Alan: 6649 books
by Alan W. Watts
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
We live in an age of unprecedented anxiety. Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to lamenting the past, we forget to embrace the here and now. We are so concerned with tomorrow that we forget to enjoy today. Drawing from Eastern philosophy and religion, Alan Watts...
Mississippi in Africa
The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the...
Common Prayer on Common Ground
A Vision of Anglican Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Responding to the controversy and divisiveness within the Anglican Communion – particularly over the issue of homosexuality – Alan Jones offers a more balanced look at the middle way to be found within Anglican orthodoxy. With its focus on careful listening and prayerful deliberation, Jones’s...
Heaven on Earth
Experiencing the Kingdom of God in the Here and Now
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The future hope of heaven is pulled into the here-and-now in this illuminating description of the kingdom of God. Popular teacher and author R. Alan Streett exposes half-truths about the kingdom that many believers have unwittingly accepted. He contrasts these with the testimony of Scripture: Jesus inaugurated...
The Genesis of Justice
Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice that Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
Alan Dershowitz is one of America's most famous litigation experts. In the Genesis of Justice he examines the Genesis narratives to bring to the reader an insight into the creation of the ten commandments and much of what is now law.
Sinning in the Hebrew Bible
How the Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Stories of rape, murder, adultery, and conquest raise crucial issues in the Hebrew Bible, and their interpretation helps societies form their religious and moral beliefs. From the sacrifice of Isaac to the adultery of David, narratives of sin engender vivid analysis and debate, powering the myths...
Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
The New Shape of the Church in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Church has changed—this book shows how to follow the Spirit out into the community, and reimagine our mission for the 21st century.
The decline in mainstream religious denominations is palpable. For years, the question has been: How can we “fix” the church? With thirty years of experience...
Untamed (Shapevine)
Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Discipleship is costly. Are we willing to critique and even challenge much we've been taught for the sake of the kingdom? For this is the radical nature of the discipleship to which Jesus calls us. He did not allow the outside culture to hold him captive; instead he established the kingdom of God...
Religious Foundations of Western Civilization
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
World Religions
Religious Foundations of Western Civilization introduces students to the major Western world religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—their beliefs, key concepts, history, as well as the fundamental role they have played, and continue to play, in Western culture.
Contributors...
Dreaming Yourself Awake
Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Some of the greatest of life’s adventures can happen while you’re sound asleep. That’s the promise of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to alter your own dream reality any way you like simply by being aware of the fact that you’re dreaming while you’re in the midst of a dream. There is...
Stilling the Mind
Shamatha Teachings from Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
In his previous book, The Attention Revolution, bestselling author Alan Wallace guided readers through the stages of shamatha, a meditation for focusing the mind. In Stilling the Mind, he uses the wisdom of Dzogchen--the highest of all the meditation traditions--to open up the shamatha practice into...
The Berbers History
Life & Who they are
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In historical times, the Berbers expanded south into the Sahara (displacing earlier populations such as the Azer and Bafour), and have in turn been mainly culturally assimilated in much of North Africa by Arabs, particularly following the arrival of the Banu Hilal in the eleventh century. However...
by Richard Alan Dickson
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Everyone laughed at Johnny five years ago when he told them he'd seen the aliens. He learned his lesson. Tonight, on the night they return, he won't go to the police. Tonight, he'll deal with them, himself... if he can just figure out how.
Richard Alan Dickson,...
Minding Closely
The Four Applications of Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Bringing his experience as a monk, scientist, and contemplative, Alan Wallace offers a rich synthesis of Eastern and Western traditions along with a comprehensive range of meditation practices interwoven throughout the text. The guided meditations are systematically presented, beginning with very...