Soul Primer is an ABC book for adults -but great for kids too! Soul Primer provides a complete guide for personal growth to tune and transform your life in manageable daily steps, leading you through 26 important concepts (one for each letter of the alphabet). Each week, read only one page of text and practice the easy exercises to raise awareness and begin to incorporate, or continue to deepen, these critical skills in your life.True to the ABC format, Soul Primer includes beautiful art with each letter to enhance your experience with the journey. Whether it be learning to meditate, find joy, be kinder, let go of fears, or any of the 22 other practices, much can be gained by studying and practicing through the pages of Soul Primer.In a world that suffers from seemingly never-ending wars, famines, refugees, violence, and hopelessness, we must realize that each of us plays a part in helping the world evolve. New regimes and new governmental plans will not, alone, change our world.Change starts with you. One by one, we must learn and practice the skills found in Soul Primer and begin the positive change that will improve our lives and our world.The Evolution of the Worlddepends uponThe Evolution of the IndividualStart today to Be a Force For Good!

Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguarding an arena for democratic flourishing, has functioned instead to promote particular forms of religious possibility while containing, suppressing, or excluding others. At a moment when questions about the appropriate role of religion in public life have become trenchant as never before, Culture and Redemption radically challenges conventional depictions--celebratory or damning--of America's "secular" public sphere. Examining American legal cases, children's books, sermons, and polemics together with popular and classic works of literature from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, Culture and Redemption shows how the vaunted secularization of American culture proceeds not as an inevitable by-product of modernity, but instead through concerted attempts to render dominant forms of Protestant identity continuous with democratic, civil identity. Fessenden shows this process to be thoroughly implicated, moreover, in practices of often-violent exclusion that go to the making of national culture: Indian removals, forced acculturations of religious and other minorities, internal and external colonizations, and exacting constructions of sex and gender. Her new readings of Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Stowe, Twain, Gilman, Fitzgerald, and others who address themselves to these dynamics in intricate and often unexpected ways advance a major reinterpretation of American writing.

According to the authors, the doctrine of inerrancy has been standard, accepted teaching for more than 1,000 years. In 1978, the famous "Chicago Statement" on inerrancy was adopted by the Evangelical Theological Society, and for decades it has been the accepted conservative evangelical doctrine of the Scriptures. However, in recent years, some prominent evangelical authors have challenged this statement in their writings. Now eminent apologist and bestselling author Norman L. Geisler, who was one of the original drafters of the "Chicago Statement," and his coauthor, William C. Roach, present a defense of the traditional understanding of inerrancy for a new generation of Christians who are being assaulted with challenges to the nature of God, truth, and language. Pastors, students, and armchair theologians will appreciate this clear, reasoned response to the current crisis.

This volume explores the role of belief in the existence of angels in the early modern world.

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