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Spirituality and Religion March 2025 |
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Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation by Brenda WineappleTaking us back to a period that exposed foundational divisions in America that still resonate today — freedom, censorship and religion — prize-winning historian recounts the 1925 trial of school teacher John T. Scopes who was charged with teaching evolution and how this case was used as a platform for factions to campaign for their own ideologies.
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Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace by Big SeanThe musician known as Big Sean shares his journey from rap stardom to battling anxiety and depression, offering five spiritual practices for self-care and self-acceptance, aiming to inspire others to continually work on becoming their best selves.
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| Aflame: Learning From Silence by Pico IyerExtolling the virtues of silence and meditation, author and traveler Pico Iyer shares insights from his regular visits -- spanning three decades -- to a Benedictine monastery in California. Part personal reflection, part philosophical musing, his observations reveal how a contemplative life can better equip us to deal with the modern age. |
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The Mystics Would Like a Word: Six Women who Met God and Found a Spirituality for Today by Shannon K. EvansIs there a Christian spirituality that embraces the entire reality of womanhood? The answer, Shannon K. Evans suggests, is an emphatic yes. There is a spirituality that meets us in every part of our lives, developed by the women who came before us. Six mystics - Teresa of Avila, Margery Kempe, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, and Therese of Lisieux - revealed a faith big enough to hold the female experiences of sex and desire, the yearning for bodily autonomy, the challenges of motherhood and identity, as well as life with male authority and-sometimes-violence. In The Mystics Would Like a Word, readers will discover the story of Christian faith and spirituality as told by these extraordinary and wise women, one that speaks directly to today's unique experiences, and leads to wholeness, healing, and spiritual vitality.
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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter BeinartAfter Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, Peter Beinart argues, Jews must tell a new story. After this war, whose horror will echo for generations, they must do nothing less than offer a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew? Beinart imagines an alternate story that would draw on other nations' efforts at moral reconstruction and a different reading of Jewish history. A story in which Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, and in which Jewish and Palestinian safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined. One in which we inhabit a world that recognizes the infinite value of all human life, beginning in the Gaza Strip.
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Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway by Stephanie Duncan SmithStephanie Duncan Smith promises that it's not through grit and force that you will find a way forward, but through leaning in to the promises that hold true when all seems lost. In Even After Everything, Duncan Smith looks to the church's calendar as a way of finding and reorienting ourselves within the sacred story of Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, and Ordinary Time. At its heart lives the promise of God-With-Us, inviting us into the spiritual practice of living well by accepting that there is a time for everything, and trusting that in whatever moment we find ourselves, we are never truly alone.
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Pray Bold: Dare to Ask and Believe Big by Joel OsteenAt any given moment, God is ready to jump into our lives and act on our circumstances. But we spend so much time overwhelmed by the demands of daily life that we forget the amazing power we have access to as children of God. Instead of praying that God will help you survive the day of work at a dead-end job, pray that God will open the doors for you to have your dream job at your dream company. Instead of praying that God will keep you and your spouse from getting a divorce, pray that God will light the way to making your marriage happy and thriving again. There is a clear pathway between what we think, what we ask for, and what God does.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-703-2665forsythlibrary.org |
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