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Reading Genesis
Robinson, Marilynne
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis. For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various...
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The exvangelicals : loving, living, and leaving the white evangelical church
McCammon, Sarah
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER "An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no...
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To be a Jew today : a new guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish people
Feldman, Noah
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other. What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question...
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American Zion : a new history of Mormonism
Park, Benjamin E.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called "burned-over district" of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of the new creeds flamed out; Smith's would endure, becoming the most significant homegrown religion in...
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Life : my story through history
Francis, Pope
Paper Book
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history--from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today. An extraordinary personal and historical journey, ...
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Have a beautiful, terrible day! : daily meditations for the ups, downs, and in-betweens
Bowler, Kate
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the good-from the four-time New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) Kate Bowler...
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Cloistered : my years as a nun
Coldstream, Catherine
Paper Book
"A profoundly moving memoir which gripped me . . . It's about spirituality and asceticism and silence and sisterhood, but also about how flawed human beings can abuse power and how hermetically sealed communities, which should care for and protect their members, can be dangerously vulnerable...
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The Qurʼan : a verse translation
Habib, Rafey
Paper Book
Islam's founding text, rendered for the first time in flowing English verse. This monumental feat of translation, the product of a ten-year-long collaboration between one of our most respected scholars of Islam (Bruce B. Lawrence) and a poet and scholar of literature (M. A. R....
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The life of the Qurʼan : from eternal roots to enduring legacy
Jebara, Mohamad
Paper Book
"Appropriately epic and consistently erudite, yet accessible for lay readers." --Kirkus (Starred review) Based on extensive scholarship, an innovative biography of the central text of Islam Over a billion copies of the Qur`an exist - yet it remains...
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The Amen effect : ancient wisdom to mend our broken hearts and world
Brous, Sharon
Paper Book
In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? Sharon Brous - a leading American rabbi - makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural, is to find our way to one...
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