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As Jeff hitchhiked across the country, his mind was, focused on getting clean, sober, and starting over, again. At 27-years old, Jeff had been in and out of trouble most of his life. He began drinking at the age of nine and using hard drugs in his late teens. He couldn't seem to leave it behind even after four stints in treatment and two in prison. But, while planning how to get his life back on track, events unfolded that would dash his hopes and...
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Having spent the majority of her ninety-plus years as a member of a religious order that defines its mission as "to witness in the Church God's faithful love for the Jewish people," and having lived in Jerusalem for over thirty years and become an Israeli citizen in 1992, Sr. Maureena Fritz delivers in this book a final testament. She appeals to her fellow Christians to recognize, honestly and humbly, that the roots of the antisemitism that has persisted...
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Heartfelt, incisive, and timeless, The Confessions of Saint Augustine has captivated readers for more than fifteen hundred years. Retelling the story of his long struggle with faith and ultimate conversion -- the first such spiritual memoir ever recorded -- Saint Augustine traces a story of sin, regret, and redemption that is both deeply personal and, at the same time, universal.
Starting with his early life, education, and youthful indiscretions,...
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In Memento of the Living and the Dead, Phillip Berryman relates his experiences as a Catholic priest in Panama City starting in 1965, and then, after leaving the priesthood to marry, in Central America in the late 1970s, as conflict and repression rose in Guatemala and El Salvador and the Sandinista revolution overthrew the Somoza dictatorship. Berryman was leading an ecumenical delegation in El Salvador when Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered at...
5) Mortal Adhesions: A Surgeon Battles the Seven Deadly Sins to Find Faith, Happiness, and Inner Peace
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Can money, power, and prestige sustain happiness? Can a surgeon trained in the scientific method believe in God when many friends and patients are atheists?
Relying on his intelligence and perseverance, at age forty-two, Dr. Sottosanti achieved the American dream-money, power, fame, and a clifftop house overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Finding himself mired in the Seven Deadly Sins (his "mortal adhesions") and helpless to extricate himself, he cried...
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This memoir tells the story of a man's life, particularly his spiritual journey as a minister in the Religious Society of Friends. Lloyd Lee Wilson began keeping a journal when he was eight years old, and he has kept journaling his entire life. This book contains descriptions of events taken from the journals, including recountings of vocal ministry and prayers, other writings by Lloyd Lee (and the writings of others), and Lloyd Lee's reflections...
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Margaret Budd served as a Methodist Missionary in China from 1947 to 1949 during the Communist takeover and then in India from 1949 to 1971. One Woman's Pilgrimage is her memoir of life as a Missionary. She chronicles the day-to-day experiences of Missionary life in fascinating detail, a life that was changing fast after the second world war and soon to disappear. From the bombing of Ningpo to the perils of a new harmonium, Margaret Budd throws a...
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Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother–daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease twenty years later.
In 1986, Kathleen accepted...
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"Linda Curtis was raised as a Jehovah?s Witness and is an unquestioning true believer who has knocked on doors from the time she was nine years old. Like other Witnesses, she has been discouraged from pursuing a career, higher education, or even voting, and her friendships are limited to the Witness community."--Amazon.com.
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Overcoming nearly insurmountable physical disabilities, as well as personal tragedies that would derail the lives of many people, Pakisa Tshimika has experienced a life that has inspired countless others along the way. After starting on a lengthy recovery following a devastating automobile accident, Tshimika has endured family tragedies and the deaths of many friends and relatives. Yet through it all, he has pursued a life of faith and unstinting...
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This book is an autobiography, in which the author relates her experiences during her lifelong search for a higher meaning of life. This is the voice of an extraordinary soul, who felt at home in Indonesia, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Tibet, India, ancient Egypt and at the same time nowhere. The doors to higher positions in a number of esoteric spiritual hierarchies appeared to be open to her. She was able to penetrate through to the mystic core...
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Moving reflections from an influential Anglican pastor, theologian, and teacher
In this compelling memoir, Anthony Harvey traces the three ways he has felt drawn throughout his life- to a ministry in the Anglican priesthood, to a profession in theological scholarship, and to his marriage and family.
Harvey recounts his training of clergy in Canterbury, his time as canon of Westminster Abbey, his teaching and research at the University of Oxford,...
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Over the forty-plus years of his adult vocation as an Episcopal priest, Dale Coleman has wanted to write about his journey from the Salvation Army to the Episcopal Church. He wished to be in a Christian church with "elbow room" that would allow questions, true spiritual growth, and "faith seeking understanding." Dale is fearless in looking at the Episcopal Church, and especially his seminary days at a "smells and bells" traditional Anglican Seminary....
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In her second book, "For the Sake of His Sorrowful Passion: Praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet with Scripture and Art," Meggie K. Daly takes the reader on a one-of-a-kind personal, historical, and prayerful journey. The book is an excellent meditational resource for praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet, but so much more.
The author reveals the impact of Divine Mercy in her own life and how the Divine Mercy Chaplet brought her home to the Catholic...
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How many of us are or have been involved in an adulterous affair? Current statics vary depending on age, gender, and race. My journey into sin was one that I reveled in, nurtured, and enjoyed immensely, all to the Devil's grand amusement. My story is a well-worn story, one that has played itself out over the millennia through countless generations. It is the story of sadness, loneliness, manipulation, excitement, danger, dark forces, and triumph of...
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This story is my personal story after reading hundreds of books over a span of nearly 40 years to sort out the questions people create about life.
We have no choice in the fact we are born and are alive! What I discover changes my concept of life, death, and the "hereafter"! You will begin to see this is a life of living, learning, and accumulated experiences by a design including our eventual death! Whether by accident, war, murder, suicide,...
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An individual's life story can provide insights into the character of a particular nation, the events of a specific time period, and the hopes and challenges faced by human beings as they strive to live a life that is consistent with the ideals that they espouse. This memoir of Helmut Hartmann's first seventy years of life serves such a multifaceted purpose. Hartmann was born shortly before Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists gained power in...
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Filled with her trademark humor and heart, Paterson's life stories tell tales from her childhood growing up with missionaries, to living asa a single woman in Japan, to raising four children in surburban Maryland with her minister husband. --Provided by the Publisher.
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Dread going to church? Feel restless and bored during mass? Cringe at the hypocrisy often found in organized religion? This book offers a fresh perspective for those seeking answers. A quick and compelling read for anyone who daydreams in the pew and can't wait until mass is over; resents or is confused by a rigid list of out-of-touch dos and don'ts; has been hurt or alienated at church; and believes church is irrelevant for real people with real...
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