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When God Is with Me I know that God is always with me, but there have been many God moments throughout my life where he miraculously intervened. In this book, When God Is with Me, I have written short stories and poems of instances when God revealed his power and grace. God doesnt work the...

Samuel was full of life. We all enjoyed his vibrant personality so much. Samuel would not walk the dog, but he would rollerblade with our yellow lab. The whole family gave their love to Samuel and gave themselves for his progress. Then suddenly he was gone our child of prophetic destiny. How could...

Prophet Muhammad SAW from Mecca, unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam faith. Believed by Muslims to be a prophet and messenger of God, Muhammad is almost universally considered by Muslims as the last prophet sent by God to mankind. While non-Muslims generally regard Muhammad as...

Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history. Here is Jesus Christ’s story in his...

“The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.) Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always served artists as a source of inspiration. Often commissioned by religious leaders as images of fear or veneration,...

I met Harold Dixon at a party some thirty-six years ago. He stood out as the best dancer in the room, and even if a woman had “two left feet,” he could make her move as if she were a trained ballroom dancer. To me, he was a leader and we established a friendship that still endures. Over the years,...

Isn’t it amazing that our most commonly-used word, ‘I’, has been used so adeptly as a pointer to the Ultimate Truth by the greatest Advaita teachers? The three teachers discussed in this book – RamanaMaharshi, Atmananda and NisargadattaMaharaj – steer clear from all religious dogma,...

After his intellectual biography, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now turns his attention to one of Augustine's greatest modern admirers: The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's influence on post-war philosophical investigation has been pervasive, while his eccentric...

For the introduction for the 40 ahadith on prayers, we could not think of anything that could be more complete, interesting and profound than what appears in the beginning of the chapter on prayers in the Tawdhihul Masail of Ayatullah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hence we...

Family life is built on relationships between spouses and their children. The Martins experienced joys, tragedies, illness, wartime hardship and bereavements, but their ordinary family life was rooted in faith, prayer and love. Christ strengthens them to give valuable fruits. Their daughter, Thérèse...

"Always trust a stranger," said David’s mother when he returned from Rome. "It’s the people you know who let you down." Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers...

An Indie Next Pick The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when...

Saints. Most of us know them only from church names and grotesque  figures in classic paintings and stained-glass windows. But who were these people dubbed “saints”? What are the facts behind the legends, the real human beings with all the weaknesses common to mankind who somehow made their...

Chia Tao (779-843), an erstwhile Zen monk who became a poet during China's Tang dynasty, recorded the lives of the sages, masters, immortals, and hermits who helped establish the great spiritual tradition of Zen Buddhism in China. Presented in both the original Chinese and Mike O'Connor's beautifully...