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Spirituality and Religion March 2021
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Reading and understanding the Bible
by Ben Witherington
With his usual flair and reader-friendly style, Ben Witherington III brings us a fresh and distinctive guide to interpreting the Bible. Ideal for courses in Biblical Interpretation, Hermeneutics, and Introduction to the Bible, Reading and Understanding the Bible is unique in that it carefully examines the various genres of literature in the Bible while also explaining how to interpret each within its proper context. Taking a faith-friendly approach to historically based interpretation, it shows students how to read the Bible with a keen awareness of the many and profound differences between the modern world and ancient biblical cultures. It explains how ancient societies worked, how documents were created, who preserved them and why, the patriarchal nature of all ancient cultures, and, most importantly, how these cultural characteristics should affect our reading of the Bible.
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Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
by Esau McCaulley
What it's about: the unique lens through which the Black church tradition has viewed the Bible and what it has meant for both theology and the wider society.
Chapters include: "The South Got Somethin' to Say," "Tired Feet, Rested Souls," and "What Shall We Do with This Rage?"
Reviewers say: This book is "an exercise in hope that speaks powerfully to readers of every race and ethnicity" (Booklist).
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Faith after doubt : why your beliefs stopped working and what to do about it
by Brian D. McLaren
From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world and your faith. Sixty-five million adults in the U.S. have dropped out of active church attendance and about 2.7 million more are leaving every year. Faith After Doubt is for the millions of people around the world who feel that their faith is falling apart. Using his own story and the stories of a diverse group of struggling believers, Brian D. McLaren, a former pastor and now an author, speaker, and activist shows how old assumptions are being challenged in nearly every area of human life, not just theology and spirituality. He proposes a four-stage model of faith development in which questions and doubt are not the enemy of faith, but rather a portal to a more mature and fruitful kind of faith. The four stages-Simplicity, Complexity, Perplexity, and Harmony-offer a path forward that can help sincere and thoughtful people leave behind unnecessary baggage and intensify their commitment to what matters most.
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Dear God : honest prayers to a God who listens
by Bunmi Laditan
An award-winning, Webby-nominated writer shares, with both humor and insight, the prayers, poems and letters she wrote to God that set her on a spiritual path back into the fold and enabled her to reconnect with a higher power.
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
What it's about: This compelling history of the Black church in America looks at its central role in Black cultural life, including the ways it has helped (and sometimes hindered) social progress and political resistance.
Media buzz: The Black Church has been adapted by PBS into a documentary miniseries of the same name.
About the author: scholar, journalist, and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has published books such as Life Upon These Shores and The Trials of Phyllis Wheatley. He also hosts the PBS family history series Finding Your Roots.
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Win the day : seven daily habits to help you stress less & accomplish more
by Mark Batterson
The New York Times bestselling author of Chase the Lion offers seven powerful habits for success that help you tackle the present in order to reach your God-sized goals. Too many people delay, downsize, or shrug off their dreams just because they don’t know where to start, but playing it safe doesn’t account for the massive cost of a life not fully lived. Win the Day is the jump-start you need to go after your goals, one day at a time.
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God will help you
by Max Lucado
In God Will Help You, bestselling author Max Lucado offers assurance that God loves you, hears you, and is able to perform miracles. Whether during life's hardest times, amid personal difficulties, or in challenging everyday experiences, God hears every prayer and knows the deepest needs of your heart. And God will help you.
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Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future
by Pope Francis
What's inside: a concise and accessible call to reckon with the most pressing problems facing the world and to resist the urge to "return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the crisis."
Why you might like it: Thoughtfully organized into digestible parts, Let Us Dream maintains an attitude that the world's seemingly insurmountable problems can be approached as opportunities to grow and change as individuals and as a whole.
Reviewers say: "Informed by spiritual sources and the thinking of some of the world's foremost scientists, economists, and activists, Pope Francis offers tools for creating a better, more just world" (Library Journal).
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Iredell County Public Library 201 North Tradd Street Statesville, North Carolina 28677 704-878-3090www.iredell.lib.nc.us/ |
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