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61) The Genesis code
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When college journalist Kerry Wells befriends hockey player Blake Truman, the star athlete reveals his secret struggle with a difficult personal crisis. Convinced that modern science disproves the Genesis story, Blake rejects Kerry's suggestion that prayer might help ease his burden. Faced with similar challenges to her beliefs, Kerry sets out on a journey of spiritual discovery, leading her to the startling revelation that faith and science are both...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This remarkable story from the past is especially timely today. Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this film retraces the 800 years in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Avatar Aang passes, he is reincarnated as a girl named Korra, from the Southern Water Tribe. Korra leaves the safety of her home to travel to Republic City. Before long, Korra's Avatar skills are put to the test when she encounters a group of Chi-blockers led by a masked man named Amon. With his Equalists followers, Amon plots to gain control over Republic City and ultimately rid the world of the 'impurity' of bending. Korra and her friends...
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Buddhism challenges some of the most important Western ideas about God, human life, and the self. In Buddhism, there is no single almighty God who created the world. Instead, Buddhism teaches that all of life is suffering, and there is no permanent self. Moreover, it teaches that in accepting that all life is suffering, bliss can be achieved in this life. Buddhism's core philosophy that nothing is permanent--all is change--has made it an astonishingly...
67) Devi
Series
Criterion collection volume 1102
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Bengali
Description
Set in mid-nineteenth-century India, a wealthy rural landowner becomes obsessed with the idea that his daughter-in-law is the reincarnation of the goddess Kali with tragic consequences.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When celebrated scholar Joseph Campbell sat down with veteran journalist Bill Moyers for a discussion about his life's work, the nation was captivated. The series brought Campbell's theories into popular culture and led to a bestselling companion book. Includes six episodes.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Highlights the remarkable courage of Ngawang, a Buddhist nun and Bagdro, a Buddhist monk who at thirteen and twenty years old led freedom demonstrations against Chinese repression in Tibet. Following a brutal military crackdown, they're arrested and endure horrific torture until a global movement culminates in their release. Through the power of a positive mind and inspired by the Dalai Lama, Bagdro and Ngawang find a way beyond fear and even forgive...
70) Jesus camp
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future. Follow these children at summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota as they hone their 'prophetic gifts'.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan. Once mocked as "Scary Mary, " this ugly duckling has blossomed into an irresistible beauty. She's returned to the old neighborhood after an intense bout with cancer. When Joey learns her cure was the result of a miracle, friendship turns to romance as she educates him on the crossroads...
76) Is God green?
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the debate between evangelical Christians who believe that it is their duty to do something about environmental problems such as global warming and those who believe that because the end of the world is near, stewardship is unnecessary.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 75
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Gold Crown collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Mitch Albom has a pretty great life. He lives in Detroit and is happily married, he's an award-winning sportswriter, a must-read newspaper columnist, a screenwriter, a radio and television broadcaster. Then two men come into his life, and he realizes something's missing. Rabbi Albert Lewis presides over a thriving synagogue in a comfortable New Jersey suburb, and pastor Henry Covington, a recovering drug user and dealer, preaches to the poor and homeless...
79) Steve McQueen: American icon : the untold true story of the spiritual quest of a Hollywood legend
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An avid fan of the actor, and owner of a replica of McQueen's car in the classic film Bullitt, Pastor Greg Laurie hits the road in his mint Mustang, traveling the country in search of the true, untold story of McQueen's redemption-filled final chapters, in a true faith journey.
80) PK
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
[Widescreen ed.].
Language
Hindi
Description
An alien lands on earth but loses his remote to go home. Does 'PK' return - and as he navigates the human world, what does he gain and lose?
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