Religion and Spirituality
83 Articles & Excerpts
Making Room for Miracles
 The Book of Miracles
by Kenneth L. Woodward
A miracle is an unusual or extraordinary event that is in principle perceivable by others, that finds no reasonable explanation in ordinary human abilities or in other known forces that operate in the world of time and space
Monotheism and Polytheism
 God Against the Gods
by Jonathan Kirsch
Nothing in human nature suggests the inevitability of the notion that there is only one god. On the contrary, men and women in every age and throughout the world have offered worship to literally thousands of gods, goddesses and godlings, male and female
Back to the Beginning
 Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
We will be taking many backward glances throughout our journey, so we ought to accept at the outset that no life retraced ever really begins at the beginning, especially a woman's life. For while the past asks only to be remembered, a woman's memory
The Rosenblatt Love Story
 It's a Miracle 2: More Inspiring True Stories Based on the PAX TV Series, It's A Miracle
by Richard Thomas
The cruel, inhumane, and unimaginable images of World War II concentration camps remain embedded in our hearts and minds. That anyone could have survived these atrocities is a miracle.
Prelude: The Yearning
 Hymns to an Unknown God: Awakening The Spirit In Everyday Life
by Sam Keen, Ph.D.
There is no doubt that America is in the midst of a spiritual crisis. Millions of people are trying to find meaning in their lives by returning to old-time religions, or by seeking out new cults, fads, channelers, 12-step programs, and self-help books.
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 Baba: Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Yogi
by Rampuri
The three-decked steamship had been following the contour of the palm-lined Indian coastline since sunrise, weaving its way through flotillas of fishing boats and other small ships until it reached Bombay. The voyage from Karachi was the final leg
A: a fortiori, a priori, Abelard (Abailard), Peter ...
 A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion
by Anthony C. Thiselton, M.Th., Ph.D., D.D.
Covering thinkers from Plato to Freud, offering detailed explanations of such fundamental principles as evil, and outlining clear definitions of complex ideas like 'the doctrine of analogy', this is a comprehensive reference tool for all those studying
Beginnings
 The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
by María Rosa Menocal
This rich and complex culture shared by the three faiths thrived, sometimes in the face of enmity and bigotry, for nearly seven hundred years. Ironically, it was on the eve of the Renaissance that puritanical forces finally triumphed over Spain's
Prophecies and Religion
 Prophecy: What the Future Holds For You
by Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison
Without faith, without our beliefs, we're lost. It doesn't matter that God, by whatever name we call Him, never stops believing in us. If we don't reciprocate and keep that connection alive on our end, we're tragically squandering God's belief in us
Beyond Good and Evil
 by Friedrich Nietzsche
1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us!
Anselm of Canterbury, anthropomorphism, apologetics ...
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion
by Anthony C. Thiselton, M.Th., Ph.D., D.D.
In philosophy of religion Anselm is most widely known for his formulation of the Ontological Argument for the existence of God. Anselm sets out this approach in two distinct forms in the Proslogion 2-4.
Foreseeing God in the Laboratory
 The G.O.D. Experiments
by Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., William L. Simon
How Evidence For Design Shows Up In Prophetic Dreams. One April day in 2001, the phone in my home office rang. The caller was a man with a charming British accent and a sparkling manner alive with animation and humor, who introduced himself
Re-creating Ourselves
 God in the Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity and God
by Anne Foerst, Ph.D.
What Does It Mean to Be Human? We need to begin with the most important questions that will follow us throughout the book. What does it mean to be human? How can humanness be defined? Can we ever come up with criteria that distinguish us from animals
Superstition In All Ages
 by Voltaire
Jean Meslier, born 1678, in the village of Mazerny, dependency of the duchy of Rethel, was the son of a serge weaver; brought up in the country, he nevertheless pursued his studies and succeeded to the priesthood. At the seminary, where he lived with much
Well Endowed
 Skipping Towards Gomorrah
by Dan Savage
In Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates the right-wing conservatives as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits.
John L. Austin, Authority
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion
by Anthony C. Thiselton, M.Th., Ph.D., D.D.
Austin was a leading exponent of 'analytical' or 'Ordinary Language' philosophy. He taught at Oxford for most of his life, and practised this method there from 1945 until his death in 1960. His essay 'Other Minds' (1946) introduced the category
Meditations
 by Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa, second King of Rome. Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious
Parenting and the Gift of Spirit
 The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents
by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
The deepest desire in a parent's heart is to see one's child achieve success in life, yet how many of us realize that the most direct way to success is through spirit? In our society we don't usually make that connection—quite the opposite.
Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth
 by René Descartes
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure
Atheism, Attribute
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion
by Anthony C. Thiselton, M.Th., Ph.D., D.D.
In the broadest terms, atheism denotes the denial of the existence of God. Broadly also, it is to be distinguished from agnosticism, the belief that to know whether or not God exists is impossible. Many distinguish between atheism as a view of reality
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