An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor(2012-02-28)
Your Awesome Intellect: God Expects You to Use It in Full Force Science tells you that your mind is an illusion. Obviously, an illusion has no purpose except for a short moment of entertainment.<br>On the contrary, Jesus teaches that the creativity of your intellect is a sensational force. Jesus promises that all ingenious souls will enter into a different state of being—the <i>eternal </i>state.<br>What to believe? How can you know who is telling truth?<br><br>Buy it today The Restaurant (The Nantucket Restaurant series Book 1) <b> </b><br /><b>Three sisters. An inherited Nantucket restaurant. One year before they can sell.</b><br />Mandy, Emma and Jill are as close as three sisters who live hundreds of miles apart can be. They grew up together on Nantucket, but Mandy is the only one that stayed.<br /><br />Jill lives a glamorous life in Manhattan as a co-owner of a successful executive search firm. Never married, she is in her mid-thirties and lives in a stunning, corner condo with breathtaking views of the city and Hudson river. Everyone thinks there's something going on with her partner, Billy, because as a workaholic, she spends more time with him than anyone else. But there's never been anything but friendship between them and Billy loves being a bachelor in NYC.<br /><br />Emma lives in Arizona and is an elementary school teacher and an aspiring photographer. She met her college professor husband, Peter, in grad school and they've been married for about fifteen years. In recent years, she's noticed that Peter has grown distant. But when he shares a surprising secret, she doesn't see it coming and her world is turned upside down.<br /><br />Mandy followed her high school boyfriend, Cory to  Boston College, and right after graduation, they married and settled in Dover, just outside of Boston. Cory joined a successful hedge fund, while Mandy took a job at a downtown financial services firm as an administrative assistant. She quit a year later, when Blake, the first baby came. Two years later, when Brooke was born, Cory left to open a competing Hedge Fund and they moved home to Nantucket.  Now that the children are older,  Mandy has more free time and is eager to do more than just volunteer with local charity events. But Cory doesn't want her to work. He thinks it doesn't reflect well on him and appearances are everything to Cory. Though when Mandy finds a second cell phone in his gym bag, she begins to question what is really going on.<br /><br />When their beloved grandmother, Rose Ferguson passes peacefully in her sleep a week before her ninety-ninth birthday she leaves them quite a surprise. In addition to her Nantucket home, they learned that she was the silent owner of Mimi's Place, one of Nantucket's most popular year-round restaurants.  <br /><br />There is of course, a catch--she left the restaurant equally to Mandy, Emma, and Jill--and also to Paul, the chef for the past twelve years. Before they can sell, all three girls need to work at the restaurant for a period of one year--or else their shares will go to Paul--who was also Emma's first love. And now he's their business partner.<br /><br />  Learning to Walk in the Dark by Taylor, Barbara Brown(March 24, 2015) Paperback The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters St. Martin's Essentials God in Pain: Teaching Sermons on Suffering (Teaching Sermons Series) Abingdon Press Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others HarperOne When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions (Plus) HarperOne HarperOne Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith “This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail….I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be.” —Frederick Buechner, author of Beyond Words HarperOne