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This book has everything you need to plan and create a wedding ceremony and celebration that is right for you.The authors have many years’ experience of offering couples a multi-choice format upon which to construct their marriage ceremony. The essence of the book is flexibility and adaptability to individual circumstances.For each part of your wedding ceremony there are many text options to choose from. Combine them or use them as a starting point to write...

A fast-paced Chase Gordon short thriller set in the Florida Keys—where a missing diver, a cryptic logbook, and a sunken aircraft pull Chase into a deadly underwater secret…Former Marine and liveaboard sailor Chase Gordon is enjoying the clear waters of Key Largo when he meets Lena Foster, a woman searching for her estranged brother—an adventure-chasing diver who vanished after hinting at a discovery offshore. What ...

A lost shipwreck. A fortune in sunken gold. A modern-day gold rush that could turn deadly.When a descendant of a San Francisco Gold Rush shipwreck survivor opens a long-forgotten family lockbox, she uncovers cryptic documents pointing to a sunken treasure ship lost at sea more than a century ago. Rebuffed by the insurance company named on the original claim, she turns to historian and treasure hunter Rikki Talens—a woman who knows ...

The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching. Issues of interreligious engagement, inclusive of dialogue more specifically and relations more generally, attract widespread interest and concern. In a religiously pluralist world, how different communities get along with each other is not just an academic question; it is very much a focus of socio-political and wider community attention. The study of religions and ...

Chase Gordon doesn't go looking for trouble—but trouble never has a hard time finding him.Whether he's behind the bar or sailing solo across blue water, Chase has a habit of stepping in when someone needs help. The problem is, good intentions don't always lead to good outcomes. Especially in Chase's world, where danger hides behind easy smiles, and every favor can come with a hidden cost.With one foot on land and the other in the sea, Chase walks the line between freedom an...

Corsair is returning home, and he's bringing a comeuppance with him. After years on the run, Caleb Saunders returns to the US to bring down the man hunting him.

This is the first field guide to the identification of the birds of the islands of the tropical Pacific, including the Hawaiian Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, southeastern Polynesia, and Micronesia. It is intended both as a reference for the expert and as an introduction to birding in the region for the novice. Small enough to be carried afield, it contains much previously unpublished information about behavior, vocalizations, ecology, and distribution. The forty-five color plates depict all...

This book introduces and examines the work of two significant 21st century Christian – Muslim dialogue initiatives – "Building Bridges" and the "Christian–Muslim Theological Forum" – and gives close attention to five theological themes that have been addressed in common by them.An overview and analysis, including inception, development, outputs and significance, together with discussion of the select themes – community, scripture, prophecy, prayer and ethics – allows for an in-dept...

Religious diversity is now a social fact in most countries of the world. While reports of the impact of religious diversity on Europe and North America are reasonably well-known, the ways in which Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific are religiously diverse and the ways this diversity has been managed are not. This book addresses this lack of information about one of the largest and most diverse regions of the world. It describes the religious diversity of 27 nations, as large and complex as In...

Religion and Terrorism: The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheism provides theoretical analysis of the nature of religious terrorism and religious martyrdom and also delves deeply into terrorist groups and beliefs in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious terrorism is found in all three of the great monotheistic faiths, and while the public is most aware of Islamic terrorism, Jewish and Christian faiths have extremist groups that warp their teaching —in ways unrecognizable to most a...

Focusing on the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Douglas Pratt argues that despite a popular focus on Islam, extremist Jews and Christians can also enact terror and destruction. Religion and Extremism stresses that the ideological rejection of diversity underlies religious extremism resulting in violent behaviours and, increasingly, in hardening social and religious attitudes and responses.An analysis of religiously-driven terrorism reveals ...