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Spirituality and Religion January 2023 |
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The 6 phase meditation method : the proven technique to supercharge your mind, manifest your goals, and make magic in minutes a day
by Vishen Lakhiani
Leading a revolution in meditation, an entrepreneur and New York Times best-selling author, after interviewing nearly 1,000 neuroscientists, monks, yogis and meditation experts over years of study, creates The 6 Phase Meditation Method, a magic-making, joy-creating, productivity-inducing protocol empowering you to get focused, find peace and manifest your goals.
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| Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in Our Christian Response to Immigration by Karen GonzálezWhat it's about: the Christian case for welcoming immigrants, explored through the teachings of Jesus and the author's own experiences as an immigrant and advocate for immigrants.
Topics discussed: Jesus and hospitality; assimilation as a myth; and movement as a fact of human civilization.
Reviewers say: Thanks to "strong storytelling skills" Beyond Welcome effectively "challenges readers to rethink their understanding of immigrants" (Library Journal). |
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| Confessions of a Crappy Christian: Real-life Talk About All the Things Christians Aren't... by Blake GuichetWhat's inside: relatable reflections on personal and spiritual insecurities, the pitfalls of perfectionism, and the indirect path to grace.
Chapters include: "My Church Hurt Me; Now What?" "Where Do I Get My Worth?" and "Should I Just Fake Forgiveness?"
About the author: Blake Guichet is a ministry and business coach who hosts the podcast also named Confessions of a Crappy Christian. |
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Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
by Karen Armstrong
What it is: a thought-provoking exploration of the role of nature in spirituality around the world and across centuries.
Want a taste? "A great deal of environmental discussion is scientific: we constantly hear about emissions, particles, pollution levels and the ozone layer. This provides us with essential information and we have become familiar with the terminology. But it does not move us emotionally."
About the author: Karen Armstrong is a bestselling British writer and critic known for her memoir The Spiral Staircase and her works of comparative religion, including The Battle for God and Fields of Blood.
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| In the pages of In Good Time, Jen Pollock Michel invites you to disentangle your priorities from our modern assumptions and instead ground them in God's time. Then she shows you how to establish 8 life-giving habits that will release you from the false religion of productivity so you can develop a grounded, healthy, life-giving relationship with the clock.  |
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Toil & trouble : a women's history of the occult
by Lisa Kröger
From the celebrity spirit mediums of the 19th century to contemporary activist witches hexing the patriarchy, this celebration of magical women and nonbinary people in American history is organized around different approaches women in particular have taken to the occult over the decades.
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