Beacon: 545 books
The Good Doctor
A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care
As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital’s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the...
Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers
How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
If you are a teenager whose friend or relative has died, this book was written for you. Earl A. Grollman, the award-winning author of Living When a Loved One Has Died, explains what to expect when you lose someone you love.
The Students are Watching
Schools and the Moral Contract
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
In this groundbreaking book, Theodore and Nancy Sizer insist that students learn not just from their classes but from their school's routines and rituals, especially about matters of character. They convince us once again of what we may have forgotten: that we need to create schools that constantly demonstrate a belief in their students.
Understanding The Bible
An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
A thoughtful, warm, and witty introduction Understanding the Bibleis designed to help empower skeptics, seekers, nonbelievers, and those of a liberal and progressive outlook to reclaim the Bible from literalists. In making accessible some of the best contemporary historical, literary, political,...
Without a Map
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether....
A Gift of Love
Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The classic collection of sixteen sermons preached and compiled by Dr. King
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As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail...
"Thou, Dear God"
Prayers That Open Hearts and Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
"Thou, Dear God" is the first and only collection of sixty-eight prayers by Martin Luther King, Jr. Arranged thematically in six parts--with prayers for spiritual guidance, special occasions, times of adversity, times of trial, uncertain times, and social justice--Baptist minister and King...
Being Both
Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
A book on the growing number of interfaith families raising children in two religions
Susan Katz Miller grew up with a Jewish father and Christian mother, and was raised Jewish. Now in an interfaith marriage herself, she is a leader in the growing movement of families electing to raise children...
Saving Paradise
How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2008
During their first millennium, Christians filled their sanctuaries with images of Christ as a living presence-as a shepherd, teacher, healer, or an enthroned god. He is serene and surrounded by lush scenes, depictions of this world as paradise....
by Sindiwe Magona
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2001
A powerful collection of stories by the acclaimed author of Mother to Mother This collection of Sindiwe Magona's short fiction, following the publication to wide acclaim of her novel Mother to Mother, ranges in location from rural Transkei, her homeland, and the black township of Guguletu, where she...
Daddy King
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
From coming of age under poverty and the looming threat of racial violence to preaching from the Ebenezer pulpit for forty years, King, Sr., candidly reveals his life inside the civil rights movement, illustrating the profound influence he had on his son.
Born in 1899 to a family of sharecroppers...
A History of Religion in 5½ Objects
Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
A leading scholar explores the importance of physical objects and sensory experience in the practice of religion.
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Humans are needy. We need things: objects, keepsakes, stuff, tokens, knickknacks, bits and pieces, junk, and treasure. We carry special objects in our pockets and purses, and place...
Sons of Abraham
A Candid Conversation about the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A prominent rabbi and imam, each raised in orthodoxy, overcome the temptations of bigotry and work to bridge the chasm between Muslims and Jews
Rabbi Marc Schneier, the eighteenth generation of a distinguished rabbinical dynasty, grew up deeply suspicious of Muslims, believing them all to be anti-Semitic....
Cabin Fever
A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Cabin Fever might be described as a modern Walden, if you can imagine Thoreau married, with a job, three kids, and a minivan. A seasonal memoir written alternately from a little cabin in the Michigan woods and a house in suburban Chicago, the book engages readers in a serious yet irreverent conversation...