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The Christian atheist: believing in God but living as if he doesn't exist
Par Craig Groeschel. 2010
After over a decade of successful ministry, Groeschel had to make a painful self-admission: although he believed in God, he…
was leading his church like God didn't exist. Now the founding and senior pastor of the multi-campus, pace-setting LiveChurch.tv, Groeschel’s personal journey toward a more authentic God-honoring life is more relevant than ever. 2010.Tesla: l'éclair du génie : l'histoire et les découvertes du plus grand inventeur du XXe siècle (Science et connaissance)
Par Massimo Teodorani, Marylène Di Stefano. 2011
Cet hommage à Nikola Tesla souhaite rétablir la vérité concernant certaines des ses inventions (le courant alternatif, la radio, la…
télévision, le radar, etc.) souvent attribuées à tort à d'autres scientifiques. La première partie se penche sur l'homme et ses travaux et la seconde est plus strictement scientifique. 2011.The Celtic year: a month-by-month celebration of Celtic Christian festivals and sites
Par Shirley Toulson. 2002
The author takes us, month by month through the cycle of the four seasons of the Celtic year - Samhain,…
Imbolc, Beltane and Lammas. For each month she suggests a pilgrimage we can take to a particular holy site - a temporal pilrimage which we can also make of our own inner journey. 2002.The Catholic Church in the modern age (The modern scholar)
Par Thomas F Madden. 2007
In this course, Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden focuses on a Church both adapting to a world in…
flux and striving to exert its influence and power. Throughout modernity, the Church responded to - and weathered - a host of major world events: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, colonization of the New World, and the World Wars that in large part defined the twentieth century. 2007.The case for Christ: a journalist's personal investigation of the evidence for Jesus
Par Lee Strobel. 1998
Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, the author cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates who are recognized…
authorities in their own fields. He challenges them with questions like: How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence for Jesus exist outside the Bible? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual event? It's a riveting quest for the truth about history's most compelling figure. 1998.The book of sacramental basics
Par Tad W Guzie. 1981
This book is a fundamental work that explores the underlying meaning of Christian sacraments and how they function. The author…
offers a modern understanding of the sacraments - not as encounters that "give grace" but as opportunities for people already in God's grace to celebrate the fact. Includes violence. 1981.The book of miracles: the meaning of the miracle stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam
Par Kenneth L Woodward. 2000
Author of Making Saints and veteran Newsweek religion writer presents his view that miracles are best understood in the context…
of a story. Explains the relevance of marvellous deeds in the major world faiths; presents accounts of saints, sages, and revered masters in each of the great traditions. c2000.Twenty-three-year old Cleo Koff, a forensic anthropologist, was one of sixteen scientists chosen to go to Rwanda in 1996 to…
find evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity. Her job was to discover who the victims were and how they had been killed. Koff also describes similar missions to Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Some violence. 2004.The call: discovering why you are here
Par Oriah Mountain Dreamer. 2003
The book exhorts us to heed the voice inside us, calling us to discover and to live fully our true…
selves and our heart's desires - finding our own unique calling, not in the expectations of others and in the outside world, but deep within ourselves. 2003.The bonehunters' revenge: dinosaurs, greed, and the greatest scientific feud of the gilded age
Par David Rains Wallace. 1999
Account of the historical feud between two nineteenth-century American paleontologists -Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. After the Civil…
War both men amassed large collections of dinosaur bones discovered in the West, but their intense rivalry led to muckraking and scandal rather than scientific cooperation. 1999.The boy in the moon: a father's search for his disabled son
Par Ian Brown. 2009
Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that perhaps 300 people around the world also live with…
it. Walker turned twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. Expanded from Brown's Globe and Mail series about Walker, he sets out to discover his son. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 2009.The bloodless revolution: a cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to modern times
Par Tristram Stuart. 2007
The word "vegetarian" wasn't coined until the 1840s, but the vegetarian impulse has been deeply-seated in Western culture since the…
17th century - Francis Bacon and Thomas Bushell contended that a vegetarian diet provided a key not only to long life but also to spiritual perfection. Stuart follows its development through its Romantic proponents Shelley and Rousseau and on into the 19th century, when doctors proffered scientific evidence that human teeth and intestines were more similar to those of herbivores than of carnivores, to more recent history, which has seen the expansion of a correlative animal-rights movement. 2006.The Bible doesn't say that: 40 biblical mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings
Par Joel M Hoffman. 2016
Hoffman explores what the Bible meant before it was misinterpreted over the past 2,000 years. He walks the reader through…
dozens of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible, covering the morality, lifestyle, theology, and biblical imagery. 2016.The Bible's cutting room floor: the Holy Scriptures missing from your Bible
Par Joel M Hoffman. 2014
The Bible you usually read is not the complete story. Some holy writings were left out for political or theological…
reasons, others simply because of the physical restrictions of ancient bookmaking technology. At times, the compilers of the Bible skipped information that they assumed everyone knew. Some passages were even omitted by accident. Here Dr. Joel M. Hoffman gives us the stories and other texts that didn't make it into the Bible. 2014.The College of William and Mary professor, Adam Potkay delivers a course that will provide listeners with a literary and…
historical overview of the Bible from its opening in Genesis to its ending in the Book of Revelation, and also with a sense of some of the ways in which the Bible has influenced the literary traditions of the West. 2003.The Bill Schroeder story
Par Martha Barnette. 1987
The family of the second artificial heart recipient tells the dramatic story of their participation in an extraordinary medical experiment.…
Details the day-to-day events, including post-operative setbacks, unrelenting scrutiny by the press, confrontations with the surgeon, and their own struggle to cope. 1987.The Bible: As If For The First Time (Spirituality and the Christian life series #Vol. 1)
Par H. A Nielsen. 1984
Soulever les montagnes: l'œuvre du docteur Paul Farmer
Par Tracy Kidder, Daniel Poliquin. 2011
C'est à l'école de médecine que Paul Farmer a découvert sa vocation: soigner les maladies infectieuses et apporter les fabuleuses…
ressources de la médecine moderne à ceux qui en ont le plus besoin. Son histoire nous amène de Harvard jusqu'en Haïti, en passant par le Pérou, Cuba, la Russie. On y voit Paul Farmer transformer les mentalités pour les plier à son intime conviction selon laquelle l'humanité est la seule nation. 2011, c2003. Titre uniforme: Mountains beyond mountains.The ascent of Eli Israel, and other stories
Par Jon Papernick. 2002
In a land where sudden death is an everyday fact of life, a boy dodges bullets and searches through rubble…
for news of his soldier father. An aging rabbi's faith is tested by a crippling, seemingly supernatural affliction. A middle-aged man comforts his Holocaust-survivor mother as she faces senility, convinced that Nazis are conspiring against her. And the mysterious biblical red heifer makes a startling appearance in the midst of a decidedly contemporary struggle. 2002.The assurance of salvation
Par R. C Sproul. 2013
In this series, DR.R.C. Sproul addresses the importance of living in pursuit of holiness over against "easy believism." He explores…
the doctrine of assurance as he helps to explain the relationship between the Christian life and the work of Christ Jesus on our behalf. 2013.