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Spirituality and Religion July 2026 |
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Still Here: Life Together on the Long Way Home
by Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven and Mary Beth Chapman, long-time beloved Christian leaders through music and beyond, write a book about marriage that walks through the highs and lows of their story, encouraging readers to build strong marriages on the foundation of Christ.
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The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
by Arthur C. Brooks
If you struggle to discern life's meaning, you're not alone. Millions today describe a growing sense of emptiness, a lack of purpose and significance. And there's a reason: Rapid cultural, economic, and technological changes have rewired our brains, reducing their ability to perceive depth and purpose. In The Meaning of Your Life, social scientist and happiness expert Arthur C. Brooks shows you how to push back against these changes and find the meaning you need to live a happy, fulfilling life. Drawing on the great philosophers and the world's faith traditions, he shows how everyone can approach life's most important and mysterious questions and provides a blueprint that will help even the most skeptical person find a life of spiritual transcendence, passionate love, and true calling. What is the meaning of my life? is not an unanswerable question, but rather the start of a pilgrimage. The Meaning of Your Life is your handbook for this journey.
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Communion : Finding My Way Back to Faith
by J. D. Vance
An intimate account of why Vice President JD Vance strayed from the Christianity of his youth and what led him back to faith. Communion is a spiritual exploration of what it means to be a Christian in all the seasons of life JD Vance has experienced -- as a child, a young man, a husband, a father, and a leader. Picking up in some ways where Hillbilly Elegy left off, Communion recounts how Vance's pursuit of material privileges ultimately led him into a secular wilderness. Communion reveals how Vance regained his faith and discusses his conversion to Catholicism, how his faith guides his work in public life, and how it shapes his thoughts about the future.
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| We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter's Reckoning with American Christianity by Kristin T. LeeIn this searching debut, physician Kristin T. Lee draws on the Japanese art of kintsugi to reflect on her own Christian faith -- broken and reshaped after growing up in a strict immigrant church setting. Weaving personal story with theology, she explores what it means to question inherited beliefs and to piece together something more expansive and truer to her lived experience. |
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Beyond Belief: The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limiting Yourself and Achieve Breakthrough Results
by Nir Eyal
What if the real obstacle isn't your effort, your discipline, or your circumstances, but what you believe is possible? Behind every endeavor are beliefs that shape outcomes. Most people never question those beliefs, even when they hold them back. Beyond Belief by bestselling author Nir Eyal reveals one counterintuitive truth: these beliefs aren't facts. They're tools. Understand how they work, and you can set them aside when they are unhelpful and replace them with better ones to change what's possible for you. Backed by the latest neuroscience and psychology research, Eyal shows you how your hidden assumptions filter what you see, what you attempt, and what you achieve, and gives you a clear, practical method to change them. Expand what you think you're capable of - Your limits aren't fixed. They're learned. And what's learned can be relearned. Once you understand how belief really works, you can stop fighting yourself -- and start building change that lasts.
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How to Live a Meaningful Life: Using Design Thinking to Unlock Purpose, Joy, and Flow Every Day
by Bill Burnett
Many of us have lives that look successful on paper but feel strangely empty. How to Live a Meaningful Life offers research-backed tools to help you build purpose, clarity, and connection without quitting your job, blowing up your life, or starting from scratch. Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, the visionaries behind Stanford's renowned Life Design Lab, have helped millions use design thinking to craft lives and careers they love. In this new book, they evolve their framework to focus on one question: What makes a life feel worth living, day to day? Drawing on the latest science and years of teaching, they show you how to: -Reduce stress by aligning your time with what actually matters -Bring more wonder, coherence, and flow into your everyday routines -Turn ordinary moments into roots of joy and meaning -Strengthen relationships and build formative communities that support you Instead of cramming more into an already overwhelming routine, Burnett and Evans show you how to get more out of the life you're already living.
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Proving a Miracle: Unlocking the Power of Prayer to Heal
by Joshua W. Brown Phd
Diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, a neuroscientist searches for the answer to one of life's biggest questions: are miracles real? Could prayer really help? Desperate for a miracle, the trained scientist, armed with a healthy dose of skepticism, embarked on a journey of healing that would take him around the globe and lead him to some surprising conclusions: healing can happen outside traditional medicine and in ways that transcend modern scientific explanations. As he navigated his own diagnosis he became convinced that miracles can and do occur regularly—including in his own life: his tumor turned to scar tissue and the seizures ceased.
Combining personal experience and deep research, Proving a Miracle looks at the tangentials of illness and healing, from the placebo effect to the power of positive thinking.
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