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When on vacation as a teenager, Justin encounters a psychic who warns him of the many unique and trying experiences he will go through in his life. But will they come true?
This unforgettable memoir tells the story of how Justin, a child of immigrant parents growing up in Vancouver, Canada, endures the many challenges, twists, and turns life throws his way.
From family, friendships, and love to betrayal and finding spirituality, Justin comes to...
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Dive into the pages of 'Post-Human Evolution: Merging with Technology for Enhanced Consciousness'-an exploration that transcends the boundaries of conventional thought. This groundbreaking book navigates the uncharted waters of post-humanism, unraveling the intricacies of merging human consciousness with cutting-edge technologies. From the dawn of post-human evolution to the speculative landscapes of the future, this narrative delves into the controversial...
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A timely unsettling of old "settled" questions surrounding divorce
Amid the current nationwide debate over what "marriage" is, this book examines anew the nature and meaning of marriage from the standpoint of what adult children of divorce have actually experienced.
Upholding the inextricable link between our personal identity and our origin in a union of two - and, more deeply, in the Fatherhood of God - the contributors to this volume reflect...
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A fresh vision of the common good through pnumatological lenses.
Daniela C. Augustine, a brilliant emerging scholar, offers a theological ethic for the common good. Augustine develops a public theology from a theological vision of creation as the household of the Triune God, bearing the image of God in a mutual sharing of divine love and justice, and as a sacrament of the divine presence.
The Spirit and the Common Good expounds upon the application...
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Barbara Crain Major and Joseph Barndt bring ninety combined years of experience as community organizers, teachers, and anti-racism trainers in community and church settings to this book. In Deconstructing Racism, they propose the deconstruction of racism's roots within systems and institutions that have been created, both structurally and legally, to serve white people. The authors propose that the deconstruction of racism must take place through...
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America's two greatest strengths-her liberal democratic culture and her free-market economy-have made her a global superpower. But left unchecked, these two strengths can become great cultural weaknesses, sowing selfishness, recklessness, and apathy. In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, theologian R. R. Reno argues that America needs a renewal of Christian ideals-ideals that encourage self-sacrifice, responsibility, and solidarity. Drawing...
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Walter Brueggemann is one of the most highly regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called him "a kind of theological rock star." In this new book Brueggemann incisively probes our society-in-crisis from the ground up.
Pointing out striking correlations between the catastrophe of 9/11 and the destruction of ancient Jerusalem, Brueggemann shows how the prophetic biblical response to that crisis was truth-telling...
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Many people who have an alcohol or drug abuse problem deny it, saying they can stop any time they want. Do you know how to help your loved one to break free? Can a person be, set free permanently, from a chemical dependency? The answer is YES-there is hope! In Alcohol & Drug Abuse: Breaking Free & Staying Free, author June Hunt offers sound biblical and practical advice for helping your loved one quit the cycle of drug and alcohol abuse for good!...
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Extrait : "Pour tout esprit qui s'intéresse à l'avenir des études philosophiques, il est manifeste qu'elles traversent en ce moment une crise redoutable. Depuis le début de ce siècle, la philosophie n'en avait pas connu d'aussi grave, d'aussi difficile, et qui mît à ce point son existence en péril."
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Cet essai décrypte le monde à travers l'histoire et les grands auteurs, soulignant la violence engendrée par la croyance en des absolus. L'auteur analyse les diverses manifestations de l'absolu, qu'il s'agisse des religions, des idéologies dominantes ou des expressions contemporaines, et met en lumière les raisons qui attirent et fascinent les hommes à son égard. Il invite le lecteur à suivre les philosophes qui ont embrassé le doute et combattu...
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I don't sexually abuse Black females is the spiritual affirmation that anchors this entire discussion. It empowers Brothers to prevent and rectify the sexual abuse experienced by Black Sisters- a not infrequent immoral, illegal practice in our community, and in society. The season has come for Black Christian men to accept their divine moral mandate by taking care of our own sexual housekeeping.
Culture and faith give context to this Black and Christian...
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Hermann Cohen is often held to be one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the nineteenth century. Paul E. Nahme, in this new consideration of Cohen, liberalism, and religion, emphasizes the idea of enchantment, or the faith in and commitment to ideas, reason, and critique-the animating spirits that move society forward.
Nahme views Cohen through the lenses of the crises of Imperial Germany-the rise of antisemitism, nationalism, and secularization-to...
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This is the story of Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller, the two reporters who led the Wall Street Journal's reporting on Enron and uncovered the unorthodox partnerships at the heart of the scandal through skill, luck, and relentless determination.
It all started in August 2001when Emshwiller was assigned to write a supposedly simple article on the unexpected resignation of Enron CEO Jeff Skilling. During his research, Emshwiller uncovered a buried...
2176) Letters from Abu Ghraib
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Letters from Abu Ghraib, a collection of email messages sent by Joshua Casteel to his friends and family during his service as a US Army interrogator and Arabic linguist in the 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion, is the raw and intimate record of a solider in moral conflict with his duties. Once a cadet at the US Military Academy at West Point and raised in an Evangelical Christian home, Casteel finds himself stationed at Abu Ghraib prison in the...
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This book is an exercise in a thoroughgoing narrative theology. The social and legal validation of same-sex relationships in the West over the last two decades has presented an immense challenge to the church insofar as it seeks to remain faithful to Scripture. But it is not an isolated ethical problem. It is just one element-albeit a very important one-in the much broader, long-term overhaul and reorientation of Western culture after the collapse...
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The recent data controversy with Facebook highlights that the tech industry as a whole was utterly unprepared for the backlash it faced as a result of its business model of selling user data to third parties. Despite the predominant role that technology plays in all of our lives, the controversy also revealed that many tech companies are reactive, rather than proactive, in addressing crises.
This book examines society's failure to manage technology...
2180) Spinoza Dictionary
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This A-to-Z reference volume presents definitions, propositions, and explanations of Spinoza's thought-all in the philosopher's own words.
The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza remains one of the most significant thinkers of our time. Yet his works, written in a rigidly geometric form of argumentation, are notoriously difficult to navigate. Expertly edited by Dagobert D. Runes, Spinoza Dictionary presents an alphabetical selection of...
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