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Thomas Merton: The Embrace of Difference

By Michael Barnes — 2018

Thomas Merton, the famed spiritual writer, died on 10 December 1968. His writings are still as relevant as his life story is fascinating, particularly his treatment of ‘difference’, a word that ‘now commands an attention that would never have been possible fifty years ago,’ writes Michael Barnes SJ.

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A Candid Conversation About Figuring Out Faith

We’ve all had moments when we’ve doubted our faith and lost our religion. Faith leaders Pastor Keion Henderson, Rabbi Sharon Brous, and Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde join Tam Fam members Nicole Queen and Bianca Bruce for an unforgettable conversation about faith and spirituality.

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Sharon Brous
2021
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When Children Ask About God: A Guide for Parents Who Don’t Always Have All the Answers

Who made God? Can God hear my prayers? Why does God let people die? The author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People helps parents understand their children’s fears and fantasies, and offers advice on answering their questions about religion, the Bible, illness, and bereavement.

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Harold S. Kushner
1995
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Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World

From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it. An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises.

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Harold S. Kushner
2010
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Who Needs God

With the warmth, insight, and understanding that distinguished his phenomenal bestsellers When Bad Things Happen to Good People and How Good Do We Have to Be?, Rabbi Harold Kushner addresses a critical issue in the lives of many: a spiritual hunger that no personal success can feed.

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Harold S. Kushner
2002
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Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation 1968–1998

Risks of Faith offers for the first time the best of noted theologian James H. Cone’s essays, including several new pieces.

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James H. Cone
2000
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Faith, Hope and Healing: Inspiring Lessons Learned from People Living with Cancer

Inspiring lessons learned from people living with cancer.

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Bernie Siegel, Jennifer Sander
2009
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Why Faith Matters

In Why Faith Matters, Rabbi David J. Wolpe blends the powerful personal story of his struggles with his own faith with a poignant response to the new atheists that reveals just how important faith in modern society.

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David J. Wolpe
2009
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Essentials of The Islamic Faith

Essentials of the Islamic Faith is a selection from some of the speeches M. Fethullah Gülen has given to large audiences over a life-time of dedicated service.

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Fethullah Gülen
2025
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Searching for Sunday

Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan building budgets, the scandals--church culture seemed so far removed from Jesus.

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Rachel Held Evans, Glennon Doyle (foreword)
2025
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th-century than a humble man of faith? As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside.

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Eric Metaxas
2020
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