.Church: more than meets the eye, part 1 “Throughout this course, as we look at both spectacular and simple buildings, we never want to forget that the essence of the
In this book, Sarah Bessey “talks about that tension we feel as our faith changes,” reviewer Leia Johnson observes. The Calgary author and blogger Bessey tells how she left church for
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In this new-in-’21 book, research psychologist David DeSteno goes “cherry-picking the world’s religions to find useful practices for living better lives,” Kirkus Reviews adjudges. “[T]he author’s emphasis is…results-oriented,” Matthew Hutson adds, writing in The
“God is a grand illusion powered by faulty thinking patterns, superstition, and suggestion. This illusion is easy to foist upon people who are unable to think critically….” That, in a