brings the treasury of Catholic prayers and devotion to a new generation.

Looking for direction in your life?

This is the definitive African text on ecological ethics, African environmental spirituality, a theology of creation, and climate justice.

West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba seeks to explain how a series of historical events that occurred in West Africa from the mid-1790s - including Afonja's rebellion, the Owu wars, the Fulani-led jihad, and the migrations to Egbaland - had an impact upon life in cities and plantations in western Cuba and Bahia.

Popular author and EWTN host Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle presents a daily devotional companion for families with young children in Bringing Lent Home with Mother Teresa: Prayers, Reflections, and Activities for Families.

Even three minutes can change your day for the better.

In a time when organized religion is suffering an identity crisis, the author of The Last Presbyterian?

Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Christianity reveals how a beleaguered group of followers of a crucified rabbi became the founders of a world-changing faith.

In this groundbreaking book, Akbar Ahmed, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, who has worked in the Muslim world but lives in the West, explains what is going wrong in his society by referring to Islamic history and beliefs.

This book explores some of Noah's trial as he builds the ark,survives the Great Flood, and restarts mankind in Sumeria.

This is the history of Jesus Christ as never told before, told in a time line sequence from before his birth to the time he left.

The discovery of a limestone burial box with the inscription "e;James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus"e; set the world of biblical archaeology abuzz.

In her uniquely crafted memoir In the Morning .

This book is a non-fiction historical event that occurred in Huntsville, Alabama doing the Civil War and it's beginning in a graveyard there.

The pastoral insight of Deacon Charles Paolino and the spiritually rich Lenten Gospel readings enliven the popular five-step format of The Living Gospel devotional series.

Experience how the power of the cross unleashes meaning and purpose in the midst of your daily life.

This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world?

Students learn about the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and discover how just 16 words in the U.

An in-depth look at the institution as the center of many important cultural shifts with which the South and the wider Church have wrestled historically.

Award-winning journalist and popular blogger Deacon Greg Kandra accompanies you in prayer and reflection through the busy days and long nights of the Advent season to help you spiritually prepare for Christmas.

For forty years, James Finley's Mertons Palace of Nowherehas been the standard text for exploring, reflecting on, and understanding the rich vein of Thomas Mertons thought.

Do you want to learn more about Catholicism?

This powerful Lenten prayer book from the Apostleship of Prayer (The Popes Worldwide Prayer Network) engages and inspires readers with the Churchs daily scripture readings from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, introducing Catholics and other Christians to the traditional spiritual devotion known aslectio divina, or ';sacred reading,' in a new way.

Award-winning author and preaching expert Ann M.

BACK COVERThe sequel to the Jaredite's Civilization (What the Prophet Ether couldn't Tell Us) is finally out.