Religion

In A Staggered Road author René Chandler reveals the omniscient resilience that God has place in us as humans. This book is about living life as an overcomer not realizing it was God who allowed you to overcome. It reveals how God protects us while we...

Discover the power, magic, and secrets of Afro-Brazilian herbal witchcraft with this thorough guide. Compiling three volumes into one updated edition, Sacred Leaves spotlights the authentic day-to-day magic practiced in the Orisha religion, making these...

Since 1999, Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, where the author has served as pastor for over twenty years, has had an HIV/AIDS ministry program called the AGAPE Program. Agape is Greek for "God's love" and an acronym for Action, Growth,...

There is nothing like the pain of feeling like you are not enough. This pain is amplified when you have given yourself to others only to have them use and abuse you. "The Bodyguard of My Heart," is a poetic conversation between Tamika Hall and God. It is...

In most of Ben's experiences, the humble Southern chefs share their long protected family recipes but it's not an adventure if everyone cooperates. Some of these institutions guard their recipes like members of the family.To the untrained eater, the...

Anti-black racism is a central ethical crisis of our time. In this volume, leading experts explore how Christian ideas, practices, and institutions can contribute to today's struggle for racial justice and how those ideas, practices, and institutions...

Why are Muslim men portrayed as inherently violent? Does the veil violate women's rights? Is Islam stopping Muslims from integrating? Across western societies, Muslims are more misunderstood than any other minority. But what does it mean to believe in...

Following her great-grandmothers' examples of creatively stretching meals during the Great Depression, Whitney Miller transforms recipes from her Southern roots by preserving flavors of traditional family dishes and offering the excitement of her own...

Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most...

After a speech at UMass Amherst on February 28, 1984, James Baldwin was asked by a student: You said that the liberal façade and being a liberal is not enough. Well, what is? What is necessary? Baldwin responded, Commitment. That is what is...

Ego is the feeling of being separate from God, from that which is, Since we feel we are separate or distinct from the Creator, as well as creation itself, there is no sense of connection with our inner essence, with the thing that has been in existence...