Inspirational Religious category: 3818 books

Rich in religious and artistic imagery, Trouble the Water is an intriguing exploration of race, sexuality, and identity, particularly where self-hood is in constant flux. These intimate, sensual poems interweave pop culture and history—moving from the Bible through several artistic eras—to interrogate...

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself",...

Example in this ebook   CHAPTER XIV. GREEK TRAGEDY AND EURIPIDES. The chapters on Æschylus and Sophocles have already introduced the reader to some of the principal questions regarding Attic tragedy in general. Yet the opening of a new volume justifies the resumption...

Interwoven within A Seed that Grew are countless insights and revelations for personal inspiration or corporate instruction. Mat Benthin digs deeply into the pillars of both Christian doctrine and practices by pondering their intention in a creative and unique way. Traverse themes of the Christian...

Discover How Whitmans Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own Whitmans collected poems and prose are not an object or icon to be gazed upon or revered but a transparency we look through to see ourselves with greater clarity, excitement, and meaning. They wake us up to our potential,...

Yes, I am a Muslim woman who observes the 'hijab', but no, I don't actually wear the 'face veil'. Nonetheless, I must admit, it is as if my whole life, my innermost thoughts and feelings and struggles, the depths of my joys and sorrows, my experiences about love and life and faith, have been 'veiled'...

Mestre Caeiro foi além da linguagem, e exatamente por isso, descascou a casca da metafísica, e demonstrou como toda poesia é sensação, sentimento e intuição, os frutos por detrás das cascas das palavras. Segundo Pessoa, “a obra de Alberto Caeiro representa uma reconstrução integral...

La Divine Comédie est l'œuvre du poète, écrivain et homme politique florentin Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321).   Connue et étudiée dans le monde entier, elle est tenue pour l'un des chefs-d'œuvre de la littérature.   Le poème est divisé...

Our book I Challenge You is credited to our Savior, Jesus Christ. We wrote this book at a time when neither one of us was tied down to anything. God just downloaded this book into our hearts. We believe our book serves as a purpose to expose the heartbeat of God to the believer but also to the nonbeliever,...

Winner of the 2000 Paterson Poetry Prize About Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "The Art of Blessing the Day is an exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and...

Emily Dickinson is an unlikely patron saint for all who seek or wrestle with God. Looking closely at twenty-five poems, this intimate portrait and personal reflection shows how Dickinson can guide us, through belief and doubt alike, toward God. Many have thought that Dickinson, one of America's greatest...

The poet Kabir, one of the most intriguing and celebrated personalities in the history of Indian mysticism, lived in the fifteenth century. He was a great religious reformer and left behind an exquisite body of poetry of enlightenment that weaves together the philosophies of Sufism, Hinduism, and...

Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir's immense...

An award-winning USA Today columnist makes the case for how a Jesus freed from religion and politics meets the need for meaning and purpose in secular America. Tom Krattenmaker is part of a growing conversation centered at Yale University that acknowledges—and seeks to address—the abiding...