At a time when barbarous acts of terrorism are being committed globally and society ponders whether the perpetrators are legitimate religious adherents, Marcus Paul makes an unflinching and counter-cultural examination of some of the worst periods in the Church's history.Were the crusades entirely inexcusable religious wars? Was the Inquisition the bloody and sadistic "Black Legend" of popular imagination? How can we understand the goodness of God after two brutalising world wars?

Born in 1846 in Ireland at the start of the "Great Hunger," James Kinnier Wilson emigrated to Philadelphia to start a new life at seventeen years old.After his life took a dramatic turn, he found himself attending Princeton and then a college in Scotland, where he met Agnes Hately, the talented daughter of a famous figure in the Scottish "Disruption"-the emergence of the Free Church of Scotland.Agnes and James, now newlyweds, crossed the dangerous Atlantic and settled in ru...

“Borg and Crossan reveal a figure who, besides being neither anti-Semitic, anti-sex, nor misogynist, stresses social and political equality among Christians and between them and others. A refreshing and heartening exculpation of a still routinely maligned figure of the first importance to culture and civilization.” — Booklist (starred review)John Dominic Crossan and Marcus J. Borg—two of the world’s top-selling Christian scholars and the bestselling authors of The Last Week and The...

The writers behind New Scientist explore the baffling concept of nothingness from the fringes of the universe to our minds' inner workings.It turns out that nothing is as curious or as enlightening as nothingness itself. What is nothing? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void, to superconductors, vestigial organs, hypnosis, and the placebo effect. And they disco...

* Notre résumé est court, simple et pragmatique. Il vous permet d'avoir les idées essentielles d'un grand livre en moins de 30 minutes.Comment optimiser votre vie ? Il existe deux obstacles qui vous empêchent de devenir la meilleure version de vous-mêmes : le manque d'énergie et le manque de temps. Heureusement, il existe des astuces faciles à mettre en œuvre dans votre vie pour vous débarrasser de ces deux obstacles.Dans ce livre, vous apprendrez :Comment mie...

Migration wird im öffentlichen Diskurs häufig problematisiert. Soziale Disruptionen und Gewaltereignisse durch einzelne Personen werden dabei häufig zum Anlass genommen, migrationsgesellschaftliche Öffnungsprozesse grundsätzlich in Frage zu stellen. Vor diesem Hintergrund bietet das Lehrbuch eine fundierte Einführung in die rechtlichen, ökonomischen und sozialstrukturellen Rahmenbedingungen der Sozialen Arbeit in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Es zeigt, wie Sozialarbeitende kompetent auf gese...

Kirche ist die Hoffnung der Welt. Doch wie sieht ihre Zukunft aus? In diesem Buch stellen Kirchen und Gemeinden aus der Schweiz, Deutschland und Österreich ihre Vision vor, die sich in der Wirklichkeit stets neu bewähren muss. Kleine Gemeinden und größere, Landes- und Freikirchen, Jugend- und Kommunitätskirche: sie alle verbindet, dass sie mitten im Alltag der Menschen leben. Ihre Vielfalt und die spürbare Ehrlichkeit, mit der die Autoren jeweils Kontext, Vision, aber auch Herausforderunge...

Mit Storys von * Dirk Alt * Victor Boden * Tino Falke * Marcus Hammerschmitt * Wolfgang Mörth * Paul Sanker * Uwe Schimunek * Volly Tanner * Tom Turtschi * Wolf Welling Mit einer Gaststory von * Liviu Surugiu (Rumänien) Mit Essays von * Dirk Alt * Michael K. Iwoleit * Julie Phillips * Christian Steinbacher Mit Nachrufen auf Gene Wolfe von * Tony Daniel * Michael K. Iwoleit Mit Illustrationen von * Dirk Alt * Uli Bendick * Christian Günther * Detlef Klewer * Victoria Sack und einem Titelbil...

"This book will revolutionize the way you look at your suffering."Joni Eareckson Tada, Founder, Joni and FriendsDo we have the wrong map for the Christian life?Life's inconveniences, disappointments, and trials can leave us confused, cynical, and eventually bitter. But the apostle Paul traces out the path of dying and rising with Jesus—what Paul Miller calls the "J-Curve"—as the normal Christian life.The J-Curve maps the ups and downs...

Multireligious Reflections on Friendship: Becoming Ourselves in Community presents a multi-religious discussion of spiritual and ethical formation through friendship. Contributors discuss the positive effects of friendship and some of the culturally diverse ways that friendships develop. Friends help us co-exist in diverse societies, live sustainably in our ecosystems, heal from trauma, develop inner virtues, engage wisely in social action, and connect with the divine. While friendship is ...

By using resources more efficiently, precision agriculture (PA) can make agriculture more productive and sustainable.This new edition of Precision agriculture for sustainability provides a comprehensive review of the key components of PA, from information gathering to delivery systems, as well as the wide range of applications from precision tillage and seeding to site-specific irrigation and nutrition. The book also discusses recent developments in precision crop protecti...

Email Marketing Demystified: Learn Why Email Marketing is one of the Most Successful Marketing Strategies and How to Effectively Use ItIf you run a business, a website or a blog and you want to increase your audience as well as increasing engagement, then the single most effective way to do that is with email marketing. If you listen to pretty much any top marketer, then they will almost always tell you this. They will almost always say that the most important aspect of their marketing the...