Religious Studies
epub |eng | | Author:John Patrick Shanley [Shanley, John Patrick]

Scene 2 A city park. Night. A bench. A lit-up Christmas tree. Under the bench is a half-deflated basketball. Donaldo appears in his winter coat. Music. Something like “Another World” ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-13 | Author:Russell Shorto

The skull of Descartes. Across the forehead, in Swedish, is an accusation of a theft in 1666 that began the skull’s peregrinations. Above it is a poem in Latin celebrating ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Lex Bayer & John Figdor [Bayer, Lex & Figdor, John]

The seventh Non-Commandment This chapter focused less on creating a new belief than on displacing a false one about obligation to an objective moral truth. As a result, we can ...
( Category: Sociology December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-26 | Author:Tyerman, Christopher [Tyerman, Christopher]

BYZANTIUM AND THE CRUSADE No such thing as a ‘western attitude’ to Byzantium existed in the twelfth and early thirteenth century. It remains a myth of crusading historiography. Instead, a ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Percy

PART IV THE WAR ON TERROR IN BIBLICAL TERMS Bobby says he was bullied in elementary school, middle school, and high school. He has a sweet, singsongy voice. He says ...
( Category: Veterans December 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-12 | Author:Decker, Kristyn [Decker, Kristyn]

***** It took me a while to forgive Diane and Mark again. In spite of all the hardships in our family and in those plural families all around us, Diane ...
( Category: Religious December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-24 | Author:John English [English, John]

Emmanuel Mounier, the French Catholic personalist and founder of Esprit, had taught Trudeau to “see, judge, act.” It was now the time to act. That summer, Trudeau began to encounter ...
( Category: Political December 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Diarmaid MacCulloch

17 A House Divided (1517-1660) A DOOR IN WITTENBERG Two incidents stick in the popular consciousness from Martin Luther's career: first, that he nailed some theses to a door in ...
( Category: Christianity December 21,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1989-10-01 | Author:Peter Kreeft

2. The Problem of Faith versus Experience So far, we have only scratched the surface. The problem of evil is only the most obvious problem in Job, the one all ...
( Category: Old Testament December 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sam Harris

DZOGCHEN: TAKING THE GOAL AS THE PATH Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche lived in a hermitage on the southern slope of Shivapuri Mountain, overlooking the Kathmandu Valley. He spent more than twenty ...
( Category: Sociology December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

She didn’t answer to his knock. He tried the knob but there seemed to be something blocking the door. “Miriam!” he called. “Miriam, are you in there?” Nothing. Not a ...
( Category: Women's Issues December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Deborah Feldman

V spirituality I may not have recognized myself in America, but on my very first trip to Europe I experienced the immediate, reverberating sensation of making contact with something old ...
( Category: Religious December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Lawrence Wright

THE TIME STORY WAS a turning point in the church’s history. The embarrassment for Scientology celebrities undercut the church’s strategy of making the religion appear to be a spiritual refuge ...
( Category: Christianity December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:Jenna Miscavige Hill

Photo Section I’m less than a year old in this photograph of my mother and me in New Hampshire. Behind us are the beginnings of the dream house my parents ...
( Category: Scientology December 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Darrel Ray

Western Religious Distortions We look in horror at the murderous sexual laws of Saudi Arabia today: women and men are publicly executed for adultery; women are publicly whipped for violating ...
( Category: Sexuality December 15,2014 )