Henry Carter Hull

A collection of fifty-eight sermons from American literature and history; includes information about how sermons have changed throughout history, what the sermon was used for in different eras, and who some of the most influential speakers were.

A history of Jerusalem and its three religions, examining what the holy city means to Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and the implications of Jerusalem's sanctity in each tradition.

James Carroll, a former Catholic priest, chronicles the history of Jerusalem from antiquity to the early twenty-first century, describing the conflicts between Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and discussing the Israeli-Palestinian wars.

Draws from sermons, church statements, denominational papers, periodicals, letters, diaries, and newspaper articles to examine the role of religion during the Civil War, looking at how people used faith to interpret the course of the conflict and its effect on their lives, families, churches, and communities.

Is spiritual experience real or a delusion? Are there realities that we can experience but not easily measure? Does your consciousness depend entirely on your brain, or does it extend beyond? In Fingerprints of God, award-winning journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty delves into the discoveries science is making about how faith and spirituality affect us physically and emotionally as it attempts to understand whether the ineffable place beyond this world...

"One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart. Across the country, men "of God" glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while citing Scripture and preparing for civil war--a firestorm they long for as an absolution and exaltation. Lies, greed, and glorification of war boom through microphones at hipster megachurches that once upon a time might have preached peace...

Conservative, Patrick J. Buchanan provides his perspective on the risks America faces today and what those dangers will mean for the country's future. He warns against not only the dangers that the country faces under Obama, but also the risk of sliding into irrelevancy that the Republican party faces if it chooses to forget its core values.

During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America's enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as "the Great Agnostic." The nation's most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a power unmatched since America's revolutionary generation. When he died in 1899, even his religious enemies acknowledged that he might have aspired to the US presidency had...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu shares the source of strength and optimism that have helped him stay joyful and hopeful in the face of personal and professional challenges, arguing that God has programmed all people for goodness and they must simply follow God's path in order to achieve their calling.