The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
By: Jon Meacham
3.98
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham explores the seven last sayings of Jesus as recorded in t…
Want to Read $ 11.99"For the thoughtful believer, then, there is nothing more certain than the reality of uncertainty, nothing more natural than doubt, which is perhaps thirty seconds younger than faith itself (And even that approximation may be giving faith too much of a headstart)."-Jon Meacham, The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
"We stand now at the cross, in the moments of Jesus’s greatest pain. May we bear in mind the central emotional truth of Good Friday: that the Christian tradition grew from the most wrenching, mysterious, and mystifying sacrifice imaginable—that of a father’s offering of his child."-Jon Meacham, The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
"If he did not suffer, if he did not bleed, if he did not feel every bit of the pain of execution as he gulped for air, then he would not be the Christ we know. He was fulfilling his epochal role in history on that cross; he was not playacting, not a god pretending to die. He was the Word made flesh, who was, however strangely and incomprehensibly, full of grace and truth."-Jon Meacham, The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
"We must make our peace with mystery or else we might go mad. For me, faith is complicated, challenging and sometimes confounding. It is not magical but mysterious. Magic means there is a spell, a formula, to work wonders. Mystery means there is no spell, no formula—only shadow and impenetrability and hope that, in a phrase T.S. Eliot borrowed from Julian of Norwich, all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."-Jon Meacham, The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
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1. St. Francis of Assisi
By: G.K. Chesterton , Joseph F. Girzone
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Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar,… read more
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"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any pr…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
2. To Heaven and Back
By: Mary C. Neal
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Is there life after death? Is God real? Is there sufficient reason to live by faith? Dr. Mary Neal'… read more
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3. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
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Format: 335 pages, Paperback
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4. The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person
By: Harold S. Kushner
3.81
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Part of the Jewish Encounter series From one of our most trusted spiritual advisers, a thoughtful, … read more
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5. Reflections on the Psalms
By: C.S. Lewis
3.75
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Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms… read more
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6. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
By: Joyce Carol Oates , David Sedaris , Katherine Mansfield , Alice Munro , Flannery O'Connor , Sarah Vowell , Patricia Highsmith , Charles Baxter , Richard Yates , Jhumpa Lahiri , Dorothy Parker , Jincy Willett , Tobias Wolff , Lorrie Moore , Amy Hempel , Jean Thompson , None , Frank Gannon , Tim Johnston
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7. An Irish Country Practice (Irish Country #13)
By: Patrick Taylor
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
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8. The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
By: David McCullough
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Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
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9. A Gathering of Angels
By: Katherine Valentine
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Format: 47 pages, Paperback
In A Miracle for St. Cecilia?s, Katherine Valentine created a charming Connecticut town where ordin… read more
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10. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
3.00
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Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progr… read more
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12. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
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"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
13. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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4.24
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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"If you find your heart very desolated and afflicted at the loss of property, believe me, you love it too much. The strongest proof of love for a lost object is suffering over its loss... We must neve…"-Brant Pitre, Introduction to the Spiritual Life: Walking the Path of Prayer with Jesus
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21. The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
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