Religious issues and debates Books

In A Visit to Nicaea: A Search for Truth in the Bible, author C. Ray Wimberly, PhD, compares events described in passages from the Bible with physical evidence stating that the events could not have logically occurred and often are contrary to physical...

Readers, would discovering wonderful benefits through 5 important points that will help them transform their communities. 1. Understanding our past public policies. 2. Understanding the Government mentality when they are preparing public policy. 3...

Beloved for his Narnian tales for children and his books of Christian apologetics for adults, best-selling author C.S. Lewis also was a prophetic critic of the growing power of scientism in modern society, the misguided effort to apply science to areas...

In this collection of Recycled Words n' Stuff, are the author's early thoughts, papers and items previously posted on Face Book, written as a Foreword, Preface, or Afterword, for other author's books, a collection of short narratives, essays of general...

This volume demonstrates that the Christian Right has a surprising past. Historical analysis reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism share a common heritage. Shires warns that political operatives in both parties need to heed this...

This book analyses how the country changed from the austerity of the 1940's to the affluence of the 1950's. The Labour Party after winning the 1945 General Election by a landslide had to endure opposition just six years later. The 1950's saw the...

Leading to Disaster is an absorbing book which takes a view of some high-profile disasters through a different lens. In this book, the focus is not on the individual who parked a vehicle in the wrong place or did not close a watertight door, but the...

HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE  is literally a "Handbook on Homosexuality"  because it contains two Sections that deal with all the Bible texts and Modern Topics related to the issue.  It contains a SCRIPTURAL SECTION that contains...

This book remembers one hundred years since Black Wall Street and it reflects on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Black Wall Street was the most successful Black business district in the United States; yet, it was isolated from the blooming white oil town...

While state governments determine the ""Who?"" ""How many?"" and ""Under what conditions?"" of immigration, God has determined the ""Why?"" He orchestrates the times and locations of the nations ""that they might seek Him"" (Acts 17:24-27). The sovereign...

The Prosperity movement has been rightly challenged on biblical, theological, and pastoral grounds and has been found to be lacking. Yet, the movement continues to grow in popularity around the world, particularly amongst the poor. What deeper factors...

The Brain and the Spirit invites readers to embark on a practice of listening to the Christ story through the earpiece of neuroscience. After many years steeped in brain science, the author had an unexpected encounter with a theologian, James Alison,...

Walter and Ingrid Trobisch played a major role in shaping a transcultural conversation about love, sex, gender identity, and marriage during the mid-twentieth century. The Trobisches are most well known for Walter's book I Loved a Girl (1962), which he...

We all face troubles in life, but when the sovereign will of God leads us into a season of difficulty, how do we respond? We need not suffer the darkness alone. God awaits us in the valley, ready to teach us more about His heart—and our own.Kathy...

There was a time in international relations, when in spite of the regular interests and intrigues used to seek them, some were able to keep the fundamentals of decency, truth, conscience, the respect for facts, traditions and history, and the search for...

The key to America's future begins with exploring our past. In Freedom Is Costly, But Priceless, Dave Meyer shares the importance of our nation's true history--learning about our rich, godly heritage and discovering Who and what has made this nation so...

It's too late to repent as a nation. God is preparing us now to remove the flag from between us and Him and replace it with the cross. Satan can and will destroy the American flag that represents freedom, but he will never and cannot destroy the freedom...

A faithful catechist in Fr. Martin Hilbert's parish came to see him. "Father Martin," she said, "I have been teaching children about Adam and Eve, just as the Catechism tells us. But we can't be expected to believe that, can we? What is the real story?"...

What does it mean to think, believe, and act like an American?The soul of America is far more than a concept-it is a people.  Even the most sacred principles mean very little unless lived out passionately by an informed citizenry. In The Portable Patriot...

Ellen G. White, in Testimonies, Series B, No. 2, p. 16, wrote the following:" Be not deceived; many will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. We have now before us the alpha of his danger. The omega will be of a...

There is a message in the sky. It is a message about God and his work. “Lift your eyes to the sky and see Who has created the stars. It is none other than the One who leads them by number, calling them all by name.” Isa. 40:26. Adam named the...

Violent extremism is not new, but we have witnessed its rise to the point that it has become a defining issue of our time. We cannot brush it aside any longer: it characterizes who we are as a people and as a global society. Why is violent extremism...

Aquinas, Custom, and the Coexistence of Infused and Acquired Cardinal VirtuesWilliam C. Mattison IIIElevated Virtue?Angela KnobelMoral Virtues, Charity, and Grace: Why the Infused and Acquired Virtues Cannot Co-ExistJean PorterCatholic Social Teaching,...

America at the Gates of Hell is about the need for transformation of the hearts and minds of Americans. Never before have we faced such stark historical contrasts of good and evil. We stand at the precipice! Will we choose life? Can we escape our fate?...

The book of Genesis might be the most Darwinian text of the ancient world. Can the ideas of Scripture and evolutionary science be mutually illuminating? Biblical scholar Dru Johnson calls us beyond creation-versus-evolution debates to explore the...

In these essays I often refer to social contracts such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other international conventions that describe a vision of just human...

Each of us should find the meaning of our life and shoud pursue the discovery of God.Say to yourself: "Here I am, I did not ordain my existence, nor do I know the lenghth of my journey. Fortunately however, I exist and by what I do and that wich i do...

Universalismo es la Síntesis de todas las cosas en una Unidad Total, representado a través del Sistema SAT Universal, que fue fundado por SatCarlos que es el Mesías de Era de Acuarius. Este Sistema SAT Universal no es una secta sino un Sistema Integral...

The Earth's population has reached over seven billion. Even as war, terror, and environmental catastrophes dominate the headlines, medical science and technology continue to improve our lives. Can we reconcile the two, or is our planet irretrievably...

A cross-case analysis of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

This book studies the critical issues that dominate contemporary discourse on biomedical ethics. It brings together various debates highlighting the historical, philosophical, scientific, and technological perspectives involved in modern medicine in...

This book considers the situation of intersex people who have faced erasure in the areas of science, law, culture, and theology due to the assumption that all humans are either 'female' or 'male.'

This latest issue of the James Backhouse Lecture Series looks at the issue of Earth restoration from a religious perspective. The author is passionate about restoring environments and considers permaculture 'sacred' knowledge to be carried and shared...

In these days of spiritual ignorance in the country and doctrinal laxity in the church, many Anglicans look back to former times with a certain degree of wistfulness. One date lingers in the collective Anglican memory as suggestive of a golden era:...

Harm, Healing, and Human Dignity is a faith formation resource to help small groups in parishes and schools, as well as individual believers, reflect on the Catholic call to restorative justice. Through Scripture, Catholic teaching, eye-opening...

David Matzko McCarthy s "Death Penalty and Discipleship" is a faith formation resource to help communities and individuals reflect more deeply on capital punishment. It incorporates Scripture, Catholic social teaching, and contemporary issues that focus...

The publication of Laudato Si'--a papal encyclical on a defining issue of our times--was a moment of great importance for Catholics and for the world. Now Fr. Joshtrom Kureethadam, one of the church's top experts on the document, provides a...

The available literature on the new evangelization is wide-ranging and focused on issues of ecclesial renewal. In The Truth Will Make You Free, Fr. Robert Leavitt adopts a different approach to the subject. From Paul VI until Pope Francis, the nature...

Much current commentary on climate change, both secular and theological, focuses on the duties of individual citizens to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels. In A Political Theology of Climate Change, however, Michael Northcott discusses nations as...

Opens up a way forward for Christian ethics in the public sphere Too often, says Nigel Biggar, contemporary Christian ethics poses a false choice -- either "conservative" theological integrity or "liberal" secular consensus. Behaving in Public explains...

What does it mean to love someone? What does the concept of human dignity mean, and what are its consequences? What marks the end of a person's life? Is personhood more than consciousness? These perplexing questions lurk beneath the surface of...