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161) The healer
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It's like a dream. The ability to heal others with the touch of your hands. But for Leah, it might just be a nightmare. Born with a power she barely comprehends, she is thrown blindly into a world filled with desperate people. Her journey to understand herself, her abilities, and how to heal, will bring out the best and the worst of humanity. Will the world accept someone like her existing among them? What will Leah have to sacrifice to be the Healer?...
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"Through their part in some huge controversies, conspiracy theorists are being branded the Number One Enemies of our times - the new heretics. They are seen to threaten the very fabric of modern society, spreading doubts and fears that result in Washington Capitol invasions, transmission mast burnings or the spread of anti-vaxx material. Yet the theorists prefer to call themselves "truth seekers" and see the mainstream establishment as the real disruptor,...
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"Robert Pirsig wrote of Steve Hagen's first book, 'Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense', "For those who are certain that objectivity and intellect are the ground floor of all knowledge, this can be a valuable trip to the sub-basement." Now, in 'The Grand Delusion', Hagen drills deeper, into the most basic strengths, assumptions, and limitations of religion and belief, philosophy and inquiry, science, and technology. In doing so, he shines new...
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En nuestra vida diaria, muchos de nosotros preferimos la zona de confort de nuestras creencias sobre la incomodidad de la duda. Escuchamos opiniones que nos hacen sentir bien, en lugar de ideas que nos hacen reflexionar. Vemos el desacuerdo como una amenaza para nuestro ego, más que como una oportunidad para aprender. Nos rodeamos de personas que están de acuerdo con nuestras conclusiones, cuando deberíamos estar gravitando hacia aquellos que desafían...
171) Oh my God
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"What is God? In every corner of the world, there's one question that can never be definitively answered, yet stirs up equal parts passion, curiosity, self-reflection, and often wild imagination: "What is God?" Filmmaker Peter Rodger explores this profound, age-old query in the provocative nonfiction film Oh my God. Frustrated with religious turmoil, fanaticism, and fundamentalism, he set out on a global quest to understand what God really means to...
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In Grand Theories and Everyday Beliefs, a distinguished philosopher offers a novel view of how humans became rational beings. Wallace Matson anchors his sweeping narrative to his core theme of "high" and "low" beliefs. As he defines them, low beliefs are tied to everyday matters and practical experience. High beliefs are abstract and theoretical, making sense of disparate things and promoting solidarity or fostering hope and courage. Matson's...
174) The communist
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"A unique political coming of age story, now in English for the first time. An NYRB Classics Original. The Communist is the story of a life lived in the service of a faith and what happens when that faith is lost. Walter Ferranini, a child of Italy's agricultural heartland, begins as an earnest autodidact who works as a labor organizer before being driven, under Mussolini, into exile in the United States, the belly of the capitalist beast. After World...
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The case for the creator: Does contemporary scientific evidence point toward or away from a supernatural Creator? Featuring interviews with scientists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this remarkable film traces Strobel's own journey from spiritual skepticism to profound faith.
The case for Christ: Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, Lee Strobel, former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, cross-examines recognized...
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When Dylan Fielding, celebrated contemporary visual artist, becomes Br. Thomas Augustine, novice at Our Lady of the Pines monastery, he finds delight not only in the shock his choice causes everyone around him but--to his own surprise--in the rhythms of the life itself. Shortly before he solidifies a lifelong commitment to the community, a traumatic encounter with an abusive priest plunges Thomas Augustine into terror and doubt. Reeling and uncertain,...
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"In this delightful illustrated book written in rhyme, the children gaze at a face-shaped cloud, and Aiden asks if it is real. To answer, our favorite feathered-dinosaur, the Skeptisaurus, guides the children to use their critical thinking skills when determining myth from fact. He takes the kids on an amazing journey through legends of old times, from witches to oracles, explaining how we evolved to see things that aren't always there. But when those...
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Donissan, a mediocre seminarian, haunted by Evil and the failure of his divine mission, mortifies his body and is unable to establish any rapport with his parishioners. Until the day the abbot meets young Mouchette, who has just committed a mortal sin. Based on Georges Bernanos's (Diary Of A Country Priest) novel, this unforgettable drama earned director Pialat a Palme d'Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
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