Former medical examiner Kiernan O'Shaughnessy investigates a scandalous suicide in a Catholic churchQuick-witted, precise, and comfortable with corpses, Kiernan O'Shaughnessy was perfectly suited to life as a medical examiner. In her four years with the coroner's office, she never had one unhappy shift until the day they let her go. Enraged and adrift, she made her way to La Jolla, California, to set up a high-class private investigation service for medically suspic...

Carpious Mightson is not whom he appears to be, wearing the guise of a friendly, God-fearing, hardworking and loving man. Little do his neighbors, co-workers, and girlfriend know that he harbors a disturbing secret that contradicts this facade. That secret is threatened to be unearthed when Ian Kaplan, a registered sex-offender, moves into the neighborhood.While Carpious is struggling to maintain his manufactured life, someone is brutally murdered in his neighborhood and his troubl...

Realtor Clay Sommersville shares a tragedy with his fiancé, Sarah, and her uncle, mega-church pastor Mark Morris; they lost their families in a plane crash. The trio has come to grips with the disaster through their fervent faith till Clay’s caught up in a robbery. He dodges a bullet aimed at him, yet ends another man’s life. Mark and Sarah rejoice in what they see as a miracle, God’s intervention; but Clay's reluctant to buy in. His faith shaken by an innocent man’s death, he delves into ...

Lieutenant Jaymes Ellias is ready to leave the Basilean Navy. A career spent in coastal defence and administrative positions has left him dejected and resentful, and he has a plan for life outside the military. But when he is suddenly sent to the ship's company of the HW Pious, an elohi-class frigate, he is propelled into action under the command of the harsh, sardonic Captain Charn Ferrus. Ferrus and his squadron are employed in pirate hunting duties in the sun-drenched Infant Sea, combat...

《金刚般若波罗蜜经》（简称《金刚经》）是大乘佛教核心经典，属般若类典籍，全称意为“以金刚般无坚不摧的智慧抵达解脱彼岸”。后秦鸠摩罗什于402年译出汉文本，为现存最早且流传最广的译本，后另有北魏菩提流支等五种译本。核心思想与内容特色破除执着，彰显空性经中以佛陀与弟子须菩提的问答形式，系统阐述“缘起性空”思想，主张“凡所有相皆是虚妄”，强调需破除“我相”“人相”“众生相”“寿者相”四相执着，揭示诸法实相“非相”的本质。“无住”修行纲领提出“应无所住而生其心”，倡导不执于色、声、香、味、触、法的布施与修行，以“离一切诸相”为解脱关键。精髓偈颂卷末四句“一切有为法，如梦幻泡影，如露亦如电，应作如是观”，凝练概括世间万物虚幻无常的特质，被视为全经核心。历史影响与地位

Omar Suleiman is one of America's most influential Muslims. He has 1.4 MILLION Facebook followers and regularly appears on television and social media arguing for justice.He is listed as one of the 500 most influential Muslim in the world, and listed by CNN as one of 25 Muslims changing America.In recent months and years he has been a prominent critic of the separation of migrant children from their families, and a supporter of rights for refugees persecuted minorities....

Ann Coulter. Laura Ingraham. Nancy Grace. Bill O'Reilly. Sean Hannity. Pat Robertson.Their faces and voices are ubiquitous: the shrill shrieks and strident bellowings that drown out all debate and set every listener on edge, using God's and Jesus's names to justify oppression and ignorance, and spread falsehoods as if they were facts. They occupy the bully pulpit of the new American hate culture: the television and radio programs watched and heard by millions of people that shape th...

经典核心《地藏经》是大乘佛教重要经典，以“地狱未空，誓不成佛；众生度尽，方证菩提”的宏大誓愿为核心，弘扬地藏菩萨舍己度众的慈悲精神。经中记载释迦牟尼佛在忉利天宫为母说法，将弥勒成佛前的教化重任托付地藏菩萨，嘱其救度无佛时代的六道众生。 内容精要孝道为本：通过婆罗门女、光目女救母的故事，将世俗孝道升华为普度众生的菩萨行，被誉为“佛门孝经”。因果业报：详述杀生、邪淫、不孝等恶行对应的地狱果报，强调“业力甚大，能敌须弥”，警示众生敬畏因果。救度法门：称念地藏名号、诵经造像可消灾免难，超度亡亲，临终关怀需戒杀修福，广行善业。现世利益：供养地藏菩萨能获土地丰饶、家宅平安等十种利益，坚牢地神护持修行者。 影响...

Le Coran, livre sacré de l'islam, est la parole de Dieu (Allah) révélée en langue arabe au prophète Mahomet au VIIe siècle. Pour les croyants, sa nature divine et son caractère inimitable sont intrinsèquement liés à la langue arabe originale. Ainsi, toute traduction, y compris en français, est considérée non comme le Coran lui-même, mais comme une interprétation ou une traduction de son sens. Son objectif principal est de rendre le message de la Révélation accessible à ceux qui ne maîtrise...

《般若波罗蜜多心经》，简称《心经》，是大乘佛教般若思想的核心经典。全文仅二百六十字，却浓缩了《大般若经》六百卷的精髓，以“缘起性空”为根本思想，阐发“五蕴皆空”的深奥智慧。其核心教义在于“照见五蕴皆空，度一切苦厄”。经文通过“色不异空，空不异色”等著名论断，破除人们对现象世界（色）与本质空性（空）的二元对立执着，指出万法皆因缘和合，并无独立自性。这种般若智慧能使人摆脱一切恐怖与颠倒梦想，抵达究竟涅槃。《心经》在唐代由玄奘大师译出，成为流传最广的汉译本。它不仅是最短、最普及的佛教经典，日常被僧俗持诵，更深刻影响了东亚的哲学、艺术与文学。其深邃的空性哲学，为世人提供了一种超越烦恼、获得心灵自在的根本智慧。

La traduction de la Bible en français est une aventure linguistique, culturelle et religieuse qui s'étend sur plus d'un millénaire. Contrairement au Coran pour l'islam, la foi chrétienne a, dès ses débuts, intégré la nécessité de traduire le message biblique – composé de l'Ancien Testament (hébreu et araméen) et du Nouveau Testament (grec) – dans les langues vernaculaires pour le rendre accessible à tous.Les premières traductions partielles en français remontent au Moyen Âge, comme...

Step into the intimate worlds of Presbyterian women and men who lived, loved and laboured in long-eighteenth-century Ulster. Drawing on letters, diaries, newspapers and church court records, this book reveals the personal moments that shaped the rhythms and rituals of Presbyterian family life. From anxious parents and lovesick courting couples to rebellious youths, unfaithful spouses and grieving widows, these stories bring to life the full range of human experience. Pious and Promiscuous ...