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The most important discoveries of the 20th century exist not in the realm of science, medicine, or technology, but rather in the dawning awareness of the earth's limits and how those limits will affect human evolution. Humanity has reached a crossroad...

An insightful analysis of the forces of deception rapidly reshaping America's morals, social policies, and culture, with a call to specific action, written by a thoughtful and courageous Christian social scientist on the front lines of today's issues.

God is still asking the same question. Rigor mortis has set into today’s organized religion and there seems to be little understanding of the ramifications!Although Adam and Eve ran quickly to hide themselves when they realized they were naked, the...

Charges of forgery, heresy, legalism, and immorality turn on the question of whether Martin Luther taught a third use of the Law for the Christian life. For the past sixty years, well-meaning scholars believed they settled the question-with dire...

"It is a grandiose claim to have banished God. With such a lot at stake we surely need to ask Hawking to produce evidence to establish his claim. Do his arguments really stand up to close scrutiny? I think we have a right to know"The Grand Design and...

The words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount have moved and challenged men and women since he first spoke them. Here hey are explained, simply and clearly, showing how Jesus mixed honesty with compassion and helped people to inject good into life. This...

Haddie Robinson has no time for dating. So, how does she end up as a contestant on the hottest reality TV dating show? President Jackson Cashe is trying to run a newly separated country while attempting to draw back some of the states that separated...

We are rejecting truth and destroying America by:Entitling positive rights while liberating us from responsibilityPromoting evil missions by good-sounding euphemistic misrepresentationsCalling evil good and good evilThese concerns and others will be...

The United States is suffering through a season of social and political division unseen since the Civil War. Unrest over long-standing social (especially racial) injustices are confronting new, antidemocratic perspectives and practices. So much is at...

How did the universe begin? Can God's existence be proven? Do humans matter more than animals? For many years people have sent the scientist-turned-priest John Polkinghorne these and other questions about science and belief. In question-and-answer...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Civilization At The Cross Roads is a collection of four lectures given by John Neville Figgis at Harvard University in 1911. The book explores the challenges and opportunities faced by Western civilization at the turn of the 20th century. Figgis...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Islamophobic hate crimes have increased significantly following the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and 7/7. More recently, the rhetoric surrounding Trump's election and presidency, Brexit, the rise of far-right groups and ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks...

In both Europe and North America it can be argued that the associational and institutional dimensions of the right to freedom of religion or belief are increasingly coming under pressure. This book demonstrates why a more classical understanding of the...

'Ideologies need enemies to thrive, religion does not'. Using the Sahel as a source of five comparative case studies, this volume aims to engage in the painstaking task of disentangling Islam from the political ideologies that have issued from its...

The idea of British identity has been thrown into question by the debates around the EU Referendum, but now that Brexit is here, it's time to think positively and constructively about Britain's future.How might Britain as a multinational state understand...

Based on extensive analysis of surveys from recent decades, this book provides a detailed study of the attitudes of religious groups in Britain. It looks at continuity and change in relation to party support, ideology, abortion, homosexuality and gay...

Fanonian Practices in South Africa examines Frantz Fanon's relevance to contemporary South African politics, and by extension, research on postcolonial Africa and the tragic development of postcolonies. Here leading Fanon scholar Nigel C. Gibson offers...

Theories of generosity, or gift giving, are becoming increasingly important in recent work in philosophy and religion. Stephen Webb seeks to build on this renewed interest by surveying a distinctively modern and postmodern approach to the issue of...

This book is a study in discipleship. The Ten Commandments and The Sermon on the Mount are explored and explained to show the true love that our Creator and our Savior have for us. With a section on apologetics to deepen our understanding of the truth...

Lebensführungspflichten sind regelmäßig Gegenstand rechtstheoretischer Diskussionen und Untersuchungen, spielen aber vor allem auch in der kirchen- und arbeitsrechtlichen Praxis eine bedeutende Rolle. Die besondere Problematik dieses Themas liegt darin,...

The title of this book involves a play on words. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking both spent a lifetime working on what is called a "unified field theory," or in popular parlance, "a theory of everything." The author of Oneness...

Scientific, theoretical, theological, metaphysical, and fanciful perspectives relating to our place in the cosmos.This volume squarely addresses a number of straight-forward questions, while offering only elusively vague answers. Instead of closure, its...

Is there life after death? This question is raised by many people, both believers and non-believers alike.Surveys in the Netherlands have shown that 57% of church members (Roman-Catholic and Protestant) and 55% of the unchurched believe in a life after...

Kevin Carey's thorough exegesis questions the purpose of the modern church and argues that the Church has betrayed its core message by becoming myopic in its obsession with doctrinal minutiae.

This is an in-depth explanation of why we need astrology in the modern world. It is based on the view that the mentality of modern scientism may be the cause of our contemporary problems rather than the solution. The book imagines a world that combines...

With her customary grace, intelligence and wit, Barbara Brown Taylor wonders why science and faith have become polarized in the popular imagination. She explores what quantum physics, the new biology and chaos theory can teach people of faith and why...

The unique laws in this book will teach you how to improve your overall life and help you reach your short and long term goals, and it will also help you reach a level a success that you never dreamed was possible.The consequences of not becoming an...

The book highlights the main features and trends of Russian "political" thought in an era when sovereignty, state, and politics, as understood in Western Christendom, were non-existent at all in Russia, or were only beginning to be articulated there. A...

Join the journey and examine the mysterious physical remains present on earth that are being used to mount a new attack against Christianity. The reason for these ancient remains' existence here on this planet is explained using scripture. Angels or...

The original title of this book was "The Tip Of The Iceberg." The iceberg is a visual object good for illustration and comparing spiritual truths to natural similarities.Similarities such as one can only see the tip of an iceberg. Yet 90% of its mass is...

Jeff Saxton exposes several hidden dangers that may be limiting the quality and effectiveness of your spiritual growth in The New Pharisee - one of the most enlightening books available today regarding religious hypocrisy.Discover how to identify key...

This brief and compelling study introduces us to the German Lutheran pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the Russian Orthodox priest, Father Alexander Men. These two martyrs each confronted a hostile, totalitarian world, and their lives show us how to speak...

In this thought-provoking book, born-again Christian Denis O. Lamoureux argues that the God of the Bible created the universe and life through evolution--an ordained, sustained, and design-reflecting natural process. In other words, evolution is not the...

When we think about the birth of Christ, many things come, to mind but one of those many things is the wise men. These men were Persians. What motivated them to cross hundreds of miles of desert and follow a star that was leading them west to Israel, a...

The word God being the core element to Initiation, juxtaposed to its nonuse, this book will show its relativity. Pinpointing difference and need to be the psychological triggers that give rise to our moral to deviate behavior. With Initiation to guide...

This book is a collection drawn from over three hundred and ninety of my magazine and website articles synthesizing early and modern Christianity, extracted from writings by or about Christians who flourished prior to the Decian Persecution and mass...

We want to live good lives, but determining what a good life is isn't easy, especially if we want the lives we lead to be ours, rather than somebody else's. Tom Kennedy helps us see why it is hard to find our way when it comes to living well and what we...

The Lord's Supper (or Eucharist) has often been a subject of intense debate in the church. What is often lost in this debate is the significance of the relationship of the Eucharist to Jesus' Last Supper with his disciples, which was a Passover--or...

Is magic real? Could anything be real that can't be quantified or scientifically investigated? Are qualities like love, beauty, and goodness really just about hormones and survival? Are strangely immaterial things, like thought and personhood, fully...