Religion and Spirituality
93 Articles & Excerpts
Deciding on the Dream
 Building Your Field of Dreams
by Mary Manin Morrissey
Building Your Field of Dreams is both a compelling personal story and a practical and inspiring guide for anyone who has ever hoped for a better life. Mary Morrissey's own dreams were nearly shattered at age 16, when pregnancy forced her into a reluctant
Kidney in Common
 It's a Miracle 2: More Inspiring True Stories Based on the PAX TV Series, It's A Miracle
by Richard Thomas
Teresa Dravk is a native of York, Pennsylvania. For most of her life, she has suffered from serious heart and kidney problems that have kept her housebound. But in 1997, Teresa discovered the Internet - and it was about to open a whole new world for her.
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.
The Winning Ticket
 It's a Miracle 3: Extraordinary Real-Life Stories Based on the PAX TV Series It's a Miracle
by Richard Thomas
Dozens of real-life inspirational tales from the tv show that has touched the heart of America. Here are true stories of wonder and joy to lift your spirits and get you through tough times ... stories to celebrate and offer comfort when you need a little
The Tragic Legacy, Christian Soldiers
 God Against the Gods
by Jonathan Kirsch
The strict and uncompromising attitude of monotheism, approvingly described in the Bible itself as 'zeal' for the True God, sometimes manifests itself in a strange phenomenon that historians of religion call rigorism - that is, 'extreme strictness'
The Only True God
God Against the Gods
by Jonathan Kirsch
Monotheism, by contrast, insists that only a single deity is worthy of worship for the simple reason that only a single deity exists. On this point, Judaism, Christianity and Islam agree, at least in principle: the deity that is variously called 'Yahweh'
A Parade of Horribles
God Against the Gods
by Jonathan Kirsch
Over the last thirty centuries of religious propaganda, starting in the Bible and continuing through the TV evangelists of our own era, paganism has been painted as a parade of horribles.
Four Kings
God Against the Gods
by Jonathan Kirsch
Monotheism is classically understood to be a 'gift of the Jews,' according to Thomas Cahill's felicitous phrase, but the fact is that an eccentric young pharaoh of ancient Egypt was apparently inspired to worship a single god even before 'one-god-ism'
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
A Spirit Woman's Vision of Transition and Change
 Tree of Dreams
by Lynn V. Andrews
Face in the Water looked down at the red chief's blanket we were sitting on. With her long, elegant fingers, she traced a thread of black wool woven in the pattern. I wondered at all her hands had touched in the many years of her life.
The First Decision
 Nothing is Impossible
by Christopher Reeve
As the old saying goes, you better know what you want because you might get it and you've got to accept it. Whether you succeed or whether you encounter adversity you always have to believe in your worth as a person. That's what counts.
A Conversation with Harold Kushner
 The Lord Is My Shepherd
by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Q: You say you have been thinking about this book for years. Why did you decide to write it now? This is your first book post 9/11. Did that tragedy affect your writing it?
A Psalm of David
The Lord Is My Shepherd
by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Can fifteen beautiful lines from a single page of the Bible change your life? I believe they can, if you are willing to open your heart to their magic. Listen closely to them, read them with an open mind and an open heart, and you will find the answers
How to Find the Grail
 Da Vinci Decoded
by Michael J. Gelb
In Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code the protagonists, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu, find themselves caught up in a whirlwind of intrigue and danger as they seek to track down the Holy Grail
Introduction
 The Beginning of Wisdom
by Leon R. Kass, M.D., Ph.D.
This book offers a philosophic reading of the book of Genesis. Addressed to believers and nonbelievers alike, it should be of special interest to thoughtful children of skeptics, people who (like the author) now have good reason to want to see for
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.
Prologue
 The Question of God
by Armand M. Nicholi, Jr., M.D.
On the morning of September 26, 1939, at Golders Green in northwest London, a group of friends and family gathered to mourn the death of Sigmund Freud. After his body was cremated, Ernest Jones, in his funeral oration, noted that "he was being buried
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
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
Separation of Church and State
 How the Republicans Stole Christmas : Why the Religious Right is Wrong about Faith & Politics and What We Can Do to Make it Right
by Bill Press
For decades, Press argues, conservative preachers such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and James Dobson-joined by most Catholic bishops-have defined religion so narrowly that Democrats and liberals have been pushed outside the fold.
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