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God Bless America
- Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States
- Narrated by: Karen Stollznow
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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God Bless America lifts the veil on strange and unusual religious beliefs and practices in the modern-day United States. Do Satanists really sacrifice babies? Do exorcisms involve swearing and spinning heads? Are the Amish allowed to drive cars and use computers? Offering a close look at snake handling, new age spirituality, Santeria spells, and satanic rituals, this book offers more than mere armchair research. It takes you to an exorcism, a Charismatic church, and a Fundamentalist Mormon polygamist compound.
You will sit among the beards and bonnets in a Mennonite church, hear the sounds of silence at a Quaker meeting, and listen to L. Ron Hubbard's sci-fi stories told as sermons during a Scientology service. From the Amish to Voodoo, the beliefs and practices explored in this book may be unorthodox, and often dangerous, but they are always fascinating. Some of them are dying out, while others are gaining popularity with a modern audience, but all offer insight into the past, present, and future of religion in the United States.
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By: Gustavo Vazquez-Lozano, and others
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Church: Why Bother?
- By: Philip Yancey
- Narrated by: Maurice England
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Insights from Philip Yancey's personal pilgrimage away from and back to the church. Why are there so many more professing Christians than churchgoing Christians? Is it because something is wrong with the church? In his candid, thought-provoking manner, award-winning author Philip Yancey reveals the reasons behind his own journey back from skepticism to wholehearted participation in the church, and weighs the church's human failings against its compelling worth as the body of Christ.
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Indeed, Why Bother with Church?
- By David on 07-10-17
By: Philip Yancey
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Who Is This Man?
- The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus
- By: John Ortberg
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling author John Ortberg shares how Jesus' influence has swept over history and how his vision of life continues to impact humanity today. Jesus' impact on our world is highly unlikely, widely inescapable, largely unknown, and decidedly double-edged. It is unlikely in light of the severe limitations of his earthly life; it is inescapable because of the range of impact; it is unknown because history doesn't connect dots; and it is doubled-edged because his followers have wreaked so much havoc, often in his name.
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NOT narrated by John Ortberg, sadly
- By T. Harris on 08-15-12
By: John Ortberg
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Blessed
- A History of the American Prosperity Gospel
- By: Kate Bowler
- Narrated by: Kate Bowler
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary religious landscape? Kate Bowler's Blessed is the first book to fully explore the origins, unifying themes, and major figures of a burgeoning movement that now claims millions of followers in America.
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Great research, fascinating information
- By Jonathan Barlow on 02-25-15
By: Kate Bowler
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Unveiling Grace
- The Story of How We Found Our Way Out of the Mormon Church
- By: Lynn K. Wilder
- Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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For 30 years, Lynn Wilder, once a tenured faculty member at Brigham Young University, and her family lived in, loved, and promoted the Mormon Church. Then, their son Micah, serving his Mormon mission in Florida, had a revelation: God knew him personally. God loved him. And the Mormon Church did not offer the true gospel. As Lynn tells her story of abandoning the deception of Mormonism to receive God's grace, she gives a rare look into Mormon culture, what it means to grow up Mormon, and why the contrasts between Mormonism and Christianity make all the difference in the world.
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Enlightening information
- By S. Herzog on 08-19-14
By: Lynn K. Wilder
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The Three Heavens
- Angels, Demons and What Lies Ahead
- By: John Hagee
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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In The Three Heavens, Hagee uses the Word of God, science, and incredible true stories of the supernatural to explore the First Heaven. He then exposes Satan's diabolical tactics in the Second Heaven and how they affect each one of us. Finally, he looks at the deep riches of the Third Heaven and how our hope of that eternal home changes our life on earth.
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Educational and Powerful
- By Sara J on 06-28-15
By: John Hagee
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How Evil Works
- By: David Kupelian
- Narrated by: Jon Gauger
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Despite the human race's extraordinary capacity for invention and progress, we clearly have a millennia-old blind spot in one all-important area: We don't understand evil -- what it is, how it works, and why it so routinely and effortlessly ruins our lives. Put another way, we don't understand ourselves.
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Has the advantage of bluntness
- By Suppresst on 07-14-10
By: David Kupelian
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The Faith Club
- A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search for Understanding
- By: Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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After September 11, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent, faced constant questions about Islam, God, and death from her children, the only Muslims in their classrooms. Inspired by a story about Muhammad, Ranya reached out to two other mothers to write an interfaith children's book that would highlight the connections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Wow I'm so glad I read this. I had no idea.
- By Michelle Pierce on 05-06-15
By: Ranya Idliby, and others
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Learning to Speak God from Scratch
- Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing - and How We Can Revive Them
- By: Jonathan Merritt
- Narrated by: Jonathan Merritt
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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In this groundbreaking book, one of America's premier religion writers revives ancient expressions through cultural commentary, vulnerable personal narratives, and surprising biblical insights. Both provocative and liberating, Learning to Speak God from Scratch will breathe new life into your spiritual conversations and lure you into the embrace of the God who inhabits them.
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New in sight into stale old language
- By Fyodor Dostoyevsky on 09-01-18
By: Jonathan Merritt
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The Two Marys
- The Hidden History of the Mother and Wife of Jesus
- By: Sylvia Browne
- Narrated by: Jeanie Hackett
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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No conversation about Jesus Christ is complete without a discussion of the two Marys: one his mother, and the other his wife. Sylvia Browne's readers are deeply committed to exploring the life of Jesus through her eyes. Continuing the journey she began a year ago with The Mystical Life of Jesus, the respected psychic seeks and reveals answers to questions that have been asked by countless people of faith.
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blasphemy
- By David on 03-10-08
By: Sylvia Browne
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If the Oceans Were Ink
- An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
- By: Carla Power
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend, Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their friendship - between a secular American and a madrasa-trained sheikh - had always seemed unlikely, but now they were frustrated and bewildered by the battles being fought in their names.
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WAY TOO LONG-but good material
- By teri_novabern on 07-30-16
By: Carla Power
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- Maggie
- 05-10-14
Good book, terrible narration
Would you listen to God Bless America again? Why?
Probably not. I would read the book instead if I wanted to refresh my memory on details or just felt like reading it again, but I wouldn't want to go through listening to the author reading aloud again.
What other book might you compare God Bless America to and why?
There are too many books out there telling about religions to do a list of comparisons. This is a very fresh point of view since Ms. Stollznow isn't from the U.S. and didn't have knowledge about these religions before researching her book. It was all new to her. Other writers skip some things because they assume what people must already know is the same as what they already knew and they don't want to be repetitive.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Karen Stollznow?
Almost anybody. Bronson Pinchot would have been good although he mostly does fiction. She reads too fast and she pauses in the wrong places. It's as though she is reading to the end of the line with no comprehension whereupon she pauses for a moment and reads the next line, pauses, reads the next line and so on. It's very much like a woman doing a poor William Shatner impersonation. She reads better when she gets to parts she finds more interesting but even then she reads too fast. She also mispronounces words such as apostate which is very annoying. I admit there is a chance that these words are pronounced differently in Australia but I don't think so. Mispronunciations drive me crazy. I think narrators should be professional enough to check on words rather than guess. And there are only a few writers who are good narrators. Unfortunately Ms. Stollznow is not one of them. I don't want to hurt her feelings but she should be satisfied with her writing talent and leave narrating to those who have that talent.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
I don't think anyone will be making a film of this book. It's not that type of book.
Any additional comments?
It's better to read this book than listen to this recorded version. But if you don't read, only listen, you should suffer through the narration because the book is worth it. If the narration had been even average I would have rated the book a 5 star.
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- CK1
- 07-21-14
Enjoyable but kind of pointless
An interesting look at lesser known religions and religious practices in the United States. I did not have a good feeling going in because the very first chapter opens with a misquotation ("Two girls for every boy" is mis-attributed to the Beach Boys, when it is in fact a Jan and Dean lyric). Chapters include Voodoo, Fundamental Mormonism, Satanism, Quakers, Scientology, Amish/Mennonite, and New Age. My main problem is, if you are remotely literate in matters of American history, sociology, and religion, none of the content is terribly enlightening, as one already knows the bulk of it.
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- Lila Fowler
- 05-04-17
Fascinating
This book covers the more unusual religions in the US. It tells you about their origins, what the practice involves, the pros/cons, the scandals, etc. It's quite interesting without being really snarky or mean spirited. It seems balanced without leaning heavily towards any religion or trying to convert you. It's an enjoyable listen if you like these kinds of things.
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- Vincent L. Apruzzese
- 07-08-22
A good introduction to how varied religion is in the United States
Karen Stollznow handles some pretty varied subject matter here and in a way that is compelling and underlines some of the dangers that unquestioned beliefs can lead to. She goes directly to the source where possible and we all benefit from her journalistic approach.
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