books about: faithful

books about: faithful

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Faithful

The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap

Amy Sullivan

Scribner, 2008

A Fascinating Look Inside the World Where Religion and Politics Meet
Our parents may have warned us to avoid talking about religion or politics. Fortunately, Amy Sullivan never got--or never listened to--that warning. Regardless of your political persuasion, The Party Faithful is a fascinating look deep inside a world which the ...

Quitting Church: Why the Faithful are Fleeing and What to Do about It

Julia Duin

Baker Books, 2008

Sept. 2 review from the Wall Street Journal
Sunday Morning, Staying Home By TERRY EASTLAND September 2, 2008; Page A21 Quitting Church By Julia Duin (BakerBooks, 186 pages, $17.99) [Sunday Morning, Staying Home] By now we know that evangelical Protestants -- generally supportive of Republican ...

The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture

Philip F. Lawler

Encounter Books, 2008

Thoughtful, well researched
Well written, well researched and carefully thought out book proposing the hypothesis that the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church was only the most visible manifestation of a general malaise in moral leadership among the hierarchy. I would have liked footnotes ...

The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America

James M. O'Toole

Belknap Press, 2008

Excellent Cultural History of American Catholics
This book is an excellent, concise view of the cultural experience of American Catholicism. Mr. O'Toole does a great service to readers by avoiding the ecclesiastical issues when ever possible to focus on the human development of the Roman Catholic Church in this ...

Waiting for Morning (Forever Faithful Series #1)

Karen Kingsbury

Multnomah Books, 2002

Keep the tissue close!
As usual, this book was hard to put down, but keep the tissue close at hand.

The Faithful Spy (A John Wells Novel)

Alex Berenson

Jove, 2008

Exciting New Author
This novel is well written, believable and fast paced. The hero, John Wells, was born in Montana, a convert to Islam and a CIA operative who over a period of time infiltrated al Qaeda in the mountains of Pakistan/Afghanistan. He was dispatched back to the U.S. to ...

Animals in Spirit: Our faithful companions' transition to the afterlife

Penelope Smith

Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2008

Beautiful Insights on Life and Death from the Animals
Penelope Smith's most recent book, "Animals in Spirit", is a beautiful, heartfelt, and sensitive guide to animals' perspectives on the death and dying process, as well their experiences in the spiritual dimension after leaving the physical body. In sharing her ...

A Moment of Weakness (Forever Faithful Series #2)

Karen Kingsbury

Multnomah Books, 2000

A Moment of Weakness
A Moment of Weakness is a wonderful, well-written, Christian novel about two good friends Jade Conner and Tanner Eastman. They grew up in the same neighborhood and spent much time playing together when they were children. Each of them thought that they would be ...

Halfway to Forever (Forever Faithful Series #3)

Karen Kingsbury

Multnomah Books, 2002

A Tear Jerker!!
I loved this book. This book was about how one couple, Jade and Tanner, dealt with Jade's pregnancy and brain cancer, and about another couple, Hannah and Matt, who were trying to adopt a little girl. This book was a sequel to 2 other books. I liked how this book ...

This Little Church Stayed Home: A Faithful Church in Deceptive Times

Gary E. Gilley

Evangelical Press, 2006

Great for understanding some trends blowing through the church today
If you have attempted to read through books like the series David Wells wrote (No Place for Truth, God in the Wasteland, Losing Our Virtue, and Above All Earthly Pow'rs), but found them cumbersome and difficult, a shorter and easier-to-read option is Gary Gilley's two ...

The Complete Plays: The Ruffian on the Stair, Entertaining Mr. Sloan, the Good and Faithful Servant, Loot, ...

Joe Orton

Grove Press, 1994

The Great Master Of Brutal Comedy
Although he is considered among England's greatest playwrights, today Joe Orton (1933-1967) is better known for the way in which he died--his head beaten in with a hammer by his long-time lover Kenneth Halliwell--than for his works. It is a bitter and ridiculous irony ...

May I Have This Dance?: An Invitation to Faithful Prayer Throughout the Year

Joyce Rupp

Ave Maria Press, 2007

May God's Life Dance within You
In this revised edition of Joyce Rupp's 1992 book, as in the original, monthly themes are connected to daily life and the seasons of the year. In the introduction Rupp invites us to "be more faithful to prayer, be more constant to the dance of life that God desires for ...

Guadalupe and Her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from Colonial Origins to the Present (Lived ...
Timothy Matovina

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the most revered religious figure in Mexican Catholicism. Devotion to Guadalupe among Mexicans and Mexican Americans has evolved for nearly five centuries into a deeply rooted, multifaceted tradition. Here, religion scholar Timothy Matovina offers a thorough study of this tradition as it has been lived out by the ...

Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God

Noel Piper

Crossway Books, 2005

A great resource
I must admit that I've been hesitant to read this book. Not because I have anything against biography - I'm beginning to enjoy them more and more, especially at the urging of several people whose opinions I really trust. Not because I have anything against missionaries ...

Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War

Yukio Tsuchiya

Houghton Mifflin, 1997

Have a Heart
This is a response to Tamara Lakeman's review: It's a shame that there are people who feel that it is necessary to censor literature which brings awareness to all aspects of war, including death, compassion, and despair. Yes the elephants died as a result of ...