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The Lost Teachings of Atlantis

& the Children of the Law of One

By: Jon Peniel

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The Lost Teachings of Atlantis

& the Children of the Law of One

By: Jon Peniel

This is the account of an American teenager who discovered a monastery in Tibet that was the inspiration for the legend of Shangri La. It might be categorized as a 'new age' or philosophy book, like the Celestine Prophecy, since it focuses on his spiritual training and their teachings in a novel-like format. Hard to believe, but interestingly, the sub-tropical region amongst the Himalayas that he describes finding, was later documented by explorers from National Geographic, then 'covered up' (there is still evidence of this). Also interesting is that the author was apparently mentioned in the Edgar Cayce readings (the famous American psychic whose books have sold millions of copies), as someone who would one day bring an important message to the world.

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0971074097

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The Lost Teachings of Atlantis

& the Children of the Law of One

By: Jon Peniel

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The Freedom Schools

Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

By: Jon N. Hale

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The Freedom Schools

Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

By: Jon N. Hale

Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates, had a crucial role in the civil rights movement and a major impact on the development of progressive education throughout the nation. Designed and run by African American and white educators and activists, the Freedom Schools counteracted segregationist policies that inhibited opportunities for black youth. Providing high-quality, progressive education that addressed issues of social justice, the schools prepared African American students to fight for freedom on all fronts. Forming a political network, the Freedom Schools taught students how, when, and where to engage politically, shaping activists who trained others to challenge inequality. Based on dozens of first-time interviews with former Freedom School students and teachers and on rich archival materials, this remarkable social history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools is told from the perspective of those frequently left out of civil rights narratives that focus on national leadership or college protestors. Hale reveals the role that school-age students played in the civil rights movement and the crucial contribution made by grassroots activists on the local level. He also examines the challenges confronted by Freedom School activists and teachers, such as intimidation by racist Mississippians and race relations between blacks and whites within the schools. In tracing the stories of Freedom School students into adulthood, this book reveals the ways in which these individuals turned training into decades of activism. Former students and teachers speak eloquently about the principles that informed their practice and the influence that the Freedom School curriculum has had on education. They also offer key strategies for further integrating the American school system and politically engaging today's youth.

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Columbia University Press

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0231541821

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9780231541824

Set the Night on Fire

L.A. in the Sixties

By: Mike Davis,Jon Wiener

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Set the Night on Fire

L.A. in the Sixties

By: Mike Davis,Jon Wiener

Los Angeles Times Bestseller This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles” of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes). “Authoritative and impressive.” —Los Angeles Times “Monumental.” —Guardian Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors’ storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis’s award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.

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Verso Books

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1839761229

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9781839761225

Jon Courson's Application Commentary

Volume 1, Old Testament, (Genesis-Job)

By: Jon Courson

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Jon Courson's Application Commentary

Volume 1, Old Testament, (Genesis-Job)

By: Jon Courson

A devotional commentary that helps you gain fresh insights into the Bible and understand how you can apply God's Word to your life. Few Bible commentators simultaneously articulate both insightful spiritual truths and memorable life applications for readers who want to be relevant witnesses for Jesus Christ. Gifted Bible preacher and inspiring teacher Jon Courson effortlessly combines these elements in this easy-to-read, verse-based devotional commentary on the Old Testament books of Genesis through Job. Pastor Jon's years of immersion in God's Word, as he regularly preached from the Bible, produced faithful, valuable teaching that takes a balanced approach between a scholarly work and an encouragement for living the Christian life. His application commentaries combine the following elements in a unique blend of pertinent information and needed inspiration: Deep love for God's word Colorful cultural insights Insightful historical information Applicable topical studies Vivid illustrations and stories Humorous, practical, and inspiring life lessons Jon Courson's devotional commentaries offer thorough and comprehensive teaching along with practical, in-depth topical studies in a very readable and comfortable expositional style.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418586994

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9781418586997

Lily

By: Jon Pirtle

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Lily

By: Jon Pirtle

Lily Rood is a single woman, an English teacher in an ostensibly Christian school, who has recently moved to a new town. Her plans are simple: find new friends, the right church, teach literature and writing to her students, and discover if marriage is in her future. But she discovers her plans are part of a vastly larger one in which evil often appears to triumph. About the Author Jon Pirtle earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Western Carolina University, and his M.Div. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a U.S. Army chaplain (Major) with deployments to Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Iraq. He is currently completing a book of short stories. He is married to CJ, and they and their children live in Georgia.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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109803595X

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9781098035952

His Truth Is Marching On

John Lewis and the Power of Hope

By: Jon Meacham

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His Truth Is Marching On

John Lewis and the Power of Hope

By: Jon Meacham

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND COSMOPOLITAN John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, was a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis, Jon Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and son of an Alabama tenant farmer was inspired by the Bible and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., to put his life on the line in the service of what Abraham Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.” From an early age, Lewis learned that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy, a biblical imperative, and a transforming reality. At the age of four, Lewis, ambitious to become a minister, practiced by preaching to his family’s chickens. When his mother cooked one of the chickens, the boy refused to eat it—his first act, he wryly recalled, of nonviolent protest. Integral to Lewis’s commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God—and an unshakable belief in the power of hope. Meacham calls Lewis “as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first-century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the Republic itself in the eighteenth century.” A believer in the injunction that one should love one's neighbor as oneself, Lewis was arguably a saint in our time, risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful. In many ways he brought a still-evolving nation closer to realizing its ideals, and his story offers inspiration and illumination for Americans today who are working for social and political change.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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1984855042

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9781984855046

White House Watchmen

New Era Prayer Strategies to Shape the Future of Our Nation

By: Jon Hamill,Jolene Hamill

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White House Watchmen

New Era Prayer Strategies to Shape the Future of Our Nation

By: Jon Hamill,Jolene Hamill

WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL....” Historic turnarounds are now in play. Yet at the same time, powerful forces seek to destroy the Judeo-Christian foundations which have secured America’s greatness. Awakening must prevail. Prayer must prevail. Life must prevail.The turnaround must be completed.You are called to be a...

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Destiny Image Publishers

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0768457076

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The Great Open Dance

A Progressive Christian Theology

By: Jon Paul Sydnor

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The Great Open Dance

A Progressive Christian Theology

By: Jon Paul Sydnor

The Great Open Dance offers a progressive Christian theology that endorses contemporary ideals: environmental protection, economic justice, racial reconciliation, interreligious peace, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ celebration. Just as importantly, this book provides a theology of progress—an interpretation of Christian faith as ever-changing and ever-advancing into God’s imagination. Faith demands change because Jesus of Nazareth started a movement, not a tradition. He preached about a new world, the Kingdom of God, and invited his followers to work toward the divine vision of universal flourishing. This vision includes all and excludes none. Since we have not yet achieved the world that Jesus describes, we must continue to progress. The energizing impulse of this progress is the Trinity: Abba, Jesus, and Sophia, three persons united by love into one perfect community. God is fundamentally relational, and humankind, made in the image of God, is relational as a result. We are inextricably entwined with one another, sharing a common purpose and a common destiny. In this vision, we find abundant life by practicing agape, the universal, unconditional love that Abba extends, Jesus reveals, and Sophia inspires.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666775177

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9781666775174

Blood in the Cage

Mixed Martial Arts, Pat Miletich, and the Furious Rise of the UFC

By: L. Jon Wertheim

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Blood in the Cage

Mixed Martial Arts, Pat Miletich, and the Furious Rise of the UFC

By: L. Jon Wertheim

Based on unlimited access to the Ultimate Fighting Championship and its rival leagues, "Blood in the Cage" peers through the chain-link Octagon into the frighteningly seductive world of mixed martial arts.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618982612

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9780618982615

The Golden Rule Workbook

A Manual for the New Millennium

By: Jon Peniel,J. Peniel Lahaina,Jean D'Esprit

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The Golden Rule Workbook

A Manual for the New Millennium

By: Jon Peniel,J. Peniel Lahaina,Jean D'Esprit

A manual for the new millennium. "The Golden Rule Workbook" is a step-by-step guide to using "Pure Love" to create a better life and a better world. Readers will discover the simple root of all life's problems and it is so simple, logical, and easy to understand, they will be slapping their forehead and saying "Why didn't I realize that before!.

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Windsor Hill

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0966001516

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Rethinking Waverly

By: Jon Ensor

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Rethinking Waverly

By: Jon Ensor

This book is an act of love. It's about re-thinking. And moreimportantly, it's about rediscovering the God of the Bible.

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Yorkshire Publishing

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0881441783

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9780881441789

Book's by Jon Peniel

The Lost Teachings of Atlantis

The Lost Teachings of Atlantis

The Lost Teachings of Atlantis

The Lost Teachings of Atlantis

The Freedom Schools

The Freedom Schools

Set the Night on Fire

Set the Night on Fire

Jon Courson's Application Commentary

Jon Courson's Application Commentary

Lily

Lily

His Truth Is Marching On

His Truth Is Marching On

White House Watchmen

White House Watchmen

The Great Open Dance

The Great Open Dance

Blood in the Cage

Blood in the Cage

The Golden Rule Workbook

The Golden Rule Workbook

Rethinking Waverly

Rethinking Waverly

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