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"Revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters . . . [This] should appeal to fans of Bruce Sterling and William Gibson" (Library Journal). Zakariah and Mia Davis have been infected with an alien virus that prolongs life-and as a result, their blood is a valuable black-market staple due to its rejuvenating effects. But the "eternal virus" has not affected their son Rix, and Zakariah is consumed with the search...
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Smith gives the theological and spiritual background of the sacrament of reconciliation in the Book of Common Prayer, and offers practical suggestions for the practice of hearing and making a confession. The author overviews the theological and spiritual background of the sacrament of reconciliation, and offers practical suggestions for the practice of hearing and making a confession.
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A man obsessed with Dracula pursues a legendary lost edition of the classic vampire book in this chilling story from the author of the Bryan and May Mysteries. Carter, one of the world's leading experts on Dracula, owns many editions of Bram Stoker's novel, maybe even as many as his well-heeled rival, Mikaela Klove. But one thing has always eluded him: the chance to examine the possibly apocryphal blue edition of Stoker's seminal vampire tale. If...
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You won't truly know yourself without relationship and reconnection. Most chaos and confusion experienced in life is caused by a relational deficit. God provides the relational reconciliation: the way for people to come into relationship with Him. If you don't have a relationship with God or you desire a closer walk, God is the source; He provides the Spiritual resource. Spiritual resourcing reconnects your Soul to God using appropriation and relational...
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Isaac Unbound is a work of fiction that fills in the details of the life and character of biblical Isaac. People read about Isaac in Gen 17:4--28:9, and conclude he is passive and not an independent thinker. Isaac is not the iconoclast or spiritual pioneer as was his father, Abraham. He is not the scheming activist that his son, Jacob, became. As a result of his near sacrifice by his father, he evolves into a sensitive, caring, understanding person...
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Peacebuilding and Reconciliation brings together a number of critical essays from members of the renowned Centre for Peace & Reconciliation Studies.
This highly topical book covers the latest developments and issues in the discipline of peacebuilding and reconciliation, using different global case studies of societies experiencing or emerging out of violent conflict. It brings together a range of scholars, including many from the global south,...
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What divides us?
What sets us against each other?
What stops us from being able to come home to our true selves?
I had found truth in Thailand, discovered another wall inside me and freed another part of my soul.
There were things to be done, journeys to be taken, strangers to meet, mistakes and regrets to put right and only some of them were mine. But my mistakes alone were enough to change everything.
I had started in Spain, this Camino de...
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The Christian theological scholar presents a collection of essential writings both for and against the controversial doctrine of universal reconciliation.
As an expert on the theological writings of George MacDonald, Michael Phillips is often asked to clarify the Victorian author's views on the afterlife. Since MacDonald himself never presented a doctrinal position on the subject, debate has raged for more than a century about whether he believed...
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What divides us?
What sets us against each other?
What stops us from being able to come home to our true selves?
I had found truth in Thailand, discovered another wall inside me and freed another part of my soul.
There were things to be done, journeys to be taken, strangers to meet, mistakes and regrets to put right and only some of them were mine. But my mistakes alone were enough to change everything.
I had started in Spain, this Camino de...
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Does Being "Saved" Have Anything of Substance to Offer in Today's World?
What does it truly mean to be "saved"? In From Alienation to Reconciliation pastor turned attorney, Adam Rodrigues, tackles the difficult questions of what Christianity means, explaining how to effectively live a life of true salvation every day.
Adam shows how an "incarnational faith"-a faith that transforms our bodies as much as our spirits-is key to walking out our salvation....
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The language of Christianity is unique. Its meaning is powerful. Its application is life-changing. Its implications are offered by no other religion. But its understanding has increasingly been diminished by a lack of its teaching. The language of Christianity has been re-defined and negated by culture. It's even sometimes neglected and discounted by Believers. The Dictionary Resource provides a dictionary of common and familiar terms within the...
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In a world riven by conflict, reconciliation is not always possible -- but it offers one of the few paths to peace for a troubled nation or a troubled soul. In Bone to Pick, bestselling author and Newsweek editor Ellis Cose offers a provocative and wide-ranging discussion of the power of reconciliation, the efficacy of revenge, and the possibility of forgiveness.
People increasingly are searching for ways to put the demons of the past to rest. That...
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This regional history examines the process of mourning and reconciliation for the people of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in the aftermath of the Civil War.
After four bloody years of Civil War battles, the inhabitants of the Shenandoah Valley needed to muster the strength to recover, rebuild and reconcile. Most residents had supported the Confederate cause, and in order to heal the deep wounds of war, they would need to resolve differences with Union...
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"I hated my father-really, really hated him. I hated working for him and I hated being around him. I hated it when he walked through the front door at home. And we feared him from the moment he pulled up in front of the house in his car."
So writes conservative firebrand and popular radio host Larry Elder. For ten years Elder and his father did not talk to each other.
When they finally did, the conversation went on for eight hours-eight hours...
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Black Americans in the Jim Crow South could not escape the grim reality of racial segregation, whether enforced by law or by custom. In Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, author Derek Charles Catsam shows that courtrooms, classrooms, and cemeteries were not the only front lines in African Americans' prolonged struggle for basic civil rights. Buses, trains, and other modes of public transportation provided the...
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The authors tell how they grew up in China, met in India and were reunited in England and Japan. They share their discovery of the key to reconciliation between China and Japan.
Digging deep into their personal histories and borrowing freely from their understanding of the world, the authors offer a reflection that seeks to absorb the still-resounding messages, meant for humanity as a whole, of Hiroshima and Nanjing. Rajmohan Gandhi, historian and...
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People who witness acts of terror and violence are often called after the event to bear witness to what they saw. In cases where this violence is inflicted by the state upon its own people, the process of bearing witness is both politically complex and traumatic for the individual involved. Independent trials and commissions have become important mechanisms through which the truth of past violence is sought in democratising states, but to date there...
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