This is a collection of inspiration, smiles and spiritual wisdom drawn from a wide array of sources from ancient to modern times, complemented by unique personal commentary. “I’d like a copy of this book.… Anything to help the Universe.”— Alvin Pettle, M.D. FRCS (C), Author of Rx/My Prescription for Life, The Ruth Pettle Wellness Centre

This book is about depression and anxiety — and what you can do about it. It could as easily be titled Pills, Skills, or the Will? It deals not only with anti-depressant drugs, and anti-depressant skills, but includes an anti-depressant will or lifestyle therapy. Drugs can cause side-effects and collateral damage. Talk therapy, such as CBT, though very helpful, may not go far enough. This lifestyle or interaction therapy can be added to any treatment method, with positive and long-lasting ...

Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during England’s last major wave of emigration between the 1940s and the 1970s. Engaging life story oral histories reveal the aspirations, adventures, occasional naïveté, and challenges of these hidden immigrants. Postwar...

Although Chouraqui and his work are well-known and celebrated in many parts of the world (especially in Israel, and in the francophone world), he is almost completely unknown in the anglophone world. This book represents an attempt to introduce his important work and inspiring legacy to an English-speaking audience, and to explore how it can enrich Jewish-Christian dialogue today. As a bilingual translator and Biblical scholar, I am able to make Chouraqui’s work accessible to English speak...

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Oprah Winfrey!In this chapter book biography by Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Renée Watson, readers learn about the amazing life of Oprah Winfrey--and how she persisted.When Oprah Winfrey was growing up, ...

Contenido¿Qué es el arrepentimiento? - William S. Plumer (1802-1880)La necesidad de arrepentimiento - J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)Seis ingredientes del arrepentimiento - Thomas Watson (c. 1620-1686)Arrepentimiento o fe: ¿Cuál viene primero? - John Murray (1898-1975)Cristo mandó que haya arrepentimiento - Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)Pecado, pecadores y arrepentimiento - John Gill (1697-1771)Los frutos del arrepentimiento - Arthur W. Pink ...

Normon Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. Demonstrating the diverse nature and ethnic origin of those with the Jewish faith, Solomon explores how the Jewish religion has developed in the 2,000 years since the days of the Bible. This Very Short Introduction starts by outlining the basics of practical Judaism - its festivals, prayers, customs, and various sects - and goes on to consider how Judaism has responded to, and dealt w...

A powerful history that shows anti-Judaism to be a central way of thinking in the Western tradition.This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West.Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout ...

A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition.There is a widespread tendency to regard anti-Judaism – whether expressed in a casual remark or implemented through pogrom or extermination campaign – as somehow exceptional: an unfortunate indicator of personal prejudice or the shocking outcome of an extremist ideology married to power.But, as David Nirenberg argues in thi...

Throughout history, the Jewish people have faced catastrophe after catastrophe. They have been expelled, ghettoised, murdered and forcibly converted. The question that Jonathan Sacks asks in this original and compelling book is not how Judaism survived four thousand years of persecution, but how it found ways to flourish and thrive.Originally written as a wedding gift for his son over twenty years ago, now featuring a new foreword by Natan Sharansky, this revised edition is a remin...

A New York Times bestselling and widely admired Catholic writer explores how we can retrieve transcendent faith in modern timesCritically acclaimed and bestselling author James Carroll has explored every aspect of Christianity, faith, and Jesus Christ except this central one: What can we believe about—and how can we believe in—Jesus in the twenty-first century in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religi...

How can we define "Judaism," and what are the common threads uniting ancient rabbis, Maimonides, the authors of the Zohar, and modern secular Jews in Israel? Michael L. Satlow offers a fresh perspective on Judaism that recognizes both its similarities and its immense diversity. Presenting snapshots of Judaism from around the globe and throughout history, Satlow explores the links between vastly different communities and their Jewish traditions. He studies the geonim, rabbinical scholars wh...