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An intimate perspective into the life of the most visible religious leader in America, as told and authorized by his wife. Jerry Falwell played a pivotal role in the American religious and political scene for the last thirty years. As a constant voice for the Christian Right, and with his strong...

A poignant memoir that describes one woman’s deep love for the Church. “Over the course of my life, I have seen at least three major repaintings of religious life,” says Sister Margaret Brennan. Now 84, she wrote her memoirs as a way to tell the story of what happened to religious life in North...

In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. Thomas Kidd’s fascinating new biography explores the extraordinary career of the most influential figure in the first generation of Anglo-American evangelical Christianity, examining his sometimes...

Marjorie Klemp is petite, standing only five foot one in height. She could be anybody’s grandmother. But she is a spiritual giant and an adventurer at heart.Learn about Marjorie’s past life as one of the notorious dagger-carrying Assassins in the twelfth century or about her dream encounter...

At age fifteen my cousin Michael was so distraught and out of his mind over what was happening in his life that he chased his father down the street with a huge tree branch. What did his father do to encourage such an outrageous outburst? He tried to get his son into the car so they could travel to...

James Leo Garrett, Jr. has been called "the last of the gentlemen theologians" and "the dean of Southern Baptist theologians." In The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett, Jr., 1950-2015, the reader will find a truly dazzling collection of works that clearly evince the meticulous...

Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South.   Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her...

Whatever is calculated to advance the cause of Christ, to serve our day and generation, especially the generations yet unborn, it ought to be our great concern to promote and preserve. Religious biography is in a high degree adapted to do this. Hence it is the Scriptures present to our view, so great...

Paula Fredriksen, renowned historian and author of From Christ to Jesus, begins this inquiry into the historic Jesus with a fact that may be the only undisputed thing we know about him: his crucifixion. Rome reserved this means of execution particularly for political insurrectionists; and the...

The Institute of Ismaili Studies was established in 1977 with the object of promoting scholarship and learning on Islam, in the historical as well as contemporary contexts, and a better understanding of its relationship with other societies and faiths. The Institute’s programmes encourage a perspective...

Often disguised as something that would help him, evil accompanies Christian on his journey to the Celestial City. As you walk with him, you’ll begin to identify today’s many religious pitfalls. These are presented by men such as Pliable, who turns back at the Slough of Despond; and Ignorance,...

Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers’s comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation...

More than an autobiography, The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the most influential religious books in the Christian tradition. A great work of Western literature, it recalls crucial events and episodes in the author's life, in particular, life with his devoutly Christian mother and his origins...

What If Jesus Had Not Come Until Today? Who Would Follow Him? Who Would Kill Him?A fiery car crash hurls TV journalist Conrad Davis into another world exactly like ours except for one detail--Jesus Christ did not come 2,000 years ago, but today.Starting with angels heralding a birth in the back of...