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James Strang was a lawyer, a newspaper editor, and a failed politician before he found his true calling as a self-declared Mormon prophet. Following the shocking murder of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, Strang lost a power struggle to Brigham Young. He went on to form a dissident sect and build a personal theocracy on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan.

A Republican agnostic president converts to Christianity in mid-term. He starts reading the Bible to learn from it instead of reading to discredit it. His policies gyrate dramatically. Indeed, much of the time he ends up sounding more like a Democrat. He has the best of intentions, but events quickly spiral out of control: election tumult, social controversy, debt, financial malfeasance, foreign wars, international terrorism, civil war among Mexican drug cartels, and plots of assassination. Israel, Iran, Mexico, and other nations are sucked into the intrigue and mounting catastrophe.

If Paul Wrote to Today’s Church looks at worldly flaws that have infiltrated the church of today and imagines what someone like Paul would say if given the opportunity. I have become unhappy with the politics of American society. I have become even more unhappy with the words and actions that I see from those who claim to be Christians.

A democratic republic depends upon two unassailable truths: Freedom can only exist (1) where the laws of God are considered absolute and (2) where the majority believe that God, not man and not government, created men and women equal. This book is founded on the principle that only truth can make us free and that the Holy Bible is the foundation of our freedom. This book explores law - the laws of God and the laws of man, and defines freewill, agency, freedom, and liberty - and presents what is necessary to maintain our liberty.

In Just Faith, progressive Christian activist and writer Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons explains how a strong religious left has accompanied every major progressive advance in our society, and he resurrects the long but forgotten history of progressive Christianity in the United States that can and must link arms with progressive Muslims and Jews to make the moral case for pluralism, human dignity, and the common good. Graves-Fitzsimmons provides a blueprint for this type of resurrection based on his advocacy work at the intersection of religion and American politics.

Throughout her nearly 40 years in ministry, Heidi Neumark has strived to make the communities she was part of sanctuaries amid the turmoils of life. Now, with the social and political upheaval of the years since Donald Trump was elected president, Neumark believes the true Christian calling is to live out a counterpoint to today’s prevailing spirits of exclusion and hatred. Using her own bilingual, multicultural congregation as a model, she moves through the seasons of the church calendar to reflect on what it looks like to live out essential Christian convictions.

The City of God is the usual English translation of the most influential work written in the fifth century. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, wrote it between 413 and 426. Augustine argued that Christianity was not the cause of the empire’s collapse. He turned the gaze from the city of Rome to the City of God, in the spiritual life of true believers.

Two decades after the publication of The Black Book of Communism, nearly everyone is or at least should be aware of the immense evil produced by that devilish ideology first hatched when Karl Marx penned his Communist Manifesto two centuries ago. Far too many people, however, separate Marx the man from the evils wrought by the oppressive ideology and theory that bears his name.

If you are having a difficult time financially, there is hope yet for you. Many people don't understand that they are in fact creating this reality. It sways between the wants and needs to the things we all loathe and despise. There should be a clear indication that people who are inherently evil will continue to live evil lives (hence where all the demons and foul spirits the Bible mentioned in detail are residing).

The Election Omen: Your Vote Matters will reveal God's biblical prophecy regarding the upcoming election and future elections! Prepare to take a stand in this spiritual war. Engage in key political issues from a biblical perspective. Combat Satan's lies and deceptions. Support the candidate Jesus is backing.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Exposing and Thwarting the Attack on the Bible and learn about the top 10 liberal church lies, "false Christs shall arise", the fight against leftist teachers, answering scoffers and skeptics, and the theft of America’s Christian heritage.

Hosea, one of the most provocative prophets of the Old Testament, was called by God to declare God's impending judgment on the Northern Kingdom: They had been experiencing an unparalleled prosperity in their time, and yet they had sunk to the lowest moral depths of their two century history. It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. As a result, God was about to use their enemies as his instrument of judgment. America, too, is in a disturbingly comparable situation: Unparalleled prosperity on the one hand, and yet immorality unprecedented in our two century history.

Chuck Missler reviews the "state of the union" and the results of the liberal agenda. We take our lead from Jeremiah and Hosea: We can see the storm coming - we may not be able to divert or stop it, but we can warn others. Our prayer throughout this crisis is that the lessons won't be wasted. It's time to get serious! Only a miracle can save America, but fortunately, God is in the miracle business!

Drawing Lines Building Bridges seeks to bring clarity to the confusion Christians have today concerning what to do about homosexuality in the church and how to respond to homosexuals in their lives. While drawing lines between the values held by society and the traditional morality preserved by the church, Drawing Lines Building Bridges advocates strategies of bridge-building engagement between Christians and the LGBT community - strategies which model the example of Jesus and Paul in the Bible and reflect the concerns of the LGBT community.

Ombre in Vaticano, il Papa si riprende il portafoglio: Il caso del cardinal Becciu, bonifici a società di famiglia e milioni spariti offshore, di Massimiliano Coccia; La caduta del cardinale Becciu e la linea rossa tra fede e potere, di Paolo Garimberti; Becciu, la rete dei finanzieri vicini al porporato svelato da un pentito della segreteria, di Massimiliano Coccia; Quei milioni tolti all'Africa, di Gianluca Di Feo; Il terremoto di Bergoglio: la Segreteria di Stato resta senza portafoglio, di Paolo Rodari; Vaticano, sette uomini sotto accusa.

Los pensamientos, inquietudes y propuestas más personales del papa Francisco sobre la crisis del Covid-19 y el mundo que emergerá de ella. Para salir mejores de esta crisis necesitamos ver claro, elegir bien y actuar en consecuencia. Hablemos del cómo. Atrevámonos a soñar.

Andrew Sullivan, “one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades” (The New York Times) and founding editor of The Daily Dish presents a collection of 60 his most iconic and powerful essays of social and political commentary from The New Republic, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, and more.

“An indispensible study” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience that presents a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for White Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation.

Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate. Public Confessions reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern America. Rebecca L. Davis explains why the new faiths of notable figures including Clare Boothe Luce, Whittaker Chambers, Sammy Davis Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Chuck Colson, and others riveted the American public.

In 2016, many Christian leaders opposed candidate Donald Trump. He was a social liberal, and his vulgarity, divorces, affairs, and scandals made it impossible for him to defend Christian values in public life. Or so they thought. Trump nevertheless won an overwhelming majority of the Evangelical vote in 2016, as well as the Catholic vote. And in 2020, the idea that he can’t represent Christians is demonstrably false.