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Two decades before the Second Vatican Council, a section of the Catholic Church decided to enact sweeping reforms of its own. The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, or I.C.A.B., abolished latin, celibacy and confession, embraced religious freedom, and redefined the pope as just another bishop.I.C.A.B. became the renegade church within a church. With over half a million members in Brazil, and up to four million in a complex worldwide network, I.C.A.B.'s offshoots are at the center of the hottest and most controversial clashes between Catholics and their hierarchy.Independent Catholicism, progressive Catholicism, women's ordination, celibacy, homosexuality, and church reform in general, cannot be fully understood without understanding I.C.A.B. Whether sect or schism, I.C.A.B. represents the most extraordinary attempt in modern times to defy the Vatican and reform the Catholic Church from below.God, Land and Freedom, The True Story of I.C.A.B., tells this remarkable story as it has never been told before. Much archival material has been translated for the first time. I.C.A.B.'s alleged links to freemasonry, communism, the occult, and the far right are investigated. I.C.A.B.'s theology is explained, and the exploits of I.C.A.B.'s founders are revealed. It is a story that can no longer be ignored.

Here, collected in one voume, is the entire Oblivion Saga, including the short story prequel, "Operation Catskill" and all four blockbuster novels, Oblivion Threshold, Oblivion Flight, Oblivion Quest and Oblivion Gambit.In an adventure encompassing hostile alien aggressors, and spanning two universes, this bold story follows two starship captains-Jeff Bowers and Jo Taylor. Once lovers, they are now estranged by grief, time, and death. Yet fate continues to throw them together, and somehow they must find a way to work together for the sake of not just one universe, but two.The Oblivion Saga is the first full-length collaboration between J.R. Mabry and B.J. West, frequent creative collaborators since their years together in high school. If you love Star Trek and Starship Troopers, you simply cannot pass up this adventure.

Baffled as to why your church visitors never come back? Solve the mystery and get them to return again and again starting this Sunday.Rev. Tracy Barnowe is an ordained UCC pastor and a nationally-recognized expert in church growth. She has systematically created, taught, tested, and refined church growth methods with hundreds of churches in numerous denominations over 20 years, tracking the results to ensure they are reliable and replicable in any church setting by ordinary people.In Grow Your Church! Rev. Barnowe reveals the rich fruits of decades of data: the most effective, tried-and-true tools that will help every congregation turn its "church shoppers" into actively-involved church members.In this book you will learn:• how to get 85% of your first-time visitors to return the following Sunday• how to get first-time visitors actively involved in your church over just one cup of coffee• four big questions that will get your visitors halfway toward membership their first week• simple, easy-to-learn tools that cost nothing to use and that anyone can doWhether you are a minister, greeter, usher, or simply a member in the pews that loves and worries about your church, you can start being the change your church needs today. Even if your church has been in decline for years, this book will help you reverse the downturn, infuse new life into your congregation, and turn the arguments over "how come no one ever comes back?" into "what are we going to do with all these kids?!"Read this book today. Grow your church this Sunday. Don't let your next first-time visitor become another empty spot in the pew.

What happens when you take a mindful pilgrimage? Shift happens!Have you ever wanted to walk the Camino or take another pilgrimage? Are you looking to start a new practice at home or abroad? Co-founder and director of The Spiritual Guidance Training Institute, fellow pilgrim, and educator for over 20 years, Jeanette Banashak, PhD, EdD, has crafted an accessible guide for anyone desiring to go deeper into their spiritual journey.Mindful Pilgrimage is small enough to take with you on a 40-day journey or to keep on a bedside table for practice at home. Full of quotes and wisdom from interfaith and interspiritual leaders, this book helps you start or end your day with intention for the journey. Each day for 40 days, you set aside a few moments to read and contemplate sayings of wise teachers. And, each day, you are asked three questions that you can ponder as you explore your inner landscape.Whether you immerse yourself in new culture and territory or stay at home, Mindful Pilgrimage will be with you every step of the way. Say yes to change, and take the next step on your journey!

Does your daily schedule make setting aside time to pray difficult? Do you feel too distracted even in those rare times when you can finally sit down to pray? Learn spiritual practices to seek God's presence even in your busiest moments.Jeffrey Nelson is a pastor, spiritual director, author, and blogger who has been speaking and writing about ways for busy people to deepen their spiritual lives for years.Prayer in Motion is an accessible commentary on how to weave spirituality into one's entire life, where it was always meant to be. Grounded in wisdom from some of the great Christian spiritual thinkers, Prayer in Motion offers easy-to-use spiritual practices while at work, exercising, doing chores, during one's daily commute, and more.In this book you'll learn:-Stories from the Bible where people discover God's presence in ways besides sitting in stillness or silence;-Personal anecdotes and stories that help illustrate what spirituality in everyday activities looks like;-Insights from classic spiritual practices such as walking the labyrinth, using prayer beads, and making a pilgrimage adapted and applied to everyday activities;-Real-life application through thought-provoking questions and useful suggestions for prayer at the end of every chapter.Prayer in Motion not only gives you permission to move while praying, but tells you how to do so in easy-to-use, concrete ways. This is the practical guide you've been looking for to carry spiritual practices out of retreat centers and houses of worship and into the places where you spend most of your time.Get Prayer in Motion and start using its tips to connect more deeply with God in the midst of fidgety and frantic days.

A pastor with a kind heart. A black op with a deadly aim. All wrapped up in one amazing woman….When you've given your conscience to God and your country is in peril, how fiercely are you willing to fight? This is the question for Leona Foxx, who leads a double life. She is unwillingly called back into CIA espionage while serving as a parish pastor on the South Side of Chicago. Leona's skills as a defender of America against threats both foreign and domestic conflict with her conscience, a conscience shaped by her faith and her compassion for both friends and enemies.In this, her first adventure, Leona uncovers a terrorist plot hatched by American mercenaries who intend to blame Iran. She takes off her clerical collar and picks up her .45 Kimber Super Match II to rally a counter-terrorist alliance of street gang members and professional crime fighters.Discover how even a saint cannot avoid sinning boldly. Get your copy of For God and Country today!

If you believe the Book of Revelation is a detailed and accurate account of the End of Days and how God will choose the righteous and leave the rest behind and anyone who makes fun of this sacred work is committing blasphemy...buy this book anyway. You're in as much trouble just for reading the book description as I am for writing the book.If you are a fan of that author who is famous for his work about green holiday haters and felines wearing head apparel...you will enjoy this book. If you are one of those rare individuals who understands that religion is sometimes just flat out ridiculous...salvation lies within.

Leona Foxx is a black op with a white collar, who worships at two altars, her country and her God. She fights with ferocity for both.The black op with the white collar, Leona Foxx, takes on renegade Transhumanists making themselves kingmakers by selling espionage technology. Leona's strategy is to turn superintelligence against itself in order to preserve global peace. Can a mere human prevail against the posthuman? If you want to grasp the promises and risks of enhancing human intelligence in a world riddled with competition for supremacy, buy this book.

The history of Christianity if filled with misfits. This collection of sermons intruces us to heretics and mystics from the very earliest church to the present day, including the Gnostics, Origen, Julian of Norwich, Michael Servitus, Emanuel Swedenborg, Soren Kierkegaard, Madame Blavatsky, Teilhard de Chardin and many, many more. With humor and compassion for these misunderstood characters, John Mabry explores their teachings and how they can speak to us today, helping us be better people of faith, regardless of one's denomination or even religion. Mabry holds a PhD in World Religions and serves as co-pastor of Grace North Church in Berkeley, CA.

An evil magician is planning to take over the world.He thinks his enemies are among the living…When Lester Furnival and her friend Evelyn die in a plane crash, they find themselves walking through a ghostly, surreal, twilight London.Lester's fiancé is an artist, who is obsessed with images of a city so bright and true that he can't paint anything else.The scandalous magician Simon Leclerc has sacrificed his own child to gain control over this world…and the next.As Lester and Evelyn discover what has happened to them, they are pulled in different directions-one toward isolation and despair and the other toward a sacrificial self-giving that, to her great surprise, saves even her.All Hallows' Eve is Charles Williams' last and greatest novel. The grandfather of the urban fantasy genre, Williams novel is poignant, relevant, and chilling. Along with C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Williams formed The Inklings, a society of writers in Oxford, England who changed the world with their mythopoetic vision.

"What is here presented is a work of darkness." Yet it is no other than what with great tenderness and circumspection was tendered to men of the highest dignity in Europe, kings and princes, and by all listened unto for a while with good respect. By some gladly embraced and entertained for a long time, the fame whereof being carried unto Rome, it made the Pope to better himself, no knowing what the event of it might be, and how much it might concern him. And indeed, filled all men, learned and unlearned in most places with great wonder and astonishment: all which things will be showed and made good in the contents of this book, by unquestionable records and evidences. And therefore I make no question but there will be men enough found in the world whose curiosity will lead them to read what I think is not to be paralleled in that kind by any book that has been set out in any age to read (from the preface). This occult classic, rare and long unavailable, is a reprint from the 1659 edition, once again in print in a handsome new format from Golem Media.

The famous critical edition of the Apostolic Fathers edited by J. B. Lightfoot. Texts are presented in both Greek and English, each preceded by an introduction. A must for anyone interested in early Christian studies.

The most esteemed body of books left out of the Bible, the Old Testament Apocrypha is of interest to historians, religious scholars, and ordinary laypeople alike. For more than 70 years this version, edited by R.H. Charles, has been the definitive critical edition. Out of print for years, Apocryphile Press is proud to make it available once more to scholars and the curious.

The most esteemed body of books left out of the Bible, the Old Testament Apocrypha is of interest to historians, religious scholars, and ordinary laypeople alike. For more than 70 years this version, edited by R.H. Charles, has been the definitive critical edition. Out of print for years, Apocryphile Press is proud to make it available once more to scholars and the curious.