Religious and spiritual Books

Sister Lucia was a prominent figure of the Portuguese Catholic world of the twentieth century. As the Shepherdess of Fatima who, together with Francisco and Jacinta saw Our Lady in 1917, she is regarded as a child blessed and chosen to spread the message...

"God Through the Lens of Grief" is a poignant memoir detailing my transformative first-year journey as a young, pregnant widow with two young children. At the age of 32, my husband's sudden passing from a brain hemorrhage left me grappling with profound...

It is common to encounter many obstacles as we set out on a faith journey with God, and this book will certainly take you there, as we follow Christine and her sons travelling from New Zealand to South Africa.Get ready to embark on a trip of a lifetime!A...

"A Trilogy of Poetry for the Future" is a collection of inspiration and hope to endure life's revolving flow of highs and lows. Leaning upon over 70 years of living, A.P.O.E.T. of New Orleans, Charles E. Garrison, encourages hope through stories and...

Selo! is a Fijian exclamation used in the outer islands of the Lau group. It is made by the person who first sights a sail or a ship approaching the island. That person announces the sighting by shouting "Selo!" as they run to the village. The village...

This exciting biography, with its unique insights is an ideal companion to Merton's autobiography, shedding new light on the principal themes which he developed. It is a reflective biography, illuminating Merton's inner life and thoroughly chronicling...

David Giffen was once a defrocked priest.Having spent a decade as an Anglican cleric in Southwestern Ontario, David served in leadership in three urban social-justice focused appointments as a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada. David was deprived...

Waiting is not easy! The popularity of ready made, quick fix, instant passport, instant tea, Jack-pot and other instant stuff explains our impatient day to day life.How could a 17 year old lad go on tending the sheep in the fields alone in the cold and...

For nearly three decades, political observers have sought to understand the complex relationship between Hillary Clinton's faith and her politics. Now, in this first spiritual biography of the former first lady, acclaimed historian Paul Kengor sets out...

This collaboration between two scholars from different fields of religious studies draws on three comparative data sets to develop a new theory of purity and pollution in religion, arguing that a culture's beliefs about cosmological realms shapes its...

This new edition introduces the reader to the philosophy of early Christianity in the second to fourth centuries AD, and contextualizes the philosophical contributions of early Christians in the framework of the ancient philosophical debates.It...

In Even in Our Darkness, Jack Deere helps readers see the beauty of God through his unconditional love for us as he brings harmony to our broken stories of darkness and destruction.

God knows what is best for His children, and no weapon formed against you shall prosper. Therefore, it is revealed in Family Kills that the devil has his children going to church and being married to God's children.

"This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail....I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be." --Frederick Buechner, author of Beyond Words"This is an astonishing book. . . ...

A mesmerizing memoir by Joy Davidman's son that retells the tender love story of his mother and C. S. Lewis.

Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us TodayThe 1990s saw the U.S. Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque.There are presently more than three hundred temples in Los Angeles,...

John Murray Spear was one of nineteenth-century America's most interesting characters. A leading social agitator against slavery and capital punishment, Spear also became the nation's most flamboyant spiritualist, inventor of "spirit machines," and...

The Garden of Eden, now referred to as the Kingdom of God here on earth, is looking less and less like a Paradise. Yet how many, whether Catholic or Protestant, are aware that the current-day warfare to destroy this Paradise has reached the height of a...

This book contains the story of one man's journey through adversity and hardship into a place where he found freedom. But to understand his personal stories, you must first understand life in the Marhare slums of Kenya where he grew up. Nairobi,...

As a nine-year old, when his younger brother was crushed by a truck on their way to school during WWII, Lapp learned that while life deals crushing blows, he could not quit living no matter how tough things get. Beginning to learn that life is about...

What happens when one man takes on the court system armed only with the power of his faith? When Deon Hayes was injured at a well-known fitness center, he tried several times to secure a lawyer, but without success. Finally, he filed a lawsuit on his own...

John the Baptist as a Rewritten Figure in Luke-Acts compares the Gospel of Luke's account of John's ministry with those of Matthew, Mark, and John to make the case for the hypertextual relationship between the synoptic gospels.The book is divided into...

How does a virtuous young woman who is one of God's own chosen people deal with an undesirable future determined by the plans of a tyrant? Hadassah knows glorious promises that fill the scriptures. She knows the history of God's deliverance and...

I AM HOPE is a book about survival. Many people who have suffered abuse live in fear, guilt, and shame. Hope shares her testimony of overcoming the shame and guilt of the abuse she suffered as a child. Hope wants the victims of abuse to know they too...

Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own audience. Only more recently, however, has come the realization that Greek...

On her sixteenth birthday, Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel, which was meant to kill her, but instead she fell into a deep sleep, only to be awakened by true love's kiss.Rapunzel was locked up in a tower-how did she get...

This book is His Eminency Dr. Hazrat Shah Sufi M N Alam's 60 years of research in the field of Global Peace, Islamic Eschatology, Sufism, along with past, present and future of World's Situation with detailed explanation and solution. Eminency had...

The original appearance of this book was enthusiastically greeted by Sir Godfrey Driver: 'The interest of this little book is out of all proportion to its size; for Dr Kohler has compressed an immense amount of information into a small space. He...

"You can call on me, when the road seems too long,My love will hold, I'll help you carry on,I'll always be yours, unconditional love,Is what you'll find when you come home."Not Always There, but Always Your Dad chronicles the heart of a father going...

""A Westminster Pilgrim"" is a memoir written by Frederick Bridge in 1919. The book is a record of his service in various institutions, including the church, cathedral, abbey, college, university, and concert-room. Bridge shares his experiences and...

The Latin At War is a historical book written by William Henry Irwin and published in 1917. The book explores the military campaigns and battles of the ancient Latin peoples, including the Romans, during the period of the Roman Republic. It covers the...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Home! Or The Pilgrim's Faith Revived is a book written by Charles Turner Torrey in 1845. The book is a religious and philosophical work that explores the concept of ""home"" and the spiritual journey of a pilgrim. Torrey uses biblical references and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""The Starting Place of Truth"" is a philosophical book written by Arthur Henry Finn and first published in 1919. The book is a collection of essays that explore the nature of truth and its relationship to human knowledge and experience. Finn argues that...