Art Religion

A fun and simple way to disengage from the pressures of the outside world and find a place of peace internally. With the aid of color breathing and guided imagery, these meditations will enliven your spirit and inspire your heart. Each of the 12 individual color meditations will evoke a particular emotional response and can be used as a tool to transform sadness to joy, anger to peace, or fear to love.

Lama Somananda Tantrapa shares the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Shamanic Qigong in a simple and practical way. Discovering, testing and applying its principles will remarkably enhance your vitality with greater attentiveness, awareness and presence. It will help you transform and enlighten your life by developing a culture of movement that is naturally graceful and harmonious.

Learn how to cleanse and protect yourself and your space, tap into your intuition, and elevate your frequency through sacred smoke, candle, stone rituals - and more. Neelou Malekpour is here to support you for all occasions. With The Art of Sacred Smoke, Malekpour is ready to share the rituals that are essential to aligning and calibrating your energy.

“Ascolta il canto della vita. Non è un caos, è un cosmo. La felicità è uno stile di vita, non la conseguenza di un desiderio: è un’attitudine. Puoi essere felice qui ora: se riesci a essere in silenzio, consapevole della vita che ti circonda e che è anche dentro di te, sarai felice. Ogni cosa nell’esistenza è felice, ad eccezione di te. L’esistenza è felicità, è un’eterna celebrazione, è una festa.”

In The Art of Leading Change, author Mike Bonem asks: What is the primary distinction between the science and the art of change leadership? His answer: People! And leading people in churches and ministries is messy. The science of change leadership doesn't ignore the human element, but it tends to overlook the differences between people and the significant impact those differences have on how to best lead change. The art of leading change is all about people. We can't do the work God has called us to do without people, yet each individual—and each collection of individuals—is unique.

After the Berlin Wall fell, a group of Christian colleges in the US seized the opportunity to begin strategic faculty and student exchanges with universities inside the Soviet Union. They could not have foreseen the doors that would open next. During a 1990 visit to Russia, John Bernbaum and his colleagues received a surprising invitation from a Russian government official: come help build a faith-based university in Moscow. Thus, after 70 years of fierce religious persecution under communism, the Russian-American Christian University (RACU) was born.

Fans of the eccentric and edgy films of the Coen brothers know there's more going on in their films than meets the eye. Award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani is the perfect guide for Coen fans, inviting them to take a deeper look at the popular films, from their debut Blood Simple to the recent Burn After Reading and all the strange and wonderful films in between.

Learning from Black voices means listening to more than snippets. It means attending to Black stories. Reading Black Books helps Christians hear and learn from enduring Black voices and stories as captured in classic African American literature.

Over the centuries, people have longed for a messiah, whether a religious figure such as Jesus, a political leader, or even in popular culture. The messianic quest emerges most acutely during difficult times when people experience a sense of powerlessness and desperation. But the concept of a messiah — a savior — has its root in the writings of ancient Judaism and early Christianity, evolving from an anointed leader to universal savior.

Zehn Tage Schweigen: Adam Fletchers komisch-schmerzhafter Roadtrip zu sich selbst. Stell dir vor, du sprichst mit einem Wurm – und er antwortet dir! Adam und Evelyn stecken in einer Sackgasse fest. Ihr Kinderwunsch ist seit zwei Jahren unerfüllt, ihre einst so ungetrübte Beziehung droht ihnen zu entgleiten. Hinter seinem Rücken meldet sie ihn für einen Vipassana-Retreat an: Zehn Tage Schweigen, zehn Tage Meditieren, zwölf Stunden am Tag! Ohne Bücher, ohne Handy, ohne Internet! Er hat noch nie meditiert, kriegt den Lotussitz nicht hin und schwört, dass seine Seele keine dunklen Ecken kennt.

Throughout history, Christians have pictured the relationships between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through analogies. Such illustrations—some from the West but also from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and other places—come laden with theological ramifications that the church has rejected (heresies) or embraced (doctrines). In Three in One, William David Spencer shares a lifetime of insights from teaching within the global church, bringing fresh images and analogies of the Trinity to deepen our theological vocabulary.

When John Donne stood in the pulpit of St. Paul's, the lyricism of a great poet fused with the devotion of a holy man. There were no prepared sermons, for he spoke only from notes, and what he said was later transcribed from memory. But the sermons were overwhelming; for behind him was a lifetime devoted, as poet, philosopher and devine, to God.

¿Quieres vivir una gran aventura? Todavía queda un Anillo y, aunque no lo sepas, lo tienes tú. Sal de la comodidad de tu agujero hobbit y ponte en camino con la comunidad si quieres arrojarlo al fuego y destruirlo para siempre. Tendrás que darte prisa, los Jinetes Negros ya saben quién lo tiene... y no tardarán en encontrarte.

In the latest chapter of his best-selling Joshua series, Joseph Girzone offers fresh inspiration in this collection of fifty never-before-published contemporary vignettes that underscore the most important lessons of the gospel. In The Parables of Joshua, perhaps his most powerful since since the original Joshua, Girzone distills the essence of Christian teaching in entertaining and inspiring "bite-sized" tales set against the background of current society.

Эта книга расскажет о том, как в христианской иконографии священное переплеталось с комичным, монструозным и непристойным. Многое из того, что сегодня кажется возмутительным святотатством, в Средневековье, эпоху почти всеобщей религиозности, было вполне в порядке вещей. Речь пойдёт об обезьянах на полях древних текстов, непристойных фигурах на стенах церквей и о святых в монструозном обличье.

Discover how to harness your creative potential and turn your art into magic. In The Magic of Art, Taylor Ellwood shares how art can become a potent magical tool in your spiritual practice. You will learn how to combine sacred art with practical magic to get consistent results that transform your life. Best of all you don't need to be a talented artist to use art magic. All you need to do is pick up the paint brush, pencil, clay, etc., and start creating art that allows you to embody your magic and generate real results that change your life.

In The Lost Art of Relationship, Dan Chrystal tackles the heart of relationship based on the time-honored instruction to “love your neighbor as you love yourself”. How do we live out this odd instruction? What makes relationships healthy, and what makes them fail? Through Dan’s personal stories and difficult life lessons, listeners will come away encouraged, inspired, and motivated to love the people in their life more fully. If you desire deep and meaningful connections, now is the time to discover the lost art of relationship.

Any person called by God to write songs can fulfill their dreams. Young or old. Experienced writer or not. Join Stephen Robert Cass as he shines a light on the pathway of ministry and song success, showing you the value of congregational songwriting. This strategy and the custom song-crafting tools are inspired by Proverbs 27:17: "As iron sharpens iron, so we sharpen each other." This plan finds strength in God's wisdom and the power of group learning. Let it take your songs to churches in your community and around the world.

Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision unpacks this oft-ignored, but essential, element of Toni Morrison's work - her religion - and in so doing, gives listeners a deeper, richer understanding of her life and her writing.

In this memoir of the craft, Ben Palpant unpacks a lifetime of wisdom gained through the long, hard work of learning to write and to live well. Delivered as a series of letters from father to daughter, he patiently and gracefully paints a vision of what it means to enter into one's creative work as an act of generative obedience - an act that blesses the writer, the work itself, and the world that receives it.