Religion

A companion devotional for the best-selling Battlefield of the Mind provides an inspiring message of encouragement and hope for those suffering from anger, confusion, condemnation, fear, worry, and doubt, furnishing one hundred day-by-day readings, accompanied by prayers and Scriptures. more...

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A suspenseful yet touching story of a Civil war Bible that pops up again and again over a century and shapes the very history of the nation. This rich and involving historical and archeological thriller begins as a Union soldier, Tate, shoots a Confederate preacher known as the Bell Messenger and is bequeathed a worn Bible by the dying man. Tate's historical narrative parallels the contemporary story of John Brandon, who has just graduated college in 2000 and received the very same Bible, unearthed in a Saudi Arabian cave, as a gift. more...

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Fifteen years ago while researching Jewish imagery, award-winning book designer Scott-Martin Kosofsky happened upon a 1645 edition of the Minhogimbukh -- the ''Customs Book'' -- a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to the Jewish year written in Yiddish, the people's vernacular. Captivated, he investigated further and learned that from 1590 to 1890, this cross between a prayer book and a farmer's almanac was immensely popular in households all across Europe. Published in dozens of editions and revised over the centuries in Venice, Prague, Amsterdam, and throughout Germany before moving eastward in the nineteenth century to Poland and Russia, these books detail the evolution of Jewish custom over three hundred years. But by the 1890s, as Jewish practice became polarized between the secularist and traditionalist views, the Minhogimbukh disappeared. There are no works quite like the historical customs books available today and none so thorough and concise, intuitive in organization, and beautiful. Inspired by the originals, Kosofsky set out to make his own, adapting the books for modern use, adding historical perspective and contemporary application. The result is the reappearance of the Minhogimbukh after more than a hundred-year absence, and the first complete showing of all the original woodcuts -- a visual vocabulary of Jewish life -- since the 1760s. Faithfully based on the earlier editions, The Book of Customs is an updated guide to the rituals, liturgies, and texts of the entire Jewish year -- from the days of the week and the Sabbath to all the months with their festivals, as well as the major life-cycle events of wedding, birth, bar and bat mitzvah, and death. With the revival of this lost cultural legacy, The Book of Customs can once again become every family's guide to Jewish tradition and practice. more...

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Buddha, The Word holds the fundamental teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha, including the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. The Four Noble Truths tell us that suffering is an inherent part of existence; that the origin of suffering is ignorance and the main symptoms of that ignorance are attachment and craving; that attachment and craving can be ceased; and that following the Noble Eightfold Path will lead to the cessation of attachment and craving and therefore suffering. The Noble Eightfold Path outlines right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. [Adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha under the terms of the GNU-FDL] more...

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The Cambridge Companion to St Paul provides an important assessment of the apostle Paul and a fresh appreciation of his continuing significance today. With eighteen chapters written by a team of leading international Pauline specialists, this Companion will have wide appeal and provide an invaluable starting point for subsequent studies. more...

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