Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Conservative, Patrick J. Buchanan provides his perspective on the risks America faces today and what those dangers will mean for the country's future. He warns against not only the dangers that the country faces under Obama, but also the risk of sliding into irrelevancy that the Republican party faces if it chooses to forget its core values.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Johnny Cash, Harry Potter, the Simpsons , and John Grisham. What do all of these icons in pop culture have to do with faith? Find the answer in Pop Goes Religion ; relevant insight into the world of today's entertainment. In this collection of essays, popular American journalist, Terry Mattingly teaches readers how to identify elements of faith in today's pop culture. Topics include: God & Popular Music Faith & the Big Screen God on TV Ink, Paper,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Draws from sermons, church statements, denominational papers, periodicals, letters, diaries, and newspaper articles to examine the role of religion during the Civil War, looking at how people used faith to interpret the course of the conflict and its effect on their lives, families, churches, and communities.
Author
Publisher
Trine Day
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Americans would be shocked to understand just how their religious beliefs have been used against them in the political elites' efforts to engineer society and public policy. In this historical overview of key moments in American religious history, Gadsby demonstrates that what we are commonly-taught in our education systems, mass-media and the political world about religions' role in any number of events, is anything but. In the spirit of Lies My...
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A collection of fifty-eight sermons from American literature and history; includes information about how sermons have changed throughout history, what the sermon was used for in different eras, and who some of the most influential speakers were.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart. Across the country, men "of God" glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while citing Scripture and preparing for civil war--a firestorm they long for as an absolution and exaltation. Lies, greed, and glorification of war boom through microphones at hipster megachurches that once upon a time might have preached peace...
Author
Publisher
Brown Books Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The author of Deliver Us from Abortion presents a five-point plan for men to put an end to abortion in America for women, men, and family. Do men have a stake in the abortion debate? Modern culture says no but author Brian Fisher shows why men are very much an interested party. Men led the campaign to legalize abortion -- harming and exploiting women in the process. Now, he says, men must lead the effort to end the exploitation by ending abortion....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pro-life Christians, take heart: the pro-life message can compete in the marketplace of ideas-provided Christians properly understand and articulate that message. Too many Christians do not understand the essential truths of the pro-life position, making it difficult for them to articulate a biblical worldview on issues like abortion, cloning, and embryo research. The Case for Life provides intellectual grounding for the pro-life convictions that...
Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Up-to-date one-volume edition of a standard text For decades students and scholars have turned to the two-volume Documentary History of Religion in America for access to the most significant primary sources relating to American religious history from the sixteenth century to the present. This fourth edition--published in a single volume for the first time--has been updated and condensed, allowing instructors to more easily cover the material in a...
Author
Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A personal and journalistic inquiry into the Bible's disappearance from American life In The Invisible Bestseller veteran religion writer Kenneth Briggs asks how the Bible remains the best-selling book of all time, while fewer Americans than ever can correctly articulate what it says, much less how it might offer guidance for their lives. How can a book -- one that's found in courthouses, libraries, and millions of households across the land -- be...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Inspiring advice on how to stop mourning the empty nest -- and find meaning in a new phase of your life: "Relatable...thoroughly entertaining." -- Tracy Brogan, USA Today -- bestselling author. The transition to an empty nest as children move out and move on to independent lives can be very tough, leaving parents with overwhelming emotions of sadness, grief, and, sure enough, emptiness. In this book, meteorologist and television personality Terri...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"*An NPR Best Book of the Year* A PopSugar Best True Crime Book of 2020 "I can't imagine a more important book." -- Jeff Guinn, New York Time s bestselling author An explosive investigation into Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader is a master of manipulation In 1979, a fiery preacher named Jane Whaley attracted a small group of followers with a promise that she could turn their lives around. In the...
Author
Publisher
Pitchstone Publishing / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
God Bless America lifts the veil on strange and unusual religious beliefs and practices in the modern-day United States. Do Satanists really sacrifice babies? Do exorcisms involve swearing and spinning heads? Are the Amish allowed to drive cars and use computers? Taking a close look at snake handling, new age spirituality, Santeria spells, and satanic rituals, this book offers more than mere armchair research, taking you to an exorcism and a polygamist...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The president of Southern Seminary reveals how secularism has infiltrated every aspect of society and how Christians, equipped with the gospel of Jesus Christ, can meet it head on with hope, confidence, and steadfast conviction. A Storm Is Coming Western civilization and the Christian church stand at a moment of great danger. Facing them both is a hurricane-force battle of ideas that will determine the future of Western civilization and the soul...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request