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[reviews] 1 Enoch:  A New Translation
[reviews] 2 Peter, Jude
[reviews] 90 Minutes in Heaven:  A True Story of Death and Life
[reviews] Accountable:  Making America as Good as its Promise   
[reviews] Biography of a Painting
[reviews] African Politics in Comparative Perspective
[reviews] The Africans
[reviews] An Ordinary Man (Paul Rusesabagina)   
[reviews] The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas
[reviews] The Arabs   
[review] An Argument for Mind   
[reviews] The Atomic Bazaar:  The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
[reviews] Atomic Obsession   
[reviews] Austin City Limits:  25 Years of American Music
[TXT] The Balance of Consciousness:  Eric Voegelin's Political Theory   
[reviews] The Barbarian Way   
[reviews] Bearer of the Light, Vassula
[review] The Beautiful Cigar Girl:  Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder
[reviews] Being the Body
[reviews] Believers:  A Journey into Evangelical America   
[reviews] Beyond Belief!
[reviews] The Bible as Improv:  Seeing and Living the Script in New Ways   
[reviews] The Bible Unearthed:  Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts   
[reviews] The Biology of the Spirit
[reviews] Blessèd Assurance:  At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas   
[reviews] Blood Ties   
[reviews] Bono (in conversation with Michka Assayas)   
[reviews] The Book of Arthur:  Lost Tales from the Round Table
[reviews] The Books of Haggai and Malachi
[reviews] Breaking Free:  Making Liberty in Christ a Reality in Life   
[reviews] Business and Faith:  Integrating Life   
[reviews] Business Loans from Family and Friends   
[TXT] Byzantine and Medieval Cyprus:  a Guide to the Monuments   
[Review] A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire   
[reviews] Can a Smart Person Believe in God?   
[reviews] A Case of Crooked Letters   
[reviews] The Case for a Creator
[reviews] Christ, a Crisis in the Life of God
[reviews] Christ in a Pluralistic Age
[reviews] Christian Assurance
[reviews] Christian Spirituality and the Culture of Modernity:  the Thought of Louis Dupré
[reviews] Christian Spirituality in South Africa
[reviews] Christianity and the Postmodern Turn   
[reviews] Christianity is Jewish
[review] Real-Life Church in the Lower East Side   
[review] The Coming Insurrection   
[reviews] Communicating Christ in Animistic Contexts
[reviews] The Confederate States of America:  What Might Have Been
[review] Cracking the Code
[reviews] Creation Still Goes On:  A Scientist on the Track of Genesis
[reviews] The Creationists   
[reviews] The Cultural Imperative:  Global Trends in the 21st Century
[reviews] A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer
[reviews] The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception
[reviews] The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered
[reviews] Desafio da Umbanda a Comunidade Evangelica - o Baixo Espiritismo Brasileiro:  Implicações Teológicas e Pastorais
      Also published as Os Deuses da Umbanda English title:  The Challenge of Umbanda - Brazilian Low Spiritism - To the Christian Community:  Its Theological and Pastoral Implications
[reviews] The Deuteronomistic History
[reviews] Devils and Demons and the Return of the Nephilim
[reviews] Diffusion of Innovations   
[reviews] Dimensions of Time:  The Structures of the Time of Humans, of the World and of God
[reviews] The Discovery of Genesis:  How the Truths of Genesis Were Found Hidden in the Chinese Language
[reviews] The Divine Conspiracy:  Rediscovering our Hidden Life in God   
[reviews] Eaters of the Dead   
[reviews] The Emerging Church
[reviews] The End of Liberal Theology:  Contemporary Challenges to Evangelical Orthodoxy
[reviews] Ephesians:  Free to Be One
[reviews] Etruscans
[reviews] Fields of Wonder   
[reviews] Finding Faith:  A Search for What is Real   
[reviews] The First Polish Americans   
[reviews] Folktales from the Irish Countryside   
[reviews] Four Views of Hell
[TXT] The Fourfold Gospel
[TXT] Francis:  A Call to Conversion
[reviews] From the Straight Path to the Narrow Way
[reviews] The Future of Spacetime
[reviews] The Genius of Paul:  A Study in History
[reviews] God, a Biography
[reviews] The Goddess in the Gospels:  Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine
[review] God's Many-Splendored Image:  Theological Anthropology for Christian Formation   
[reviews] God's Trustworthiness in a Misbelieving World
[reviews] Gods and the One God
[reviews] The Gospel According to Lost   
[review] The Gospel According to Starbucks:  Living a Grande Passion   
[reviews] The Gospel of Barnabas
[reviews] The Gospel of Judas
[reviews] The Great Theft:  Wrestling Islam from the Extremists   
[reviews] He Started the Whole World Singing
[reviews] Head and Heart
[reviews] Hebrew Myths:  The Book of Genesis   
[reviews] Here:  A Biography of the New American Continent   
[reviews] The Hidden Book in the Bible
[reviews] Home to Big Stone Gap   
[reviews] The Holy City
[reviews] How Shall They Be Saved?
[reviews] How to Build a Time Machine
[review] I Am Hutterite   
[reviews] I Sold My Soul on eBay:  Viewing Faith through and Atheist's Eyes   
[reviews] Ichabod Toward Home:  The Journey of God's Glory
[reviews] The Dust Diaries:  Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps   
[reviews] Ichabod Toward Home:  The Journey of God's Glory
[reviews] Imams and Emirs:  State, Religion and Sects in Islam   
[reviews] In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs:  A Memoir of Iran
[reviews] In Other Rooms, Other Wonders   
[reviews] In the Stone Circle   
[reviews] Increasing Your Financial IQ
[reviews] The Independent Venda
[reviews] The Incredible Coverup:  Exposing the Origins of Rapture Theories
[reviews] The Inferno, by Dante   
[reviews] Infinity and the Mind:  The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
[reviews] Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs:  Gravity, Gods, and Minds
[reviews] Islamic Society in Practice   
[reviews] It is Enough   
[reviews] Jazz Notes:  Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Inspiration
[review] Jefferson and Religion   
[reviews] Jesus, Liberation and the Biblical Jubilee:  Images for Ethics and Christology   
[reviews] Jesus and the Essenes
[reviews] Jesus:  An Historian's Review of the Gospels
[reviews] The Jesus of Suburbia:  Have We Tamed the Son of God to Fit Our Lifestyle?   
[reviews] The Jesus Papers   
[reviews] The Journey of Man:  A Genetic Odyssey
[review] Kabul 24
[reviews] Kandahar Cockney:  A Tale of Two Worlds
[reviews] Karl Rahner, A Brief Introduction
[reviews] The Karma of Jesus:  Do We Really Reap What We Sow?   
[reviews] Keeping Faith:  Memoirs of a President
[reviews] Khayelitsha:  uMlungu in a Township
[reviews] The Kingmakers
[reviews] Krsna [Krishna] Consciousness and Christianity:  East-West Dialogues
[reviews] The Last Sin Eater   
[reviews] Lead Like Jesus Study Guide
[reviews] Learn Faster and Remember More:  Tap the Full Powers of the Most Sophisticated Learning Machine in the World!   
[reviews] Being Legally Prepared for Business   
[reviews] Legends of the Bible
[reviews] Liberal Protestantism   
[reviews] Liberating the Gospels:  Reading the Gospels with Jewish Eyes
[reviews] Like A Rolling Stone:  Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
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[reviews] Listening to the Beliefs of the Emerging Churches:  Five Perspectives   
[reviews] Listening to the Text:  Oral Patterning in Paul's Letters
[reviews] Lord of Song:  The Messiah Revealed in the Psalms
[reviews] Lords of the North   
[reviews] Lost in Transmission?: What We Can Know about the Words of Jesus
[reviews] Lost Pulse

[review] The Lucky Ones:  One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese Americans
[reviews] The Magdalene Legacy:  The Jesus and Mary Bloodline Conspiracy
[reviews] Man-Eaters of Kumaon   
[reviews] Mangoes or Bananas:  The Quest for an Authentic Asian Christian Theology
[reviews] Maturing Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship
[reviews] Meet Those Who Met the Master
[review] 'The Messenger, The Message and the Community:  Three Critical Issues for the Cross-cultural Church Planter  
[review] The Mind and the Machine: What it means to be Human and Why it Matters   
[review] The Mirage of Peace: Undertstanding the Never-Ending Conflict in the Middle East
[reviews] Music Law: How to Run Your Band's Business
[reviews] My Descent into Death
[reviews] Nephilim:  The Truth is Here
[reviews] New Approaches to Jesus and the Gospels:  A Phenomenological and Exegetical Study of Synoptic Christianity
[reviews] The New Testament in Its Social Environment
[review] Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl:  Wild-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
[reviews] Notes from the Universe:  New Perspectives from an Old Friend
[review] The Obama Victory:  How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election   
[review] Obstacles Welcome: Turn Adversity to Advantage in Business and Life   
[reviews] Of the Imitation of Christ
[reviews] One Church Four Generations: Understanding and Reaching All Ages in Your Church   
[review] One Name, Two Lives   
[reviews] Open Cage:  Murder and Survival in the Jungles of Irian Jaya   
[reviews] Oral Gospel and the Written Gospel:  The Hermeneutics of Speaking and Writing in the Synoptic Tradition, Mark, Paul, and Q
[reviews] Origins
[reviews] The Orthodox Septuagint
[Review] Dialogue Church to Non-Church - Let's Listen   
[reviews]The Particle Garden:  Our Universe as Understood by Particle Physics
[reviews] Paul, Thessalonica, and Early Christianity
[reviews] People of the Mesa
[review] The Personifid Project   
[reviews] A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America   
[reviews] The Point of Christology
[reviews] Practical Use of the Greek New Testament
[reviews] The Practice of the Presence of God with Spiritual Maxims
[reviews] Predestination and Free Will:  Four Views of Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom
[reviews] The Prince of the Marches (and Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq)   
[reviews] The Problem of History in the Book of Mark and other Marcan Studies
[reviews] Profiting from the Path of Most Resistance
[reviews] The Ptolemies (Book One:  The House of the Eagle)
[reviews] Reclaiming Pleasure   
[reviews] The Purpose Driven Life
[reviews] Quanah — The Last Comanche Chief
[reviews] Race   
[reviews] Reading Judas   
[review] Really the Blues
[reviews] Reforming the Center:  American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present
[reviews] Religion and the Scientific Future:  Reflections on Myth, Science and Theology
[reviews] Religions of the Stars   
[reviews] Restoration in Place of Rejection   
[reviews] Return from Tomorrow
[reviews] Rescue   
[reviews] Resurrection
[review] Revelation   
[reviews] Revelations of Divine Love
[reviews] Revolutionary Management   
[reviews] The Revolutionary Communicator:  Seven Principles Jesus Lived to Impact, Connect and Lead   
[reviews] The Rise of the Greeks
[reviews] The Road to Assisi:  The Essential Biography of St. Francis
[reviews] Road Warrior
[reviews] Rock and Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star's Revolution
[reviews] Rome, Inc   
[reviews] Sacred Clowns (Native American Fiction by Tony Hillerman)
[reviews] Sacred Desire:  Growing in Compassionate Living   
[reviews] Saddam's Secrets
[reviews] Santería:  African Spirit in America
[reviews] Science and the Supernatural
[review] Adventures in Honey and Health   
[reviews] Searching for God Knows What   
[reviews] The Secret Message of Jesus:  Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything   
[reviews] The Secret Sayings of Jesus
[reviews] The Second Foundation Trilogy
[reviews] The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love   
[review] The Selfless Gene:  Living with God and Darwin   
[review] The Star Chamber: How Celebrities Go Free and Their Lawyers Become Famous   
[reviews] The Shack   
[reviews] Shadow and Light   
[reviews] Shadows on the Aegean
[reviews] Shirley, Goodness and Mercy:  A Childhood Memoir   
[reviews] Skylife:  Space Habitats in Story and Science
[reviews] Sonic Boom:  Globalization at Sonic Speed   
[reviews] Soul of a Lion   
[reviews] Souls and the Universe:  A Scientific Enquiry
[reviews] The Sound of Freedom   
[reviews] Star Trek:  The Ashes Of Eden
[reviews] Star Trek:  Captain's Blood
[reviews] The Stone Virgins   
[reviews] Supersymmetry   
[reviews] Tall Man:  The Death of Doomadgee   
[reviews] Tek Secret
[reviews] Time Travel in Einstein's Universe:  Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time
[reviews] Timewarps
[reviews] Touching the Soul of Islam
[reviews] Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct and Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader   
[reviews] The Truth About Angels
[reviews] The Truth About Angels (Followup)   
[reviews] The Truth with Jokes
[reviews] Under the Overpass:  A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America   
[reviews] Understanding Spiritual Power:  A Forgotten Dimension of Cross-Cultural Mission and Ministry
[reviews] The Universe Next Door:  The Making of Tomorrow's Science
[reviews] Unveiled   
[review] The Vicar of Baghdad:  Fighting for Peace in the Middle East   
[reviews] The Virtues of Capitalism:  A Moral Case for Free Markets
[reviews] The Voice of Luke:  Not Even Sandals   
[reviews] The Wereling   
[reviews] What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?:  What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel
[reviews] What Happened (Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception)   
[reviews] What the Bible Really Says:  Casting New Light on the Book of Books
[reviews] Where Did You Sleep Last Night?:  A Personal History   
[reviews] Where the Light Shines:  Discerning God in Everyday Life
[reviews] Who Can Be Saved?:  Reassessing Salvation in Christ and World Religions
[reviews] Who Moved My Cheese?
[reviews] Whose Religion is Christianity?   
[reviews] Why I Left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement   
[reviews] Why Christianity Must Change or Die:  a Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile
[reviews] Why We Need the Pope:  The Necessity and Limitations of Papal Primacy
[review] Wicca's Charm: Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality
[reviews] The Word:  Imagining the Gospel in Modern America   
[reviews] A World Lit Only By Fire:  The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance
[reviews] World out of Balance:  Navigating Global Risks to Seize Competitive Advantage
[Review] A World Without Islam
[reviews] Worldview:  The History of a Concept
[reviews] The Wound of Knowledge:  Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to Saint John of the Cross
[reviews] The Years of Lyndon Johnson:  Means of Ascent
[review]Yeshua: A Guide to the Real Jesus and the Original Church

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