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Good God, Lousy World, and Me

Author : Holly Burkhalter
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 1601425104
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Good God, Lousy World, and Me written by Holly Burkhalter and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this extraordinary memoir, one of the foremost human rights advocates of the last half century shares her brutally and hilariously honest story of finding God.” —Gary A. Haugen, president and CEO, International Justice Mission For years, Holly Burkhalter was a heartbroken idealist working on the front lines of change around the world—a witness to the brutalities of genocide, sex trafficking, rape, slavery, greed and injustice. Throughout her career she found herself angrily, sometimes hilariously at odds with a God who seemed distant at best and tyrannical at worst. Until the day she found herself drawn into a community of fellow activists who loved, worshiped, and served another God altogether—a God who hated injustice, too. And who had a plan for combating it. Us. It was the greatest, most radiant surprise of her life. Today Holly engages deeply with the questions that kept her from faith for most of her adult life: How could a good God allow brutality, mental illness, and AIDS? Why does God seem indifferent when we are in great need? What is our part in pushing back the darkness? Through riveting stories from her life, she wrestles these questions to the ground. Sometimes she wins. Sometimes the questions do. Either way, Good God, Lousy World & Me will transform your understanding of God’s presence and purpose—and ours—in a broken world. Now includes a small group discussion guide.

Good Without God

Author : Greg Epstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006167012X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Good Without God written by Greg Epstein and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring and provocative exploration of an alternative to traditional religion Questions about the role of God and religion in today's world have never been more relevant or felt more powerfully. Many of us are searching for a place where we can find not only facts and scientific reason but also hope and moral courage. For some, answers are found in the divine. For others, including the New Atheists, religion is an "enemy." But in Good Without God, Greg Epstein presents another, more balanced and inclusive response: Humanism. He highlights humanity's potential for goodness and the ways in which Humanists lead lives of purpose and compassion. Humanism can offer the sense of community we want and often need in good times and bad—and it teaches us that we can lead good and moral lives without the supernatural, without higher powers . . . without God.

Last Lecture

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781663608192
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Became a Christian and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

Author : Vince Antonucci
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441200444
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Book Synopsis I Became a Christian and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt by : Vince Antonucci

Download or read book I Became a Christian and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt written by Vince Antonucci and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people find themselves asking, "Is this it?" "We all read about the life Jesus describes and are painfully aware that our lives don't match his words," says Vince Antonucci, a disarmingly funny and edgy pastor. Raised by a Jewish mother and abandoned by his professional poker-playing father, Antonucci found Jesus at age twenty after studying the New Testament. When he finally went to church, he was disappointed to discover a "boring, stale religion." Through provocative storytelling and raw honesty, Antonucci unearths the life Jesus lived and wants us to experience, challenging us to move past spiritual boredom into a faith that's exciting, beautiful, and powerful. Recommended for all Christians thirsty for a fresh perspective on Christianity.

One Lousy Friday Before Easter

Author : Bob Keith Bonebrake
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481711067
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book One Lousy Friday Before Easter written by Bob Keith Bonebrake and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What you walk away with after reading this book will be profound. If you let it, it can be the kind of experience that you will never forget." - Dr. Phil Cooke, filmmaker and bestselling author (Jolt, One Big Thing, Unique) "Bob combines a painful personal story with a powerful Christian apologetic, to provide a book that can benefit both doubters and believers." -Dr. Mark Rutland, bestselling author (ReLaunch, Resurrection, Power) Third President, Oral Roberts University One Lousy Friday Before Easter is a personal story of faith lost in grief and reclaimed in rationality. It gives the layman a guide to Christian apologetics, and finding God in life, science and personal experience as well as in the Bible. Bob Keith Bonebrake has spent more than 30 years as a writer, editor and researcher, working for the Associated Press and other news and publishing groups in Oklahoma, Washington D.C. and California. He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma and did graduate work in journalism and creative writing at the University of Oklahoma.

The Best of Will Willimon

Author : Bishop William H. Willimon
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426748515
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Best of Will Willimon written by Bishop William H. Willimon and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the best preacher you’ve ever heard; add in the teacher who first opened your eyes to the excitement and meaning of your favorite subject in school; combine these with that member of the family to whom you could always turn for the best advice; stir them all together, and you’ll get a flavor of the writing of Ellsworth Kalas. And now the very best thoughts and reflections of this wise teacher and guide are available together in one volume. Across his career Ellsworth Kalas has worn many hats: pastor, professor, seminary president. Through all of them, however, he has remained first and foremost an interpreter of God’s Word. His most potent skill is to open up new insights and meanings in even the most familiar biblical stories. Gathered here are some Kalas’s most humorous, touching, and enlightening writings, drawn from his own experience of finding God in Scripture.

The Beat Book

Author : Anne Waldman
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590304551
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Beat Book written by Anne Waldman and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living in a freer America as a result of the Beat literary movement, which is an important part of the larger picture of cultural and political change in this country during the last forty years, when a four-letter word couldn’t appear on the printed page and minority rights were ridiculous.” Anne Waldman, a renowned poet and longtime friend of many of these writers, has gathered in this volume a range of the best and most exemplary writings of the Beat poets and novelists. Selections from the Beat classics appear, as well as more recent prose and poetry demonstrating the continued vitality of the Beat experiment. Included are short biographies of the contributors, an extensive bibliography of Beat literature, and a unique guide to “Beat places” around the world—from Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, where his novel Dr. Sax takes place, to Tangier, where Burroughs wrote parts of Naked Lunch.

Doctor Sax

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802195725
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Doctor Sax written by Jack Kerouac and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kerouac’s best book.”—TIME Dr. Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that he once described as “the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write.”

Goodbye, Transylvania

Author : Sigmund Heinz Landau
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811715825
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Goodbye, Transylvania written by Sigmund Heinz Landau and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare memoir of a foreigner serving with the Germans on the Eastern Front. • Firsthand descriptions of combat at the siege of Budapest and the final battle for Berlin in 1945 • Insights into what motivated soldiers to fight for Nazi Germany • Copies of the out-of-print original edition are highly prized

Jungle Jim

Author : D. P. De Lucchi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479730580
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Jungle Jim written by D. P. De Lucchi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has ended and only Jim is to blame... And possibly God. It wasn't long ago that Jim was dreaming of a perfect world; a world of peace and plenty, a place where people don't hurt or bother one another but instead try to understand each other, though when Jim dreamt of such a place, it had not sounded like a curse. Jungle Jim is the story of a post-modern world that almost worked but failed during a growing pain and the man who witnessed it all happen, just as the ancient prophecies and calendars foretold. Follow Jim's epic saga from a fiery airplane in the sky, to a cold clammy hole in the jungle; from a hole in the jungle, to "the real world," a brand new utopia full of colorful animals, and friendly dinosaurs. Trace Jim's steps back from one side of "the hole" to the other and back again, to find a bloated and gassy old man in a bunker who is not sure whether to blame God or himself for the worlds he has seen destroyed, and finally, ask the daunting questions that Jim thought he had already answered during his life of pseudo-slavery as a disgruntled and under-appreciated grocer that inevitably sent him on his folly. "What is perfection?" and "What is happiness? And most importantly "What is the purpose of all of this?"

Sinning Like a Christian

Author : William H. Willimon
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426758235
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Sinning Like a Christian written by William H. Willimon and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching look at the meaning and substance of sin.

Only for a Fortnight

Author : Sue Read
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477242384
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Only for a Fortnight written by Sue Read and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intensely moving, frequently shocking account of a child's life in an adult mental hospital.

I'm Fine with God... It's Christians I Can't Stand

Author : Bruce Bickel
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736921974
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book I'm Fine with God... It's Christians I Can't Stand written by Bruce Bickel and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refreshingly honest and often humorous look at some believers' outlandish behaviors helps bridge the communication gap between Christians and non-Christians, helping Christians share their beliefs more freely without judgmental attitudes, hypocrisy, and condemnation. Original.

Chris Needs

Author : Chris Needs
Publisher : Y Lolfa
ISBN 13 : 1847718639
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Chris Needs written by Chris Needs and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by Chris Needs tells us so much more about his life than his previous books: Like it is and And there's more. Chris delves into those experiences in his life which have kept him alive and, on the other hand, those episodes which have nearly killed him. There are also new photographs, previously undiscovered, and would be of interest to his legions of fans.

Trapped Between the Extremes of Good and Evil

Author : Jerry Dampier
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781425959272
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book Trapped Between the Extremes of Good and Evil written by Jerry Dampier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good and evil are as old as ethics or morality itself. For without an understanding of religious or philosophical ethics, the moral existence of good and evil would be impossible to comprehend; the term good, for example, would be exclusively a matter of subjective personal likes and dislikes in other words, a mere matter of taste, differing from individual to individual with no real obligation to the public good or safety. As it currently stands in philosophy, for instance, the term good may be understood as engaging in righteous conduct; the term good may also be understood as an object that corresponds and fulfills natural needs inherent in human nature. These natural needs, for example, which are deeply, rooted in human nature, manifest themselves in our human desire for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, among other things. In these two senses, the term good is an objective universal value, based on the reality of man (by man I mean human beings everywhere, of course). From natural needs, we derive the doctrine of human rights. It logically follows that the things we have a natural human need for, we as human beings also have a natural right to. This idea is not only used in the real world that you and I live in; it is also used in the storyteller's world of fiction or imaginary literature. Anything working to defeat or frustrate the good in the real world or in the storyteller's world is judged evil. This is of the utmost importance to those who believe in right and wrong. For right and wrong always follow good and evil. Society can never know what right or wrong is in the domain of social human affairs, without first knowing what is good and what is evil, and what makes it so. In Trapped Between the Extremes of Good and Evil, we enter a fictional world and explore the phenomenon of good and evil through the actions of an international serial killer, angels and demons, one twin brother's hatred of the other, and a San Francisco detective caught in the middle of it all.

No One Sees God

Author : Michael Novak
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0385528620
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book No One Sees God written by Michael Novak and published by Image. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the contemporary religious landscape, the division between atheist and believer seems stark. However, having long struggled to understand the purpose of life and the meaning of suffering, Michael Novak finds the reality of spiritual life far different from the rhetorical war presented by bestselling atheists and the defenders of the faith who oppose them. In No One Sees God, Novak brilliantly recasts the tired debate pitting faith against reason. Both the atheist and the believer experience the same “dark night” in which God’s presence seems absent, he argues, and the conflict between faith and doubt stems not from objective differences, but from divergent attitudes toward the unknown. Drawing from his lifelong passion for philosophy and his personal struggles with belief, he shows that, far from being irrational, the spiritual perspective actually provides the most satisfying answers to the eternal questions of meaning. Faith is a challenge at times, but it nonetheless offers the only fully coherent response to the human experience. Ultimately, No One Sees God offers believers and unbelievers the opportunity to find common ground by acknowledging the complicated reality of the human struggle with doubt. Novak provides a stirring defense of the Christian worldview, while sidestepping the shrill tone that so often characterizes the discussion of faith, and given the challenges faced in the present age, all who value liberty will find hope in his new way of conversing.

Losing Your Faith, Finding Your Soul

Author : David Robert Anderson
Publisher : Convergent
ISBN 13 : 9780307731203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Losing Your Faith, Finding Your Soul written by David Robert Anderson and published by Convergent. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that one can retain their faith, even when distancing oneself from the traditional methods of worship through the organized church, and helps readers identify six life-tested passages that lead through changes in faith towards authentic renewal.