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You've seen them riding down the street...dark pants, white shirts, dark ties, with a black, square name badge over their breast pocket. Baby-faced, and oddly handsome, these young missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seem to be everywhere. They have been lampooned on TV, in the movies, and on Broadway. They are endlessly mocked, yet they seem to always take the criticism with a smile. You've seen them, but do you really know their story? I do.

This deeply personal book explores faith, agency, and spiritual discernment. Marlene Z Kaiser, a lifelong seeker and social worker, blends memoir, observation, and practical reflection to address an important question: What separates a true religion from a cult? Beginning with childhood experiences shaped by visual disability, family illness, and exposure to Lutheran, Methodist, Catholic, and Latter-day Saint traditions, she traces her lifelong effort to understand God, conscience, and choice.

The 5-Minute Zen Solution was made for overthinkers, perfectionists, and quiet souls who crave calm but don’t have time for long lectures or empty platitudes. Written by Rei Kajitsu, a longtime student of Buddhist practice and mindfulness in daily life, this collection includes 50 short Zen-inspired stories rooted in Buddhist philosophy, each designed to bring clarity, stillness, and relief in just five minutes.

God of Love is Mirabai Starr’s passionate exploration of the interconnected wisdom of the three Abrahamic faiths. She shares an overview of essential teachings, stories of saints and spiritual masters, prophetic calls for peace and justice, and deeply engaging narratives from her own spiritual experiences.

How does the Christian faith relate to other faiths? In what sense is Christianity unique? How might a Christian approach the study of comparative religions? These and other questions are addressed in Dr. Montgomery's lecture at the University of Illinois–Urbana in the spring of 1966, and is followed by a "spirited dialogue" between Dr. Montgomery and Dr. Tiebout, Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of Illinois–Urbana.

In Counterfeit Christs, Trent looks at eighteen phony versions of Jesus that we encounter today. Some are the creation of non-Christians: like skeptics who dismiss Jesus as a fictional composite of ancient myths, secular humanists who think he was just a Nice Man, or adherents of other religions who claim him as a prophet or guru in their own tradition.

Mining information from mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world, a foremost expert on symbols explains word origins and their meanings. The ultimate symbols are the letters and words in language as Bayley moves beyond mere pictures to understand the vital messages that have been ignored or lost across the centuries.

Dana Sawyer skillfully synthesizes insights from spiritual luminaries like Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, and Ram Dass with contemporary thinkers, offering practical tools for personal growth and a deeper understanding of timeless 'perennial' wisdom. This fresh examination speaks to all who pursue self-realization, offering an illuminating guide for navigating the depths of consciousness.

The Spiritual Adventures and teachings continue as first shared in Vol I, probing still deeper into never before shared sacred places and knowledge of the Masters of the Far East. This book emphasizes the beauty behind fully recognizing the essence of God within ourselves, and how once that is realized, we can live our true purpose. Our biggest adversity is really Ourselves.

Introducing the Divine Principle - Level 1 is a very brief introduction to the Divine Principle, which is the teaching of Rev. and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon. This book covers all the main points and you can listen to it in less than one hour.

Legacy: Wisdom of African Traditions and the Bible compares almost 300 proverbs from all over the continent with Bible verses, organized into forty-six broad themes. Chris Morehouse was compelled to write the book after exploring the Parallel Sayings books, which juxtapose insights from the great religious traditions with their counterparts from Jewish and Christian scriptures. These books explore resonances between Christianity and Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism.

Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual, and gender, Martha Rampton connects early Christian reckonings with pagan magic to later doctrines and dogmas. Challenging established views on the role of women in ritual magic during this period, Rampton provides a new narrative of the ways in which magic was embedded within the foundational assumptions of western European society.

A year with the sensual, mysterious, and deeply spiritual poetry of Rumi, in a translation featuring 15 debut poems—365 poems for your daily dose of inspiration, spiritual healing, and deep self-reflection This stunning collection is a divine journey across each month of the year, offering 365...

Too often, contrasting styles of evangelical apologetics are discussed solely within the Christian context. In this recording the relative merits of presuppositionalism and evidentialism are evaluated by seeing their application to the argument for the Muslim view of Jesus.

Is truth knowable? If we know the truth, must we hide it in the name of tolerance? Cardinal Ratzinger engages the problem of truth, tolerance, religion and culture in the modern world. Describing the vast array of world religions, Ratzinger embraces the difficult challenge of meeting diverse understandings of spiritual truth while defending the Catholic teaching of salvation through Jesus Christ. But what if it is true? is the question that he poses to cultures that decry the Christian position on man's redemption.

How did you discover your Life Mission? Ms. Manichaeism discovered her Life Mission in a Damascus, Syria cafe. There she Serendipitously Sighted a Rikipedia list of Heresies. Manichaeism jumped out from that list into her soul, so she dedicated the rest of her life to Advancing Manichaeism. How about you kindly considering doing the same and listening to this book?

A thorough examination of the Synoptic Gospels reveals that the Kingdom of God is the very first message that Jesus taught, and the only subject he instructed his disciples to teach. This book provides a plausible, evidence-based connection between the Kingdom taught by Jesus and the Kingdom found in the esoteric Jewish teaching of Kabbalah.

After deconstruction, or the demythologizing of the Christian story, many spiritually minded people find themselves alienated, not just from other traditions, but their own. And even if we feel freed from a harmful conception of God, She can still seem pretty far away. But when looked on from a different vantage point, the living portrait of Christ reveals an unspoken closeness that cannot be measured. What really is at the bottom of the glass of our soul? Or is there a bottom at all?

Religion has fascinated people for centuries. But with so many faiths practiced by so many followers, it can be difficult to understand why one religion believes one thing while another believes something entirely different. This guide gives you everything you need to know to sort through the...

Introducing "A Calling from Jesus" - an extraordinary literary gem that delves into the remarkable journey of a man who embraced his purpose after hearing the divine call. In this captivating book, listeners are invited to embark on an inspiring, life-changing voyage as they follow the path of this exceptional individual who wholeheartedly dedicated himself to living in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ.