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A true story filled with the trials of a young life dealing with the reality of death. Born in London, England Carole grew up hearing nothing about the rich Christian heritage that preceded her in this area of South London. She being the youngest of seven children was three years old when her eldest sister took her to church. She heard that Jesus died on the cross for her sins and rose again. She believed and was very thankful to Jesus for doing that for her. However she never had a Bible so she grew up not knowing the Word of God. All she had was the prayers that she prayed to Jesus for her daddy. She knew that Jesus could hear her and she was never alone in her room He was always with her. He showed her two visions. Was Jesus telling her that she would be a part of these visions? All she knew was that Jesus was very real and the visions seemed so normal. But not having the Word of God and not knowing His promises, Carole began to drift, and when those people she loved died she became very angry and rebellious. Why did God take her daddy and all the others? Read how she stumbled through life looking for an identity until the Lord Jesus began to show her that her identity is in Him.

An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children’s author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in the viral New York Times Modern Love column, “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times’ “Modern Love” column —”You May Want to Marry My Husband.” It appeared ten days before her death from ovarian cancer. A heartbreaking, wry, brutally honest, and creative play on a personal ad—in which a dying wife encouraged her husband to go on and find happiness after her demise—the column quickly went viral, reaching more than five million people worldwide. In My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me, Jason describes what came next: his commitment to respecting Amy’s wish, even as he struggled with her loss. Surveying his life before, with, and after Amy, Jason ruminates on love, the pain of watching a loved one suffer, and what it means to heal—how he and their three children, despite their profound sorrow, went on. Jason’s emotional journey offers insights on dying and death and the excruciating pain of losing a soulmate, and illuminates the lessons he learned. As he reflects on Amy’s gift to him—a fresh start to fill his empty space with a new story—Jason describes how he continues to honor Amy’s life and her last wish, and how he seeks to appreciate every day and live in the moment while trying to help others coping with loss. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me is the poignant, unreserved, and inspiring story of a great love, the aftermath of a marriage ended too soon, and how a surviving partner eventually found a new perspective on life’s joys in the wake of tremendous loss.

The men of the Commencement series are back for another episode in their journey of spiritual growth. Allen, Tim, Jim, Davis and Chris are each facing their own individual dilemmas, and have decided that the best way to deal with the issues that life is confronting them with is to…retreat. The Retreat is the story of five different men from different walks of life finding refuge and regeneration in faith, which helps them to examine and reconceptualize their roles as men in a world of damaging, conflicting, and oftentimes confusing images, pressures and stereotypes. It’s about finding identity and affirmation that comes from fellowship with and trust in our Creator and Savior.

In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso de Sandoval described dozens of African ethnicities, their languages, and their beliefs, and provided an exposé of the abuse of slaves in the Americas. This collection of previously untranslated selections from Sandoval's book is an invaluable resource for understanding the history of the African diaspora, slavery in colonial Latin America, and the role of Christianity in the formation of the Spanish Empire; it also provides insights into early modern European concepts of race. A general Introduction and headnotes to each selection provide cultural, historical, and religious context; copious footnotes identify terms and references that may be unfamiliar to modern readers. A map and an index are also provided.