How will we regather the church after pandemic?The Covid-19 pandemic is an inflection point for the church everywhere—and certainly for the Episcopal Church. The sudden flowering of creativity, connection, and collaboration is an expression of the Holy Spirit’s relentless presence within the church; yet ongoing distancing creates difficulties to be overcome on the other side of the present crisis.How will we change habits of isolation and regather the churc...

The presiding bishop**’**s advisors lay out a step-by-step way to nurture a profound friendship with God in Christ.Walking the Way of Love is organized according to seven practices (Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest) and three ways of being (We Seek Love; We Seek Freedom; and We Seek Abundant Life). The wisdom in this book allows people to move from the first tentative stages of wanting an ex...

One of the most provocative science books ever published—"a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there are" (The New York Times Book Review)."Fiercely intelligent, beautifully written and engrossingly original." —The New York Times Book ReviewAre men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animaled...

In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy. He explains why spirituality has a role today, and why science, contrar...

In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike have...

Wij mensen zijn niet gauw tevreden. Dat is ook helemaal niet de bedoeling; de evolutie heeft ervoor gezorgd dat onze geest vatbaar is voor allerlei illusies en frustraties. Angst, hebzucht, depressie - ze zitten ingebakken in onze natuur. Niemand weet dat beter dan Robert Wright, die in zijn universitaire carrière al jaren onderzoekt hoe de evolutionaire psychologie een verklaring kan geven voor onze mentale problemen. Maar in Waarom boeddhisme werkt beschrijft hij ook de oplossing ervoor....

The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity.Whether it’s coming up hard against the speed of light – and, with it, the enormity of the universe – realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you’d ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes...

Immer mehr Menschen meditieren. Und auch die Lehre des Buddha hat schon lange die Mitte unserer Gesellschaft erreicht. Woran das liegt? Ganz einfach: Buddhismus wirkt! Denn er bietet praktische Wege, um in einer immer komplexer werdenden Welt die Dinge klar zu sehen und gelassen und erfüllt zu leben.Skeptisch? Das war Robert Wright auch. Dann begann der preisgekrönte Journalist der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Er fing an zu meditieren. Er wertete die neuesten Studien aus Medizin un...

Following the success of their Locus Award–winning anthology The New Space Opera, editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan up the ante with The New Space Opera 2, in which more of the most beloved names in science fiction spin stunning tales of interstellar adventure and wonder. Authors include:Neal AsherJohn BarnesCory DoctorowJohn KesselJay LakeJohn MeaneyElizabeth MoonGarth NixMike ResnickJustina RobsonKristine Kathryn RuschJohn ScalziBruce SterlingPeter Wat...

The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. As the city exploded in a fury of revolution, few knew about the six American embassy staff who escaped into hiding. For three months, Ken Taylor, the Canadian ambassador to Iran—along with his wife and embassy staffers—concealed the Americans in their homes, terrified that Ayatollah Khomeini would find out and exact deadly consequences.January 28, 2010, mark...

In Three Nights in Havana and Our Man in Tehran, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life two key events that shaped Canada’s diplomatic psyche and forever changed how Canada was viewed by the rest of the world.On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Three Nights in Havana is a fascinating portrait of an unusual relationship betw...

La verità è che siamo tutti tizi impauriti, vestiti a festa ma nascosti chissà dove nella speranza che qualcuno si accorga di noi.Da quasi trent’anni sei il doppiatore ufficiale di uno degli attori più famosi e strapagati di Hollywood. Per il pubblico non hai neanche un nome, sei “la voce di Robert Wright”. Consacrare l’esistenza a un portento del cinema mondiale ha avuto il suo prezzo: rimanere nell’ombra. Sei comunque una star, ma dei titoli di coda. Quaranta fil...