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Spirituality and Religion May 2025 |
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| Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels From a renowned National Book Award-winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world. Elaine Pagels investigates how stories of Jesus’s miracles shaped the movement that followed him- and why they still resonate today. With historical precision and narrative flair, she unpacks the tension between fact and faith, inviting spiritually curious readers to rethink the power of sacred storytelling. |
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| The Jewish Way to a Good Life by Rabbi Shira StutmanFor readers curious about applying spiritual tradition to modern life, this accessible guide explores Jewish values as tools for self-understanding and connection. With warmth and clarity, Rabbi Shira Stutman blends ancient teachings with practical insight into relationships, generosity, and the everyday ethics of living well. |
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Come Home to Yourself: Simple Answers to Life's Essential Questions
by Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati
Internationally renowned spiritual leader Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati inspires and guides readers toward managing complex emotions, fostering healthy relationships, and finding inner peace. Drawing on her own unique story and the lessons learned along the way, internationally renowned spiritual leader Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati provides spiritual guidance and practical advice for the reader on their own life journey. After traveling to India as a PhD student, American-born Saraswati underwent a spiritual transformation that changed her life, ultimately becoming a guru dedicated to aiding others in their spiritual enlightenment. Her work has been commended internationally and praised by Deepak Chopra and Jane Goodall, among others.
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The Wounds Are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory Into Justice and Healing
by Yolanda Nicole Pierce
From celebrated scholar Dr. Yolanda Pierce comes this indelible meditation on Black faith, suffering, hope, and the healing possibilities of justice, written in the venerable tradition of James Cone and Kelly Brown Douglas. What do we do with wounds-our own, others', and a nation's? With the lyrical eye of a poet and the moral precision of a preacher, Pierce casts readers into the astounding story of God's healing. From the curative powers of a spiderweb to the work of justice in history, politics, medicine, higher education, and the Black church, Pierce asks: Where are the remedies for the battered and broken? What does accountability look like? Is there any cure?
Healing takes time, Pierce writes, and even the wounds of the risen Christ do not immediately close.
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Experience Jesus. Really: Finding Refuge, Strength, and Wonder Through Everyday Encounters With God
by John Eldredge
New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge reveals the path of the "ordinary mystic," and invites readers into the refuge of experiencing deep, lasting, real communion with Jesus. In this present age we are all becoming disciples of the Internet. We are addicted to distraction. We idolize our instant access to a never-ending avalanche of information. We think we're finally holding the keys to a better life. But if that's true, why are we wrestling with ever-increasing levels of anxiety, dissatisfaction, and despair The fact is, we live in a world of weary, skeptical pragmatism-and it's keeping us from experiencing the God we are dying without. John Eldredge presents a powerful alternative to the soulless, disenchanted world we find ourselves living in today: the path of the ordinary mystic.
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Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
by Diarmaid MacCulloch
A groundbreaking history of sexual emotion, sexual activity, gender relations, marriage and the family-and how Christianity has interacted with this panorama of human concerns. Few matters produce more public interest and public anxiety than sex and religion. Much of the political contention and division in societies across the world centers on sexual topics, and one-third of the global population is Christian in background or outlook. The issue goes to the heart of present-day religion. This book seeks to calm fears and encourage understanding through telling a three-thousand-year-long tale of Christians encountering sex, gender, and the family. The message of Lower than the Angels is simple, necessary and timely: to pay attention to the complexity and contradictions in the history of Christianity. The reader can decide from the story told here whether there is a single Christian theology of sex, or many contending voices in a symphony that is not at all complete.
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Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints
by Josh Nadeau
Room for Good Things to Run Wild is the antidote to widespread Christian malaise. If you feel like life is happening to you, that your faith has been reduced to trite platitudes, and that no matter how many new things you try, you still end up with a dissatisfying Christian life, this book offers relief from the mediocrity of Christian living through the sacred and satisfying journey of becoming an every day saint.
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