DescriptionWe travel to the fifth century to explore Patrick's transformation from privileged aristocrat to tormented slave to missionary hero. Follow his enslavement by the Celts, escape to Wales, and attempts to change pagan behavior.
DescriptionThis absorbing audiobook presents the lives of 20 great founders and leading advocates of the world's foremost religions. Here are the historical facts and legends associated with these forceful personalities who have inspired and influenced humankind through the centuries. In the telling of these vivid and fascinating life stories, the authors have also simply and clearly outlined the principal teachings of each of the great religions. The audiobook will give greater significance to the listener's own faith and a better understanding of the faith of others. The great religious leaders whose lives and tenets are presented here are: Jesus, Moses, Isaiah, Zoroaster, Buddha, Confucius, John the Baptist, Paul, Muhammad, Francis of Assisi, John Huss, Luther, Loyola, Calvin, George Fox, Swedenborg, Wesley, Brigham Young, Mary Baker Eddy, and Gandhi.
DescriptionLionel Blue is a paradox: Britain's most famous Rabbi and a household name, his Jewish wit and quirky spirituality never fail to entertain. Yet he has lived a life on the fringes. A Rabbi who has remained true to his tradition, he has also found a home in Christianity. A man who has struggled with his sexuality, he has learned slowly and painfully that spirituality and sexuality are inextricably entwined. He has never tried to escape the contradictions of a life lived honestly, and he has remained open to exploration and challenge. Hitchhiking to Heaven recounts Lionel Blue's journey through life, reflecting upon events and experiences with profundity and originality but also with humor.
DescriptionHe lived in an age of superstition and magic, and believed that he could foretell the future. Here is an in-depth look at the prophetic visions of Nostradamus. Some believe that he predicted the French Revolution, the rise of Hitler and WWII, the moon landing, and the space shuttle Challenger disaster, among other events.
DescriptionThe hunger to belong is at the heart of human nature. For when we find the place where we are truly supposed to be, we find ourselves in balance, and free to experience the divinity of our world and each other. On Eternal Echoes, Catholic scholar John O'Donohue speaks to the "crisis of belonging" in our midst, while sharing Celtic insights into the passage from isolation to intimacy, and why each of us must undertake this most challenging of human endeavors. He escorts us from Ireland's ancient soil into the "secret infinity" we each carry, where we hear the echoes of our greatest yearning: to belong. O'Donohue shows that the eternal values of human life - truth, unity, justice, beauty, and love - grow only when we find sanctuary in family, community, and divine relationship. Compelling and original, Eternal Echoes offers a pilgrimage for our souls and a map to this Irish way home.
DescriptionFor more than 500 years, the story of Joan of Arc has been an inspiration and a mystery. The least likely of heroines, a peasant girl with no education and no prospects, Joan turned herself into the legendary Maid of Orleans, knight, martyr, and saint. Following a voice she knew was God's, she led an army to victory in battle and crowned the king of France, only to be captured by her English enemies and burned at the stake as a heretic, all by the age of 19. Mary Gordon brings Joan to life with a novelist's rich understanding of character. She does more than tell Joan's story, she explores Joan's mystery, the contradictions and secret desires that propelled her from obscurity to glory.
DescriptionSandi Patty, the most awarded female vocalist in contemporary Christian music, saw her stellar career go into a tailspin. Now she tells the story of her long road to restoration. From the agony of divorce nearly 10 years ago, Sandi has moved from center stage to the back row of the church balcony and back into the spotlight. This book is the heart-touching narrative of her years as an acclaimed recording artist balancing her role as adoring mother of four children, her fall from public acclaim, and the steps she worked through with her church and pastor to find forgiveness and peace...all under the harsh glare of national media attention.
DescriptionSelections from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Introduction to Thoreau, Self-Reliance, Nature, The American Scholar, Education, and Politics . Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and an artist. Walden is a record of his experiment in simple living, describing his basic existence, rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. Civil Disobedience is a work of protest against government's interference with individual liberty. Emerson offers insight into Thoreau and the forces that shapes his life in his Introduction . The other essays in this collection represent Emerson's most influential writings, capturing the essence of American Transcendentalism.
DescriptionThe Pleiadians, a group of enlightened beings who have come to Earth to guide us to a new stage of evolution, offer new insights into human existence. Culled from over 400 hours of channeling by noted trance medium Barbara Marciniak, the Pleiadians advise humans to free themselves from the mass media, work cooperatively, and eliminate the words "try" and "should" from their vocabularies.
DescriptionDo you hear it coming? The SoulTsunami, a mind-bending conglomeration of techno-culture and religious pluralism, is here to sweep away the old church. Leonard Sweet says there are only 3 ways for Christians to respond: deny it and drown; fight it and lose; or recognize it and adapt to its opportunities. Sweet explains how you can chart a new course through the uncertain religious waters of the next millennium.
