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22) The prisoner
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
The film is based on the real-life travails of Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who after suffering under Nazi persecution, was imprisoned by the new Communist regime for remaining loyal to his religious convictions.
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
p2004.
Language
English
Description
The Book of Mormon comes to life through the imagination of a child. Max, a fun-loving, seven-year-old and Birdie, his fine, feathered friend love nothing more than making people laugh. Together this duo explores stories of faith from the Book of Mormon and teaches how we too can have faith.
24) Wise blood
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Sabbath Lily. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater...
25) Fireproof
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
On the verge of divorce, a fireman takes his born-again father's suggestion and attempts a forty-day "love dare" to save his marriage.
26) Confession
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Confession Tolstoy poses the question: Is there any meaning in my life that will not be destroyed by my death? In 1879 the fifty-one-year-old author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina came to believe that he had accomplished nothing in life. Either of these magnificent novels would have assured Tolstoy's permanent place in the annals of world literature, yet his achievement was not enough to give his life meaning. Confession is an account of this...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
As a young man in the early 1980s, Hirschfield left his family for a group of radical settlers on the West Bank. Now, he has renounced all such rigid delineations of people into totally right and totally wrong, entirely good and entirely evil. He seeks to build bridges among people of different faiths--and those with no faith at all. He is devoted to teaching inclusiveness, celebrating diversity, and delivering a message of acceptance.
31) With one voice
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With one voice illuminates the unity of humanity through the single message and mystical tradition that binds all faiths together. The film features mystics from many great traditions around the world who discuss spiritual awakening, world peace and love.
Author
Language
English
Description
How can we trust God in the dark? Framed around a nighttime prayer of Compline, Tish Harrison Warren, author of Liturgy of the Ordinary, explores themes of human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence. When she navigated a time of doubt and loss, the prayer was grounding for her. She writes that practices of prayer "gave words to my anxiety and grief and allowed me to reencounter the doctrines of the church not as tidy little antidotes...
36) Matrix
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"People hold all kinds of beliefs. We may be Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, or Sikhs, or belong to other religions. Some people have non-religious beliefs. We can show what we believe by how we dress, what we eat, how we behave, and how we treat other people. What are your beliefs?"--
Pub. Date
uuuu
Language
English
Description
A funny and touching story of Elder Rogers, a Mormon missionary struggling with his faith after a series of blows to his personal life. When he is called to train Elder Calhoun, an overzealous new missionary, Rogers must reconcile his beliefs and sense of purpose.
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