""If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for."--Thomas Merton Some of today's most popular spiritual writers--including Rev. James Martin, S.J.; Bishop Robert Barron; Robert Ellsberg; Rev. Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M.; and Kaya Oakes--explore the meaning of ..."
Verily, Verily The KJV - 400 Years of Influence and Beauty by JonSweeney, Zondervan Staff 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Zondervan ISBN-13: 978-0-310-41257-1, ISBN: 0-310-41257-9
"Many of our grandmothers and grandfathers read KJVs exclusively, marking
them and urging us to read them when we were young. They recorded important
dates in this marvelous book, also known as “The Authorized Version.” Senator
Sam Ervin of North Carolina (1896-1985) put it best when he said: I think that the
greatest book, from a literary as well as from a religious standpoint ever made
available to mankind, is the King James Versi ..."
"An unscrupulous Italian televangelist and a pharmaceutical magnate devise an elaborate plan to steal the Holy Shroud of Turin in an attempt to clone Jesus from the DNA embedded in the ancient cloth. A former nun, an aged Mother Superior and a Native American man running from the law join forces to stop the plot and prevent the forced Second Coming: The Next Testament."
"An unscrupulous Italian televangelist and a pharmaceutical magnate devise an elaborate plan to steal the Holy Shroud of Turin in an attempt to clone Jesus from the DNA imbedded in the ancient cloth. An old Mother Superior, an ex-nun and a Native American man running from the law attempt to stop the plot and prevent the forced Second Coming: The Next Testament."
"... Æ Vince Nealis Æ Kevin Porter Originally published in the Journal Biological
Invasions, Volume 11, No 1, 135–148. ... The spread of the gypsy moth to the
northand west in Canada has so far been prevented by climatic barriers and host
plant ... A European strain of the gypsy moth was introduced accidentally to North
America near Boston, USA, in 1869 and has ... 1). In the USA, expansion of the
insect's range continues southward ..."
Almost Catholic An Appreciation of the History, Practice, and Mystery of Ancient Faith by JonSweeney 224 Pages, Published 2008 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-470-24099-1, ISBN: 0-470-24099-7
"Martin Luther, quoted in Joseph Leo Koerner, The Reformation ofthe Image (
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), p. 201. Scott Cairns, Love's
Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life (Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete Press, 2007),
p. 7. Léon Bloy, The Woman Who Was Poor, trans. I. J. Collins (NewYork: Sheed
& Ward, 1947), pp. 251–252. (Originally published 1897.) William Blake, “London
” (1820). Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Char ..."
""A lively memoir mixed with short biographies of appealing religious outcasts." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLYWith untested ideals and a thirst for adventure, Christiana Peterson and her family moved to an intentional Christian farming community in the rural Midwest. It sounded like a simple and faithful way to follow Jesus, not to mention a great place to raise kids. In Mystics and Misfits, Peterson discovers that community life is never really s ..."
Mystics and Misfits(1st Edition) Meeting God Through St. Francis and Other Unlikely Saints by Christiana N. Peterson, JonSweeney Paperback, 263 Pages, Published 2018 by Herald Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5138-0164-3, ISBN: 1-5138-0164-3
" "A lively memoir mixed with short biographies of appealing religious outcasts." Publishers WeeklyWith untested ideals and a thirst for adventure, Christiana Peterson and her family moved to an intentional Christian farming community in the rural Midwest. It sounded like a simple and faithful way to follow Jesus, not to mention a great place to raise kids. In Mystics and Misfits, Peterson discovers that community life is never really s ..."
"Since the arrival of Europeans about 500 years ago, an estimated 50,000 non-native species have been introduced to North America (including Hawaii). Non-native species figure prominently in our lives, often as ornamentals, sources of food or pests. Although many introduced species are beneficial, there is increasing awareness of the enormous economic costs associated with non-native pests. In contrast, the ecological impacts of non-nati ..."
"In 2006, U.S. and Canadian scientists held a symposium on the ecological impact of non-native species in North America. This book contains papers from that symposium and additional solicited reviews. They focus on Canada but also discuss the U.S. and Europe."