Religious category: 31793 books
Acedia & me
A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
The extraordinary New York Times bestselling masterpiece from "one of the most eloquent yet earthbound spiritual writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn't drag herself out of bed in the morning, couldn't summon the...
Crazy for God
How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almos
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
By the time he was nineteen, Frank Schaeffer's parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as bestselling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands in arenas around America, publish his...
by Hilaire Belloc, Fr. Michael Crowdy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
A biography of Cardinal Richelieu of France-considered by many to be the founder of modern Europe-this book does not seek to make Richelieu a figure either of irrational worship or irrational hate. Belloc impartially examines Richelieu's life and career, delves into his Catholic and family roots,...
Short Trip to the Edge
A Pilgrimage to Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis — a fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty—while walking on the beach with his Labrador. His was not a desperate attempt to recapture youth, filled with sports cars and younger women. Instead,...
The Basic Teachings of Happy Science
A Happiness Theory on Truth and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Is it possible to consolidate the content of 1500 books into one? The author of this book, Master Ryuho Okawa is the founder of Happy Science, a religious organization in Japan which has members in more than 100 countries. Since 1985, within a span of around 30 years, he has published more than 1500...
Dreams of a Refugee
From the Middle East to Mount Everest
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugee parents, a chance meeting led Mostafa Salameh first to London and then to Edinburgh, where he partied to excess, despite having little money. Islam played almost no part in his thinking. Yet it was in Edinburgh that Mostafa had a dream – a profoundly religious...
by Jonathan Dueck
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Congregational Music, Conflict and Community is the first study of the music of the contemporary 'worship wars' – conflicts over church music that continue to animate and divide Protestants today – to be based on long-term in-person observation and interviews. It tells the story of the musical...
by Herman Bauman
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
The book: African Safari for Jesus is an endeavor to give a genuine picture of what it is like for an American family, including three very young boys, to leave home and go to a place that is a totally different world, to serve as missionaries. The Herman Bauman family left Washington State to go...
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Contrary to mythical tale that prophets descend from heavens like heroes, they are normal human beings. They suffer trials and tribulations. Their followers gain glory not through the toils of someone else but through their own sacrifices. These prophets turn the people away from materialism and return...
The Four Horsemen
The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went viral. Now in print for the first time, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants and an...
by Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at festivals and themes throughout the year each through the...
Journey of a Rabbi
Vision and Strategies for the Revitalization of Jewish Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator. What threads its way throughout these writings is a persistent search for ways and means to revitalize Jewish life...
by Roland Merullo
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The Wall Street Journal called Vatican Waltz "a welcoming place for parishioners and interlopers alike," continuing "Catholics will identify with its plaintive call for this kind of renewal . . . But others, too, if they have kept their minds open, will be surprised at how uplifted they are by its...
One God Clapping
The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
From Zen Buddhist practitioner to rabbi, East meets West in this firsthand
account of a spiritual journey.
Rabbi Alan Lew is known as the Zen Rabbi, a leader in the Jewish meditation movement who works to bring two ancient religious traditions into our everyday lives. One God Clappingis the...