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Be inspired by one man's unflinching faith in God. This is the
first biography of Brother Ramon. It tells of his life's
pilgrimage, his quest for holiness as a Franciscan friar, his inner
journey of discovery and transformation, his love of God and his
influence on others. The selection from his writings which
concludes the book illustrates his spiritual journey. It will be an
inspiration to readers to live lives fully for Jesus Christ.
'One of the best written works on self-awareness.' - Mo Gawdat
FOREWORD BY NEALE DONALD WALSH _____________ The greatest
relationship we have in life is with ourselves. On the journey to
discovering our full potential, embracing self-love is the most
powerful step to building self-esteem, confidence and finding
happiness. Dorota is a Polish transformation artist, international
speaker and wellbeing creator and in her first book she sets us on
the path to greater self-awareness, by sharing her life story and
her teachings. Full of insight, Dorota shows how we can recognise
and unravel our limiting beliefs, dispel overthinking and release
feelings of guilt and shame, all of which contribute to our sense
of not being enough. Reading this book takes you on a journey of
self-discovery, proving that with work, any trauma can be healed.
Dorota's encouragement and warmth shines through on every page
awakening you to the power of self-compassion, self-care and deep
self-love. 'Dorota is a talented creative who knows how to inspire.
Whether its film, photography or video, she's amazing at creating
beautiful art and speaking on the topic of creativity and
inspiration.' - Vishen Lakhiani, NYT Bestselling author, Founder of
Mindvalley
Theodore Roosevelt is well-known as a rancher, hunter, naturalist,
soldier, historian, explorer, and statesman. His visage is etched
on Mount Rushmore-alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
and Abraham Lincoln-as a symbol of his vast and consequential
legacy. While Roosevelt's life has been written about from many
angles, no modern book probes deeply into his engagement with
religious beliefs, practices, and controversies despite his
lifelong church attendance and commentary on religious issues.
Theodore Roosevelt: Preaching from the Bully Pulpit traces
Roosevelt's personal religious odyssey from youthful faith and
pious devotion to a sincere but more detached adult faith. Benjamin
J. Wetzel presents the president as a champion of the separation of
church and state, a defender of religious ecumenism, and a
"preacher" who used his "bully pulpit" to preach morality using the
language of the King James Bible. Contextualizing Roosevelt in the
American religious world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, Wetzel shows how religious groups interpreted the famous
Rough Rider and how he catered to, rebuked, and interacted with
various religious constituencies. Based in large part on personal
correspondence and unpublished archival materials, this book offers
a new interpretation of an extremely significant historical figure.
Join Air Force veteran Dr. W. Lee Warren as he chronicles his
fascinating, heartbreaking, and enlightening experience as a
neurosurgeon in an Iraq War combat hospital. Warren's life as a
neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he
shipped off to serve the U.S. Air Force in Iraq in 2004. When he
traded a comfortable, if demanding, practice in San Antonio, Texas,
for a ride on a C-130 into the combat zone, he was already reeling
from months of personal struggle. At the 332nd Air Force Theater
Hospital at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Warren realized his experience
with trauma was just beginning. In his 120 days in a tent hospital,
he was trained in a different specialty--surviving over a hundred
mortar attacks and trying desperately to repair the damages of a
war that raged around every detail of every day. No place was safe,
and the constant barrage wore down every possible defense, physical
or psychological. One day, clad only in a T-shirt, gym shorts, and
running shoes, Warren was caught in the open while round after
round of mortars shook the earth and shattered the air with their
explosions, stripping him of everything he had been trying so
desperately to hold on to. In No Place to Hide, Warren tells his
story in a brand-new light, sharing how you can: Discover who you
are under pressure Lean on faith in your darkest days Find the
strength to carry on, no matter what you're facing Whether you are
in the midst of your own struggles with faith, relationships,
finances, or illness, No Place to Hide will teach you that how you
respond in moments of crisis can determine your chances of
survival. Praise for No Place to Hide: "No Place to Hide captures
simply, eloquently, and passionately what it means to be a
physician in time of war. Over ten years of war, we safely air
evacuated more than ninety thousand injured and ill from Iraq and
Afghanistan--five thousand were the sickest of the sick. This very
personal story captures the essence of what it takes to be a
military physician and the challenge for our nation to reintegrate
all who deploy to war." --Lt. Gen. (ret.) C. Bruce Green, MD, 20th
AF Surgeon General "Through Warren's eyes we observe not only the
delicate mechanics of brain surgery but also its lifelong effects
on real people and their families, both when the surgery succeeds
and when it fails. Thank you, Lee Warren, for letting us see the
world through your own unique vantage point. Thank you for the
lives you saved, for the compassion you showed, for the faith you
rediscovered, for reminding us of the precious gift of life."
--Philip Yancey, bestselling author of The Jesus I Never Knew
The face of anorexia is not a glossy model in a perfume ad. It's a
starving animal, circling the empty cupboards, blank-eyed and
vacant. It's a face frozen in a rictus grin, mouthing lies. 'I'm
fine,' it says. 'Everything is under control.' 'I have always felt
hungry,' says Emma Scrivener. 'Not just for food, but for
everything: from money to recognition. I'm a human chasm, a vortex
of insatiable longing.' Rescued from a disorder that nearly killed
her, Emma is now passionate about warning others about the dark and
hidden world she inhabited for too long. Harrowing, heart-breaking,
human and humourous, this book will grip you from start to finish.
Andrew Jenson undertook a lifelong quest to render the LDS
historical record complete and comprehensive. As Assistant Church
Historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
Jenson tirelessly carried out his office's archival mission and
advocated for fixed recordkeeping to become a duty for Latter-day
Saints. Reid L. Neilson and Scott D. Marianno offer a new in-depth
study of Jenson's long life and career. Their account follows
Jenson from his arrival as a Danish immigrant to 1860s Utah through
trips around the world to secure documents from far-flung missions,
and on to his public life as a newspaper columnist and interpreter
of LDS history. Throughout, Jenson emerges as a figure dedicated to
the belief that recorded history united past and present Latter-day
Saints in heaven and on earth--and for all eternity. Engaging and
informed, Restless Pilgrim is a groundbreaking study of an
important figure in Latter-day Saint intellectual life during a
transformative era in Church history.
2016 Winner of the Gospel Coalition Book Awards A friend of the
late Christopher Hitchens offers insight about the promise of faith
and the dangers of pride in this one-of-a-kind look into the last
days of the world's most famous atheist--now in paper back. "If
everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and
care and concern for others that Larry Taunton had, we'd be living
in a much better society than we do." ~ Christopher Hitchens At the
time of his death, Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious
atheist in the world. And yet, all was not as it seemed. "Nobody is
not a divided self, of course," he once told an interviewer, "but I
think it's rather strong in my case." Hitchens was a man of many
contradictions: a Marxist in youth who longed for acceptance among
the social elites; a peacenik who revered the military; a champion
of the Left who was nonetheless pro-life, pro-war-on-terror, and
after 9/11 something of a neocon; and while he railed against God
on stage, he maintained meaningful-though largely hidden from
public view-friendships with evangelical Christians like Francis
Collins, Douglas Wilson, and the author Larry Alex Taunton. In The
Faith of Christopher Hitchens, Taunton offers a very personal
perspective of one of our most interesting and most misunderstood
public figures. Writing with genuine compassion and without
compromise, Taunton traces Hitchens's spiritual and intellectual
development from his decision as a teenager to reject belief in God
to his rise to prominence as one of the so-called "Four Horsemen"
of the New Atheism. While Hitchens was, in the minds of many
Christians, Public Enemy Number One, away from the lights and the
cameras a warm friendship flourished between Hitchens and the
author; a friendship that culminated in not one, but two lengthy
road trips where, after Hitchens's diagnosis of esophageal cancer,
they studied the Bible together. The Faith of Christopher Hitchens
gives us a candid glimpse into the inner life of this intriguing,
sometimes maddening, and unexpectedly vulnerable man. "This book
should be read by every atheist and theist passionate about the
truth." --Michael Shermer, publisher, Skeptic magazine
Dermot Mansfield presents a clear and vivid account of the life of
John Henry Newman, a man who was subject to much misunderstanding
and suspicion in the Catholic Church. Heart speaks to heart, the
motto he chose when made a cardinal late in life, shows that his
whole life was interwoven with a range of people, high and low,
both Anglican and Catholic. This book offers a fresh perspective on
Newman's life, with contemporary Church issues and questions of
faith and unbelief never far from mind. Ultimately, though, it is
Newman's extraordinary care for truth that is apparent throughout.
This being the year of Newman's beatification by Pope Benedict XVI,
it is a timely book that tells in a meaningful way the story of his
long life.
A bold, insightful biography of Martin Luther "[A] richly detailed
portrait."-D.G. Hart, Wall Street Journal "Even-handed and
engaging. . . . A nuanced portrait of Luther as a complex person of
many roles."-Marilyn J. Harran, Theological Studies The
sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the
medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin
Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded
religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by
Scott Hendrix. The author presents Luther as a man of his time: a
highly educated scholar and teacher and a gifted yet flawed human
being driven by an optimistic yet ultimately unrealized vision of
"true religion." This bold, insightful account of the life of
Martin Luther provides a new perspective on one of the most
important religious figures in history, focusing on Luther's entire
life, his personal relationships and political motivations, rather
than on his theology alone. Relying on the latest research and
quoting extensively from Luther's correspondence, Hendrix paints a
richly detailed portrait of an extraordinary man who, while devout
and courageous, had a dark side as well. No recent biography in
English explores as fully the life and work of Martin Luther long
before and far beyond the controversial posting of his 95 Theses in
1517, an event that will soon be celebrated as the 500th
anniversary of the Reformation.
This book examines three aspects of Rolle's thinking used
throughout this work: his ontology, phenomenology, and sound
ecology. These facets of his work invoke both a way of
understanding being in the world, an opening up of the body in
queer ways to experience the divine, and a way to consider divine
contemplation in terms of singing the body. Queering Richard Rolle
considers how Rolle navigates queer, eremitic conduct in order to
create an identity always in process
Severos, patriarch of Antioch, was one of the most important
ecclesiastical figures of the first half of the sixth century, a
time when the reception, or not, of the Council of Chalcedon (451)
was still a matter of much dispute. As an opponent of the Council,
Severos had to flee from his patriarchal see to Egypt in 518 when
Justin came to the throne and imperial policy changed. Summoned by
Justinian to Constantinople in 536, he won over Anthimos, the
patriarch of Constantinople, but in the reaction to this unexpected
turn of events, both he and Anthimos were anathematised at a synod
in the capital and his writings were condemned to be burnt.
Regarded as a schismatic by the Greek and Latin Church, he is
commemorated as a saint in the Syrian Orthodox Church, and so it is
only in Syriac translations from Greek that the majority of his
voluminous writings are preserved. The first of the two biographies
translated in this volume was written by Zacharias, a fellow law
student in Beirut. The purpose of the work was to counter a hostile
pamphlet and it happens to shed fascinating light on student life
at the time; composed during Severos' own lifetime, it covers up to
his election as patriarch in 512; the second biography comprises
Severos' whole life, and its author, writing only shortly after
Severos' death in 538, was probably a monk of the monastery of
Qenneshre, on the Euphrates, a stronghold of Severos' supporters.
In this volume for the Translated Texts for Historians series, the
Anonymous Life of Severos is translated for the first time into
English alongside a fully annotated translation of the Life of
Severos by Zacharias scholastikos, all of which is preceded by an
introduction providing the historical setting and background.
Presenting forty-four essays, Freedom Fighter is L. Ron Hubbard s
long and unblinking look at precisely what plagues 21st century
Earth the whys, wherefores, and what we can do about it. Included
is Mr. Hubbard s incisive essay, Strong Voices in the Land.
D. D. Home (1833 1886), the famous spiritualist and medium, here
documents the extraordinary psychic events in his life. Originally
published in 1863, this is the first of two autobiographical
volumes by Home, the second appearing nine years later. Home
describes mysterious phenomena from his very first vision at the
age of thirteen to the s ances he held for the rich and famous in
England, France, Italy and Russia. He astonished his receptive
audiences with startling paranormal feats including levitation. His
hosts included Napoleon III, Prince Humbert (later Humbert I of
Italy), Charles Darwin's cousin Sir Francis Galton, and many other
celebrities and aristocrats. Interwoven with these high-profile
activities, Home describes his personal life - the early death of
his first wife, his subsequent financial difficulties, and his
ongoing battle with tuberculosis. Incidents in My Life presents a
fascinating insight into the phenomenon of spiritualism during the
Victorian period.
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