Persuasively renders the evolution of a hard-won religious belief that makes room for imperfection.

Are you satisfied that your children's current educational environment is bringing out their best potential? In a world where traditional education systems make little or no accommodation for individual learning styles (such as auditory or visual learning), and they're failing to teach even the basics, it's time for parents to take charge of their children's education. In Reclaiming Education, parents are equipped with practical and immediately...

For parents who have been knocked to the floor by bad news and plastered to the ceiling by unwelcome surprises . . . here's a book to prop you up, scrape you down, and (believe it or not) help you laugh again. Bad news is bad enough. .But bad news about your children carries a triple whammy of pain, worry, and "where did we go wrong!" An accident, an illness, an unwholesome lifestyle, a devastating decision?the truth about these awful events can...

For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively-to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola-she discovered that the Islamic jihadi in the mountains of Pakistan and the Christian fundamentalist bomber in Oklahoma have much in common. Based on her vast research, Stern lucidly explains how...

Descubra la magia de los egúns a través de la veneración ancestral, los guías espirituales, Odun Egungún, la reencarnación y otros elementos de la espiritualidad yoruba. ¿Le interesa la tradición de los egún? ¿Desea encontrar formas de honrar a sus antepasados como los yoruba? ¿Quiere adentrarse en el mundo de la espiritualidad yoruba? Egún es el espíritu de los antepasados difuntos y tiene un papel undamental en las prácticas espirituales...

Beginning in the 2nd century C.E., anonymous Christian authors wrote more than twenty books called 'Acts'. They contained stories about the adventures of the first Christian heroes and the first Christian sects.These books pretended to be history books, but the faithful transmission of historical facts was never their aim. The historical background in them was to convey religious propaganda to the readers. These writings were created in such a way...

Human beings are not born to creep and craw on Earth like caterpillars. They are born to transform into butterflies and become free. Through intention, learning, and wisdom, this freedom is possible for each one of us. Throughout history, the wisdom of Zarathustra has spread and impacted a variety of different belief systems. His wisdom has inspired and guided Greeks, Romans, Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Before the time of Zarathustra, people worshiped...

Disillusioned by narrow theologies, church dysfunction, and constricted readings of Scripture, people are leaving Christianity in droves. But Jesus describes the reign of God as a house with many rooms, writes Debie Thomas, one of the most auspicious voices in religious writing today. In this work of sprawling spiritual and literary imagination, Thomas claims that wherever God dwells, there is expansiveness and belonging. Thomas knows what a cramped...

This classic memoir by the remarkable French explorer and Buddhist Alexandra David-Néel is the one of the greatest Buddhist travelogues of the 20th century. She was the first European woman to meet the Dalai Lama (in the 1920s) and in 1924 became the first to enter the forbidden Tibetan capital, Lhasa. She had already spent a decade travelling through China and Sikkim, India; lived and meditated in a cave on the Tibetan border; and everywhere learned...

The book Kathasaritsagara has been created by Soma Deva. It consists of 21,500 shlokas. This book Kathasaritsagara has been divided into 18 lambakaas, and those 18 lambakaas are still more divided into 125 Tharanga's. Some lambakaas are very big, while some are very small. If there are 115 Shlokas in the 11th Lambaka, there are around 4925 Shlokas in 12th Lambaka. During ancient times from the mouth of Lord Shiva, this story got birth. Those who...