Christianity

A Life of Fire
Dark Night of the Soul
by Saint John of the Cross, Mirabai Starr
Teresa's movement became known as the Discalced Carmelite Order, meaning the 'Barefoot Carmelites.' The monks and nuns took off their shoes and put on rough sandals in honor of the stark simplicity to which they were striving to return.

Turning Crawling into Climbing
The Power to Prevail: Turning Your Adversities into Advantages
by David Foster
Many people believe that once someone becomes a Christian, life is suddenly easy, and problems disappear. This could not be farther from the truth. In fact, Christians often face more challenges, as the same faith that provides them with support

Paris
My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life
by Howard Storm
Storm, an avowed atheist, was awaiting emergency surgery when he realized that he was at death's door. Storm found himself out of his own body, looking down on the hospital room scene below. Next, rather than going 'toward the light,' he found himself

Ambushed and Assaulted: Coping with the Unexpected
Turn Your Life Around: Break Free from Your Past to a New and Better You
by Dr. Tim Clinton
What happens when you can't get over the hurt? Those soul-deep wounds can ignite spiritual and emotional devastation, Dr. Clinton warns, unless you stop the downward spiral into despair.

A Leadership Confession
Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles into Strengths
by Dan B. Allender, Ph.D.
Pick up most leadership books and you'll find strategies for leveraging your power and minimizing your areas of weakness. But think about the leaders whose names have gone down in history. Most of them were so messed up that, if they were looking for work

Believing a Lie
Giant Killers
by Dennis Jernigan
You read about them in the pages of Scripture. You learn their stories in biographies of great Christians. And if you are like me, you have been privileged to know some of them personally. They are giant killers, men and women armed only (only-ha!)

The Quest
How Do We Know When It's God?: A Spiritual Memoir
by Dan Wakefield
How can we recognize and respond to God's will at work in our daily lives? Dan Wakefield's odyssey began ten years ago when decades of atheism and hard living were interrupted by a profound religious reawakening-experiences recorded in Returning

The Miracle of Being On Time

Marjorie Kimbrough tells of a girl named Lucy who was on her way home from a day of teaching in Alameda, California, on October 17, 1989. Ordinarily she took the Nimitz Freeway to her home in El Cerrito, but as she was about to enter the freeway ramp she

What Now? Songs of the Soul
Dark Night of the Soul
by Saint John of the Cross, Mirabai Starr
A life of contemplative devotion could be somewhat easier for the ones who remove themselves from the distractions of the marketplace and set themselves apart in mountaintop monasteries than for those immersed in the world.

We Never Pray Alone
Learning to Pray: How We Find Heaven on Earth
by Wayne Muller
Many who seek comfort and healing from prayer are unsure about how to pray. They feel awkward or uncomfortable, not knowing the 'right' way to pray. What should prayer feel like, and what is it supposed to accomplish?

Letter 1
The Christian and the Pharisee: Two Outspoken Religious Leaders Debate the Road to Heaven
by R. T. Kendall, Rabbi David Rosen
Through a unique and rare exchange of letters, an evangelical preacher, R. T. Kendall, and a senior Jewish rabbi, David Rosen, openly discuss and debate their views on heaven and how we get there.

Longing for a Fresh Start
The Promise of the Second Wind
by Bill Butterworth, Dean Merrill
The longer you live, the greater your chances of running out of steam. Call it fatigue, call it disappointment, call it bad luck ... the energy just isn't there anymore. People wake up one day and realize they're just plodding through life feeling stuck.

The Old Church, 1490-1517. Seeing Salvation in Church
The Reformation: A History
by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Lurking in a little English country church, at Preston Bissett in Buckinghamshire, is an object lesson in the difficulty of understanding the religious outlook of past generations.

Becoming Actualized Christians
Letters to a Young Evangelical (Art of Mentoring)
by Tony Campolo, Ph.D.
A best-selling minister and social activist offers an uplifting vision of what it means to be an evangelical and offers loving guidance to all of those who wish to lead a genuinely Christian life in a confusing world.

Meeting

In an attempt to understand the growing popularity and influence of Christian fundamentalism, sociologist and documentary filmmaker James Ault spent three years inside the world of a Massachusetts fundamentalist church.

The Blatty Factor

A guided tour through the burgeoning business of exorcism and the darker side of American life. There is no other religious ritual more fascinating, or more disturbing, than exorcism. This is particularly true in America today, where the ancient rite has

Tattered Hearts, Topsy-Turvy World
Mending Your Heart in a Broken World: Finding Comfort in the Scriptures
by Patsy Clairmont
Early in our marriage I didn't mind the hopping around. In fact, it felt like an adventure. But after the first fifteen moves, I grew weary of cardboard boxes and broken stuff. Honestly, I've never had a move, no matter how close by, that we didn't lose

Part 5
Light from Heaven
by Jan Karon
'Yessir, he said he was standin' right there when it rolled out, slick as grease.' 'You already told us that, you goofball. What was it she said?' J.C. wiped his perspiring forehead with a wadded-up paper towel. 'Get off my bumper,' he snapped at Percy.

In the Beginning There Was the Holy War. Why?
Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
by Karen Armstrong
In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend.

Rumors of Another World
Finding God in Unexpected Places
by Philip Yancey
According to Greek mythology, people once knew in advance their exact day of death. Everyone on earth lived with a deep sense of melancholy, for mortality hung like a sword suspended above them.