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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...

Seldom do a husband and wife have the same primary emotional love language. We tend to speak our primary love language, and we become confused when our spouse does not understand what we are communicating. Included is an assessment tool in order for the reader to identify his own and his spouse's love language.

"Every experience God gives us . . . is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see."--Corrie ten Boom. Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. In World War II she and her family risked their lives to help Jews and underground workers escape from the Nazis, and for their work they were...

Traces the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons, exploring the belief systems and traditions that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America.

When W.B. Yeats discovered Rabindranath Tagore's work in translation, he felt an intense kinship with a man, whose work was similarly grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire. For the Irish poet, Tagore's poems were at once deeply personal and essentially universal, like a secret kept by all and shared regardless: "I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the...

Spirituality meets philosophy in the Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection collection "The Practice of the Presence of God and the Spiritual Maxims." This challenging yet fruitful read describes Brother Lawrence's philosophy that a relationship with God is more important than the service and work done in God's name. Through a series of letters to nuns and other monks, he states that people become caught up in trying to prove their worth to God. According...

How do you persevere when life seems hopeless and you feel so helpless? Where does faith fit in? How do you find meaning and purpose in life when the most important people in your life are not there? How do you overcome years of depression? What can you do to be successful in marriage when only failure has been modeled before you? These questions and their answers are the starting points to healing from past damaging relationships and entering into...

Get the Summary of Jenna Kutcher's How Are You Really in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When Jenna Kutcher was 22, she left her corporate job, bought a camera on Craigslist for $300, and started her own business as a wedding photographer. From that single investment in herself, she built a successful company, a thriving podcast, a brand. But her driving force is never about working harder/smarter/faster/better....

Imagine an unexpected guest showed up at your house. Would you be scrambling around, wiping down countertops, and straightening up couch cushions? What preparations would you need to make to get your house in order? Now imagine that Jesus was that special visitor. Is your spiritual house in order? If not, “I Surrender All” is a wonderful tool for all Christians ready to get serious about their faith and make preparations for the Lord's return....

The focus of Divine Principles is a determined and systematic search for important Universal Truth. It uses the tools of science to establish two fundamental principles of the spiritual nature of that universe. It then applies the same methods to examine and evaluate a wide variety of related ideas in light of those precepts. Book Review Some favor science, while others look to faith. Author draws from both in the wide-ranging explorations he presents...