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Sacred Scar

Poems

by Scott Hales ...

“This collection made me laugh and made me cry, but more importantly, it helped me find beauty in the struggle of being human.” — Katherine Cowley“Both saintly and Latter-day Saint, these poems find humor and holiness in belief, suffering, history, and family.” — Jim Richards“Sacred Scar is both profoundly personal and generally appealing.” — Gabriel González NúñezSacred Scar is a luminous, ... Read more

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“This collection made me laugh and made me cry, but more importantly, it helped me find beauty in the struggle of being human.” — Katherine Cowley“Both saintly and Latter-day Saint, these poems find humor and holiness in belief, suffering, history, and family.” — Jim Richards“Sacred Scar is both profoundly personal and generally appealing.” — Gabriel González NúñezSacred Scar is a luminous,
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Political Turbulence

How Social Media Shape Collective Action

by Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale, Taha Yasseri ...

How social media is giving rise to a chaotic new form of politicsAs people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective action today, from ... Read more

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How social media is giving rise to a chaotic new form of politicsAs people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective action today, from
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Dare Mighty Things

Mapping the Challenges of Leadership for Christian Women

by Halee Gray Scott ...

The main challenges and strategies of success forCHRISTIAN WOMEN LEADERSAre you showing up for your own life? Or are you watching it slowly drain away, each moment emptied of its potential?At age twenty, Halee Gray Scott was doing things her way when God challenged her with these two questions. Confronted with the brevity of human life, she determined to start living with purpose and passion and ... Read more

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The main challenges and strategies of success forCHRISTIAN WOMEN LEADERSAre you showing up for your own life? Or are you watching it slowly drain away, each moment emptied of its potential?At age twenty, Halee Gray Scott was doing things her way when God challenged her with these two questions. Confronted with the brevity of human life, she determined to start living with purpose and passion and
... Read more
Angry Like Jesus

Using His Example to Spark Your Moral Courage

by Sarah Sumner, Christopher B. Hays ...

Few people realize that the Gospels include at least fifteen different stories about Jesus anger. When was Jesus angry? What was he angry about? Is Jesus anger relevant today? Is it right for a Christian to be angry? Although sinful anger cannot achieve the righteousness of God, godly anger can rouse a sleeping church. Godly anger lights a flame that fuels people to wake up and be truthful out ... Read more

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Few people realize that the Gospels include at least fifteen different stories about Jesus anger. When was Jesus angry? What was he angry about? Is Jesus anger relevant today? Is it right for a Christian to be angry? Although sinful anger cannot achieve the righteousness of God, godly anger can rouse a sleeping church. Godly anger lights a flame that fuels people to wake up and be truthful out
... Read more
Designer Biology

The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems

by Immaculada de Melo Martin, Valentina Urbanek, William Kabasenche, Nicholas Agar, S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache, Stephen Jackson, Donald S. Maier, Nicole Hassoun, Benjamin Hale, Sune Holm, Scott Simmons, Allen Thompson, David A. Frank ...

Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached from an engineering perspective. In environmental contexts, this is exemplified in the pursuits ... Read more

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Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached from an engineering perspective. In environmental contexts, this is exemplified in the pursuits
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Not a Hopeless Case

6 Vital Questions from Young Adults for a Church in Crisis

by Halee Gray Scott ...

Narrated by Halee Scott ...

Unabridged

6 hours 13 min

Read by the author.Is America the next missionary graveyard? Or is it ripe for spiritual revolution? The statistics seem grim. Every year, the decline of Christianity continues at a rapid pace, especially among young adults. Churches across the country are closing their doors, dying, or are being "adopted" by nearby larger churches. What is the story church leaders hear? We've lost the next ... Read more

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Read by the author.Is America the next missionary graveyard? Or is it ripe for spiritual revolution? The statistics seem grim. Every year, the decline of Christianity continues at a rapid pace, especially among young adults. Churches across the country are closing their doors, dying, or are being "adopted" by nearby larger churches. What is the story church leaders hear? We've lost the next
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Angry Conversations with God

A Snarky But Authentic Spiritual Memoir

by Susan Isaacs ...

Narrated by Susan Isaacs, Dale Inghram, Scott Brick, Tony Hale ...

Unabridged

7 hours 51 min

“I was raised Lutheran: Bible-believing, Jesus-loving Lutheran. But as an adult I tried everything: Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Rock ‘n’ Roll Slackers 4 Jesus, Actors for Yahweh. Then I said, ‘Screw it’ and became a drunk and a slut. Well, a Lutheran slut–I slept with only two guys. Then I got sober and into AA, where they said I could pick whatever god I wanted. But I didn’t pick ... Read more

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“I was raised Lutheran: Bible-believing, Jesus-loving Lutheran. But as an adult I tried everything: Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Rock ‘n’ Roll Slackers 4 Jesus, Actors for Yahweh. Then I said, ‘Screw it’ and became a drunk and a slut. Well, a Lutheran slut–I slept with only two guys. Then I got sober and into AA, where they said I could pick whatever god I wanted. But I didn’t pick
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Musical Landscapes in Color

Conversations with Black American Composers

by William C. Banfield, William C. Banfield, Michael Abels, H. Leslie Adams, Lettie Beckon Alston, Thomas J Anderson, Dwight Andrews, Regina Harris Baiocchi, David Baker, Ysaye Maria Barnwell, Billy Childs0, Noel DaCosta1, Anthony Davis2, George Duke3, Leslie Dunner4, Donal Fox5, Adolphus Hailstork6, Jester Hairston7, Herbie Hancock8, Jonathan Holland9, Anthony Kelley0, Wendell Logan1, Bobby McFerrin2, Dorothy Rudd Moore3, Jeffrey Mumford4, Gary Powell Nash5, Stephen Newby6, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson7, Michael Powell8, Patrice Rushen9, George Russell0, Kevin Scott1, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton2, Hale Smith3, Billy Taylor4, Frederick C Tillis5, George Walker6, James Kimo Williams7, Julius Williams8, Tony Williams9, Olly Wilson0, Michael Woods1 ...

Series series Music in American Life
Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield’s acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and compositional techniques to working in a exclusive canon that has existed for a very long time. At the same time, Banfield draws on sociology, Western ... Read more

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Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield’s acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and compositional techniques to working in a exclusive canon that has existed for a very long time. At the same time, Banfield draws on sociology, Western
... Read more
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Wonder Of Women - To Make A Long Story Short

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Mary Butts, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman, Emily Bronte, Holloway Horn, Mary Austin, Mrs Ernest Leverson, Frances E Huntley, Georgia F Stewart, Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham, Violet Quirk, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa Baldwin, Fanny Fern, the writing pseudonym for Sarah Payton Parton, Victoria Earle Matthews, Mary Russell Mitford, Lady Augusta Gregory, Lucretia Peabody Hale, Catherine Anne Dawson Scott, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Katharine Butler, Elsie Norris, Maude K Griffin, Annie McCary, Winifred Holtby, Mary Anne Hoare, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Olive Schreiner, Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton, Ruth D Todd, Elia W Peattie, Catherine Wells, Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird, Charlotte Bronte, Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster, Gertrude Atherton ...

Narrated by Kelly Burke, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

9 hours 23 min

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on
... Read more
Not a Hopeless Case

6 Vital Questions from Young Adults for a Church in Crisis

by Halee Gray Scott ...

Is America the next missionary graveyard? Or is it ripe for spiritual revolution? The statistics seem grim. Every year, the decline of Christianity continues at a rapid pace, especially among young adults. Churches across the country are closing their doors, dying, or are being "adopted" by nearby larger churches. What is the story church leaders hear? We've lost the next generation.But this ... Read more

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Is America the next missionary graveyard? Or is it ripe for spiritual revolution? The statistics seem grim. Every year, the decline of Christianity continues at a rapid pace, especially among young adults. Churches across the country are closing their doors, dying, or are being "adopted" by nearby larger churches. What is the story church leaders hear? We've lost the next generation.But this
... Read more

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100 Ways to Simplify Your Life

by Joyce Meyer ...

Narrated by Sandra McCollom ...

Unabridged

4 hours 38 min

Joyce Meyer is one busy lady. Apart from the normal demands of life, she teaches daily on TV and radio, writes books, holds conferences in dozens of cities every year and ministers around the world...and she runs Joyce Meyer Ministries. So she's had to learn how to make the most of every minute of the day! In 100 Ways to Simplify Your Life, Joyce shares the most effective secrets she's learned ... Read more

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Joyce Meyer is one busy lady. Apart from the normal demands of life, she teaches daily on TV and radio, writes books, holds conferences in dozens of cities every year and ministers around the world...and she runs Joyce Meyer Ministries. So she's had to learn how to make the most of every minute of the day! In 100 Ways to Simplify Your Life, Joyce shares the most effective secrets she's learned
... Read more

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Unbroken

A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand ...

Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

Unabridged

13 hours 56 min

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Seabiscuit comes the incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption.“Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal**“Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so ... Read more

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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Seabiscuit comes the incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption.“Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal**“Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so
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