Biography: religious and spiritual

John and Charles Wesley generated a heritage that reaches well beyond the worldwide Methodist movement which they founded.

In 1969, young Kirin Narayan's older brother, Rahoul, announced that he was quitting school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru.

Billy Grahams weltumspannender evangelistischer Dienst wäre ohne seine Ehefrau Ruth nicht möglich gewesen.

Muhammad was a religious visionary and political leader.

Biblical studies and the teaching of biblical studies are clearly changing, though it is less clear what the changes mean and how we should evaluate them.

The everything-you-need to know adult guide to the Episcopal Church.

Since its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe has become a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality.

The first history of all the English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury St Edmunds to Worcester and York MinsterEngland's sixty-two Anglican and Catholic cathedrals are some of our most iconic buildings, attracting millions of worshippers and visitors every year.

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history.

Are You Ready for Battle?

Everyone needs a second chance, even if your name is George Foreman.

Discover how your greatest trials are the key to your greatest opportunities.

Globally we seem torn between local, exclusive forms of religion, which can cause immense spiritual and physical damage to people, and a bland secularism that confines the religions to safe havens, each offering its own private options for "e;spirituality"e; within a secularized global politic.

How do science and religion interact?

Jim Heidinger has given a gift to the church.

In Beyond the Possible, Reverend Cecil Williams, one of the most well-known and provocative ministers in the United States, reflects on his fifty years creating radical social change as the head of San Francisco's Memorial Glide Church.

Sunday worship, baptisms, weddings and funerals are the shop window of the church and there is nothing more important for mission than getting them right.

A constructive resource for all who endeavour to become reflective practitioners.

A vastly informative and rare early-American pioneer autobiography rescued from obscurity.

The prophet Jeremiah ministered during the waning decades of Judah.

This collection brings together the best of C.

A significant collection of articles on expanding our language about God, compiled by Ruth A.

The prophet Haggai advocated for the rebuilding of the temple, destroyed by Babylon, in the tumultuous period of reconstruction under Persian dominion; so much is evident from a surface reading of the book .

Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem.

Katherine Sonderegger follows her monumental volume on the doctrine of God with this second entry of her Systematic Theology, which explores the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

Alleluia is our Song draws together a collection of profound and beautiful seasonal reflections for the great fifty days from Easter Day to Pentecost, arguably the greatest season of the Church's year.

Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faith's future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand.

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Dr Foster traces the eventful history of the Church of England from shortly after its establishment in Elizabeth I's reign down to 1640, when it was on the verge of destruction.

One of the greatest religious biographies ever written.

In January 1983 Burt Folsom read a story in Time about Mitch Rutledge, a man on death row with an IQ of 84 who said he was sorry for what he did.

Have you ever wondered why God uses ordinary people to accomplish His work and to spread the good news?

Jones argues that several unique factors remain available to The UnitedMethodist Church today from the period of rapid growth between 1800 and1840.

The 125 years since the Diocese of Wakefield was formed have seen immense changes both within the Church and society.

Behind many of the challenges facing us today is a failure of leadership.

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Learn what it means to be a United Methodist Christian.

In this magnificent autobiography, Walter Wink, one of the most influential Christian intellectuals of our time, offers insight and perspective on his life and work-always through the lens of Jesus.

The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.

San Juan de la Cruz es el gran desconocido del pueblo cristiano.

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church.

What can we learn about leadership and influence from Paul?

Christian Zionism has received no small amount of criticism from observers who take issue with the movement's pro-Israel politics or its theology.

He describes the life and work of five leaders in the Anglican Church in Canada and the Episcopal Church in the United States who came of age in the late nineteenth century and served their religious communities until the mid-twentieth century.

Unleash your leadership by identifying and overcoming the limitations you place on yourself in the workplace.

The Edge of Words is Rowan Williams' first book since standing down as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Private reflections of the Roman Catholic pope elevated to sainthood, collected from journals spanning from 1962 to 2003.