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|  | How to Read Church History, Vol. 2 by Jean Comby
This introduction to Church history sets the development of Christianity from the sixteenth century to the present in the wider history of the world. Direct quotations from primary sources accompany the narrative. AUTHOR: Jean Comby
PUBLISHER: Crossroad Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality 
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 | Spiritual Genius by Winifred Gallagher
In SPIRITUAL GENIUS, Gallagher searches for enlightenment, and finds it, in a Tibetan Buddhist hermit, an Evangelical preacher, a Hindu goddess, and more, and asks how others can learn from their example. AUTHOR: Winifred Gallagher
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Easter by Gail Gibbons
A nonfiction picture book that explains the Easter holiday from pagan, biblical, and modern perspectives. Also described is the origin of the legend of the Easter Bunny as well as the symbolism of decorating eggs and Easter baskets. Watercolor illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Gail Gibbons
PUBLISHER: Holiday House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | The Hidden Book in the Bible by Richard E. Friedman
Renowned biblical sleuth and scholar Richard Elliott Friedman, author of Who Wrote the Bible?, reveals for the first time his most startling and revolutionary discovery: embedded within the Bible is a continuous narrative that had been sliced apart by ancient editors who interlaced it with other stories, laws, and poetry. It is a singular work of genius, the core of the Bible. Across three millennia, this great work of prose comes back to us--pieced together as it was originally meant to be read--in a fresh and powerful translation. In recent years, Harold Blooms The Book of J and Friedmans own Who Wrote the Bible? have made the short work called J known to the public. But in The Hidden Book in the Bible Friedman presents his landmark discovery that J is not a work. It is the beginning section of a work: a long, exquisitely connected prose composition full of artistry and power. Using a creative blend of scholarship and detective work, Friedman has joined together this story from the dawn of written history, and what emerges is astonishing. Far from a primitive first attempt atr writing, it is an exciting and complex saga, a passionate work of love, deception, war, and redemption. Readers will experience the story that has not been read as a single continuous narrative for almost three millennia. Friedman begins by leading the readers through the exciting story of his discovery of this hidden work. He marshals the evidence, showing how a unique use of language and themes--from the two cases of the famous coat of many colors to all nine references to Sheol (the place of the dead), and from incidents of sibling rivalry to sexual violation--recur in a connected way in certain parts of hte Bible but nowhere else. Friedman dramatically illustrates how these clues establish a singular authors voice guiding more of the Bible than was ever previously suspected. Friedman presents the work itself in a bold translation that is remarkable faithful to the original. It be AUTHOR: Richard E. Friedman
PUBLISHER: HarperSanFrancisco
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | When Suffering Persists by Frederick W. Schmidt
Description not available.Challenges the pat answers often given to those who suffer, and provides, instead, a theology that takes seriously the devastating character of persistent suffering and senseless loss. Original. AUTHOR: Frederick W. Schmidt
PUBLISHER: Morehouse Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Hatred, Bigotry, & Prejudice by Robert Baird, Stuart E. Rosenbaum
The kidnaping and beating death of a gay University of Wyoming student; the dragging death of a black man in Jasper, Texas, by advocates of white pride -- these two isolated incidents of violent crime occurred in 1998, not 1898, and are painful reminders that bigotry and prejudice stubbornly remain well entrenched in American culture. What, in today's seemingly enlightened society, compels a bigot? How do prejudice and hatred emerge, and sometimes lead to such horrific violence? What can be done to overcome this subversive social undercurrent? Updated and augmented with new essays on crimes against religious groups, gay bashing, and current court cases, this is a concise and relevant collection of essays that pinpoints the definitions, origins, and outcomes of intolerance in America. AUTHOR: Robert Baird, Stuart E. Rosenbaum
PUBLISHER: Prometheus Books, Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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