epub |eng | | Author:Fereydun Vahman; [Vaman, Fereydun]

Chapter 10 The Baha’is—the First Victims of Oppression in the Islamic Republic With the shah having left Iran in a chaotic state, Prime Minister Bakhtiar invited Ayatollah Khomeini to return ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hikmat Kashouh [Kashouh, Hikmat]

Prophecy The gift of prophecy is powerfully manifested in our church, among both men and women. There have been instances where women have conveyed divine revelation and spoken God’s truth ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Mary Eberstadt

epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Charles H. Dyer & Mark . Tobey [Dyer, Charles H.]

ANCIENT RUINS, MODERN SIGNIFICANCE Yet Samarra’s significance runs much deeper. The city was founded in AD 836 by an Abbasid caliph who moved his capital here from Baghdad. For fifty ...

mobi, azw |eng | 2016-02-05 | Author:E. Michael Jones

CHAPTER SEVEN: Case Study: The Rape Crisis in India The Case of Jyoti Singh Pandey When Jyoti Singh Pandey, a 23-year-old call operator and medical student, and her boyfriend left ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:tomáš Halík

❚ FOR US 1989 BEGAN WITH Jan Palach Week—mass demonstrations in Prague on the twentieth anniversary of Palach’s death, during which Václav Havel was arrested—and was followed by heightened political ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-17 | Author:Erick Erickson

CHAPTER 12 REDEFINING GENDER The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything. —G. K. CHESTERTON1 Marriage isn’t the only thing being redefined these days. In ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Denis Lacorne

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES AND BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS Certain religions prohibit the transfusion of blood for theological reasons, maintaining that it violates a divine interdiction. For Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example, blood is sacred ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:Khaled A. Beydoun [Beydoun, Khaled A.]

For Muslim Americans, demonstrations of good citizenship are tied to terrorism. Namely, condemning any and every act that involves a Muslim culprit. Apologizing for the actions of a deviant, distant ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-19 | Author:Lis Harris

Both men, taking turns speaking: “Our people will be back—all of them—in their homes or in the places they came from.” Me: “And the Israelis?” Totah: “They’ll go back to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Karen Armstrong

Because the Quran was God’s speech, it was infinite and could not be confined to a single interpretation, so these ‘ambiguous verses’ could be grasped only by those ‘firmly grounded ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:Ellen Korman Mains

Several surprises followed my retreat. Herb had decided to visit for a week, but came down with a cold at the last minute and rescheduled his trip for six days ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Ayaz Virji, M.D. & Alan Eisenstock

7 FAITH IS WHAT YOU DO “Let’s talk about terrorism.” I slowly exhale, sip some water, and listen as the word echoes through the auditorium. I can feel its impact ...

epub |eng | 2017-04-16 | Author:Lars Brownworth [Brownworth, Lars]

Raymond of Antioch No one was more concerned than Raymond of Antioch. Although he had no sympathy for Joscelin of Edessa, he was acutely aware of the danger in which ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-04 | Author:Steven T. Collis

* * * Notes 1. There are conflicting writings regarding whether this happened in Sacramento or in San Francisco. The distinction is irrelevant for understanding Al Smith and his spiritual ...