Dark Religion

Best-selling author Richard E. Rubenstein brings the past to life in this engrossing story of social, religious, and scientific revolution during one of the darkest periods in European history. When a group of Dark Ages scholars rediscovered the works of Aristotle, the great thinker's ideas ignited a firestorm of enlightened thought. This is the endlessly fascinating account of the pivotal period in history when the modern era took root.

When Reverend William Branham prophesied of God's blessing of Reverend Jim Jones' ministry during a joint Latter Rain healing campaign in Indianapolis, Indiana, he had no idea what he had started.

Seraphina locked her eyes with Magnus as the sheriff grabbed him by his arm and cuffed his wrists together. When he began to fight against the man, he clasped his hand around Magnus’ throat, and Seraphina bowed her head at Magnus, inviting him in.

How do you know God is real? In the emotionally charged, fire-filled faith in which Addie Zierman grew up, the answer to this question was simple: because you've felt him. Now, at age 30, she feels nothing. Just the darkness pressing in. Just the winter cold. Just a buzzing silence where God's voice used to be. So she loads her two small children into the minivan one February afternoon and heads south in a last-ditch effort to find the light.

The struggle against abortion in our nation has been going on a long time. Sometimes it seems like an evil that will never go away. People want to get involved in the fight, but it feels futile, and increasingly the culture tells Christians to stay out of politics. Longtime activist Rev. Frank...

Have you ever thought you could explore your mind in the darkest and most hidden zone? Do you know that your mind has an immeasurable power but only by knowing the right techniques you can exploit it? This is what learning the secrets of dark psychology offers to you. This audiobook combines proven techniques and concepts harnessed from the growing field of dark psychology. Every concept can be applied to the real world and can help you find success in advancing your career, improving your love life, and becoming a better person overall.

Beautimus Potamus - A talking hippo on the mythical planet, Rendaz - is a university professor at Dr. Pimbly’s School of Goodly Educated Adults, a writer, and a maker of oracles. From Rendazian and Earthian archetypical symbols, Beautmus developed her own divination tool, The Anam Glyphs. And, with the assistance of her “Hu Man” co-author on Earth, Peggy A. Wheeler, she has created a book about her oracle.

Gwendolyn Crawford is preparing to take the powers of her family and to become the high priestess of the coven of the Silver Shadows. She was eager to help the covens heal the rift between them. Silas Sigmis Jr., the high priest of the Black Willow, was only following orders given to him by his father. He hadn’t thought of what the consequences of his actions would be until he came face-to-face with the Crawford girl. Two people who should have been at odds with each other will soon find they are each other’s only allies. Even among their own families.

Your behind-the-scenes guide to the unseen world of the paranormal. Brynne Larson may look like a normal girl - except her version of normal involves exorcism of demons and teaching people around the world that the paranormal is very real. Get ready to learn how the supernatural impacts your everyday life...from someone with practical experience with the unseen realm.

In The Strangeness of Truth, Fr. Damian Ferrence invites us to marvel with him at the radical, mystical realities illuminating our world. Indeed, the answers to our biggest questions are far stranger than anyone can imagine.

On January 3rd, 2001, documentary writer/producer Wayne Darwen brought a professional TV news crew into the Temple of the O.T.A. to visually record a remarkable event: the summoning of the ancient spirit Vassago. On February 1st, the Los Angeles affiliate of a National TV Network broadcast an edited version of Vassago's Prophecy, confirming that the Spirit had predicted a major news event. Only 13 days after the ritual was visually recorded, President Laurent Kabila of the Congo was assassinated!

From one of the most respected thinkers and public intellectuals of our day comes a book that is both a cultural critique of the state of our country and a robust summons to resist complicity. As we move through the world, we constantly weigh our conscience against what David Dark calls "deferential fear"—going along just to get along, especially in relation to our cultural, political, and religious conversations.

Revised, adapted, and condensed for a broader audience, this companion edition of What about Evil? shows how sin, evil, corruption, and death fit into redemptive history and magnify God's glory.

Life’s painful trials can bring shame about our inadequate and broken faith. There is relief in hearing the expressions of desperation in the psalmist’s voice. He didn’t experience this life perfected, and we don’t either. But the psalmist was loved. So are we. God was so kind to give us the Psalms. To walk through darkened days is part of the human experience. To walk through them with faith, comfort, strength, joy, and hope is part of the divine experience.

It would be all so easy if we never got that call, heard those words that send you freefalling over the edge, stealing the breath from your lungs, and filling your mouth with a silent scream. But when that call comes, how do you take that next breath? What do you do when your heart stops beating? Surviving a heart-wrenching journey that seems to have no end, who writes the survival manual for that best seller?

The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages - in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called The Scientist Pope, Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant beginnings to lead the church. By turns a teacher, traitor, kingmaker, and visionary, Gerbert is the first Christian known to teach math using the nine Arabic numerals and zero.

We all have nights when negative feelings overwhelm us. Whether we're fearful, discouraged or tired of living, these nights can keep us awake and make the next day worse. But it doesn't have to be that way. Like the first devotional in this series, you'll listen to an applicable verse, encouraging words, questions and a song recommendation for 30 different types of tough nights we all experience.

Mass shootings political unrest, leadership scandals, cultural divisions, economic uncertainty, and similarly topics control our news cycles 24/7. They dominate our conversations and can fill us with a wide range of fearful emotions—one of which is hopelessness. Experts say that without hope, life doesn't much matter. If you’re human, two things are certain. One, you will encounter the emptiness of loss in your life. Two, you will need hope to get you through it. Suffering touches all of us. No one is exempt. Yet, the same is true of hope—it also can touch us all.

Shocked to find corruption widespread in the ranks of their shepherds today, too many good Catholics are tempted to leave the Church, unaware that ever since the days when Jesus' own treasurer, Judas Iscariot, had his hand in the till, the Good Shepherd and His faithful followers have regularly been betrayed by bad shepherds. In this eye-opening book, Church historian Rod Bennett introduces a number of those bad shepherds, including Pope Stephen VII, who so hated his late predecessor that he had him dug up, put on trial, and flung into the Tiber....

Our lives are filled with questions, and our world is filled with answers: in the cloud, online, and in libraries of books. But the answers to the most important questions are rarely straightforward. In fact, sometimes, the truth is downright strange. But somehow, even in its strangeness, truth reveals a clarity that calls forth a response from the depths of one’s being. If you allow yourself to be open to the strangeness of truth, it can change your life.