Denominations category: 8894 books
Moth and Rust
Mormon Encounters with Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
In Mormonism we are sometimes seemingly casual
about death: it’s a veil or a mission call to the spirit
world. But our actual encounters with the reality of
death inevitably change us in ways that are difficult
to articulate.
In this collection, Mormon writers wrestle with
mortality and its aftermath....
Confessions of a Mormon Historian
The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Leonard Arrington (1917–99) was born an Idaho chicken rancher whose early interests seemed not to extend much beyond the American west. Throughout his life, he tended to project a folksy persona, although nothing was farther from the truth.
He was, in fact, an intellectually oriented, academically...
Restoring Shakertown
The Struggle to Save the Historic Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, articulated a vision of a community that embraced sacrifice over the needs of the individual; the result was one of the most successful utopian experiments of nineteenth-century America. The Shakers, an idealistic offshoot of the ascetic Quaker religion, grew...
by Kris Leonhardt
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
They travel the roads on a warm summer day, enjoying the summer breeze as they take in scenery along the way. Driving past woods and fields bordering rustic country roads, they raise their hands from time to time to acknowledge both neighbors and strangers, but most times they are lost in conversation...
More than Happy
The Wisdom of Amish Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
In the tradition of Bringing Up Bebe and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,an in-depth look at the practices and principles of Amish parents and how they raise children who are self-sufficient, hard-working, and remarkably happy.
The more time Serena Miller spent in Holmes County, Ohio, doing...
by Sor Juana Inés De la Cruz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2015
La Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz fue escrita por Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz en marzo de 1691, como contestación a todas las recriminaciones que le hizo el obispo de Puebla, Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz, bajo el seudónimo de Sor Filotea de la Cruz. No fue publicada...
by Larry H. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
When he was sixteen years old, Larry Miller came home one summer night to find all his possessions sitting in three bags on the porch of his darkened house. The door was locked. From those troubled and humble beginnings rose a man whose influence has touched, according to reliable pollsters, more than...
Quarterly Essay 51 The Prince
Faith, Abuse and George Pell
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell has played a key role in the greatest challenge to face his church for centuries: the scandal of child sex abuse by priests.
In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man and his career: how did he...
Across God's Frontiers
Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. In Across God's Frontiers, Anne M. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover,...
Through Dust and Darkness
A Motorcycle Journey of Fear and Faith in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. He doesn’t have a funny beard and he’s never even driven a buggy, but his family hails from the same Mennonite community that Miriam Toews fictionalized in A Complicated Kindness. From childhood through college, Kroeker attended Christian schools...
The Pope's Legion
The Multinational Fighting Force that Defended the Vatican
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
With Arthurian grandeur the Papal Zouaves marched into Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, summoned by the Pope under siege as the Wars of the Risorgimento raged. Motivated by wanderlust, a sense of duty and the call of faith, some 20,000 Catholic men from around the world rallied to Vatican City...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The moment the identity of the newly elected 266th pontiff was revealed, it was clear to the thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square, and to the watching world, that this pope was different in fascinating and exciting ways — the first from Latin America, the first Jesuit, and the first to take...
by John Wesley
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
John Wesley is one of the most important figures of Protestantism due to his being a central figure in founding the Methodist Church.
This is the story of his life, written by himself.
The historian Thomas Babington Macaulay said that Wesley was “a man whose eloquence and logical acuteness...
by Maria Woodworth-Etter
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
This book is subtitled, 'Being a true and accurate account of her work as a revivalist, from September, 1883, to September 21, 1885, in winning souls to Christ.'
It is the very first book Maria Woodworth-Etter penned, detailing the first two years of her ministry as an evangelist. ...