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Bestsellers
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
- American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
- By: Tim Alberta
- Narrated by: Tim Alberta
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today.
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Looked forward to this a long time and wasn’t disappointed!
- By Josh Hulbert on 12-08-23
By: Tim Alberta
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The Exvangelicals
- Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
- By: Sarah McCammon
- Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Art memoir, part investigative journalism, The Exvangelicals is the first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the church....
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Quite Terrible In Fact
- By Marmaluke on 04-16-24
By: Sarah McCammon
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Under the Banner of Heaven
- A Story of Violent Faith
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities....
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Interesting @ arm's length
- By pixychild on 07-17-09
By: Jon Krakauer
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God Is Not Great
- How Religion Poisons Everything
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris' recent best-seller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion....
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5-Star Writing. Perfect Author Narration.
- By Michael on 12-13-09
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Waking Up
- A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....
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I don't completely agree. BUT THAT SAID...
- By World Peace on 09-11-14
By: Sam Harris
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The Moral Landscape
- How Science Can Determine Human Values
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In this explosive new book, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values....
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Read it
- By Paul on 11-23-10
By: Sam Harris
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
- American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
- By: Tim Alberta
- Narrated by: Tim Alberta
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today.
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Looked forward to this a long time and wasn’t disappointed!
- By Josh Hulbert on 12-08-23
By: Tim Alberta
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The Exvangelicals
- Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
- By: Sarah McCammon
- Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Art memoir, part investigative journalism, The Exvangelicals is the first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the church....
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Quite Terrible In Fact
- By Marmaluke on 04-16-24
By: Sarah McCammon
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Under the Banner of Heaven
- A Story of Violent Faith
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities....
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Interesting @ arm's length
- By pixychild on 07-17-09
By: Jon Krakauer
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God Is Not Great
- How Religion Poisons Everything
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris' recent best-seller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion....
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5-Star Writing. Perfect Author Narration.
- By Michael on 12-13-09
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Waking Up
- A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....
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I don't completely agree. BUT THAT SAID...
- By World Peace on 09-11-14
By: Sam Harris
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The Moral Landscape
- How Science Can Determine Human Values
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In this explosive new book, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values....
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Read it
- By Paul on 11-23-10
By: Sam Harris
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Free Will
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality.....
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Wrong Question
- By Jennifer on 11-15-14
By: Sam Harris
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The Four Horsemen
- The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
- By: Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. Now, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants and an introduction by Stephen Fry....
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Short
- By Cole Brandon Eckhardt on 03-22-19
By: Christopher Hitchens, and others
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Let Your Life Speak
- Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- By: Parker J. Palmer
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Finding one's calling is not just about finding something we can do - it is about finding what we can't not do....
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Deep Wisdom in these pages
- By Julia Davis Coffey on 01-30-11
By: Parker J. Palmer
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The Religion of Whiteness
- How Racism Distorts Christian Faith
- By: Michael O. Emerson, Glenn E. Bracey II
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Using national survey data, in-depth interviews, and focus group results gathered over several years, Emerson and Bracey show how the Religion of Whiteness shapes the practice of Christianity for millions of Americans—and what can be done to confront it.
By: Michael O. Emerson, and others
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The End of Faith
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is an impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith....
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Good book, bad narrator
- By wlong on 09-17-10
By: Sam Harris
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Letter to a Christian Nation
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Jordan Bridges
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....
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the examined life
- By Stanley on 12-20-06
By: Sam Harris
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Going Clear
- Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Morton Sellers
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack....
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Shockingly Great
- By Michael on 01-27-13
By: Lawrence Wright
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The Case for God
- By: Karen Armstrong
- Narrated by: Karen Armstrong
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao....
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Great recasting of how God should be interpreted
- By John Doyle on 02-18-11
By: Karen Armstrong
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Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
- By: Katrina Hazzard-Donald
- Narrated by: Sharell Palmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, the author argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters"....
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more books about hoodo and atr By black writers!!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-15-20
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The Theft of America’s Soul
- Blowing the Lid Off the Lies That Are Destroying Our Country
- By: Phil Robertson
- Narrated by: Phil Robertson
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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The Theft of America’s Soul is a prophetic wake-up call for all who desire to see our nation thrive, challenging listeners to exchange these 10 lies for truths that will bring peace of mind, harmony, and prosperity back to our country....
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Mr. Robertson is a straight shooter
- By DaDB on 02-11-19
By: Phil Robertson
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American Idolatry
- How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
- By: Andrew L. Whitehead
- Narrated by: Andrew L. Whitehead
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity. Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities....
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About time!
- By Arturo Zendejas on 12-13-23
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American Zion
- A New History of Mormonism
- By: Benjamin E. Park
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The first major history of Mormonism in a decade draws on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation....
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Lots of commentary and broad non-Mormon historical generalities, thin on detailed Mormon history.
- By anonymous on 02-13-24
By: Benjamin E. Park
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Under the Banner of Heaven
- A Story of Violent Faith
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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At the core of this book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers...
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A little grass roots backlash?
- By John on 07-29-03
By: Jon Krakauer
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Not in It to Win It
- Why Choosing Sides Sidelines the Church
- By: Andy Stanley
- Narrated by: Andy Stanley
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Is it possible to disagree politically and love unconditionally? The reaction of evangelicals to political and cultural shifts in recent years revealed what they value most. Lurking beneath our Bible-laced rhetoric, faith claims, books, and sermons is a relentless drive to WIN....
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Brave challenge for FOLLOWERS of Christ
- By Nana D on 05-11-22
By: Andy Stanley
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Uncanceled
- Finding Meaning and Peace in a Culture of Accusations, Shame, and Condemnation
- By: Phil Robertson
- Narrated by: Phil Robertson, Milton Bagby
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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After Phil Robertson quoted Scripture in an interview with a national magazine, his hit show, Duck Dynasty, put him on “indefinite hiatus”. Phil immediately knew what had happened: He had become a target of cancel culture....
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warning
- By Amazon Customer on 02-09-22
By: Phil Robertson
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Cult Trip
- By: Anke Richter
- Narrated by: Olivia Mortimer-Eade
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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At a new age festival in Byron Bay, journalist Anke Richter is finding her spiritual awakening when she meets a woman - a survivor of the Auckland cult Centrepoint - who will change the course of her life and career....
By: Anke Richter
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Lost Boy
- By: Maia Szalavitz, Brent W. Jeffs
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet's compound....
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Interesting male view of polygamy
- By Karen on 09-17-13
By: Maia Szalavitz, and others
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Why You Think the Way You Do
- The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home
- By: Glenn S. Sunshine
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world.
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"Christian's view of the western world"
- By Bradley on 03-21-10
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Atheist Delusions
- The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
- By: David Bentley Hart
- Narrated by: Ralph Morocco
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious "histories" offered up by contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism....
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A Conversion Experience.
- By Ted on 12-01-14
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We of Little Faith
- Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too)
- By: Kate Cohen
- Narrated by: Kate Cohen
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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An atheist’s impassioned call for nonbelievers to be honest with themselves and their families about their lack of belief—and help change the American cultural conversation....
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Honest, gently forthright, and very much needed
- By Rosencrantz Jones on 10-09-23
By: Kate Cohen
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Strange Rites
- New Religions for a Godless World
- By: Tara Isabella Burton
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests, and prophets of our supposedly post-religion age....
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Insightful
- By Jared Pomeroy on 12-28-20
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Why Religion?
- A Personal Story
- By: Elaine Pagels
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Why is religion still around in the 21st century? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions....
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Great story but...
- By Juliette on 02-11-20
By: Elaine Pagels
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The Big Picture
- What the Religions of the World Teach Us About the Nature of Ultimate Reality
- By: Huston Smith
- Narrated by: Huston Smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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In The Big Picture, Smith draws from his lifetime of scholarship to describe for us the nature of ultimate reality....
By: Huston Smith
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Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
- The Oklahoma Western Biographies
- By: Thomas G. Alexander
- Narrated by: Charles Henderson Norman
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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As president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Utah’s first territorial governor, Brigham Young (1801-77) shaped a religion, a migration, and the American West....
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I am LDS and enjoyed the book
- By Oscar Abarca on 12-10-19
New releases
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Fridays of Rage
- Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam
- By: Sam Cherribi
- Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Fridays of Rage provides a glimpse into how Al Jazeera strategically cast its journalists as martyrs in the struggle for Arab freedom while promoting itself as the mouthpiece and advocate of the Arab public.
By: Sam Cherribi
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The Exvangelicals
- Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
- By: Sarah McCammon
- Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather would go to hell unless she could reach him, or that her Muslim friend would need to be converted, and that she, too, would go to hell if she did not believe fervently enough, McCammon was a rule-follower. But through it all, she was plagued by fears and deep questions as the belief system she'd been carefully taught clashed with her expanding understanding of the outside world.
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Quite Terrible In Fact
- By Marmaluke on 04-16-24
By: Sarah McCammon
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How Life Is Heaven and Hell
- By: Paul Swann
- Narrated by: Matt Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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"How Life is Heaven and Hell" is a profound exploration of the dual nature of existence, delving into the complexities of human experience with insight and empathy. In this thought-provoking book, author Paul Swann invites listeners on a journey through the highs and lows of life, illuminating the moments of joy and sorrow that define our shared humanity.
By: Paul Swann
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Jesus in Your Skin
- By: Scott Lovett
- Narrated by: John Holler
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The ability of the world system to conquer and divide has always been based on its efforts to try to divide groups through skewed narratives and warped beliefs. The ultimate agenda of wicked men in power is to separate people because of social class, race, and status. While groups devour one another, those in power gain control by subjecting the people through programs and ideologies that are specifically designed to cause people to bow to the very men creating the narrative. These beliefs and narratives indoctrinate the people to operate in beliefs that place them in further bondage.
By: Scott Lovett
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An Introduction To The Book Of Ruth
- By: David Eric Williams
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The book of Ruth tells the tale of women in crisis. The Primary characters in the story are widows - and one of them is a foreigner. In the world of ancient Israel, no one was more vulnerable than Ruth and Naomi. Nonetheless, the main characters are shown to be wise, resourceful and courageous. Against all odds, they realize the blessings of God and secure a special place in the history of God's people.
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Making Catholic America
- Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- By: William S. Cossen
- Narrated by: Kyle Whisenant
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Making Catholic America offers a new interpretation of American life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, demonstrating the surprising success of an often-embattled religious group in securing itself a place in the national community, profoundly altering what it meant to be an American in the modern world.
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Fridays of Rage
- Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam
- By: Sam Cherribi
- Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Fridays of Rage provides a glimpse into how Al Jazeera strategically cast its journalists as martyrs in the struggle for Arab freedom while promoting itself as the mouthpiece and advocate of the Arab public.
By: Sam Cherribi
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The Exvangelicals
- Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
- By: Sarah McCammon
- Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather would go to hell unless she could reach him, or that her Muslim friend would need to be converted, and that she, too, would go to hell if she did not believe fervently enough, McCammon was a rule-follower. But through it all, she was plagued by fears and deep questions as the belief system she'd been carefully taught clashed with her expanding understanding of the outside world.
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Quite Terrible In Fact
- By Marmaluke on 04-16-24
By: Sarah McCammon
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How Life Is Heaven and Hell
- By: Paul Swann
- Narrated by: Matt Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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"How Life is Heaven and Hell" is a profound exploration of the dual nature of existence, delving into the complexities of human experience with insight and empathy. In this thought-provoking book, author Paul Swann invites listeners on a journey through the highs and lows of life, illuminating the moments of joy and sorrow that define our shared humanity.
By: Paul Swann
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Jesus in Your Skin
- By: Scott Lovett
- Narrated by: John Holler
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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The ability of the world system to conquer and divide has always been based on its efforts to try to divide groups through skewed narratives and warped beliefs. The ultimate agenda of wicked men in power is to separate people because of social class, race, and status. While groups devour one another, those in power gain control by subjecting the people through programs and ideologies that are specifically designed to cause people to bow to the very men creating the narrative. These beliefs and narratives indoctrinate the people to operate in beliefs that place them in further bondage.
By: Scott Lovett
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An Introduction To The Book Of Ruth
- By: David Eric Williams
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The book of Ruth tells the tale of women in crisis. The Primary characters in the story are widows - and one of them is a foreigner. In the world of ancient Israel, no one was more vulnerable than Ruth and Naomi. Nonetheless, the main characters are shown to be wise, resourceful and courageous. Against all odds, they realize the blessings of God and secure a special place in the history of God's people.
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Making Catholic America
- Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- By: William S. Cossen
- Narrated by: Kyle Whisenant
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Making Catholic America offers a new interpretation of American life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, demonstrating the surprising success of an often-embattled religious group in securing itself a place in the national community, profoundly altering what it meant to be an American in the modern world.