Meeting The Living God

God Questions is a simple guide for adults on some of the important questions of faith.

A completely revised edition of the book that has sold more than 70,000 copies into Catholic High Schools. It tackles the "God problem" in terms that high school students can understand -- in their language and from the perspective of their culture. Witty, provocative, and thoughtful.

A best seller, now in its fourth edition, that tackles the "God problem" in terms that high school students can understand in their language and from the perspective of their culture.

A New York Times Notable Book Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event. The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby’s origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe. A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on female agency, self-determination, biology, and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time.

Here's a way for serious Christians to grow in faith, hope, and charity -- an essential duty neglected by all too many. Readers will deepen their understanding of the importance of these three virtues and enflame their desire for them. They will discover that faith, hope, and charity need not remain distant prizes that can be obtained only through great effort; rather, with the wisdom in this book, these virtues can give fresh life to the soul.

A New York Times Notable Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 A bold approach to understanding the American evangelical experience from an anthropological and psychological perspective by one of the country's most prominent anthropologists. Through a series of intimate, illuminating interviews with various members of the Vineyard, an evangelical church with hundreds of congregations across the country, Tanya Luhrmann leaps into the heart of evangelical faith. Combined with scientific research that studies the effect that intensely practiced prayer can have on the mind, When God Talks Back examines how normal, sensible people—from college students to accountants to housewives, all functioning perfectly well within our society—can attest to having the signs and wonders of the supernatural become as quotidian and as ordinary as laundry. Astute, sensitive, and extraordinarily measured in its approach to the interface between science and religion, Luhrmann's book is sure to generate as much conversation as it will praise.

Have you ever wondered if there is 'more to your life'?As human beings, we go through life experiencing hope, dreams, thoughts, failures, sorrow, regrets, expectations, disappointment, and a host of other thoughts and feelings.Sometimes, we look at our lives and wish that we could have done more. Or, we may wish that we would have stayed still longer. And others of us have lived through so much suffering, we believe it's all we can do to survive from one minute to the next.This book is one of HOPE. It's a collection of topics that relate to the practical issues we face every day. Subjects like Anxiety, Disciplining our Children, Forgiveness, and Guilt are among the chapters.The Star of the book is Jesus Christ. But before you turn your interest away, you might want to open the pages and take a look. Even if you aren't a Christian, there is a wellspring of information and wisdom for your life's problems.I have witnessed hundreds of people that say they have tried self-help books and support groups. They have refrained from their addictions, and have gone to great lengths to try to change their thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors. But most often, they go right back their old thoughts, habits, and ways of life.Others have tried money, looks, material gain, power, education, sex, and relationships to make themselves 'happy'. But I find that a great majority of them are dissatisfied and disillusioned.While it may sound too good to be true, I am here to tell you from my own experience that you really can have true and lasting peace, joy, love, hope, and stability in life.Pick up your copy today. You might just be surprised!