Christian Science category: 744 books
The Angola Prison Seminary
Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance, and Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking budgets have increasingly welcomed "faith-based" providers offering services at no cost to help meet the needs of inmates. Drawing from three years of on-site research, this book utilizes survey analysis along with life-history...
by Nancy Heche
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
"This is the beginning of a beautiful love story," Nancy wrote in her diary after meeting Don Heche, the man she was to marry. Five children and 25 years of marriage later, it seemed as if they were the perfect family. Then Don was diagnosed with AIDS--the shocking discovery of his homosexual...
Occupied Territories
The Revolution of Love from Bethlehem to the Ends of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Occupied Territories
Death, Ritual and Belief
The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which...
When Women Give
The Adventure of a Generous Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
How much do I give?
How do I find good organizations that are efficient and effective?
What are some of the common methods of giving?
How do I find others to join me on this journey?
When Women Give
The Jagged Word Field Guide To Being A Man
Irreverent Observations from the Backyard, Bar, and Pulpit
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This collection of essays explores masculinity in an unsystematic way. We’ve found that the various ways we’ve approached masculinity tend to fall into some broad and practical categories in our writing. To be a man means to be free to be what God has already declared we are in Christ—His...
Charisma
The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From the profoundly influential social theorist Philip Rieff comes a posthumously published analysis of the deepest level of crisis in our culture.According to Rieff, the contemporary notion of charisma-the personal magnetism of political leaders or movie stars-is a tragic misunderstanding of a profoundly...
Wilderness Reflections
A Pursuit of God’S Lessons in the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
God is the ultimate teacher, and if you choose to allow Him, He will touch your life in eternal ways. It can even happen while you sit shivering in a tree stand, waiting for a deer that never shows. Author Jeff Vordermark has come to treasure those moments in the wilderness and how they have helped...
Deadly Stakes
Shocking stories of Gambling Addiction in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The gamblers interviewed for this book all had one thing in common — they didn’t know what hit them. They thought they were in Casino Heaven and they, the Gods of Gambling. They thought they were invincible and would always win it all back. They thought wrong. They didn’t just lose; they got wiped...
Watching TV Religiously (Engaging Culture)
Television and Theology in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Helping Christians Understand the Power and Meaning of TV
Since its inception, television has captured the cultural imagination. Outside of work and sleep, it is now the primary preoccupation of most Americans. Individuals consume upward of five hours of TV daily, even more when taking into...
by Janet Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
In this artfully arranged collection of politically incorrect posts gleaned from her Facebook page, fiction writer Janet Walker has much to say about the non-fiction of real life--everything from the worship of Jehovah to the worship of Obama.
by David Dark
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
For many of us, the word "religious" immediately evokes thoughts of brainwashing, violence and eye-rubbingly tiresome conversations. Why not be done with it? David Dark argues that it's not that simple. The ease with which we put the label on others without applying it to ourselves is an...
by Mynhardt van Pletsen, Dries Cronje, Pierre Engelbrecht
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Selfoon en internet tegnologie het die wêreld op loop geneem soos nog nooit tevore nie. Ons ondersoek die gevolge daarvan op die mensdom, sowel as die direkte impliksies vir die plaaslike kerk.
God.com
Extreme Intimacy with an Interactive God
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
God.com is a refreshing, unflinchingly honest approach to seeking our Creator. Witty, poignant, and surprising text draws today's techno-savvy readers to God's "home page," where they can learn to more fully understand and communicate with Him. In these pages, author James Langteaux boldy tackles...