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Infuse your days with meaning. You are part of a larger Story. And the One who began the Story is at work today, in your life, in the midst of your meetings and bills and family activities that make the days rush by and blur together. In these pages Bobby Gross opens to you--and opens you to--the li[...]
How now shall we die? Death will come to us all, but most of us live our lives as if death does not exist. People are living longer than ever, and medicine has made dying more complicated, more drawn out and more removed from the experience of most people. Death is partitioned off to hospital rooms,[...]
The child of a Jewish father and a lapsed Southern Baptist mother, Winner was increasingly drawn to Christianity. Courageously leaving what she loved, she eventually converted. Winner takes readers through a year in her Christian life as she attempts to reconcile both sides of her religious identity[...]
After her conversion from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity, Lauren Winner found that her life was indelibly marked by the rich traditions and spiritual practices of Judaism. She set out to discover how she could incorporate some of these practices into her new faith. Winner presents eleven Jewis[...]
Vår kultur förhärligar vackra kroppar och sexuella njutning, men paradoxalt nog har de religiösa frågorna förlorat sin kroppslighet. De upplevs viktiga bara när vi söker inre tröst och mening. Därför har många svårt att se sambandet mellan en kristen gemenskap och livsmeningen.
"Advent is about learning to love the waiting..." Waiting is the primary lesson of Advent, says Paula Gooder. In the company of the biblical characters with whom the candles on the Advent wreath are traditionally associated, she helps us to discover very different kinds of waiting: * Abraham and Sar[...]