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CHARLIE'S TALE: THE GREAT MYSTERY is a short novel and funny sci-fi tale about how a man named Charlie struggles to answer so timeless questions. Charlie is a baseball loving, hardworking family man. The well-crafted story is a mystery of adventure and learning ..skillfully wrapped around an intriguing dialogue of religious beliefs and practices.. CHARLIE'S TALE is Ann Anovitz's thinking about the great questions of life. Where am I and why am I here? What purpose do I have on earth? Is God in His own time working to civilize man? What future does He have in store for us? Will we ever...

While European manuscripts have been the subject of numerous historical, philological, and art historical studies over the past three decades, the study of the material culture of Asian (Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Taoist, and the like) manuscript traditions remains a relatively unexplored field. But Asian manuscripts, as the contributors to From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls demonstrate, contain much more than the semantic meaning of the words they reproduce. The ten essays collected here look closely at a wide variety of manuscript traditions with a special focus on both their...

Grace Psalms in Psalms of Grace is a collection of poems and essays written over a period of almost forty years. Written for members of the sincere faith, themes include God's love, the Holy Spirit and faith.

This collection draws...

The Good Book, with an introduction by Adam Gopnik, is "a rich tapestry of reflections" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) by writers from many different faiths, including literary fiction writers (Colm Toibin, Edwidge Danticat, Tobias Wolff, Rick Moody); bestselling nonfiction writers (A.J. Jacobs, Ian Frazier, Thomas Lynch); notable figures in the media (Charles McGrath, Cokie Roberts, Steven V. Roberts); and social...

When many Christians take a long, hard look at the lives of the spiritual elite in America, they want to shout, "I don't want to be like that " Ron DeMiglio knows how they feel and he's not afraid to do the shouting--even when those shouts are sometimes directed at himself.

Coffee, the World, and Jesus is a collection of mildly contrarian musings from this international coffee businessman who happens to love Jesus. In these humorous vignettes about the relational,...