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Price: $24.00
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Sale: $3.99
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Karen Armstrong
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Publisher: Knopf
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200.92
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Publication Date: 2004-03-02
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Karen Armstrong speaks to the troubling years following her decision to leave the life of a Roman Catholic nun and join the secular world in 1969. What makes this memoir especially fascinating is that Armstrong already wrote about this era once---only it was a disastrous book. It was too soon for her to understand how these dark, struggling years influenced her spiritual development, and she was too immature to protect herself from being be bullied by the publishing world. As a result, she agreed to portray herself only in as "positive and lively a light as possible"---a mandate that gave her permission to deny the truth of her pain and falsify her inner experience. The inspiration for this new approach comes from T. S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday, a series of six poems that speak to the process of spiritual recovery. Eliot metaphorically climbs a spiral staircase in these poems---turning again and again to what he does not want to see as he slowly makes progress toward the light. In revisiting her spiral climb out of her dark night of the soul, Armstrong gives readers a stunningly poignant account about the nature of spiritual growth. Upon leaving the convent, Armstrong grapples with the grief of her abandoned path and the uncertainty of her place in the world. On top of this angst, Armstrong spent years suffering from undiagnosed temporal lobe epilepsy, causing her to have frequent blackout lapses in memory and disturbing hallucinations---crippling symptoms that her psychiatrist adamantly attributed to Armstrong's denial of her femininity and sexuality. The details of this narrative may be specific to Armstrong's life, but the meanin! g she makes of her spiral ascent makes this a universally relevant story. All readers can glean inspiration from her insights into the nature of surrender and the possibilities of finding solace in the absence of hope. Armstrong shows us why spiritual wisdom is often a seasoned gift---no matter how much we strive for understanding, we can't force profound insights to occur simply because our publisher is waiting for them. With her elegant, humble and brave voice, she inspires readers to willingly turn our attention toward our false identities and vigilantly defended beliefs in order to better see the truth and vulnerability of our existence. Herein lies the staircase we can climb to enlightenment. --Gail Hudson
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.24
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Manufacturer: Saint Anthony Messenger Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mark Plaiss
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Publisher: Saint Anthony Messenger Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 255.093
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Publication Date: 2003-01
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Reading Level: 127
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $8.75
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Wilfrid McGreal
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 255.73
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Publication Date: 1999-08
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Reading Level: 1
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Price: $11.99
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Sale: $6.64
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Manufacturer: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dave Daubert
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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 284.1
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Publication Date: 2007-02
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: Kelly Fryer's book Reclaiming the L Word introduced one congregation's journey through renewal. Now Dave Daubert provides a practical how-to guide that will enable church leaders to help individual congregations walk through the process for themselves. Creative and informative, the book provides a straightforward approach that helps congregations reclaim Lutheran tradition for the 21st century. Includes questions for individual or group reflection and an additional resources section.
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Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Christopher O'Mahony
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Publisher: Ignatius Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.971024
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Publication Date: 1989-12
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Reading Level: 287
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Price: $7.95
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Sale: $2.00
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Manufacturer: Liturgical Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Brian C. Taylor
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Publisher: Liturgical Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 255.106
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Publication Date: 1989-03
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Reading Level: 88
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Manufacturer: Franciscan University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Frank Sheed::Maisie Ward
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Publisher: Franciscan University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.973
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Publication Date: 1993-07
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Reading Level: 239
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.00
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Manufacturer: Loyola Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mary Caswell Walsh
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Publisher: Loyola Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.302
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Publication Date: 1998-08
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Reading Level: 32
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: Recounts St. Francis of Assisi's reenactment of the manger scene of the birth of Jesus, and how that led to the use of small nativity scenes in people's homes at Christmas.
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Price: $16.99
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Sale: $3.75
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Manufacturer: Bethany House Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Leith Anderson
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Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 250
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Publication Date: 1992-08
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Reading Level: 250
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Description: "An opportunity to learn from one of America's wisest and most effective pastors!" Lyle Schaller, Yokefellow Institute As the church confronts the rapid and complex transformations that are ushering Western society into the twenty-first century, many established churches and ministry organizations find themselves teetering between ineffectiveness and extinction. The reality is that they must change to meet the challenges of the present and upcoming generation, and they must do so quickly. But the problem is that many lay leaders and pastors don't know how to guide their churches into the kind of changes that will make their churches relevant and effective. Within church leadership circles, Leith Anderson is a nationally recognized expert on how churches can and must change not only to survive but to thrive in the next century. A Church for the 21st Century deals directly with how to change and what to change. Anderson's purpose is to help established churches renew themselves and becoming effective vehicles of ministry and outreach. Change can come to churches by gently and positively helping them diagnose their true condition and, secondarily, by pointing the way to a prescription. But Anderson gives no simplistic formulas. Every church situation is different and the changes needed are as diverse as each congregation. Good church leaders, like good physicians, are careful to determine the correct diagnosis as well as prescription. While recognizing that the power to change
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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Christopher Hitchens
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Publisher: Verso
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.97
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Publication Date: 1995-12
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Reading Level: 98
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Description: What's next--The Girl Scouts: The Untold Story? How could anybody write a debunking book about Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity order? Well, in this little cruise missile of a book, Hitchens quickly establishes that the idea is not without point. After all, what is Mother Teresa doing hanging out with a dictator's wife in Haiti and accepting over a million dollars from Charles Keating? The most riveting material in the book is contained in two letters: one from Mother Teresa to Judge Lance Ito--then weighing what sentence to dole out to the convicted Keating--which cited all the work Keating has done "to help the poor," and another from a Los Angeles deputy D.A., Paul Turley, back to Mother Teresa that eloquently stated that rather than working to reduce Keating's sentence, she should return the money he gave her to its rightful owners, the defrauded bond-holders. (Significantly, Mother Teresa never replied.) And why do former missionary workers and visiting doctors consistently observe that the order's medical practices seem so inadequate, especially given all the money that comes in? (Hitchens acidly observes that on the other hand, Mother Teresa herself always manages to receive world-class medical care.) Hitchens's answer is that Mother Teresa is first and foremost interested not in providing medical treatment, but in furthering Catholic doctrine and--quite literally--becoming a saint.
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