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A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our...
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The Lord's Supper, also known as Communion or the Eucharist, holds significant importance in Christian theology for several reasons:Remembrance of Christ's Sacrifice: It commemorates Jesus Christ's Last Supper with his disciples, during which he instituted the practice. Christians believe that by partaking in the bread and wine (or symbolic elements), they remember and proclaim Christ's sacrificial death on the cross for the forgiveness of sins.Spiritual...
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Alexiares, literal Greek god and playboy, is also Alex, when he's slumming in the mortal earthly realm. But when he falls in love with adorable human librarian Rob, how long can he keep the mortal mask in place - especially when his mother, the goddess Hebe, does not approve? Novelette, approximately 14000 words, adult language.
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In Ava Visits the Aquarium, beginning readers learn about the many real-world uses of odd and even numbers in a fun field trip to the aquarium. Follow along as Ava counts pairs of ocean animals and notices odd and even numbers all around her. Vibrant illustrations and carefully leveled text will engage young readers in a supportive educational fiction reading experience about a key math concept.
Supplementary back matter helps readers review the...
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When Craig Harline set off on his two-year Mormon mission to Belgium in the 1970s, he had big dreams of doing miracles, converting the masses, and coming home a hero. What he found instead was a lot of rain and cold, one-sentence conversations with irritated people, and silly squabbles with fellow missionaries.
From being kicked - literally - out of someone's home to getting into arguments about what God really wanted from Donny Osmond, Harline faced...
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Is there anything holy in Springfield, the home to irascible Bart Simpson and his naive dad Homer, their enthusiastic evangelical neighbor Ned Flanders, the sourpuss minister Rev. Lovejoy, and the dozens of other unique characters who inhabit the phenomenally popular TV show? In this revision of the 2001 bestseller, author Mark Pinsky says yes!
In this entertaining and enlightening book, Pinsky shows how The Simpsons engages issues of religion and...