Author: Tom Frame
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459605098
Size: 31.73 MB
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Languages : en
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Losing My Religion

by Tom Frame, release date 2010-10-14, Losing My Religion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Losing My Religion books, In this challenging and provocative book, Tom Frame, one of Australia's best - known writers on religion and society, examines diminishing theological belief and declining denominational affiliation. He argues that Australia has never been a very religious nation but that few Australians have deliberately rejected belief - most simply can't see why they need to be bothered with religion at all. He contends that vehement campaigning against theistic belief is the product of growing disdain for religious fundamentalism and a vigorous commitment to personal autonomy. Losing My Religion contends that God is certainly not dead but that Australia's religious landscape will continue to change as the battle for hearts, minds and spirits continues. Published on the sesquicentennial of the first release of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), this book will provoke debate about what matters to Australians.

Author: VISHWAS MUDAGAL
Publisher: FINGERPRINT! An imprint of Prakash Books India Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN: 8172345089
Size: 24.24 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Losing My Religion

by VISHWAS MUDAGAL, release date 2014-02-15, Losing My Religion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Losing My Religion books, Racy, unpredictable, romantic, and inspiring, this is a novel that is bound to get you addicted and stay with you forever. When gamer and entrepreneur Rishi Rai sets out to revolutionize the gaming industry, something somewhere goes terribly wrong and, like dominoes, the blocks of his life fall down one after the other. An unexpected meeting with Alex, an unpredictable, crazy American hippie, changes his life forever, as he decides to quit everything and join him on an unplanned, uncharted journey across India. From getting irrepressibly high in the mysterious Malana Valley in the Himalayas to starting a shack on the bewitching Om Beach on the West Coast, they do it all. But their adrenaline-charged adventure takes a turn when Rishi meets Kyra, a beautiful and enigmatic gamer. As passions surge and sparks fly, Rishi gets drawn to Kyra . . . unaware of who she is and where she comes from. What follows next is something nobody could have ever dreamed of . . . Who is Kyra and why are the paparazzi after her? Can Rishi connect the dots in his life to protect the love of his life? While the world becomes a spectator, can he mastermind the fall of a ruthless giant to become a global icon or will he become the biggest loser?

Author: William C. Mills
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532663730
Size: 17.43 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Losing My Religion

by William C. Mills, release date 2019-01-15, Losing My Religion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Losing My Religion books, After four years of college and six years in seminary, William Mills was ready for a parish--or so he thought. He didn't realize much of his time would be endless discussions about bagels and coffee, digging ditches, and parking lot condom patrols. For six years, community life was just humming along. Then disaster struck. Mills' life came crashing down when nearly a third of his congregation left in a public power play, causing him to question his faith in himself, in the church, and in God. Marva Dawn, a noted writer of spirituality and ministry, said that being a pastor is like being peppered with popcorn: after a while, you just get tired of it, pack your bags, and move on. However, as Mills himself says, "I was either too stubborn or stupid, so I stayed." Losing My Religion is about the ups and downs, ins and outs, choices and challenges of being a pastor in the twenty-first-century church. It's also about the redemptive power of community life and finding healing and wholeness in a broken world.

Author: William Lobdell
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780061626814
Size: 38.21 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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by William Lobdell, release date 2009-02-24, Losing My Religion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Losing My Religion books, William Lobdell's journey of faith—and doubt—may be the most compelling spiritual memoir of our time. Lobdell became a born-again Christian in his late 20s when personal problems—including a failed marriage—drove him to his knees in prayer. As a newly minted evangelical, Lobdell—a veteran journalist—noticed that religion wasn't covered well in the mainstream media, and he prayed for the Lord to put him on the religion beat at a major newspaper. In 1998, his prayers were answered when the Los Angeles Times asked him to write about faith. Yet what happened over the next eight years was a roller-coaster of inspiration, confusion, doubt, and soul-searching as his reporting and experiences slowly chipped away at his faith. While reporting on hundreds of stories, he witnessed a disturbing gap between the tenets of various religions and the behaviors of the faithful and their leaders. He investigated religious institutions that acted less ethically than corrupt Wall St. firms. He found few differences between the morals of Christians and atheists. As this evidence piled up, he started to fear that God didn't exist. He explored every doubt, every question—until, finally, his faith collapsed. After the paper agreed to reassign him, he wrote a personal essay in the summer of 2007 that became an international sensation for its honest exploration of doubt. Losing My Religion is a book about life's deepest questions that speaks to everyone: Lobdell understands the longings and satisfactions of the faithful, as well as the unrelenting power of doubt. How he faced that power, and wrestled with it, is must reading for people of faith and nonbelievers alike.

Author: Ria Barna
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781436312691
Size: 62.33 MB
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Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Losing My Religion

by Ria Barna, release date 2008-03, Losing My Religion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Losing My Religion books, We all own a very special key. It is the key that unlocks all that we are and all that we could ever want and dream of wanting. Access to this key is so simple, yet we make it so hard. This key is always there, waiting for us to use it to unlock our treasure chest and to release the power within it. We all want so badly to be the winner of the "big" lottery, but little do we know we already are the winner. We think winning the lottery will give us the power to do what we want with our lives. If we only knew that all the power is already within us. They say that in the "last days" the hearts of many men will fail because of fear. Our hearts fail every time we make a decision based in fear, instead of "believing" to trust what is in our hearts. Our heart is each and everyone's very own treasure chest that is open every time we choose to believe what is in it. Now if the key to all our happiness is in our treasure chest, which lies within our heart, wouldn't it make sense that our number one priority in life would be to discover our heart and what lies within it? Every time we make a decision aligned with our heart, we tap into our power and release a potent and invisible energy into the world. This energy in turn orchestrates the universe to reflect back into our lives that ultimately leads us to fulfill our purpose. We must believe that all of life's experiences, situations, and relationships are there to take us on a great journey. A journey that creates opportunities for self-discovery and that promotes self-growth and awareness. One experience of life is death. However, it is not death in the physical sense, but in a spiritual sense. It is dying to who we thought we were and dying to what we thought we believed and to how we defined ourselves. A lot of what we "thought" really isn't even our own "thoughts." They are actually thoughts we adopted from others. They are thoughts and beliefs imposed on us by others, beginning right down to when we were babies. In this process to self-discovery, we must cut off the "junk" we gathered in life that are not our own in order to become in alignment to who we are. God is the very essence of life the life within us and the life outside us. As we continue the path of self-discovery, happiness is sure to follow. The compass that should aid us in our journey is called bliss. Following our bliss is the key to what is in your heart and ultimately to be one with God. The key to our fulfillment in life is not to create separation between who God is and who we are. We are one with God. We are cocreators with God, and we have the power to create whatever we want.

Author: Jeffrey Lang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590080276
Size: 22.97 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Losing My Religion

by Jeffrey Lang, release date 2004, Losing My Religion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Losing My Religion books,

Author: Richard Bradbury
Publisher: Pneuma Springs Publishing
ISBN: 1907728171
Size: 80.57 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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Losing My Religion

by Richard Bradbury, release date 2011-07-25, Losing My Religion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Losing My Religion books, This book arises from twenty five years of study and a passion to see God¿s people grasp the extent and significance of the Kingdom of God and to apply it in their own lives. This message is not an addendum to the gospel but is in fact the gospel. Christianity is not a religion to be followed but is about seeing the rule of God extended to the earth in every aspect of life: 'Let Your kingdom come; let Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven¿. It is not about adopting a philosophy but about renewing the world through the transformation of lives, beliefs, values and behaviours. This renewal extends to all poverty, injustice and the effects of the Fall in the social, political and economic environment of the World. As we grasp this we will see the gospel as the means through which the healing of our lives becomes the basis for the healing of the nations.Richard Bradbury is based in Beverley in East Yorkshire and leads Beverley Community Church, part of the Groundlevel Network of churches. Married with four children, his prime gifting is as a teacher to the Body of Christ.

Author: Michael Bryant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781631732720
Size: 56.32 MB
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Pages : 238
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Losing My Religion Gaining My Identity

by Michael Bryant, release date 2012-06-30, Losing My Religion Gaining My Identity Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Losing My Religion Gaining My Identity books, Biblical Christianity as a reality that we as believers share with God, not a religion. "Losing my religion, Gaining my Identity" was written to remove the proverbial scales of religiosity covering our eyes, that we may experience the Lord in a real way, and walk in all that God has given us as an inheritance in the finished work of the Cross.

Author: Kevin Ronald Ward
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 163087034X
Size: 50.91 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Losing Our Religion

by Kevin Ronald Ward, release date 2013-10-22, Losing Our Religion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Losing Our Religion books, Church-going in most Western societies has declined significantly in the wake of the social and cultural changes that began in the 1960s. Does this mean that people in these societies are losing any religious dimension in their lives, or is it being expressed in other forms and places? This study begins by looking at comparative data on how church-going patterns have changed in five countries--Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand--examining reasons for the decline, how churches have responded to these changes, and why some churches have shown greater resilience. It then explores some of the particular challenges these changes pose for the future of churches in these societies and some of the responses that have been made, drawing on both sociological and theological insights. The conclusion is that, despite the loss of belonging, believing persists and religion continues to play a significant role in these societies, mediated in a variety of diffuse cultural forms. Cases illustrating these changes are largely drawn from New Zealand, which as the country most recently settled by Europeans has always been "secular" and thus provides helpful insights.

Author: Jace Weaver
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133522
Size: 42.79 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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Other Words

by Jace Weaver, release date 2001, Other Words Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Other Words books, Eloh’, a Cherokee word, is usually translated by anthropologists as "religion," but it also simultaneously encompasses history, culture, knowledge, law, and land. In this provocative work, Jace Weaver interlaces these seemingly disparate meanings to form a coherent approach to Native American Studies. In nineteen interrelated chapters, Weaver presents a range of experiences shared by native peoples in the Americas, from the distant past to the uncertain future. He examines Indian creative output, from oral tradition to the postmodern wordplay of Gerald Vizenor, and brings to light previously overlooked texts. Weaver also tackles up-to-the-minute issues, including environmental crises, Native American spirituality, repatriation of Indian remains and cultural artifacts, and international human rights.