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  The Catholic School Playbook

  Kimberly Begg, Michael Ortner

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  More than a hundred Catholic schools have closed annually for the last six decades across the United States. Enrollment is now around a quarter of what it was at its peak in 1965. Based on the data, one may conclude that the end of Catholic schools is near. Yet hundreds of Catholic schools are thriving with increasing enrollment, delighted parents, and students who are well formed and full of wonder. Many have waitlists of students eager to attend. What is their secret? What sets great Catholic schools apart from mediocre ones?The Catholic School Playbook by Michael Ortner and Kimberly Begg documents how these successful schools are bucking the trend by focusing on their rich Catholic heritage and cultivating strong communities of students, families, and educators. In seven concise and easy-to-read chapters exploring how these schools approach their mission, hiring, teachers, finances, and more, this book offers a practical gameplan for renewing Catholic education in America.

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  The Path to Peace - Experiencing...

  Ann Swindell

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  Overwhelmed. Stressed out. Burnt out. Fried. 
   
   
   
  However we name it, all of us know what it feels like to deal with circumstances and worries that drag us down and wear us out. Many of us experience persistent anxiety. Peace can be hard to find. 
   
   
   
  But it is in the middle of our stress and fear that God extends his unshakable peace to us. 
   
   
   
  In this beautiful book that is part devotional and part Bible study, Ann Swindell shares how the biblical stories of eight women and men helped her realize that what she needed most in her own journey wasn't a stable job or healthy kids or good friends—it was God's peace. Through forty faith-stirring readings, Ann will help you experience God's peace in your daily life, respond to challenges with faith rather than fear, and find hope in God's goodness and faithfulness toward you. 
   
   
   
  The good news is that even if our situations don't change, we can still experience Christ's peace in our daily lives. The Path to Peace is for everyone who longs to experience a soul at rest.

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  Corpse Care - Ethics for Tending...

  Mikeal C. Parsons, Cody J. Sanders

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  Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the US to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns. 
   
   
   
  Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective, cultural consciousness. The authors explore the materiality and meaning of the dead body and the living's relationship to it. All the biggest questions facing the planetary human community relate in one way or another to the corpse. Surprisingly, Christian communities are largely missing in the discussion of the dead, having abdicated the historic role in care for the dead to the funeral industry. Christianity has stopped its reflection about the body once that body no longer bears life. Corpse Care stakes a claim that the fact of embodiment, this incarnational truth, this process of our bodily becoming, is a practical, ethical, and theological necessity.

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  The Place of the Lion

  Charles Williams

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  The veil between the worlds has been torn, and terrible powers are coming through... 
  A magician has caused a rift in the fabric of the universe, and platonic ideals are now roaming the English countryside, taking the form of giant animals and generally wreaking havoc on the small town of Smetham. While others flee, a young student named Anthony Durrant realizes that it is up to him to face the monstrous powers before they destroy the world. 
  The Place of the Lion is one of Charles Williams' most beloved novels. C.S. Lewis called reading it "one of the major literary events of my life". Along with Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Williams was member of the Inklings, an informal group of writers in Oxford, England, who changed the world with their mythopoetic vision.

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  Vision Is Not Enough - A...

  Anonym

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  Purpose must be known before it can become the driving force of any life. Vision creates the path to achieve such pursuit. 
  This book has introduced a change in the perspective that having a vision is the ultimate guarantee for success; changing the paradigm to knowing vision is not enough. 
  You may have read many great books on your why, purpose, destiny, the pursuit of happiness, and the difference between vision and a job. Most times, there is still a missing link. I have discovered many people sincerely desire to live for a greater purpose, but never achieve their desire. The missing links are what this book is all about. What are the reasons an ivy-league professor of resource economics dies as a pauper? Or, why an astrologist suffered from impending doom they predicted? 
  Without vision and direction, people can perish, and a nation can fail. 
  The United States of America, as a world leader, had a vision of a looming pandemic that may cripple the world. Two former presidents, George W. Bush in 2005 and Barack Obama in 2014, spoke concisely about the imminent pandemic that may stalemate the global economy. They visualized and had the mental image of the perceived devastation. What happened? How did the coronavirus catch us unaware and challenge our global leadership? Where did we get it wrong as leaders and as a nation? Perhaps they thought vision was enough. 
  What makes an individual set out on a journey and never arrive at their destination? Is vision an end in itself or a means to an end? With insights drawn from Biblical perspectives and my personal experiences, this book will stimulate your curiosity and propel a churning within you. Vision is not enough, ultimately reinforces a mindset change that the better part of you is yet to unfold; the manifestation of your locked potentials.

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  The Theory and Practice of Alchemy

  Manly Palmer Hall

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  ALCHEMY, the secret art of the land of Khem, is one of the two oldest sciences known to the world. The other is astrology. The beginnings of both extend back into the obscurity of prehistoric times. According to the earliest records extant, alchemy and astrology were considered as divinely revealed to man so that by their aid he might regain his lost estate. According to old legends preserved by the Rabbins, the angel at the gate of Eden instructed Adam in the mysteries of Qabbalah and of alchemy, promising that when the human race had thoroughly mastered the secret wisdom concealed within these inspired arts, the curse of the forbidden fruit would be removed and man might again enter into the Garden of the Lord. As man took upon himself "coats of skins" (physical bodies) at the time of his fall, so these sacred sciences were brought by him into the lower worlds incarnated in dense vehicles, through which their spiritual transcendental natures could no longer manifest themselves. Therefore they were considered as being dead or lost. 
  The earthly body of alchemy is chemistry, for chemists do not realize that half of The Book of Torah is forever concealed behind the veil of Isis (see the Tarot), and that so long as they study only material elements they can at best discover but half of the mystery. Astrology has crystallized into astronomy, whose votaries ridicule the dreams of ancient seers and sages, deriding their symbols as meaningless products of superstition. Nevertheless, the intelligentsia of the modern world can never pass behind the veil which divides the seen from the unseen except in the way appointed--the Mysteries.

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