|
Spirituality and Religion July 2024
|
|
|
|
|
Finding God's will for your life : discovering the plans God has for you
by Joyce Meyer
Did you ever dream about what you would be when you grew up? We think naturally about our purpose because God tells us that He created us to do great things. But how do we know when we have truly found God's calling for our lives? Many people live most of their lives striving to find and follow God's will but still wondering whether they've gotten it right. The many pressures, expectations, and distractions we experience can create confusion and anxiety and cause us to doubt whether we are following God's will or if He even has a plan for us at all. Beloved Bible teacher Joyce Meyer invites us on a journey to confidence, freedom, and peace through exploring the wisdom of what the Bible tells us about God's character and about His love and purpose for us. She also offers practical steps to discovering how to build your trust in God, seek His guidance, and overcome the fear of missing out on His best for you. If you're struggling to have confidence that you can hear God's voice and know what He's created you to be and do, Finding God's Will for Your Life will leave you with more peace and more confidence to live joyfully in God's love and walk the path He has for you.
|
|
|
Field notes for the wilderness : practicing for an evolving faith
by Sarah Bessey
A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconnect to their faith, find inner healing, and build spiritual community-from Glennon Doyle's "favorite faith writer" and the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus Feminist and editor of A Rhythm of Prayer. It's hard to leave a faith that has raised us. Maybe it's even harder to stay. But what can feel impossible is living in the tension. Living with a faith that evolves. Sarah Bessey is an expert at faithfully stumbling forward. As a New York Times bestselling author and co-founder of Evolving Faith, the foremost community for progressive Christians, she has been trusted by thousands of people to pursue a reconstruction of faith centered on compassion, truth, and inclusion. Bessey has found a deeply underserved and underestimated remnant in the wilderness of Christianity who are still devoted to Jesus, deeply rooted in the Gospel, fascinated with Scripture, and committed to reimagining their faith. Field Notes for the Wilderness guides us through multiple principles to live by for an evolving faith, including: practicing wonder and curiosity as spiritual disciplines, mothering ourselves with compassion and empathy, making space for lament and righteous rage, finding good spiritual teachers, and discovering what we are for in this life, and moving in that direction. In this groundbreaking and nurturing book, Bessey becomes a shepherd for our curiosity, giving us a table for our questions, tools to cultivate what we crave, and a blessing for what was-even as we leave it behind.
|
|
| As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve by J.S. ParkDrawing on years of experience as a hospital chaplain, The Voices We Carry author J.S. Park reflects on familiar patterns of grieving and encourages readers to allow themselves however much time and space are needed to process grief in the healthiest ways possible. |
|
|
A History of the Muslim World : From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
by Michael A. Cook
A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet MuḼammad to the the dawn of the modern era
This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.
|
|
| The Devil's Best Trick: How the Face of Evil Disappeared by Randall SullivanDrawing as much from the conventions of true crime as from social history and folklore, journalist Randall Sullivan examines the pervasive nature of concepts of the Devil (and lowercase-D devils) across an array of cultures and how depictions of the satanic have changed over time. |
|
|
Indian spirituality : an exploration of Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Sikh traditions
by Joshua R. Paszkiewicz
Explore the culture and spiritual practices of India and learn the origins and beliefs of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism with this elegantly designed guide.
The global historical, social, and cultural reach of the Indian subcontinent is rivaled by few. Reincarnation, karma, and yoga are terms and practices that are part of the common parlance and lives of billions of people, even those not connected to the Indian spiritual milieu.
Indian Spirituality dives into why these practices have had such an enduring impact around the world.
|
|
| Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait WestWith great candor and thoughtfulness, podcast host Cait West shares this unflinching account of what it was like to grow up in a religiously oppressive, emotionally neglectful family with parents whose primary concern was enforcing a rigid gender binary, with an emphasis on perpetuating the unequal, patriarchal power dynamics that aligned with their faith. Available as ebook. |
|
Contact your librarian for more great books!
|
|
|
If you are having trouble unsubscribing to this newsletter, please contact the Guelph Public Library at 519-824-6220, 100 Norfolk Street Guelph, ON N1H 4J6
|
|
|
|