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  • Paul

    A Biography

    by N. T. Wright ...
    In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright offers a radical look at the apostle Paul, illuminating the humanity and remarkable achievements of this intellectual who invented Christian theology—transforming a faith and changing the world.For centuries, Paul, the apostle who "saw the light on the Road to Damascus" and made a miraculous ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Turning Points

    Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity

    Now in its fourth edition, this bestselling textbook (over 125,000 copies sold) isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity. The book presents Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon rather than just a Western experience.This popular textbook is organized around 14 key moments in church history, providing contemporary Christians with a fuller ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Desmond Tutu

    A Spiritual Biography of South Africa's Confessor

    The first biography of its kind about Desmond Tutu, this book introduces readers to Tutu's spiritual life and examines how it shaped his commitment to restorative justice and reconciliation.Desmond Tutu was a pivotal leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and remains a beloved and important emblem of peace and justice around the world. Even those who do not know the major events of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Paganism

    An Introduction to Earth- Centered Religions

    A comprehensive guide to a growing religious movement. If you want to study Paganism in more detail, this book is the place to start. Based on a course in Paganism that the authors have taught for more than a decade, it is full of exercises, meditations, and discussion questions for group or individual study.This book presents the basic fundamentals of Paganism. It explores what Pagans are like; ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • To Be a Jew Today

    A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A leading public intellectual’s timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other.What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Cultural Christians in the Early Church

    A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World

    In the middle of the third century CE, one North African bishop wrote a treatise for the women of his church, exhorting them to resist such culturally normalized yet immodest behaviors in their cosmopolitan Roman city as mixed public bathing in the nude, and wearing excessive amounts of jewelry and makeup. The treatise appears even more striking, once we realize that the scandalous virgins to whom ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Living Buddha, Living Christ 20th Anniversary Edition

    "[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth." --His Holiness The Dalai LamaNominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort.The 20th anniversary edition of the classic text, updated, revised, and featuring a Mindful Living Journal.Buddha and Christ ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • The Masks of Christ

    Behind the Lies and Cover-ups about the Life of Jesus

    From the gnostic gospels to the Nativity, religious mythology immortalized Jesus -- his personality, his actions, his words -- but what if they didn't tell the truth?Although an entire religion is based on his teachings, Jesus himself did not record any written accounts of his life or faith. He taught his followers orally, and our only sources about what Jesus actually said and believed, the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When God Was A Woman

    by Merlin Stone ...
    Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • San Germán en Guayanilla: asentamiento, instituciones y vida cotidiana, 1556 – 1572

    El presente trabajo ofrece por vez primera un análisis documentado y abarcador sobre la vida de la villa de San Germán durante el período que estuvo localizado a orillas del río y ensenada de Guadianilla entre 1556 y 1572. Los autores José Aridio Taveras de León y Lucas Mattei Rodríguez, como producto de una extensa investigación fundamentada en fuentes documentales del Archivo de General de ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master

    A Yogi's Autobiography

    by Sri M ...
    In this tell-all autobiography, Sri M writes about his fascinating journey as a young man from the southern coast of India to the mystical Himalayan Mountains. At the age of nineteen and a half, he felt an irresistible urge to go to the Himalayas in quest for his great Master. He finally met his Master at the Vyasa Cave, beyond the Badrinath shrine. After spending three and half years with his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Hieroglyphs, Golden Plates, and Typos

    by Bill Wylson ...
    On the inside cover of his first leather-bound Book of Mormon, my father inscribed a powerful quotation by the prophet Joseph Smith."I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book."Directly below this quote, my father had compiled a list of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heaven on Earth

    The Varieties of the Millennial Experience

    Millennialists through the ages have looked forward to the apocalyptic moment that will radically transform society into heaven on earth. They have delivered withering critiques of their own civilizations and promised both the impending annihilation of the forces of evil and the advent of a perfect society. And all their promises have invariably failed. We tend, therefore, to dismiss these ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

    by Jeff Sharlet ...
    **A New York Times Bestseller“A riveting, vividly detailed collage of political and moral derangement in America.” —Joseph O’Neill, New York Times Book ReviewOne of America’s finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart.**An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into corners of our ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $13.99 USD

  • NRSV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible

    Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture

    Discover new dimensions of insight with a behind-the-scenes tour of the ancient worldYou’ve heard many Bible stories hundreds of times, but how many details are you missing? Sometimes a little context is all you need to discover the rich meaning behind even the most familiar stories of Scripture. That’s what the NRSV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible provides. Every page of this NRSV Bible is ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • What Happened at Vatican II

    During four years in session, Vatican Council II held television audiences rapt with its elegant, magnificently choreographed public ceremonies, while its debates generated front-page news on a near-weekly basis. By virtually any assessment, it was the most important religious event of the twentieth century, with repercussions that reached far beyond the Catholic church. Remarkably enough, this is ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Jesus Feminist

    An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women

    by Sarah Bessey ...
    Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences.A freedom song for the church.Sarah Bessey didn’t ask for Jesus to come in and mess up all her ideas about a woman’s place in the world and in the church. But patriarchy, she ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Story of the Scrolls

    The miraculous discovery and true significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls

    The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran, Palestine, in 1947 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. Written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and hidden in caves by an ancient Jewish sect, these mysterious manuscripts revolutionized our understanding of the Bible, of Judaism and the early Christian world.Geza Vermes is the world's leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, whose ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Beloved Community

    How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today

    by Charles Marsh ...
    A noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today's social justice strugglesSpeaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared that their common goal was not simply the end of segregation as an institution. Rather, "the end is reconciliation, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • SuperSense

    Why We Believe in the Unbelievable

    by Bruce M. Hood ...
    A neuroscientist examines the science behind humanity’s beliefs in the supernatural.The majority of the world’s population is religious or believes in supernatural phenomena. In the United States, nine out of every ten adults believe in God, and a recent Gallup poll found that about three out of four Americans believe in some form of telepathy, déjà vu, ghosts, or past lives. Where does such ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La transformación total de su dinero

    by Dave Ramsey ...
    El experto en finanzas Dave Ramsey ofrece un práctico e inspirador plan de acción para alcanzar una óptima situación económica en la vida. Contra un telón de fondo de terminología de condición física, Dave nos ofrece convincentes e impactantes consejos para alcanzar nuestras metas. Un plan integral para salir de deudas y lograr estabilidad económica. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Miller's Church History

    From the First to the Nineteenth Century

    Many of our readers, we know, have neither the time nor the opportunity for reading the voluminous works that have been written from time to time on the history of the church. Still, that which has been the dwelling-place of God for the last eighteen hundred years, must be a subject of the deepest interest to all His children. We speak not now of the church as it is often represented in history, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Orthodoxy

    G. K. Chesterton is considered by many informed readers to be one of the great writers of the English language in the twentieth century. A prolific author of astonishing creativity, he published dozens of books (including novels, biographies, and social, literary, and religious criticism), hundreds of short stories and poems, and thousands of essays. Though nowadays perhaps most often remembered ... Read more

    $0.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Still Hungry at the Feast

    Eucharistic Justice in the Midst of Affliction

    In Still Hungry at the Feast, Episcopal priest and professor Samuel Torvend invites readers to expand their experience and understanding of the Mass, the Holy Eucharist, as more than a personal encounter with the risen Christ. Drawing on recent Jesus research, the long history of eucharistic reflection among Christians, and contemporary commitments to economic justice, Still Hungry at the Feast ... Read more

    $12.99 USD