Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005.
The Classic Work on Helping People Become Closer to GodFathers Barry and Connolly see the work of spiritual direction as helping people to develop their relationship with God.
In A Year of Miracles, Marianne Williamson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the classic A Return to Love and world-renowned teacher, offers a daily devotional that helps us develop a positive, loving mindset and encourages us to live our best selves to bring miracles into our lives.
Rather than chronicling the well-reported sexual abuse scandal or advocating a particular reform agenda, David Gibson shows how the crisis in the church is unleashing forces that will change American Catholicism forever.
FOX News religion analyst, program director of the Catholic Channel on SiriusXM radio, and bestselling author Father Jonathan Morris reveals how the Serenity Prayer offers a sure path to peace and fulfillment for everyone, not just those in recovery programs.
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.
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.
"e;A remarkably candid and plainspoken account"e; from the polygamous family that inspired Big Love, "e;this unassuming book opens the door on plural marriage.
A wise, uplifting memoir about a rabbis search for understanding and his discovery of hope and joy after his young son suffered a catastrophic brain-stem stroke: Deeply moving, extraordinarily thought-provoking, and entirely humane (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
From Stephen Mitchell comes an anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions--the perfect companion to Mitchel's bestselling translation ofTao Te Ching The Upanishads The Book of Psalms Lao-tzu The Bhagavad Gita Chuang-tzu The Odes of Solomon Seng-ts'an Han-shan Li Po Tu Fu Layman P'ang Kukai Tung-shan Symeon the New Theologian Izumi Shikibu Su Tung-p'o Hildegard of Bingen Francis of Assisi Wu-men Dgen Rumi Mechthild of Magdeburg Dante Kabir Mirabai William Shakespeare George Herbert Bunan Gensei Angelus Silesius Thomas Traherne Basho William Blake Rykan Issa Ghalib Bibi Hayati Wait Whitman Emily Dickinson Gerard Manley Hopkins Uvavnuk Anonymous Navaho W.
Reinterpreting the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes from the vantage of Middle Eastern mysticism, DouglasKlotz offers a radical new translation of the words of Jesus Christ that reveals a mystical, feminist, cosmic Christ.
In her controversial 1992 bestseller Jesus the Man, Barbara Thiering first showed how the pesher method of 'decoding' two separate levels of meaning found in the Dead Sea Scrolls could be used by applying it to the Gospels, and presented a completely new historical interpretation of the life of Jesus Christ.
Nourish Your Soul 365 Days a YearThis collection of 365 daily meditations captures the essence of a great spiritual leaderone who has influenced millions with his dynamic message of the power of positive thinking.
When Martin Luther nailed 95 criticisms of the Catholic Church to the door of his local church in 1517 he sparked not just a religious Reformation, but an unending cycle of political, social and economic change that continues to this day.
In a major biography of Blaise Pascal, James Connor explores both the intellectual giant whose theory of probability paved the way for modernity and the devout religious mystic who dared apply probability to faith.
How service is prayer and prayer is service In this rich and deceptively simple book, beloved writer Henri Nouwen speaks--from the heart and from his own experience--of the joys and challenges of religious service.
The modern classic that interweaves the solitude, silence, and prayer of the fourth- and fifth-century Egyptian Desert Fathers and Mothers with our contemporary search for an authentic spirituality
In Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters, leading Islamic scholar Omid Safi presents a portrait of Muhammad that reveals his centrality in the devotions of modern Muslims around the world.
In The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse, Debbie Ford delivers her most practical and prescriptive book yet a 21day, life-changing program for spiritual renewal, emotional transformation, and reconnection with the souls deepest purpose.
Drawing on Tibetan, Hindu, Taoist, Christian and Kabbalistic traditions, Andrew Harvey shows why he believes the direct path is now essential to the future survival of humanity - and how the truth and vibrancy of this radical vision depends on reclamation of the Sacred Feminine.
In the vein of Bill Brysons The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, with a dash of some of the homegrown nostalgia of The Dangerous Book for Boys and A Prairie Home Companion, humorist Philip Gulley (Front Porch Tales, Home to Harmony) tells of his coming of age in small-town Indiana.
