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Blessed Are the Peacemakers : Christ's Teachings About Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness (05 Edition) by Wendell Berry Synopsis For two thousand years, artists, social and cultural activists, politicians and philosophers, humanists and devoted spiritual seekers have all looked to the sayings of Jesus for inspiration and instruction. Unfortunately, on occasions too frequent and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think by Andy Andrews Publisher Comments How Do You Kill 11 Million People? Or, to be precise, 11,283,000 people. Andy Andrews believes that good answers come only from asking the right questions. Through the powerful, provocative question, How do you kill eleven million people?-the number of... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Hardcover
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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit by Parker J Palmer Publisher Comments Parker J. Palmer looks with realism and hope at how to deal with our political tensions for the sake of the common good—without the shouting, blaming, or defaming so common in our politics today Parker J. Palmer builds on his own extensive... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street by Jim Wallis Publisher Comments When we start with the wrong question, no matter how good an answer we get, it won't give us the results we want. Rather than joining the throngs who are asking, When will this economic crisis be over? Jim Wallis says the right question to ask is "How... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Safest Place on Earth: Where People Connect and Are Forever Changed by Larry Crabb Publisher Comments In today's frenetic society, people rarely develop intimate friendships. Instead, they spend their lives essentially disconnected from others, rushing through life content with brief visits and casual conversations. But what if one were to develop a... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Souls in the Hands of a Tender God: Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the Streets by Craig Rennebohm Publisher Comments Since 1987, Craig Rennebohm has ministered to people who are homeless and struggling with mental illness. In Souls in the Hands of a Tender God, he tells the evocative stories of those who desperately need psychiatric, psychological, and spiritual... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray Publisher Comments For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a consumerist, globalized, peaceful future beckoned. The beginning of the twenty-first century has rudely disposed of such ideasmost obviously through 9/11and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.25 Sale - Hardcover
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All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice by Robert Jensen Synopsis At the root of the current political, economic, cultural, and ecological chaos is a national spiritual unrest, a fragmentation that has inhibited society's self-awareness and slowed theological progress to a glacial crawl. In a nation where three-fourths... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day Publisher Comments A compelling autobiographical testament to the spiritual pilgrimage of a woman who, in her own words, dedicated herself to bring ing about the kind of society where it is easier to be good.''... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought by Joan Lock Odonovan Synopsis Assembles translated readings from over 65 authors with introductory essays by Oliver (theology, U. of Oxford) and theologian and teacher Joan that provide historical details about each thinker and discuss how each has contributed to the tradition of... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $37.00 Used - Hardcover
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Dorothy Day: Selected Writings; By Little and by Little by Robert Ellsberg Publisher Comments This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day (1897-1980)--co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and one of the most inspiring figures of recent history. By her lifelong option for the poor and her devotion to active... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, and Truth in the Immigration Debate by Matthew Soerens Publisher Comments Immigration is one of the most complicated issues of our time. Voices on all sides argue strongly for action and change. Christians find themselves torn between the desire to uphold laws and the call to minister to the vulnerable. In this book World... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church by Gregory A Boyd Publisher Comments Arguing from Scripture and history, the author makes a compelling case that whenever the church gets too close to any political or national ideology, it is disastrous for the church and harmful to society.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lord, Save Us from Your Followers: Why Is the Gospel of Love Dividing America? by Dan Merchant Publisher Comments Why is the Gospel of Love dividing America? Fed up with the angry, strident language filling the airwaves that has come to represent the Christian faith, author, director, and follower Dan Merchant set out to explore the collision of faith and culture in... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall and Denver Moore and Lynn Wincent Publisher Comments A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.An upscale art dealer accustomed to the worldof Armani and Chanel.A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it. It begins outside a... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day by Dorothy Day Publisher Comments “The publication of the letters of Dorothy Day is a significant event in the history of Christian spirituality.” —Jim Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, has been... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right by Michael Sean Winters Publisher Comments Falwell did not eliminate the divide between religion and politics. Nor did he blur it. He jumped over it, bringing millions of voters with him, and he never looked back. —from the Introduction Mounting concerns over the nation’s moral decline.... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Boiling Point: Monitoring Cultural Shifts in the 21st Century by George Barna Publisher Comments Nuclear warfare. Religious jihads. Genetic engineering run amuck. Are we nearing the end of the world as we know it? A few vocal futurists have publicly admitted that we are likely to destroy ourselves by the year 2050. Many more say that for the first... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity by Robert Wuthnow Publisher Comments "This book is one of Wuthnow's best. He lends his fine-grained analysis to a topic that is at the heart of the experiment called American democracy: how people manage the idea that religion should be about the one true faith with their desire to welcome... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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