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2010., General, Viking Call No: 270 M133c Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith, to teach modern readers how Jesus' message spread and how the New Testament was formed. We follow the Christian story to all corners of the globe, filling in often neglected accounts of conversions and confrontations in Africa and Asia. And we discover the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the rise of the evangelical movement from its origins in Germany and England. We meet monks and crusaders, heretics and saints, slave traders and abolitionists, and discover Christianity's essential role in driving the Enlightenment and the Age of Exploration, and shaping the course of World Wars I and II.
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c2005., Oxford University Press Call No: 294.35 T539a Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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2014., Blasted Heath Ltd Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: A young girl stands at a window in the middle of the night, looking across the street at a man with a Bible. A stained-glass Jesus in blue looks down on the lost church. A woman hangs by the neck from a bridge in the public park, angel's wings on her back. A teenage boy lies in a bath, the water turned blood red. Four church congregations have been told to unite, with unholy consequences. One by one the victims fall, as DS Hutton and DCI Taylor are drawn into the troubled and duplicitous world of the Christian Church, as its numbers fall and members fight over the scraps of diminishing power. And for Hutton, at last, it seems there may be the chance to receive absolution for past sins.
![The Blood That Stains Your Hands [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76677.JPG "The Blood That Stains Your Hands [eBook]")
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c2012., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Fic Gre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Order of darkness Volume: bk. one.Summary Note: In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the one who defends the boundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.
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c2011., Rutgers University Press Call No: Bio M996c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young Lutheran girl grows up in Long Island, New York. She aspires to be a doctor and is on the fact track to marriage and the conventional happily-ever-after. But, as the Yiddish saying goes, "Man plans, and God laughs." Meet Andrea Myers, whose coming-of-age at brandeis, conversion to Judaism, and awakening sexual identity make for a rich and well-timed life in the rabbinate. In The Choosing, Myers fuses heartwarming anecdotes wtih rabbinic insights and generous dollops of humor to describe what it means to survive and flourish on your own terms. She draws on her unique path to the rabbinate-leaving behind her Christian upbringing, coming out as a lesbian, discovering Judaism in college, moving to Israel, converting, and returning to New York to become a rabbi, partner, and parent.
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c1996., McClelland & Stewart Call No: 230 T288f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: For over 20 years the author was a major figure in the church in North America. Increasing doubt about the validity of the Old Testament and the teachings of the church led him to resign from the ministry. In straightforward language Templeton challenges the validity of central Christian beliefs.
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2009., Lyons Press Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Overdrive collection.Summary Note: She had no choice in the matter--none of the girls did. Her mission was to give birth to and raise many children in devoted service to a shared husband. Susan was fifteen years old when she became the sixth wife of Verlan LeBaron--one of the leaders of a rogue Mormon cult engaged in a blood feud with his brother that, from 1972 to 1988, claimed up to two dozen lives and led one prosecutor to call their descendents a "Lord of the Flies generation." In this book, Susan Ray Schmidt tells the story of growing up on the inside and of her ultimate escape. Delving more deeply into this mysterious underworld than any previous work, "Favorite Wife" is a powerful account of the affairs of the heart, coming of age under exceptional circumstances, and the tough choices that are sometimes painfully necessary to preserve human dignity.
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2023., Broadleaf Books Call No: NEW 155.207 T977g Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Spiritual director Casey Tygrett upends the notion that restlessness is a sign that we must move up, move on, or move out. Working within the prayerful tradition of writers like Henri Nouwen and Barbara Brown Taylor, Tygrett turns over our innermost questions and holds them up to the light. Where do I belong? What am I here for? Is there enough? And he finds a surprising alignment of these restless questions with the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray. In that ancient prayer's pleas for belonging, purpose, sustenance, mending, protection, and rescue, we find freedom to ask basic human questions and permission to befriend our longings. Each chapter offers profoundly spiritual practices that, when taken together, create a spirituality sturdy enough for our unsettled seasons.
