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A Stranger is Calling
Jews, Christians, and Muslims as Fellow Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Abraham, the father of all believers, plays host to three strangers, one of whom is God, and thus sets an example for others to follow. Jews, Christians, and Muslims often treat each other as strangers. Their Holy Books are not the cause of their conflicts and enmity but rather show the way to solve...
Van Gogh and the Art of Living
The Gospel According to Vincent van Gogh
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Vincent van Gogh believed that one had to learn to read, just as one had to learn to see and learn to live. Van Gogh conveyed a message in his work about the path that he himself followed that was more true to life, the path that human beings walk in their turbulent existence, the pilgrimage along...
Neither Necessary nor Inevitable
“History Needn’t Have Been Like That”
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Historic determinism is a convenient way to tie up the uncomfortable loose ends in the tragic lives of millions and to explain, at the same time, the exceptional opportunities of many of the rest of us. A belief in an inevitable chain of events or the will of God, or destiny, or historic necessity...
by A. J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Questions regarding the orthodoxy of Dale Moody and Ralph Elliott propelled the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) toward a re-evaluation of its doctrinal statement, the Baptist Faith and Message (BFM). The SBC adopted this document in 1925 under the leadership of E. Y. Mullins when faced by the challenge...
Shalom Yesterday, Today, and Forever
Embracing All Three Dimensions of Creation and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
When we hear the word shalom we think first of the common Jewish greeting. Then, perhaps, we consider the promise Jesus, the Prince of Peace, gave to his followers to grant them a peace the world cannot provide. In the Bible, the word shalom means much more than the absence of hostility--it means...
Old Historians, New Historians, No Historians
The Derailed Debate on the Genesis of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This polemical volume tackles the thorny and controversial issue of the vastly different narratives told (or manufactured) by the two parties of the conflict in the Middle East (the Arabs and Israel), focusing on 1948, where it all started. While all sides in this debate have vested interests, this...
Christianophobia
The Persecution of Christians under Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
In the present upheaval in the Islamic world, as chaos, war, and vengeance are overtaking order, security, and civil rights, Muslim radicals have been venting their frustrations among their minorities, most of whom are Christian: from ancient Chaldeans in Iraq to Orthodox denominations in Turkey;...
by Didier Decoin
Language: French
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Tout commence par un massacre d’Indiens en décembre 1890 dans le Dakota du Sud. Jayson Flannery, un photographe anglais veuf de son état, recueille une petite fille de trois ans dont la mère a été victime du massacre. Il songe bien sûr à confier Emily à un orphelinat, s’apprête à reprendre...
by Didier Decoin
Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2006
Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2006
Oui, la vie dHenri Decoin valait bien un roman. Et elle valait bien un roman de son fils. On na pas retenu de Decoin père quil avait été dans sa jeunesse, recordman de France de natation et sélectionné pour les Jeux olympiques de 1912. On ne se souvient plus de lui comme ayant fait partie de...
by Michel Quint
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Federico Peres, dit Rico, est un jeune homme timide qui bégaie horriblement. L’arrivée de Jean-Pierre Bernier, metteur en scène haut en couleurs, véritable Falstaff, venu monter à Sablet Les Joyeuses Commères de Windsor, bouleverse sa vie. L’homme, autrefois inséparable du père de Rico...
by Philippe Claudel
Language: French
Release Date: August 20, 2003
Language: French
Release Date: August 20, 2003
Une jeune enfant est retrouvée morte, assassinée sur les berges engourdies par le gel d’un petit cours d’eau. Nous sommes en hiver 1917. C’est la Grande Guerre. La boucherie méthodique. On ne la voit jamais mais elle est là, comme un monstre caché. Que l’on tue des fillettes, ou que des...
by Philippe Claudel
Language: French
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Language: French
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Le métier de Brodeck n’est pas de raconter des histoires. Son activité consiste à établir de brèves notices sur l’état de la flore, des arbres, des saisons et du gibier, de la neige et des pluies, un travail sans importance pour son administration. Brodeck ne sait même pas si ses rapports...
Science and Religion: Fifty Years After Vatican II
A Time of Peace and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
In the past one hundred years, two major realities have changed both science and religion. The world of science has been enriched by quantum physics, the computation of the age of the universe, archaeological data in the Middle East, and a scientific stress on historical writing. The world of religion...
Learning on Life’s Way
Remembering and Reflecting by a Teller of Tall Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Born into a pack of religiously divided siblings with a devout mother and an agnostic father, Sponheim finds the triad of faith/unfaith/many faiths central in telling the tall tale of God. Through his half-century of teaching and writing, the doctrine of creation becomes decisive for Sponheim, featuring...