This second Lent resource from the author of The Naturalist and the Christ explores Christian understandings of “salvation” in a five-part study course based on the film The Way. Starring Martin Sheen as a bereaved father, this soulful and uplifting film observes a group of pilgrims walking the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela. As it follows their journey of inner transformation, the course examines biblical accounts and images of salvation – past, present and future – and addresses the questions: What are we saved from? What are we saved for? Who can be saved? What do we have to do to be saved? How are we saved? ,

From an author praised for her “genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships,” a historical family saga set during the Great Famine of Ireland (Irish Independent).One fateful morning in August 1846, Patrick Feeney surveys his ruined potato crop and despairs. With a delicate wife and their unborn child, he has no choice but to leave Ireland and set out for England in search of work. But from the moment Patrick and Mary set foot in Liverpool, they are beset by new trials. After moving to York, they are forced to settle in the nightmarish slums of Walmgate. Yet the very poverty and hopelessness of their surroundings binds the small community together. Only stubborn determination to survive tragedy can win them hopes of a better life . . . Peopled with rich and colorful characters, A Long Way From Heaven is a fresh, unpredictable saga of passion, struggle and humor. Perfect for readers of Val Wood, Nadine Dorries or Rosie Goodwin. Praise for the writing of Sheelagh Kelly: “The tough, sparky characters of Catherine Cookson, and the same sharp sense of destiny, place and time.” —Reay Tannahill, author of Fatal Majesty and Sex in History “Sheelagh Kelly surely can write.” —Sunderland Echo

Book Summary: Heaven Is A Long Way to Go This non-fiction book takes the reader into the hopes, hardships, and tragedies of four generations of ambitious individuals, connected by lineage and marriage. They emigrated to America from Norway, England and the Isle of Man, seeking freedom and free lands offered by the federal Homestead Act. Settling in Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, and Nebraska, they were challenged by economic humiliations, locust plagues, blizzards, prairie fires, accidents, and illness. There were good times too, like picnics, family bonding, and baseball! A source of hope for family members in difficult times was their belief in Seventh-day Adventism, a rapidly growing Christian denomination. They were sustained by their belief in an imminent Second Coming of Christ to earth, during which they would be taken to a safe and everlasting heaven. Author T. Joe Willey based his stories on research from old newspapers, letters, and other publications of the time, using historical methodology, not as a religious apologetic.

The continuation of Win Blevins's Rendezvous saga that began with the Spur Award-winning So Wild a Dream In the saga of the Old West, no figure was more legendary than the Mountain Man-the trapper-explorer who blazed the trails across the Rocky Mountains and opened the vast country between the Missouri frontier and the Pacific Ocean. Beauty for Ashes and Heaven is a Long Way Off follows Sam Morgan, a Pennsylvania boy who ran away from home and joined a party of fur trappers in the Rocky Mountains. Filled with action, danger, and romance, this is a memorable story of a boy who becomes a man by necessity in the cruel, beautiful, unexplored wilderness of the Old West. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Sam Morgan, once a young runaway from Philadelphia, now a seasoned fur trapper and mountain man, faces the most daunting task of his adventuresome life. It is 1827 and he, together with the trapping brigade commanded by Jedediah Smith, has been expelled from Mexican California. To his unending sorrow, Meadowlark, Sam's beloved Indian wife, has died in childbirth and he has been forced to abandon his infant daughter, Esperanza. Now, Sam is determined to reclaim his baby and take her to Meadowlark's village on the Wind River of Wyoming. In Santa Fe, Sam meets a beautiful widow known as Dona Paloma and the two become lovers. Then, after the herd of horses belonging to Sam and his companions are sold for a healthy profit, he returns to California to reunite with his daughter only to learn she has been taken captive in an Indian raid. Sam's desperate mission to rescue his daughter, their escape in a frail craft down a rampaging river, and their long trek to Santa Fe, is a harrowing tale told by a master of the historical novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The search for family begins as Shenzon sets out on an epic galactic adventure across the unknown. With a new ship, crew, and outlook on life, Shenzon has to depend on God alone to find his children and his brothers, Edward and Francis. He will soon find out that this adventure will be dangerous and spiritually difficult. Edward and Francis find themselves in the unknown. Danger lies ahead of them as Edward is faced with a difficult decision of saving his older brother from a crime he never committed, or getting the crew to safety. When Edward makes his decision, he finds that he has the opportunity to be what he always wanted; the king of the Valkyrie people. Later, the people he was pledged to serve and protect blames him for deaths among the population and being a tyrant. The monks of the community prophesy of a man that will come to save the people and take over the throne from Edward. A stranger in black then challenges him. Is the stranger the monks saw to save them all?

Eight leading scholars have joined forces to give us the most comprehensive book to date on the history of African-American religion from the slavery period to the present. Beginning with Albert Raboteau's essay on the importance of the story of Exodus among African-American Christians and concluding with Clayborne Carson's work on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s religious development, this volume illuminates the fusion of African and Christian traditions that has so uniquely contributed to American religious development. Several common themes emerge: the critical importance of African roots, the traumatic discontinuities of slavery, the struggle for freedom within slavery and the subsequent experience of discrimination, and the remarkable creativity of African-American religious faith and practice. Together, these essays enrich our understanding of both African-American life and its part in the history of religion in America.

In the days that followed the explosion, as concerned people around the world watched updates intently on their televisions and the dedicated crew at Mission Control labored to bring the three endangered astronauts safely home, more miracles unfolded.

A child growing up in a coal mining community finds both excitement and hard work, in a life deeply affected by the local industry.