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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Language
English
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In the wake of the 2016 election, Lenz watched as her country and her marriage were torn apart by the competing forces of faith and politics. She was bewildered by the pain and loss around her and questioned: What was happening to faith in the heartland? Lenz set out to discover the changing forces of faith and tradition in God's country. In examining the effects of faith and religion on our lives, our relationships, and our country, Lenz asks whether...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The activist and TED speaker Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, her life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization.
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English
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"Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing--and least understood--people living in America today. In his seminal new book, The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, journalist Tim Alberta, himself a practicing Christian and the son of an evangelical preacher, paints an expansive and profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement. Through the eyes of televangelists and small-town preachers, celebrity revivalists and everyday...
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Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The American Founders believed that a republic depends on certain masculine virtues. Senator Josh Hawley thinks they were right. In a bold new book, he calls on American men to stand up and embrace their God-given responsibility as husbands, fathers, and citizens.
Author
Publisher
Liberatio Protocol
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Kayleigh McEnany brings to life the key cultural and political issues of our time, from the fall of Afghanistan to the Supreme Court's abortion decision, analyzing world events through the lens of faith and providing readers with Serenity in the Storm"--
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Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An expert on Christian nationalism identifies three areas -- power, fear, and violence -- where nationalism conflicts with core gospel beliefs and reveals its theological and spiritual costs in the church before pointing a way forward"--
Author
Publisher
Humanix Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Filled with stories that demonstrate the mind-numbing reasons behind the secular left's smug disdain for Christianity, Horowitz traces the history of religious liberty from the Founding Fathers to now. He shows how the Founding Fathers put aside their own skepticisms about God and religion to write The Declaration of Independence. Today, he writes Donald Trump's "genuine love for his country" has galvanized Christians to fight the secular war waged...
18) The third reconstruction: Moral Mondays, fusion politics, and the rise of a new justice movement
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Two friends on opposite sides of the aisle provide a practical guide to grace-filled political conversation while challenging readers to put relationship before policy and understanding before argument. More than ever, politics seems driven by conflict and anger. People sitting together in pews every Sunday have started to feel like strangers, loved ones at the dinner table like enemies. Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers say there is a better...
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