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Rev. Dale A. Johnson
Books Relating to the Language of Jesus, history, theology, and science
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Release the Hero Within
This is a guide for those who are considering giving their lives to service, whether it be the Peace Corps, AmeriCares, or overseas mission work. It is also for those who have done short term volunteerism for NGOs and need to process the experience. Giving our lives to others is a deeply psychological and spiritual process. There are well know guideposts identified in the treatise as well as the author's personal lessons from years of work in distant lands.
Print: $9.92
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Why Should We Care?
Why should Christians care about the United Nation's Goals on poverty and hunger? Does not God want us to prosper? Will not the poor, the sick, the homeless just drag us down? Are we our brother's keeper? The author gives us compelling reasons why we must care, not because we are a Christian, Buddhist, or Moslem, but because we are human beings and we are inter-connected to the plight of every other human being.
Print: $19.95
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Monks of Mount Izla
Origins of Christian monasticism east of the Euphrates from the 4th to 6th centuries from Aramaic sources.
Print: $11.95
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Altruism: Serving Others
Altruism is biological in origin but depends upon proper social and environmental conditions. The author posits a developmental model of Altruism modulated by genetic capacity and social constraints that is variable in its outcome in each human being. Yet, the human being, and perhaps other creatures, seem to transcend their biological and social constraints and act in a way that we can only describe as love toward another.
We seem to be created to be Good Samaritans in our most fully developed form.
Print: $11.95
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Hospitality
Hospitality is a core feature of Christian consciousness. From Genesis to Revelation the Bible can be read as a series of table talks and lessons on the partnership between host and stranger. Modern case studies of retreat centers around the world are viewed in light of the biblical commands to see how they conform to the charge of practicing Christian hospitality. These include Holden Village, an ecumenical retreat center in the Lutheran tradition in Washington State, Taize in France, L'Abri, and a concluding chapter on the Rule of Benedict, a rule of hospitality practiced for 1500 years.
Print: $10.92
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Your LIfe is None of Your Business
Using the 10 Ox herding pictures of Buddhist tradition the author uses each stage to shed life on his biography and understanding of Christianity. The author's childhood experiences on a dairy farm resonate with his adult understanding and life-long study of religious consciousness. Concluding that "Your Life is None of Your Business" is the beginning of serenity and enlightenment.
Print: $14.94
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Visits of Gertrude Bell to Tur Abdin
This is a collection of summaries, diary entries and letters from the famed British explorer, Gertrude Bell who later went on to become an adviser to Winston Churchill and founded the Baghdad Archaeology Museum. The focus of the book is on her contribution to the photographic and archaeological record she made of a region of forgotten Christians, called Tur Abdin in present day Turkey, who had preserved the language of Jesus and a Semitic form of Christianity under the veil of Islam.
Print: $19.95
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Tracts on the Mountain of the Servants
This is a collection of translations and essays on a region known for a small and often forgotten Christian community that has preserved the language of Jesus since the time of Christ. Their living institutions are expressed in monuments of stone, manuscripts, and a spoken dialect of Aramaic called Syriac. These stories about monasteries and saints are a witness to a civilization of Christians who should never be forgotten.
Print: $18.96
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Jesus on the Silk Road
This is a collection of essays originally published in the Syriac Orthodox Digest about the presence and influence of Christianity in Asia from 400-1400 AD.
Print: $18.50
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Fire on the Mountain
Biography of experiences by an American living in Southeast Turkey and Northern Iraq during and after the first Gulf War.
Print: $18.95
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