Ergebnis für "Taken" in Religiöse Studien

Through stories, insights, and step-by-step advice, Easwaran shows us how to calm our minds. When the mind is unhurried, we are patient, kind, and focused, ready to respond to what really matters amidst the clamor of a busy day. The secret is to train our minds to work steadily and with one-pointed attention, however many tasks confront us.

Over the last decade, the Religious Right has evolved. Some of the more extreme beliefs of American evangelicalism have begun to take hold in the mainstream. Scholar Matthew D. Taylor pulls back the curtain on a little-known movement of evangelical Christians who see themselves waging spiritual battles on a massive scale.

In Cult Following, Ocker sheds light on the terrifying attraction of cults, demonstrating the elasticity of belief, the desperateness of belonging, and the tragedy of trust.

In Taken No More: Protect Your Children Against Traffickers and Cults, Robin Boyle-Laisure warns parents, caregivers, and guardians about the dangers of human trafficking and cults. She offers tips on how to talk to children of any age to make sure they are aware and on guard but not sheltered, and includes an entire chapter devoted to online predatory behavior due to its ever-rising influence. Boyle-Laisure also describes the progressive stages of targeting, grooming, recruitment, coercion, and control and provides warning signs that a child is being groomed.

At-One-Ment dismantles centuries of harmful atonement theology while unveiling a breathtaking vision of God’s uncontrolling, non-violent love; one that transforms rather than punishes. Through deeply personal insights and rigorous theological exploration, discover how Jesus didn’t die to satisfy God’s wrath, but to show us we were never separate from the divine in the firrst place. Prepare to have your understanding of salvation, forgiveness, and God’s very nature turned upside down—in the most beautiful way possible.

What if the bible’s most controversial passages about sexuality have been hiding a radical message of inclusion all along? In this ground- breaking micro theology series entry, discover how five key biblical texts—from Sodom and Gomorrah to Jesus’ words about eunuchs—actually open the doors to LGBTQ+ acceptance when read through a lens of love rather than a lens power. This book reveals how “defaulting to love” changes everything about how we interpret scripture. Prepare to leave behind theological baggage you never knew you were carrying and embrace a God whose love truly has no exceptions.

WINNER OF THE RABBI SACKS BOOK PRIZE A nuanced examination of the Israel’s past, present, and future, after reaching its seventy-fifth anniversary and enduring its most challenging year ever, from the two-time National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Israel. Revised and updated...

Conversational, fresh, and accessible, Barefoot Tribe dares us to break past the safe confines of our manicured suburbs and polished shopping malls to take action, take risks, and remake the world into one more like what Jesus had in mind.The time is now. God wants your life. Will you speak up, step out, and do something incredible...today?

Modern life presents us with profound challenges and opportunities. While we are more connected than ever before, we can often lose ourselves in the hectic external world. In doing so, it is all too easy to lose sight of the inner life of the soul. Now, celebrated retreat leader Rev. James J. Clarke, PhD, invites you on a retreat specifically crafted for people like you.

Are you sitting by watching things happen? Or are you taking a stand to stop things from happening? This book outlines some of the things that is going on in what used to be a great nation, a nation that people came to for sanction, but now they rather commit suicide or homicide because we as a nation haven’t come to terms that trouble is lurking.

Lockdown is a terrifying story of not only the chaotic freefall of American freedoms during the opening stages of the COVID pandemic, but the dangerous growth of government power that continues today. Lockdown is a warning that the extraordinary powers invoked by left-wing Democrats and others, justified by claims of public health and safety, have begun the unravelling of America’s constitutional order and our most cherished freedoms. Using COVID-19 as a cover, Democrat leaders and their bureaucratic health advisers seized powers the Constitution never gave them.

Come, explore the places we worship Join Amma and her children as they travel to the famous Golden Temple in Amritsar. Take a tour through the wonderful sights, sounds and history of Darbar Sahib. Hear stories about the Sikh gurus. Visit Darshani Deori and Akal Takht. Savour a drink from the...

Join Amma and her boys as they travel to Shirdi, home to one of India's most celebrated saints-Sai Baba. Hear the story of one of the most loved and revered mystics. Walk around the neem tree that gave him shelter. Relish a few moments in Dwarka Mai, the dilapidated mosque that became his home...