History of religion

Giving clear messages, Jesus taught pragmatically about lifes situations as he saw them through metaphorical parables.

Computers, mass media, consumerism, and family instability have transformed our society dramatically over the past three decades.

A few minutes a day can change your life during Lent.

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.

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.

Founded in the sixteenth century, the Demirdashiya Sufi order in Cairo has played an influential role in Egypt's public life, and through a line of family sheikhs has channeled the impulses of its Sufi origins into different types of reform.

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.

On the tenth anniversary of Canada's involvement, a leading journalist offers a fascinating assessment of Canada's past and present role in the Afghan war Of the 33,000 troops under NATO command in Afghanistan in October 2006, 12,000 were Americans and 2,500 were Canadians.

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.

The Sonderkommando the special squad of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history.

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?

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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.

Between 1971 and 1996 the late John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) wrote a series of ten essays revisiting the Jewish-Christian schism in which he argued that, properly understood, Jesus did not reject Judaism, Judaism did not reject Jesus, and the Apostle Paul's universal mandate for the salvation of the nations is best understood not as a product of Hellenization, but rather in the context of his Jewish heritage.

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.

Many believe that naturalistic macroevolution is how complex life began here on earth.

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.

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

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.

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