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Which countries grow faster economically - those with strong beliefs in heaven and hell or those with weak beliefs in them? Does religious participation matter? Why do some countries experience secularization while others are religiously vibrant? In The Wealth of Religions, Rachel McCleary and Robert Barro draw on their long record of pioneering research to examine these and many other aspects of the economics of religion. Places with firm beliefs...
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People need a creed and a cause, and today millions of patriotic Americans are finding their voices.
They say the best indicator of the future is history. How things have been can be a powerful signal of how they will be. But what will be our role in shaping the future for this country?
In The Coming Revolution Dr Richard G. Lee powerfully explains that a new revolution is coming. It may be in the streets of our nation's capital-as we saw in...
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September 11, 2001 saw the deadliest attack ever launched on American soil, leaving us asking questions such as: Why did God permit such a thing to happen? Was the attack a divine judgment or was it merely an atrocity perpetrated by the forces of evil? How can human beings be capable of such diabolical savagery in the name of religion? And what is the right course of action for our government to take? John MacArthur points us to the Bible for answers...
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What roles do King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of ancient Babylon, and Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States, play in God furthering His kingdom? In Two Men from Babylon, Wallace Henley brings into perspective how God uses unlikely leaders to bring about His plans and purpose. Here is a masterfully constructed book that tears the camouflage off our times and looks intensely at what is going on in our crazy era on the eve of a year of destiny-and...
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Radical Faith captures the intimate inside story of journeys through cultural alienation and radical politics to an equally committed and more lasting faith in Jesus.
If you came of age in the 1960s, this is a piece of the story of your generation-perhaps even your own story. If you are a Christian, you may find the first-person spiritual journeys enlightening and inspiring.
The Christian Renewal Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s may or may not...
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Imagine the Lion of Judah throwing a knockout blow to the political parties, effectively and permanently releasing God's people from bondage.
Author, Jane Northrup Glenn is married to Darryl Glenn, 2016 Colorado Republican nominee for US Senate. The couple divinely met and married during the general election that year. Darryl delivered a fiery prime-time speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and key phrases from his speech lay...
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Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges.
Picking up poet T. S. Eliot's World War II—era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity...
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IS THE LEFT EVER RIGHT? is a book about America's historical connection to the Christian faith, its evolution over time, and its challenges in the current divisive political climate in the United States. The book was written for believers, in part to challenge some views and practices, but more importantly to encourage all Christians to follow God's commandment to love one another, even when there is disagreement about political issues. The book is...
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I am not the first person to identify serious flaws in the way the Catholic Church deals with allegations of sexual abuse. That priests are living double-lives and contradictions are apparent in the way they actually live with the way they profess to live is not in dispute. In her scandalous but rarely read 2005 book, Priests in Love, Jane Anderson makes an admission to widespread sexual infidelity amongst Australian Catholic clergy. The author surveyed...
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While I was struggling with the title of the stories in this book, God came to visit me.
I had been having great difficulty with my foot arch in my right foot, it felt like it wanted to detach from my heel.
In the evening, before I was going to submit the manuscript, God healed my right foot. And in the early morning when God woke me up, He gave me the title of the book: Unsung Stories of Jubilation and Sorrows.
The stories in this book must be...
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In The Synodal Pope: The True Story of the Theology and Politics of Pope Francis, Jean-Pierre Moreau traces the history and theological development of Pope Francis from his upbringing in Argentina and formation by the liberationist Jesuits. Moreau, a keen observer of liberation theology, many of whose leading figures he personally met when he was a special correspondent for the Figaro-Magazine in the 1980s, has made a close study of the personal and...
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This book is a learned essay at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. It is first and foremost a diagnosis and critique of the secular religion of our time, humanitarianism, or the "religion of humanity." It argues that the humanitarian impulse to regard modern man as the measure of all things has begun to corrupt Christianity itself, reducing it to an inordinate concern for "social justice," radical political change, and an increasingly...
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American Faith is about my personal journey with the concept of separation of church and state. I use biblical and historical events added with personal struggles to emphasize how I view the concept of separation of church and state. It is not just a personal struggle but also a struggle our nation has had since its beginning.
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The Evangelical Church in the United States and other parts of the world, in general, is in a crisis of identity and stuck at a pivotal crossroads of history, conflicted about its God-given role and direction.
This paralysis has been, exposed and magnified by a renewed and raging, debate about the role and relevance of Christianity in the governance and destiny of nations.
"God and Government" establishes the truth about our role as Christians in...
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New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and activists have appropriated such media to strengthen and expand their communities and gain public recognition. Media have also been used to marginalize and restrict the activities of other...
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When the Ottoman Empire fell apart, colonial powers drew straight lines on the map to create a new region the Middle East made up of new countries filled with multiple religious sects and ethnicities. Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, for example, all contained a kaleidoscope of Sunnis, Kurds, Shias, Circassians, Druze and Armenians. Israel was the first to establish a state in which one sect and ethnicity dominated others. Sixty years later, others are following...
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Progressive & Religious tells the story of the emerging progressive religious movement in America through an analysis of over 80 in-depth interviews with contemporary religious leaders including nationally known figures such as Rabbis David Saperstein and Michael Lerner, Revs. Jim Wallis and Brian McLaren, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Eboo Patel, Kecia Ali, Lama Surya Das, Robert Thurman, and E. J. Dionne.
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Islamist extremism is one of the most vital issues facing governments and populations today, as Islamist groups turn more violent, with increasing radicalized recruits. These leading scholar's essays offer a detailed, compelling critique of the worldview, methodologies and motivations of violent Islamist groups, and of those pursuing a more gradualist approach. They present a significant contribution to the debate by showing how Islamist ideology...
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Church! It's Time to Rumble
In this book, Dai Mize explains how there is a holy war going on in this nation that is calling us to socialize our government to an even bigger socialist government, instead of localizing to a smaller government that is run by the people. This book is written as a call to all conservative Americans to rise up and reinstate our nation to a Christian nation.
It's time to restore our country back to a nation of "in God...
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