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Jesus and his times (Reader's digest general books)
Par Reader's Digest Editors. 1987
Presents the everyday life of persons living at the time of Jesus, many of the incidents and testimonials of faith…
from the New Testament, and a deeper understanding of Jesus the man. 1987. Uniform title: Reader's digest.Jesus: What Manner Of Man Is This?
Par Richard Hanser. 1972
The author explores what is known of Christ's life and attempts to show how and why His teachings appeal so…
strongly to youth today. He also includes an objective treatment of issues which have caused differences among Christian sects. Junior and Senior High. 1972.Japan, where East meets West (Discovering our heritage)
Par Judith Davidson. 1983
An introduction to the history and culture of Japan including a discussion of Japanese in the United States. Discusses Japanese…
legends, festivals, home life, schools, and sports. Grades 5-8. 1983. (Discovering our heritage)I have something to tell you
Par Natalie Appleton. 2017
On the eve of Christmas and a proposal, Natalie Appleton discovers she doesn’t want to settle for sevens, and starts…
over. So, she abandons everything in Alberta for Bangkok. Along the way, Natalie unpacks the past that caused her to flee: cheating hearts, small-town suffocation, a tattered family and a genetic disposition to madness. In Bangkok, Natalie kills an albino gecko, crawls into bed with a lampseller and nearly calls off her quest when she’s almost attacked by a leather vendor. And then, at a grimy guesthouse one year after arriving in Thailand, everything changes. 2017.James G. Endicott: rebel out of China
Par Stephen Lyon Endicott. 1980
Jim Endicott was born in China and returned in 1925 as a missionary of the United Church of Canada. This…
book is both a biography and a history of China during its reconstruction. c1980.In the courts of the Lord: a gay minister's story
Par James Ferry. 1993
In 1991, Anglican priest Jim Ferry was asked to resign for being "actively homosexual." When he refused, he was tried…
in the Bishop's Court for disobedience and banished from the ministry. Ferry maintains that his real crime was to break the conspiracy of silence surrounding gay clergy in a church that is wrestling with issues of sexuality and human dignity. His book is an account of what it means to be gay, to be honest with oneself and with others, and to suffer as a result. 1993.Initiation: a woman's spiritual adventure in the heart of the Andes
Par Elizabeth B Jenkins. 1997
Memoir of an American woman's mystical odyssey in the Peruvian Andes. Describes her encounters with mountain spirits, her spiritual awakening…
under the guidance of Q'eros priests, and her initiation into the religious tradition of the Incas. 1997.Infidel
Par Ayaan Hirsi Ali. 2007
Ali recalls her life, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and…
activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West. She recounts the evolution of her beliefs, and her resolve to fight injustice done in the name of religion. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.Indian summer: a good man in Asia
Par Will Randall. 2004
Learning as much as he is teaching in the Indian city of Poona, Will finds his life transformed by his…
remarkable class of orphans: Dulabesh, the joker; Prakash, who learnt self-sufficiency by scavenging in skips; the nutty yet charming Tanushri. When the slum barons threaten to level the school, Will hits upon a fund-raising plan. 2004.India Britannica
Par Geoffrey Moorhouse. 1984
A social history of the British rule in India and the men who went there: poets, painters and politicians. This…
complex edifice brought out the best - and worst - in these temporary landowners. The author covers a wide span from the tuckshop greed of the seventeenth century nabobs to the departure of the last soldier in February 1948. 1984.The explorer and travel writer chronicles his horseback trip across Mongolia, retracing the twelfth-century route of Genghis Khan and his…
horde. Severin describes the wild, untamed expanses of Mongolia that, despite the years of Communist rule, have changed little since the time of Genghis Khan. Historical anecdotes as well as descriptions of nomadic herders, exotic traditions, and austere people pepper the narrative. 1992.All monsters must die: an excursion to North Korea
Par Saskia Vogel, Magnus Bärtås, Fredrik Ekman. 2015
The authors have created a mosaic of North Korea, past and present: from the Japanese occupation to the demarcation of…
the border at the 38th parallel and the Korean War, the development of North Korean Juche ideology, the establishment of the Kim dynasty's cult of personality, and the aggressive manufacturing of political propaganda, which motivated the kidnapping of South Korea's most famous film couple. Intelligent and shocking, this book offers a rare and fascinating window into the “hermit kingdom.” 2015. Uniform title: Alla monster måste dö.Another man's war: the true story of one man's battle to save children in the Sudan
Par Sam Childers. 2009
This book recounts the rise of Sam Childers from violent, drug-addicted biker to a man willing to risk everything to…
rescue the orphans and child soldiers of Sudan. Today Sam spends his time in the most dangerous parts of Sudan and Uganda rescuing the youngest victims of war, orphans and child-soldiers. Includes violence. c2009.Francis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life
Par Adrian House. 2001
House portrays the life of the medieval Italian saint Francis of Assisi, chronicling his youth, his conversion, and his establishment…
of the Franciscan Order. Discusses Francis's ability to communicate with birds, the appearance of the stigmata on his body, and his relationship with St. Clare. 2001.An infinity of little hours: five young men and their trial of faith in the western world's most austere monastic order
Par Nancy Klein Maguire. 2006
Carthusians are contemplative monastics who live in community but spend most of their days alone, wearing hair shirts, practicing self-flagellation…
and eating just one meal a day from mid-September to Easter. Maguire followed the lives of five young men who entered St. Hugh's Charterhouse in England between July 1960 and March 1961. As they work, pray and live in solitude, they discover not only God but also themselves. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2006.Beyond the sky and the earth: a journey into Bhutan
Par Jamie Zeppa. 1999
In 1989 Jamie Zeppa decided to try something completely different from anything she had ever done before. She signed on…
as a teacher for two years in the Far East country of Bhutan. Once she arrived there she discovered the difficulties in bridging cultural divides, and the rewards that come from immersing oneself in a completely different culture. 1999.Days and nights on the Grand Trunk Road: Calcutta to Khyber
Par Anthony Weller. 1997
The highway adventures of an American journalist traveling the fifteen hundred miles of the Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta across…
northern India and Pakistan to the Khyber Pass. Weller recounts the region's religious and political history; describes the cities, countryside, and people he encounters; and conveys his joy at traveling in an area he has read much about. c1997.And then there were nuns: adventures in a cloistered life
Par Jane Christmas. 2013
Bestselling author Jane Christmas decides to enter a convent to discern whether she is, as she puts it, "nun material".…
But just as she convinces herself to take the plunge, her long-term partner surprises her with a marriage proposal. Determined not to let her monastic dreams get sidelined, Christmas puts her engagement aside and embarks on an extraordinary year-plus adventure to four convents—one in Canada and three in the U.K. c2013.Dancing in the no-fly zone: a woman's journey through Iraq
Par Hadani Ditmars. 2005
When Ditmars first went to Iraq in 1997, she found art, and beauty, amidst the misery and suffering. She travelled…
to Iraq again and again, and in 2003, she returned to Baghdad to find the people she had met over the years and see what had become of them since the US "liberation". Ditmars portrays the full depth of the humanity of the Iraqi people. 2005.Costly grace: an evangelical minister's rediscovery of faith, hope, and love
Par Robert L Schenck. 2018
A leading American evangelical minister--whom public figures long turned to for guidance in faith and politics--recounts his three conversions, from…
childhood Jewish roots to Christianity, from a pure faith to a highly politicized one, and from the religious right to the simplicity of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. In this inspiring memoir, he reflects on his path to God, his unconscious abandonment of his principles, and his return to the convictions that guide him. "Costly Grace" is a fascinating and ultimately redemptive account of one man's life in politics and faith. 2018.