Religious category: 31793 books
Gandhi
A Spiritual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, “What I want to achieve—what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years—is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same...
In Polygamy's Shadow
From a Mormon Childhood to a Life of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
A true story of growing up Mormon on the West Coast of British Columbia.
FOR MAGGIE RAYNER, conditional love and the threat of violence were the lock on the prison of church and family in which she was raised. Set in the 1950s and 60s on the West Coast of British Columbia, In Polygamy’s...
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith...
Hildegard of Bingen
The Woman of Her Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her cloistered life she had strong, often controversial views on sex, love and marriage too - a woman astonishing...
Failing America's Faithful
How Today's Churches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Blending inspirational memoir with a religious and political rebuke of American Christianity, the oldest daughter of Senator Robert F. Kennedy delivers a rousing call to arms for spiritual renewal.
by J. B. Midgley
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Amid the wars and turmoil of 16th-century Reformation France, in the midst of great suffering and poverty, Providence provided an amazing example of apostolic zeal. Highly intelligent, physically small, and burning with love for Christ in the poor, Vincent de Paul stimulated a major change in the...
For Decades I Was Silent
A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In 1939, Baruch Goldstein was a religiously observant adolescent resident of the Jewish community in Mlawa, a town that was then in East Prussia. After war broke out, the Jewish community there was relatively sheltered, as that region was incorporated into the German Reich rather than into the General...
To the Cross and Back
An Immigrant's Journey from Faith to Reason
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
A Mexican immigrant and rising star within the Christian community abandons his faith and comes out as a gay atheist
In this exceptionally moving and soul-searching memoir, Fernando Alcántar recounts his incredible journey from poor Catholic boy on the dusty streets of Mexico to globetrotting...
by W. Andrew McMillan
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
It was hard work being a hippie. Doing acid and smoking pot made my feelings of insecurity even worse, and coupled with my depression, I was living in the cold fires of hell. I was on a quest to find meaning, maybe even God, but I scoffed at anyone who thought they had a some kind of direct connection....
Washing the Disciples' Feet
Vignettes of White Oak Original Free Will Baptist Church of Bladenboro, North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Washing the Disciples' Feet is a book of reflections upon my growing-up experiences in the White Oak Original Free Will Baptist Church in Bladenboro, North Carolina. As a teenager whose immediate and extended family provided not only the congregation's majority membership but also the leadership from...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
"A valuable treasure of Russian spirituality that theologians, philosophers, and laymen will read with pleasure and delight." — The Personalist.
An anonymous nineteenth-century peasant attempts to follow St. Paul's advice to "pray without ceasing," setting out on a pilgrimage...
Art of Faith
A Guide to Understanding Christian Images
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Have you stood in front of a painting and thought, What does this mean? The Art of Faith answers this question again and again, with insight, wit, and verve, providing a thorough reference to Christian art through the centuries. Practical and easy to read, this book unfolds the ancient world of Christian...
by Kenny Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2010
This fourth book in the series combines two of Jesus' most profound teachings: The Unjust Judge and The Importunate Widow. Jeshua is laboring in Sepphoris, capital of Galilee, and is caught up in labor disputes, political intrigue and religious strife, and faces his most dangerous nemesis: the...
