The Cracked Altar
The Cracked Altar

Author: Timothy J. R. Rains

Publisher: Timothy J. R. Rains

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13:

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A Missing Princess. A City Under Siege. A Compendium Of The Blackest Sorcery. The Grand Mage of Caragol is the most dangerous man in the realm, so when Kerstin steals his spellbook right out of his tower she lights up a firestorm of trouble. His fury rages through the city of Klomm. Houses burn. Innocents lie slaughtered in the streets. Yet countless lives are a petty sum for such great deal of power. With the spellbook, Kerstin can contend with the unspeakable horrors conjured by the Grand Mage. But she is dancing on a spider's thread. Meanwhile on the other side of the kingdom, fifteen-year-old Hinkle walks a tightrope of her own, spinning a web of dangerous lies around her new master, Sir Gilkrist of Lothellae. When Sir Gilkrist’s quest brings them to Klomm, she discovers the secrets she’s been hiding are darker than she ever imagined. A diabolical scheme threatens to engulf the world in shadow and blood - and it has everything to do with her Aunt Kerstin. But can Sir Gilkrist help her ... or will he devise a dark purpose of his own?

The Church Cracked Open
The Church Cracked Open

Author: Stephanie Spellers

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2021-03-17

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1640654259

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"This book will make a profound difference for the church in this moment in history." — The Most Reverend Michael B. Curry Sometimes it takes disruption and loss to break us open and call us home to God. It’s not surprising that a global pandemic and once-in-a-generation reckoning with white supremacy—on top of decades of systemic decline—have spurred Christians everywhere to ask who we are, why God placed us here and what difference that makes to the world. In this critical yet loving book, the author explores the American story and the Episcopal story in order to find out how communities steeped in racism, establishment, and privilege can at last fall in love with Jesus, walk humbly with the most vulnerable and embody beloved community in our own broken but beautiful way. The Church Cracked Open invites us to surrender privilege and redefine church, not just for the sake of others, but for our own salvation and liberation.

The Broken Chain
The Broken Chain

Author: Timothy J. R. Rains

Publisher: Timothy J. R. Rains

Published: 2022-10-08

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13:

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A Queen in Peril. An Alliance Divided. A Conjuring of an Ancient Evil. Shown for the villain that he is, the Grand Mage is on the run—and he’s kidnapped the crown heir. The realm is in turmoil. The critical hour is at hand. But at a time when unity is paramount, no one can be trusted—King Vashean least of all. Kerstin’s schemes have not played out in her favour. With her impending execution, it seems she’s burned one bridge too many. Pity though, she was mankind’s only hope ... Hinkle would love nothing more than to see Kerstin get what she deserves—especially with the way she’s been looking at Sir Gilkrist. But for once her aunt might actually be right. Count Olgris has escaped—and he holds the final piece to his master’s sinister design. The question is, will anybody listen? The world is about to plunge into the most terrifying darkness its ever known. And no one who can do anything about it is moving in the right direction …

Blood on the Altar
Blood on the Altar

Author: Tobias Jones

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0571274951

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One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughter's disappearance, but he is protected by local big-wigs: by his Sicilian father, by a doctor with links to organised crime, by a priest who had vices of his own. Years went by and Elisa's family could find only false leads. 2002, and Restivo is now living in Bournemouth. In November that year, his neighbour is found murdered, with strands of her own hair in her hands. Once again the police are at a loss to pin anything on him. It's not until 2010, when Elisa's decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing, that the two cases are linked and Restivo is finally dealt with. Blood on the Altar combines a gripping true crime case with Jones's deep understanding of Italian culture - the impunity it offers to the powerful - he so expertly demonstrated in his bestseller: The Dark Heart of Italy.

The Broken Bridge
The Broken Bridge

Author: Suzanne Kamata

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press

Published: 1998-07-01

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1880656310

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Absorbing fiction from Outsiders in a land that does not absorb foreigners easily.

Through the Crack
Through the Crack

Author: Charrita D Danley

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2012-01-19

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1468537113

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Through the Crack is the heart-warming story of three women who are bound to one another by the common blood that flows through their veins. Though Vickie Morgan-Stevenson believes in God, she has no true relationship with Him. In her state of addiction, she tells lies, cheats and steals to support her habit. Ultimately, her life becomes the battleground of war between the Truth of God and the Lie of the Enemy. Vickies single, saved and sanctified sister, Vanessa Morgan, has her middle-class lifestyle in the city disrupted when she is forced to accept her sisters addiction and put her own life on hold. Upon her return to the Mississippi Delta, she assumes Vickies responsibilities, including caring for her eighteen year old daughter, Vonshay, who finds her life in turmoil as she grapples with the choices her mother has made. The novel traces the womens journey from addiction to recovery as it exposes their individual desires to avoid being smothered by family responsibilities and relationships. The characters faith in God sustains them through the laughter and the tears as they learn the true meaning of unconditional love.

The Crack Between the Worlds
The Crack Between the Worlds

Author: Maggie Kast

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1621891518

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A car crashes, and Maggie Kast, at the peak of a modern dance career, loses a three-year-old daughter. Raised without religion and now mired in grief, she senses a persistent connection to the little girl, a love somehow more powerful than the brute fact of death. This awareness leads her, over three years, to the Catholic Church. After the accident, her marriage is greatly stressed by the entrance of religion into married life, and she and her husband each accuse the other of being too religious or too secular at various times. Despite conflict, dialogue keeps the marriage intimate and vital. Following study of liturgy at Catholic Theological Union, she teaches and tours sacred dance nationally and internationally, exploring the arts as a spiritual path. Moving forward and looking back at once, she discovers early hints of religious experience in childhood celebrations, encounters with art, and marriage. Her husband dies. Now a single parent of a ten-year-old and a developmentally disabled teenager, as well as college-aged sons, she continues her search.

All Cracked Up
All Cracked Up

Author: Patsy Clairmont

Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM

Published: 2009-09-14

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1418585785

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Sometimes if we try we can disconnect from tough problems around us, but eventually the network of fractures spreads to our front doors when a husband walks out, a loved-one is arrested, a friend betrays us, a church splits, a job is terminated, a diagnosis is bad, or a financial picture worsens. Suddenly with no place to hide from the reality we realize life is all cracked up. Through the lens of our pain everything seems broken, bruised, and battered. But, as best-selling author Patsy Clairmont points out, there's a redeemer of our pain--Jesus. The Redeemer of the broken and discarded who mends our hearts, and even gives us a reason to laugh again. Telling inspirational stories of women's brokenness and healing, with tenderness and her trademark humor, Patsy Clairmont helps us realize that we're not alone in our struggles. Jesus buoys our spirits and refreshes our tired minds. As Patsy says, "life is so much easier to bear when its shared.'