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This Boy's Faith
Notes from a Southern Baptist Upbringing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
An unforgettable memoir about growing up Southern, grappling with faith, and confronting a childhood colored by religion, Bible Belt culture, and a mother who minces words better than a food processor
A child stumbles upon a vintage photograph and glimpses salvation. A young girl vanishes in a...
A Life with Karol
My Forty-Year Friendship with the Man Who Became Pope
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
This intimate, affectionate portrait of Pope John Paul II by his longtime secretary and confidant reveals fascinating new details about the opinions, hopes, fears, and dramatic life of this public man.
“I had accompanied him for almost forty years: twelve in Kraków and then twenty-seven...
The Genesee Diary
Report from a Trappist Monastery
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
During his seven-month stay in a Trappist monastery, Henri Nouwen had a unique opportunity to explore crucial issues of the spiritual life and discover "a quiet stream underneath the fluctuating affirmations and rejections of my little world." Nouwen participated fully in the daily life...
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Mother of the Civilization of Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unless...
Prophet of Purpose
The Life of Rick Warren
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Rick Warren is arguably the most influential man in American religion today. Megachurch pastor, friend of world leaders, and trend-setting spiritual entrepreneur, he is widely recognized as the new public face of evangelical Christianity in America. No other modern churchman has matched his success...
by St. Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
"The reader who has never met Augus-tine before ought to go first of all to the Confessions," reflected the Trappist monk and scholar Thomas Merton. "Augustine lived the theology that he wrote. . . . He experienced the reality of Christ living in his own soul."
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Prayers and Devotions
365 Daily Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
This treasury of selected passages from the writings and addresses of perhaps the most impressive leader of the Catholic Church the world has ever known offers, as its editor suggests, "a harvest from the mind and heart of Pope Wojtyla." And so here is a chance for the modern reader, engaged...
by James Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
A clear-eyed and personal examination of the Catholic faith, its leaders, and its complicated history by National Book Award–winner James Carroll
James Carroll turns to the notion of practice—both as a way to learn and a means of improvement—as a lens for this thoughtful and frank look...
by Frank Bartleman
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
This book is essentially a prologue to Bartleman's classic work "Azusa Street: How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles." This volume chronicles his early life and leaves off precisely where "Azusa Street" picks up.
This edition includes an Active Table of Contents.
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All the Way to Heaven
The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
“The publication of the letters of Dorothy Day is a significant event in the history of Christian spirituality.” —Jim Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints
Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, has been called the most significant, interesting, and influential person...
by Christine Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
When Patricia Sandoval worked at Planned Parenthood, they told her, “Never tell a soul what you see behind this door.” So now she is telling the world. Transfigured is, however, so much more than a compelling tool in the hands of pro-life and chastity advocates. It is the riveting life story...
To Change the Church
Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A New York Times columnist and one of America’s leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis’s efforts to change the church he governs in a book that is “must reading for every Christian who cares about the fate of the West and the future of global Christianity” (Rod Dreher, author...
Pilgrimage
My Search for the Real Pope Francis
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
A down-to-earth and deeply intimate portrait of Pope Francis and his faith, based on interviews with the men and women who knew him simply as Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Early on the evening of March 13, 2013, the newly elected Pope Francis stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and...
by Frank Bartleman
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
This volume contains seven books from Frank Bartleman. Best known for his book "Azusa Street: How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles," the author wrote several books and literally hundreds of articles and tracts in his lifetime. Many people are familiar with "Azusa Street," but are...