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Render Unto Caesar: The Struggle Over Christ and Culture in the New Testament

The revered Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus explores the Christian culture wars—the debates over church and state—from a biblical perspective, exploring the earliest tensions evident in the New Testament, and offering a way forward for Christians today. Leading Bible scholar John Dominic Crossan, the author of the pioneering work The Historical Jesus, provides new insight into the Christian culture wars which began in the New Testament and persist strongly today. For decades, Americans have been divided on how Christians should relate to government and lawmakers, a dispute that has impacted every area of society and grown more rancorous over the past forty years. But as Crossan makes clear, this debate isn't new; it can be found in the New Testament itself, most notably in the tensions between Luke-Acts and Revelations. In the texts of Luke-Acts, Rome is considered favorably. In the book of Revelations, Rome is seen as the embodiment of evil in the world. Yet there is an alternative to these two extremes, Crossan explains. The historical Jesus and Paul, the earliest Christian teachers, were both strongly opposed to Rome, yet neither demonized the Empire. Crossan sees in Jesus and Paul's approach a model for Christians today that can be used to cut through the acrimony and polarization roiling our society and dividing us.

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Liberation: Substation 7, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 390min

The only way out is down.Accompanied by an automaton her mother left before her disappearance, Clare has discovered the way into the upper regions of the mysterious and forbidden lower city. But now, encountering a strange new machine that sounds eerily human and claims to know the way down into the lower levels, the real adventure begins.At first, Clare and her assistant hope to advance without notice, but when the automaton army meets their intrusion with more than just hydraulic-assisted, mechanical muscle, they realize they have little choice - cooperate or die an agonizing death.From above, Waine and Oswald are hot on their trail - one moved by duty, the other by friendship. As they're hindered by the host of demonized machinery left in Clare's wake, they must fight increasingly desperate odds that drive both men to final, impossible choices. Avoiding her pursuers of bone and battery alike, Clare must penetrate even further into the industrial abyss in search of her mother.Who, or what lies at the bottom?This is the second book in Substation 7, the oppressive fantasy thriller series in which even the afterlife can be stolen from you! For more fiction, set your sights on kellinkston.com. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacob Buchholz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/200973/bk_acx0_200973_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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In the Weeds: Demonization, Legalization, and the Evolution of U.S. Marijuana Policy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 628min

More and more states are legalizing marijuana in some form. Moreover, a majority of the US population is in favor of the drug for recreational use. In the Weeds looks at how our society has become more permissive in the past 150 years - even though marijuana is still considered a Schedule I drug by the American government. Sociologists Clayton Mosher and Scott Akins take a deep dive into marijuana policy reform, looking at the incremental developments and the historical, legal, social, and political implications of these changes. They investigate the effects, medicinal applications, and possible harms of marijuana. In the Weeds also considers arguments that youth will be heavy users of legalized cannabis, and shows how “weed” is demonized by exaggerations of the drug’s risks and claims of its lack of medicinal value. Mosher and Akins end their timely and insightful book by tracing the distinct paths to the legalization of recreational marijuana in the United States and other countries as well as discussing what the future of marijuana law holds. The book is published by Temple University Press. “Masterfully profiles decades of government propaganda that sought to misinform the American public about marijuana.” (John Hudak, PhD, senior fellow, The Brookings Institution) “A useful primer for the long history of marijuana in the United States." (Emily Dufton, author of Grass Roots) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ronald Bruce Meyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164230/bk_acx0_164230_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Darwin's Children: A Novel, Hörbuch, Digital, 358min

Eleven years have passed since SHEVA was discovered in human DNA - a retrovirus that caused mutations in the human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence...and face a world that is outraged about their very existence. For these special youths are also ticking time bombs that could exterminate the "old" human race.Fear and hatred of the virus children have made them a persecuted underclass, quarantined by the government, targeted by bounty hunters, and demonized by the population. But pockets of resistance have formed among those opposed to treating the children like dangerous diseases.Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson are part of this small but determined minority. Once at the forefront of the discovery and study of the SHEVA outbreak, they now live as virtual exiles in the Virginia suburbs with their daughter, Stella - a bright, inquisitive virus child who is quickly maturing and eager to seek out others of her kind.But for all their precautions, Kaye, Mitch, and Stella have not slipped below the government's radar. The agencies fanatically devoted to segregating and controlling the new-breed children monitor their every move - waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in their escalating war to preserve "humankind" at any cost. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff McCarthy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000271/bk_rand_000271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 630min

Any way you look at it, for whoever is using it, marijuana is a medicinal plant in abundant supply. Every month and every year that goes by, we find out more positive things about it. Marijuana has been demonized through the years, but obviously this plant has a great deal of positive attributes, and it's a renewable resource. Being a cash crop, marijuana is bad for the pharmaceutical industry. Is Big Pharma pressuring the government to continue to deny sick people access? If so, that's truly a crime against American citizens. And, as Jesse Ventura writes, "Our government won't do the right thing and legalize marijuana unless we the people demand it, because there are so many people within our government on the payroll, all thanks to the War on Drugs." Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto calls for an end to the War on Drugs. Just because something is illegal, that doesn't mean it goes away; it just means that criminals run it. Legalizing marijuana will serve to rejuvenate our pathetic economy and just might make people a little happier. Ventura's book will show us all how we can take our country back. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Woodson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/006471/bk_tant_006471_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Snapping of the American Mind , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 515min

America the beautiful has become America the bizarre. Government openly defies the law, Christians are prosecuted as criminals, children "transition" to the opposite sex, the president supports our enemies - and 130 million Americans depend on mind-altering substances just to get through life. Turbocharged by the Obama presidency, long-coalescing forces of the political and cultural Left are bringing about their much-heralded "fundamental transformation of America". That much everyone knows. But this revolution is also causing a fundamental transformation of Americans - in profoundly negative ways. In The Snapping of the American Mind, veteran journalist and best-selling author David Kupelian shows how the progressive Left - which today dominates America's key institutions, from the news and entertainment media, to education, to government itself - is accomplishing much more than just enlarging government, redistributing wealth, and de-Christianizing the culture. With the Left's wild celebration of sexual anarchy, its intimidating culture of political correctness, and its incomprehension of the fundamental sacredness of human life, it is also, whether intentionally or not, promoting widespread dependency, debauchery, family breakdown, crime, corruption, addiction, despair, and suicide. Surveying this growing chaos in American society, Kupelian exposes both the utopian revolutionaries and their extraordinary methods that have turned America's most cherished values literally upside down - to the point that madness is celebrated and normality demonized. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Bowen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/001529/bk_bimo_001529_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A People's History of Chicago , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 126min

Known variously as "the Windy City" "the City of Big Shoulders," or "Chi-Raq", Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly contested cities in the world. Chicago is the city of Gwendolyn Brooks and Chief Keef, Al Capone and Richard Wright, Lucy Parsons and Nelson Algren, Harold Washington and Studs Terkel. It is the city of Fred Hampton, House Music, and the Haymarket Martyrs. Writing in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Kevin Coval’s A People’s History of Chicago celebrates the history of this great American city from the perspective of those on the margins, whose stories often go untold. These 77 poems (for the city’s 77 neighborhoods) honor the everyday lives and enduring resistance of the city’s workers, poor people, and people of color, whose cultural and political revolutions continue to shape the social landscape. Kevin Coval is the poet/author/editor of seven books, including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and the play, This Is Modern Art, co-written with Idris Goodwin. Founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival and the Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors, Coval teaches hip-hop aesthetics at the University of Illinois - Chicago. The Chicago Tribune has named him "the voice of the new Chicago" and the Boston Globe calls him "the city’s unofficial poet laureate." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Coval, Jamila Woods. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/110986/bk_acx0_110986_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 429min

Physician and popular New York Times Upshot contributor Aaron Carroll mines the latest evidence to show that many "bad" ingredients actually aren't unhealthy, and in some cases are essential to our well-being. Advice about food can be confusing. There's usually only one thing experts can agree on: some ingredients - often the most enjoyable ones - are bad for you, full stop. But as Aaron Carroll explains, these oversimplifications are both wrong and dangerous: if we stop consuming some of our most demonized ingredients altogether, it may actually hurt us. In The Bad Food Bible, Carroll examines the scientific evidence, showing among other things that you can: Eat red meat several times a week: The health effects are negligible for most people, and actually positive if you're 65 or older. Have a drink or two a day: As long as it's in moderation, it will protect you against cardiovascular disease without much risk. Enjoy a gluten-loaded bagel from time to time: It has less fat and sugar, fewer calories, and more fiber than a gluten-free one. Eat more salt: If your blood pressure is normal, you should be more worried about getting too little sodium than having too much. Full of counterintuitive lessons about food we hate to love, The Bad Food Bible is for anyone who wants to forge eating habits that are sensible, sustainable, and occasionally indulgent. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Cummings, Kate Rudd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009599/bk_brll_009599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 810min

From South Park to Kathy Acker, and from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. Rees traces the fascinating evolution of this demonization, considering how calling the "c-word" obscene both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally. Rees demonstrates how writers, artists, and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of the vagina's puzzlingly "covert visibility". In our postmodern, porn-obsessed culture, vaginas appear to be everywhere, literally or symbolically but, crucially, they are as silenced as they are objectified. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History examines the paradox of female genitalia through five fields of artistic expression: literature, film, TV, visual, and performance art. There is a peculiar paradox - unlike any other - regarding female genitalia. Rees focuses on this paradox of what is termed the "covert visibility" of the vagina and on its monstrous manifestations. That is, what happens when the female body refuses to be pathologized, eroticized, or rendered subordinate to the will or intention of another? Common, and often offensive, slang terms for the vagina can be seen as an attempt to divert attention away from the reality of women's lived sexual experiences such that we don't "look" at the vagina itself - slang offers a convenient distraction to something so taboo. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History is an important contribution to the ongoing debate in understanding the feminine identity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Polly Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021170/bk_adbl_021170_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Coconut Oil for Weight Loss: The Secret of an Ancient Essential Oil for Faster Weight Loss: Coconut Oil for Beginners , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 62min

Discover the Secret of an Ancient Essential Oil for Faster Weight Loss The coconut has been used for centuries throughout the tropics for food and medicine, among many other practical uses. In fact medicinally, it has also been used to treat everything from scabies (an infection caused by the human itch mite) to baldness, tumors, ulcers, colds, and dry skin, among other ailments. In Indian culture, for instance, coconut oil has been used by women to improve their hair. It has also been claimed to improve eyesight and help the sick. Yet due to its high saturated-fat content, coconut oil has been demonized as bad for health when used with food. In more recent years, however, a better understanding of the types of fat that cause poor cardiovascular health has led researchers to revise their view of coconut oil. The truth is that coconut oil is a prime catalyst for weight loss. This audiobook will explain the secret of coconut oil and how you can use it, consume it, and benefit from it! Some of the topics include: Coconut Oil Defined Coconut Oil for Weight Loss Summary of Health Benefits of Coconut Oil Drink Recipes Using Coconut Oil Coconut Oil in Food Recipes Finding Reliable Information on Coconut Oil, the Coconut Oil Weight Loss Secret Download this book to find out the secret of coconut oil for faster weight loss. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dave Wright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034376/bk_acx0_034376_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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