{"id":25520,"date":"2015-08-26T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=25520"},"modified":"2015-08-24T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T16:24:11","slug":"new-spirituality-religion-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/new-spirituality-religion-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"New Spirituality & Religion in August"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured new additions to DPL\u2019s Religion & Spirituality collections! Click on the title to place a hold. For more new books, visit our Upcoming Releases<\/a> page. As always, if you have a book that you would like to recommend,\u00a0call\u00a0or email the Reference Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\"gregory\"<\/a><\/td>\nHow’s Your Faith?: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by\u00a0David Gregory – While covering the White House as NBC newsman and Meet the Press<\/em> moderator Gregory\u00a0had the unusual experience of being asked by President George W. Bush \u201cHow\u2019s your faith?\u201d Gregory’s answer was just emerging. Gregory approaches his faith with the curiosity and dedication you would expect from a journalist accustomed to holding politicians and Presidents accountable. But he also comes as a seeker, one just discovering why spiritual journeys are always worthwhile.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"51YSj4NuaUL__SX320_BO1,204,203,200_\"<\/a><\/td>\nUncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Leah Lax – In Uncovered<\/i>, Leah Lax tells her story–beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she’s known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline prose, Lax details her experiences with arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and motherhood during her years with the Hasidim, and explores how her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings simmer beneath the surface throughout her time there.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"61dDCcEM3IL__SX406_BO1,204,203,200_\"<\/a><\/td>\nPope Francis and the New Vatican<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Robert Draper and David Yoder – <\/span>National Geographic<\/em> goes behind-the-scenes of the new papacy with unprecedented, exclusive access to Pope Francis. Embedded with the Pope inside the Vatican for 6 months, award-winning photographer David Yoder captures intimate moments in never-before-seen photographs presented here for the first time. Complementary essays by acclaimed journalist and author Robert Draper–drawn from interviews around the world with many who had never spoken publicly before–insightfully cover Pope Francis’s personal story, his journey to the papacy, and the heart of his ministry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"51giUOdOteL__SX322_BO1,204,203,200_\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Battle Plan for Prayer<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by\u00a0 Stephen Kendrick &\u00a0<\/span>Alex Kendrick <\/span>– Inspired by the Kendrick Brothers\u2019 new movie, War Room<\/em>,\u00a0is designed to help anyone learn how to become a powerful person of prayer.\u00a0The Battle Plan for Prayer\u00a0<\/i>begins with prayer\u2019s core purpose, its biblical design, and its impact throughout history.\u00a0Readers will be guided scripturally through the fundamentals of how effective prayer works, inspired towards a closer, more intimate relationship with God, and shown how to develop specific prayer strategies for each area of life.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"index9H5OIPZ3\"<\/a><\/td>\n\u00a0How to Eat<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Thich Nhat Hanh – Eating is a chance to return to the present moment.\u00a0How to Eat<\/em> clearly and succinctly explains how you can incorporate eating as a form of meditation. The book provides practical advice on how to become truly nourished through the mindful preparation, serving, eating, and cleaning up of food. How to Eat<\/em> encourages moderation and taking time to truly savor what we eat. By doing so, you too can become healthier, more fully enjoy what you eat, and help reduce waste.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"410ae8DkPCL\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Janice Kaplan – <\/span>On New Year\u2019s Eve, journalist and former Parade editor in chief Janice Kaplan makes a promise to be grateful and look on the bright side of whatever happens. She realizes that how she feels over the next months will have less to do with the events that occur than her own attitude and perspective. Getting advice at every turn from psychologists, academics, doctors, and philosophers she brings readers on a smart and witty journey to discover the value of appreciating what you have.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Featured new additions to DPL\u2019s Religion & Spirituality collections! Click on the title to place a hold. For more new books, visit our Upcoming Releases page. As always, if you have a book that you would like to recommend,\u00a0call\u00a0or email the Reference Department. \u00a0 How’s Your Faith?: An Unlikely Spiritual[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3252,183,189],"class_list":["post-25520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-religion","tag-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-6DC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25520"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25547,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25520\/revisions\/25547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}