The blogger and founder of the internationally recognized Simple Mom online community tells the story of her family's ongoing quest to live more simply, fully, and intentionally. It doesn't always feel like it, but we do have the freedom to creatively change the everyday little things in our lives so that our path better aligns with our values and passions. Oxenreider tells the story of her family's ongoing quest to live more simply, fully, and intentionally,...

"William Paul Young ... tells a story of the incremental transformation of a man caught in the torments of his own creation, somewhere between heaven and earth."--Provided by the publisher

Moses - Zarathushtra - Mahavira - Siddhartha Gautama - Lao Tzu - Confucius - Mencius - Chuang Tzu - Asoka Maurya - Mary - Jesus of Nazareth - Paul of Tarsus - Mani - Augustine of Hippo - Muhammad - Rabi'ah of Basra - Hildegard of Bingen - Moses Maimonides - Francis of Assissi - Joan of Arc - Guru Nanak - Thomas Moore - Martin Luther - Ignatius of Loyola - John Calvin -

Two leading spiritual masters share their wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity, sharing personal stories and teachings about the science of profound happiness and the daily practices that anchor their emotional and spiritual lives.

What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton's inspiring book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false--but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world. Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead...

What's Your Religious Literacy IQ? Quick—can you:

Name the four Gospels?

Name a sacred text of Hinduism?

Name the holy book of Islam?

Name the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament?Name the Ten Commandments?

Name the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism?

If you can't, you're not alone. We are a religiously illiterate nation, yet despite this lack of knowledge, politicians

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Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back...