"You seek a description of a new way, a new time, as if it is a future that is already written. It is a future waiting to be birthed. An imminent birth that you are feeling with all your mothering instincts and concern for the new babe, the jewel of humanity and Heaven." Thus begins Mirari: The Way of the Marys. In Mirari, Mari Perron, who received A Course of Love twenty years ago, enters an intimate exchange with Mary of Nazareth. Their dialogue gives life to "the way of Mary," briefly introduced in her earlier work. In this new book, Perron departs from the classic style of "the course" and surprises us with her own vulnerability. In words spoken intimately between Mary of Nazareth and Mari Perron, our hearts are called to embrace our knowing in all its fullness. Uniting the feminine and masculine within, wholeness of being joins wholeheartedness, releasing all the feelings of the sacred heart. We can now welcome our grief over the way that is passing. Grief is "alive with soul and depth and longing." It empowers us to leave the old behind. As we cease to think of ourselves as learning beings, new ways of knowing arise. We become creators of The New. Here, the two women follow A Course of Love's call for "creation of the new" with the labor of the birth and the "Mother laws of care and nurture-given to all." Together, they demonstrate the radical energy that arises from within each one's felt knowing. From our union in relationship, we know that the time is here to give birth to a new age. Mary of Nazareth was not unfamiliar with this call or the grief that accompanied it. Her life, as well as the life of Jesus, announced an unwelcome breach in the old order. So too is it with A Course of Love and the new Way of the Marys. Mari Perron shares her personal experience of receiving A Course of Love and knowing this was not more "learned wisdom." She mourned that the call to "unlearning," key to a new way of knowing, went unheard. Mary and Mari assure us that it is from a feminine way of knowing-deeper than thought, and impossible to learn-that The New will arise. It is a courageous act to not be willing to repeat the past. But letting it go is part of healing our own and the collective feminine wound. This healing opens the way, not only to unifying the feminine and masculine, but for the birth of an age that will end all such divisions. The two women invite us to rise up and join in the blossoming of a New Advent. We claim our time of Mirari: the wonder of coming to know the unknown that is our inheritance. In this essential feminine way, we welcome receptive revelation that does not take us away from life or the personal milieu in which it occurs. Instead, it joins them fully. Mari Perron knows that it is time for the feminine voice of God and of women to be recognized as a power that has always been-but been denied. Increasingly, her writings champion the ways, often discounted, in which women come to know. Mirari: The Way of the Marys presents a vision that will mid-wife the birth of The New. We begin with a word both new and ancient. We begin with a return to the way of the Word made flesh. This will be the time of wonder-or Mirari. From Mirari: The Way of the Marys Here, in our time of bringing the miracle to mystery . . . we offer Mirari as the way of the divine feminine . . . From Mirari: The Way of the Marys This is not the masculine energy of going out to conquer the world. This is the birth of the new world. From Mirari: The Way of the Marys The suffering of labor is passed with the birth. The world, and each of its occupants, has been in labor to complete its own birth. From Mirari: The

The relationship between democracy and religion is as important today as it was in Alexis de Tocqueville's time. Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion is a ground-breaking study of the views of the greatest theorist of democracy writing about one of today's most crucial problems. Alan S. Kahan, one of today's foremost Tocqueville scholars, shows how Tocqueville's analysis of religion is simultaneously deeply rooted in his thoughts on nineteenth-century France and America and pertinent to us today. Tocqueville thought that the role of religion was to provide checks and balances for democracy in the spiritual realm, just as secular forces should provide them in the political realm. He believed that in the long run secular checks and balances were dependent on the success of spiritual ones. Kahan examines how Tocqueville thought religion had succeeded in checking and balancing democracy in America, and failed in France, as well as observing Tocqueville's less well-known analyses of religion in Ireland and England, and his perspective on Islam and Hinduism. He shows how Tocqueville's 'post-secular' account of religion can help us come to terms with religion today. More than a study of Tocqueville on religion in democratic society, this volume offers us a re-interpretation of Tocqueville as a moralist and a student of human nature in democratic society; a thinker whose new political science was in the service of a new moral science aimed at encouraging democratic people to attain greatness as human beings. Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion gives us a new Tocqueville for the twenty-first century.

Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

Mirari’s magic awakened with the need for revenge. While on a quest to avenge her lost kin, Mirari discovers that her long-lost friend, Gaven, now leads a rebel group fighting against the three ruling empires. Unlike others, she struggles to accept that the man she once knew, whose sole ambition was to become a noble and honorable warrior, has turned into a traitor. But as events unfold, it becomes clear that unseen powers are manipulating the situation, causing chaos and mistrust among all involved. Will she give up on her quest to help him out? With this unknown force tightening its hold, the empires must figure out who can they trust and who is working against them. A prequel novella to the Alliance Series, Echoes of Enmity may be read prior to or after Knights of the Alliance.