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 Free Download The Call to the Far Shore: Carrying Our Loved Ones through Dying, Death, and Beyond by Nancy MacMillan and Robert Sardello English | 2025 | ASIN: B0D9TMVNL9 | 256 Pages | True ePUB | 7.37 MB  Free Download Terry Allen Moe, "The Bush Still Burns: How Spirituality and Organizing Transformed a Pastor and Congregation" English | ISBN: 1506468691 | 2021 | 232 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Terry Allen Moe came as pastor to Redeemer Lutheran, a traditional, working-class congregation in a poorer, mixed-race neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, in 1981. Five US presidents, six Portland mayors, and four Lutheran bishops later, Redeemer had been transformed into an innovative, spiritual-not-religious, member-based nonprofit called Leaven Community, and a new ELCA congregation-Salt and Light Lutheran-nested in the midst of Leaven.  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Written in a simple style akin to a medieval Book of Secrets combined with magical practices from the ancient world, Le Livre d'Or brings together practices which have their roots in major works from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Cairo Genizah, to the Greek Magical Papyri and Sepher Shimmush Tehillim (Magical Use of the Psalms).  Free Download Michael P. DeJonge, "The Bonhoeffer Reader" English | ISBN: 0800699459 | 2013 | 832 pages | EPUB | 1516 KB For the first time, a representative collection of all Bonhoeffer's theological works is available in a single volume, edited by Bonhoeffer scholars Clifford J. Green and Michael P. DeJonge. The Bonhoeffer Reader follows on the heels of the newly completed 16-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition (DBWE), a major 25-year translation project supported by the International Bonhoeffer Society and published by Fortress Press. From this massive collection of books, lectures, articles, letters and sermons, about 800 pages of all Bonhoeffer's key theological writing have been chosen to reveal his central theological ideas and their development. The Reader is formatted so that students can easily go back to the original DBWE volumes and all the additional resources included in them, making it easier than ever to pursue a more comprehensive study of Bonhoeffer's brilliant theological career.  Free Download The Bodies Poetic: Identity and Interaction with the Dead (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory) by Anna Osterholtz English | April 3, 2025 | ISBN: 3031859979 | 372 pages | PDF, EPUB | 42 Mb This book examines the intricate relationships between the living and the dead, revealing how these interactions shape group identities and facilitate ongoing negotiations of self and community. Beginning with a rich exploration of bioarchaeological theories, this volume introduces an enriched Poetics model, which deepens our understanding of not just skeletal remains, but the broader contexts that imbue bodies with social significance and how those bodies in turn can produce socially significant changes.  Free Download Susanne Scholz, "The Bible as Political Artifact: On The Feminist Study of the Hebrew Bible" English | ISBN: 1506420478 | 2017 | 352 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Biblical studies and the teaching of biblical studies are clearly changing, though it is less clear what the changes mean and how we should evaluate them. In this book, Susanne Scholz engages some of the issues as she has encountered them in the field over the last twenty years. She casts a feminist, class-critical eye on the politics of pedagogy, in higher education and in wider society alike, decrypting important developments in "the architecture of educational power." She also examines how the increasingly intercultural, interreligious, and diasporic dynamics in society inform the hermeneutical and methodological possibilities for biblical exegesis, whether the topic is rape in ancient Near Eastern legislation or Eve and Adam in the American Christian right's approaches. In bold strokes, Scholz lays out a program for biblical scholarship and pedagogy that connects to current events and ideas, such as the Title IX debate, inclusive language, or film. Taken as a whole, the fourteen chapters demonstrate that the foregrounding of gender, placed into its intersectional contexts, offers intriguing and valuable alternative ways of seeing the world and the Bible's place in it.  Free Download David Emmanuel Singh, "The Bible and Christian Ethics " English | ISBN: 1506477143 | 2013 | 217 pages | EPUB | 816 KB This book contains essays from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies' quarterly journal, Transformation, on the topic of Christian Ethics. 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