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By using principles from a variety of scientific disciplines, Yale Professor Samuel Wilkinson provides a framework for human evolution that reveals an overarching purpose to our existence. Generations have been taught that evolution implies there is no overarching purpose to our existence, that life has no fundamental meaning. We are merely the accumulation of tens of thousands of intricate molecular accidents. Some scientists take this logic one...
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2024.
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"The world tells us that having a good job, owning your own business, money, fame, and influence are all important for a successful life. If we don't have them, we feel like a failure. But even when we achieve them, we still end up unhappy, unfulfilled, or lonely. God wants us to be successful, but His definition of success is not the same as the world's definition. The truth is, God's way of achieving the dreams and desires that truly fulfill us...
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"Accidental injury is the leading cause of death for Americans under forty-five. Those who have caused accidents walk among us. They are us. Episcopal priest David W. Peters unintentionally killed someone in a traffic accident as a young man, and in Accidental, he guides readers through the aftermath of these tragedies toward healing and recovery"--
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"Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' leaves....
5) On marriage
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2023.
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"As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn't that an extraordinary fact?" So writes Devorah Baum in this searching and revelatory book. Marriage, for better or for worse, is how humans have organized their world and told their story. Straight, queer, coupled, single: none live outside the remit of marriage. One might as well try to live beyond language. But when confronted with the question "What do intellectuals...
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"Drawing on decades of research found in his Case for . . . series, as well as new interviews and insights, investigative journalist and former atheist Lee Strobel presents clear and compelling evidence to help seekers and believers answer life's ultimate question: Is God Real?"--
"It's no coincidence that one of the most asked questions on any search engine is: 'Is God real?' When life feels overwhelming, we want to know if there really is a deity...
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Are you satisfied that your children's current educational environment is bringing out their best potential?
In a world where traditional education systems make little or no accommodation for individual learning styles (such as auditory or visual learning), and they're failing to teach even the basics, it's time for parents to take charge of their children's education.
In Reclaiming Education, parents are equipped with practical and immediately...
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2020.
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"Are your thoughts holding you captive? Jennie Allen knows what it's like to swirl in a spiral of destructive thoughts, such as 'I'll never be good enough.' 'Other people have better lives than I do.' 'God couldn't really love me.' But Jennie also knows we don't have to stay stuck in toxic thinking patterns. As she discovered in her own life, God built a way for us to escape that downward spiral. Freedom comes when we refuse to be victims to our thoughts...
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"In this wise and compassionate book, New York Times bestselling author Father James Martin, SJ, explores the story of Jesus's greatest miracle-the raising of Lazarus from the dead-and what Jesus means when he calls each of us to "come forth." Meditatively and carefully, Father Martin leads us verse by verse, offering profound reflections on Jesus's lessons on love, family, sadness, frustration, fear, anger, freedom, and joy. Come Forth combines compelling...
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A clash between cultures has happened many times throughout history. Events from 1979 to this point leading the western and Muslim cultures into a crusade with no present way out. The reason for all this fighting for the last 37 years has no simple answer and history has a way of always repeating itself.
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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 an enigma. Its classical Arabic language resists simple translation, and its non-linear style of abstract musings defies categorization. Moreover, those who champion its sanctity and compete to claim its mantle offer widely diverging interpretations of its core message at times with explosive results. Building...
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"What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations' answers to these questions, and the future of Jewish life will depend on how we respond to them in our own time. In The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance, celebrated rabbi and scholar Shaul Magid offers an essential contribution to this intergenerational process, inviting us to rethink our current moment through religious and political...
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The book Kathasaritsagara has been created by Soma Deva. It consists of 21,500 shlokas.
This book Kathasaritsagara has been divided into 18 lambakaas, and those 18 lambakaas are still more divided into 125 Tharanga's.
Some lambakaas are very big, while some are very small.
If there are 115 Shlokas in the 11th Lambaka, there are around 4925 Shlokas in 12th Lambaka.
During ancient times from the mouth of Lord Shiva, this story got birth. Those...
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An extensive study in Al-Fatiha and Al-Baqara fortresses (in the Holy Qur'an).
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- The steps of attaining the true belief.
- What is the disbelief?
- What is the Paradise?
- The clear astray and ghastly inclination of both Mu'tazili and determinism "Aj'jabriah" parties.
- The clear evidences against determinism "Aj'jabriah".
- The clear evidences against Mu'tazili.
- Who are the dissolute ones (the...
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"Hast thou attuned thy being to Humanity's great pain, O candidate for light?"
"Can there be bliss when all that lives must suffer? Shalt thou be saved and hear the whole world cry?"
"Then from the heart that Power shall rise into ... the middle region, the place between thine eyes, when it becomes the breath of the ONE-SOUL, the voice which filleth all...
'Tis only then thou canst become a "Walker of the Sky" ...
Before thou set'st thy foot upon...
16) Samhain: La guía definitiva de Halloween y cómo se celebra en la wicca, el druidismo y el paganismo
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¡Descubra la historia de Samhain y cómo se celebra!
¿Es usted pagano y desea ampliar su práctica al Samhain?
¿Sabía que este sabbat puede ayudarle a alcanzar su máximo potencial?
¿Está interesado en aprender más sobre esta antigua fiesta pagana?
Para los paganos, Samhain es el momento del año en el que todo es posible. Tanto si es un practicante experimentado como si está empezando su viaje en el paganismo, conectar con una de las fiestas...
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The simple practice of loving our neighbors has more power than the best professionally produced Sunday "show" in town.
After attending the "coolest" and fastest-growing church in town for a few months, Brian Mavis asked some of his neighbors if they would attend church with him. The neighbors said, "Thanks, but no thanks. We don't want to be part of an institutional church... but we do want to know more about God, and we'd be happy to meet with...
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Sometimes referred to as the Second London Baptist Confession, this important work contains all 32 articles of Christian faith as reviewed and agreed upon in 1689. Not only does this statement present historic significance, but it is also a labor of spiritual study in the hopes of strengthening, convicting, and uplifting generations of Christians. A collection of valuable knowledge, this confession urges a return to Scripture and a life of dedicated...
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Want to know a secret?
This work contains more than you could possibly hope for.
Dr. Matthew Barnes (chemist, biochemist, doctor, and bestselling author of The Emerald Tablet 101, The Bhagavad Gita 101, and The Tao Te Ching 101) presents his interpretation of the third of the twelve primary Hindu Upanishads, and he does so in a way that is powerful yet unusually simple, straightforward, and easy to absorb.
In this work you will learn the true and...
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Devotional giving help and encouragement for Christian moms.
Motherhood is one of life's most joyful yet most difficult gifts. We are eager to get it "right," yet parenting usually highlights our weaknesses and leaves us worried about our mistakes.
These hope-filled, positive devotions recognize the realities and pressures, joys and disappointments of motherhood and will give you a precious reminder of grace from God's word to hold onto each...
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