Collection: Spirituality & Religion

Lunar Wisdom for Success, Prosperity & Happiness

For 120 years, this bestselling almanac has been an essential guide for millions of astrologers, gardeners, and laypeople alike. With it, you can find the best times to schedule all your events and activities, such as:

Planting & Harvesting - Adopting a Pet - Medical Treatments - Romance - Traveling - Breaking a Habit - Getting Married - Buying a Car - Settling Legal Matters - Starting a New Job - Brewing Beer - Losing Weight - Fishing

This essential planner also suggests ways to overcome challenges and live a more spiritual life. You'll enjoy fascinating articles on solar-lunar aspects, phenology, backyard grape growing, the astrological importance of the Moon's dark spots, and more. Filled with dozens of tips on supporting your health and improving your home, this book helps you connect to the Moon's energy whenever you need it.

• Detailed weather predictions for each region
• Weekly pages featuring advice for growing fruits and vegetables
• Best dates for relationships, business, and finances
• A monthly lunar aspectarian with Moon tables
• Economic forecasts

In this powerful and comprehensive guide in the spirit of Jambalaya and Sacred Woman, an herbalist celebrates ancient and modern African holistic healing.

"The message of this book is: hold onto your yams, your collards, watermelon, and roots. There is magic, mystery, connection, and healing stored within them."--Stephanie Rose Bird

Stephanie Rose Bird grew up surrounded by forests, listening to the stories of her ancestors and learning African healing ways. From an early age, she dedicated herself to herbalism and living a spiritually fulfilled life in harmony with nature. Now, the wisdom she as accrued is gathered in this impressive encyclopedic work of African Healing and herbal medicine.

Stephanie teaches you how to garden and harvest in unison with the seasons, and how to use herbalism and magic--derived from ancestral and spiritual helpers--to heal. A treasure trove of knowledge, Motherland Herbal showcases an array of recipes and rituals that nourish every facet of life:

Seasonal recipes to support overall well-beingTinctures for common ailments such as headaches, flu, or heartburnRemedies for improving mental health, lessening symptoms of anxiety, stress, or depressionNatural body and home care products, from facials to cleaning solutionsHerbal Baths for relaxation, sexual wellness, and good luckRituals and Altars for universal experiences, such as learning to letting go after loss and improving creativity and fertilityLove Potions, Sleep Potions, Protective Amulets, and more

Written in Stephanie's warm and authoritative voice, Motherland Herbal seamlessly blends activism and ancestral folklore with the realms of spirituality, gardening, and holistic wellness. Her deep reverence for the wisdom of her ancestors infuses every page of this guide, which is a foundational resource that will shape the landscape of African healing and folk medicine for generations to come.

Motherland Herbal includes 54 original pieces of art, including maps and artwork created by the author.

"Courageous Sacrifice" is a transformative daily devotional book that guides readers through the profound journey of Lent, weaving together insights from various authors affiliated with the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, New York. This spiritually enriching collection invites individuals to embark on a 40-day exploration of courage and sacrifice, drawing inspiration from biblical teachings and personal reflections. Each day offers a unique perspective on faith, resilience, and self-discovery, creating a meaningful tapestry that resonates with the diverse voices within the Christian community. Through thoughtful reflections and poignant narratives, "Courageous Sacrifice" serves as a companion for those seeking a deeper connection with their faith during the sacred season of Lent.

Gold-medal winner of a Next Generation Book Award, silver-medal winner of the Independent Publishers Book Award. As featured on the PBS NewsHour

"A gem of a book."-- LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)

A step-by-step guide to raising confident, open-minded kids in an age of religious intolerance. Relax, It's Just God offers parents fresh, practical and honest ways to address issues of God and faith with children while promoting curiosity and kindness.

A rapidly growing demographic cohort in America, secular parents are at the forefront of a major and unprecedented cultural shift. Unable to fall back on what they were taught as children, many of these parents are struggling, or simply failing, to address issues of God, religion and faith with their children in ways that promote honesty, curiosity, kindness and independence.

The author sifts through hard data, including the results of a survey of 1,000 nonreligious parents, and delivers gentle but straightforward advice to both non-believers and open-minded believers. With a thoughtful voice infused with humor, Russell seamlessly merges scientific thought, scholarly research and everyday experience with respect for a full range of ways to view the world.

Relax, It's Just God goes beyond the numbers to assist parents (and grandparents) who may be struggling to find the right time place, tone and language with which to talk about God, spirituality and organized religion. It encourages parents to promote religious literacy and understanding and to support kids as they explore religion on their own -- ensuring that each child makes up his or her own mind about what to believe (or not believe) and extends love and respect to those who may not agree with them.

Subjects covered include:
- Talking openly about our beliefs without indoctrinating kids
- Making religious literacy fun and engaging
- Talking about death without the comforts of heaven
- Navigating religious differences with extended family members
- What to do when kids get threatened with hell

Leadership involves power and influence over others-but each of us is trapped by a psychological imperative inside us to use whatever control we have for our own ends. Where does this imperative come from? The author describes four ego patterns, formed during our childhood, which is the source of our drives and fears-Shaping, Defining, Adapting and Defending-and shows how they determine the needs we try to meet in our lives as leaders. Our natural instinct to use our leadership to meet our own needs rather than others' is what he terms 'defendedness'. One strategy of defended leadership is to build a 'front stage' and a 'back stage', which allows us to reveal or conceal aspects of our self according to how threatening we perceive our audience to be. While the best human audiences (in secure relationships, loving marriages, deep friendships and so forth) can go some way towards fulfilling our need for unconditional and dependable approval, ultimately we need to locate a spiritual source of approval if we are to be fully available to serve others freely. With study questions and exercises, as well as leadership tools and an online community.

This selection of texts relating to Cromwell's spirituality has no intention of being hagiographical. That would be both false to the facts and a betrayal of the intent expressed in Cromwell's confessional remarks, namely his desire to live a life of Christian integrity. On the other hand, it does seek to recommend certain aspects of Cromwell's spirituality as a model for believers today, for the author is convinced that his spiritual vision, and that of the Puritans in general, still possesses ongoing value for the contemporary church.

Spirituality lay at the very core of English Puritanism. Whatever else the Puritans may have been--social, political and ecclesiastical Reformers--they were primarily men and women intensely passionate about piety and Christian experience. And as will be seen in the extracts from Cromwell's writings, he is no exception. He is quintessentially Puritan.

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In The Heroes Haggadah: Lead the Way to Freedom, the traditional texts and songs of a 30-45 minute Passover Seder are paired with profiles of 46 influential and diverse Jewish people in fields ranging from pop culture to science, art, and political activism, whose biographies add to the heroic and enduring story of freedom that began with the ancient Exodus.

More than any other Jewish book, the traditional haggadah is continually renewed and rewritten. In this haggadah, each traditional section is also connected to a particular theme, such as commitment, sustainability, hope, activism, perseverance, gratitude, and rejuvenation. Each theme is reflected in the profile of a modern hero as well as in quotes and interpretive English translations of traditional Hebrew blessings, capturing how human heroes partner with God to better our world.

Profiles include: Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Israeli activist Anat Hoffman, one of the founders of Women of the Wall; Polish resistance fighter Tuvia Bielsk; Regina Jonas, first woman to be ordained as a rabbi; Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, first Asian American Cantor and Rabbi: Helen Suzman, for years the sole member of the South African Parliament to stand against apartheid; Eliezar Ben-Yehuda, champion of the rebirth of Hebrew as a spoke language; Pnina Tamano-Shata, first Ethiopian-born woman to serve in Israel's Knesset; Gershom Sizomu, the first native-born Black rabbi of the Abayudaya community in Uganda; Black Jewish rapper Daveed Diggs, and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Short biographies of all those profiled are included in an index at the back of the haggadah. Space among the profiles is reserved for participants to include a hero from their own family or community.

The haggadah is welcoming of participants from any background and presents all prayers and blessings in Hebrew, transliteration, and English translation. Songs included are Dayeinu, Eliahu Hanavi, Echad Mi Yodea (Who Knows One), Chad Gadya, and Adir Hu, all presented in English, Hebrew, and transliterated Hebrew. A seder planning guide is provided, along with seven recipes, including a Ugandan Charoset from the Sizomu family, a West African Brisket and a Caribbean Compote, both from cookbook author Michael Twitty, and Groucho Marks' Matzah Balls.

"The idea that it's possible to move from slavery to freedom and from darkness to light and from despair to hope--that is the greatest Jewish story ever told." --SHARON BROUS, FOUNDING RABBI OF IKAR (from The Heroes Haggadah)

Bring Magic and Meaning to Every Inch of Your Home with Homemade Décor

From Full Moon Wreaths and Witch's Besoms & Brooms, to Smoke Cleansing Wands and Spell Jars, this collection of magical crafts is the ultimate handbook to protect and enchant your home and hearth. Seasoned witch and artist Suzanne Lemmon shares her expertise in handmaking gorgeous décor with simple projects for house witches of all experience levels.

Suzanne's tips and tricks help you harness the power of energy-charged crystals and charms for altars and adornments. Her detailed reference guide to working with herbs, flowers and other
botanicals in spells will elevate your daily practice. Plus, she offers in-depth information on selecting the right raw materials for each project, so you can tailor it to your specific intentions and goals. You will love creating and using projects like Nature-Adorned Offering Bowls, Witch's Wands and Faerie Lamps that are meaningful to you and your needs.

Combining detailed instructions and step-by-step photography, this collection of inspired projects will fill your home with magic and good intentions.

Discover the rewards of uniting two of the Catholic Church's most beloved devotions. In this new book, Shane Kapler provides 20 reflections - paired with 40 classic works of art - demonstrating the riches that flow from interspersing our praying of the decades of the Rosary with the Divine Mercy Chaplet. By marrying the two together in this way, the mysteries of the Rosary reveal the Cross's relationship to every aspect of our Lord's life, and the Chaplet becomes a means for joining Mary at the foot of her Son's Cross and invoking God's mercy upon ourselves and our world.

Colour and contemplate! This charming sticker book is full of useful information and activities for children and introduces them through interaction and play to understand the importance and plight of the people of Palestine.

All proceeds from the sale of this book go towards rebuilding the lives of the civilians in Palestine.

Mephistopheles is the fourth and final volume of a critically acclaimed history of the concept of the Devil. The series constitutes the most complete historical study ever made of the figure that has been called the second most famous personage in Christianity.In his first three volumes Jeffrey Burton Russell brought the history of Christian diabology to the end of the Middle Ages, showing the development of a degree of consensus, even in detail, on the concept of the Devil. Mephistopheles continues the story from the Reformation to the present, tracing the fragmentation of the tradition. Using examples from theology, philosophy, art, literature, and popular culture, he describes the great changes effected in our idea of the Devil by the intellectual and cultural developments of modem times.Emphasizing key figures and movements, Russell covers the apogee of the witch craze in the Renaissance and Reformation, the effects of the Enlightenment's rationalist philosophy, the Romantic image of Satan, and the cynical or satirical literary treatments of the Devil in the late nineteenth century. He concludes that although today the Devil may seem an outworn metaphor, the very real horrors of the twentieth century suggest the continuing need for some vital symbol of radical evil.A work of great insight and learning, Mephistopheles deepens our understanding of the ways in which people in Western societies have dealt with the problem of evil.

The basic point of the secular in the modern West is to "liberate" certain pursuits--the state, the economy, science--from the authority of religion. This is also assumed to be the goal and meaning of "secular" in Islam. Sherman Jackson argues, however, that that assumption is wrong. In Islam the "secular" was neither outside "religion" nor a rival to it. "Religion," in Islam was not identical to Islam's "sacred law," or "shari'ah." Nor did classical Muslim jurists see shari'ah as the all-encompassing, exclusive means of determining what is "Islamic." In fact, while, as religion, Islam's jurisdiction was unlimited, shari'ah's jurisdiction, as a sacred law, was limited. In other words, while everything remained within the purview of the divine gaze of the God of Islam, not everything could be determined by shari'ah or on the basis of its revelatory sources. Various aspects of state-policy, the economy, science, and the like were "differentiated," from shari'ah and its revelatory sources, without becoming non-religious or un-Islamic. Given the asymmetry between the circumference of shari'ah and that of Islam as religion, not everything that fell outside the former fell outside the latter. In other words, an idea or action could be non-shar'i (not dictated by shari'ah) without being non-Islamic, let alone anti-Islam. The ideas and actions that fall into this category are what Jackson terms "the Islamic Secular."

Crucially, the Islamic Secular differs from the Western secular in that, while the whole point of the Western secular is to liberate various pursuits from religion, the Islamic Secular differentiates these disciplines not from religion but simply from shari'ah. Similarly, while both secularization and secularism play key roles in the Western secular, both of these concepts are alien to the Islamic Secular, as the Islamic Secular seeks neither to discipline nor to displace religion, nor expand to its own jurisdiction at religion's expense. The Islamic Secular is a complement to religion, in effect, a "religious secular." Nowhere are the practical implications of this more impactful than in Islam's relationship with the modern state. In this book, Jackson makes the case for the Islamic Secular on the basis of Islam's own pre-modern juristic tradition and shows how the Islamic Secular impacts the relationship between Islam and the modern state, including the Islamic State.

ReLeading is for the courageous. --Craig Groeschel

We've all seen organizations falter and ministries collapse. As the rubble piles high, most people run away, while only a select few run toward the wreckage. These brave souls are ReLeaders--gifted rebuilders called to restore what is broken. In ReLeader, Jon Chasteen equips releaders with a biblical framework and practical insights to successfully ReLead teams, departments, and organizations back to health.

Drawing from his experiences revitalizing a church, a university, and more, Jon provides wisdom and encouragement for the unique challenges ReLeaders face. This book will teach you:

• How to rebuild a foundation of trust
• Ways to persevere through conflicts and challenges
• Why investing in culture and accountability safeguards the future
• How to finish strong and reinforce the transformation

For pastors inheriting troubled churches, executives stepping into turnarounds, or anyone spearheading change, ReLeader is an indispensable guidebook.

With God's help, you can rebuild it, even if you didn't break it.

What is standing in our way of being our authentic selves and living life fully in the way that God intends? What has wounded us? What frightens us? The author pulls from the notable work of psychologists, saints, philosophers, educators, counselors, clergy, and more to arrive at the conclusion that: "The long road of serenity must go through the rediscovery of God living in us." This book brings hope to the reader who is looking for healing and a life that is simpler, either for oneself or for a loved one that is hurting.

Salir de la oscuridad. Abrir los ojos. Conectar con el brillo. Aprender. Cuestionar los pensamientos limitantes. Abrazar la sombra. Transformar creencias. Conocer el miedo. Conectar con la magia. Habitar el cuerpo. Alzar la voz. Soltar. Fluir. Crear. Brillar. Amar.

Escuchar la intuición.

Así se traza el camino de las brujas.

Las malas del cuento. Impuras, malignas, condenadas por poseer conocimiento.

O quizá mujeres libres, listas para volar, crear y amar?

Este libro es una guía práctica para todas aquellas mujeres que sienten que su bruja interna las impulsa a reivindicar su poder y sabiduría. En sus páginas encontrarás una llamada a adueñarte de tu pensamiento, tu cuerpo, tu espiritualidad y tu vida.

Porque el aquelarre sigue más vivo que nunca.

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Come out from the darkness. Open your eyes. Connect with the brightness. Learn. Question restrictive thoughts. Embrace the shadow. Transform current beliefs. Get to know fear. Connect with magic. Inhabit the body. Raise your voice. Release. Flow. Create. Shine. Love.

Listen to your intuition.

This is how the witches' path goes.

The bad ones in every story. Tainted, evil, condemned for possessing knowledge.

Or perhaps they are free women, ready to fly, create, and love?

This book is a practical guide for all those women who feel that their inner witch drives them to reclaim their power and their wisdom. In these pages, you will find a call to take ownership of your thoughts, your body, your spirituality, and your life.

Because the coven is more alive than ever.