Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works

Suitable for Advent or Lent, these meditations on pictorial images of light are navigational aids in the ascent to trust in the triumph.

In response to some of the current explanations of mystic phenomena, this book proposes an interpretive framework for understanding mysticism.

Saying Yes to God is written to help maturing Christians better recognize the voice of God and the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Last Call is a book of poems that explores the journey and search for our elusive God.

There is a hunger in the modern world for spirituality.

Mein Buch handelt von den Gegensätzen des Lebens, denen wir Menschen unterliegen.

You are writing a new chapter in the story of your life.

Presenting a rich account of women's faith lives and, mapping women's meanings in their own right, this book offers an alternative to dominant accounts of faith development which failed to account for women's experience.

Your congregation is teeming with people already doing community ministry.

In 1861 a young farmer, drafted into the Confederate Army, was wounded in battle and sent home to die.

This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.

This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled "e;A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun"e; ("e;Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien Xin, Lim hoen"e;), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian philosophy.

Several years before his death, Augustine of Hippo reviewed his published works, commenting on his purpose in writing each, and correcting, from his present perspective, the mistakes he noticed.

There is no such thing as a naked spirituality.

This book is an in-depth account of people's cultural and religious life in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Dallas Willard, the author of the bestselling spiritual classic, The Divine Conspiracy, now fulfills his revolutionary vision of how the kingdom of God is made real on earth in this sequel, the last book he was working on before his recent death.

Giving Life to Vision walks leaders through a biblical model for moving plans off paper to living and active ministry.

This volume explores the reception, development and construction of Eastern practices in the Nordic countries.

Projects have always been essentially human endeavours.

Journey into the profound spiritual world of Jakob Lorber, the Austrian mystic whose revelations continue to captivate seekers and scholars alike.

Do you remember?

New York Best Sellers Award WinnerAnxiety and fear seek to prey on the damaged and create heavy burdens that scar the soul, being heartless and insensitive to the lost, unkempt, and broken-spirited in a troubled, unwholesome world.

The Vijayanagara Empire flourished in South India between 1336 and 1565.

In this diary-like memoir, composed of his most poignant and insightful journal entries, The Intimate Merton lays bare the steep ways of Thomas Merton's spiritual path.

In unserem Leben nehmen die Dinge meist einfach ihren Lauf.

This book seeks to press the wisdom of Proverbs into active duty in the trenches of everyday life and put the principles of character formation in working clothes.

Colonial missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, arrived in India with the grandiose vision of converting the pagans because, like St.

The work of a wonderful secular poet, Billy Collins, provides a great model for Christian writers.

This book presents a unique collection of papers on various philosophical aspects of the unknown and unvoiced truth and reality of the cosmic world.

Dieses Büchlein bietet eine reichliche Sammlung von Gebeten: um geistliche Berufungen, um Priesterberufungen, für Anbetungsstunden zur Heiligung der Priester, für den Priesterdonnerstag, für Gebetskreis um geistliche Berufungen.

Reacting to life situations cannot be avoided.

Dennoch kann ein Wendepunkt im Leben sein.

Praise is a hidden doorway in the world that enables us to see things outside of the universe.

Within the social sciences, other-than-human being's agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed.

After a century or more of convincing ourselves that intelligent people should be 'secular', it is now trendy to be 'spiritual.

Have you ever tried to understand what real love is in your life?

This unique phrase-by-phrase exposition reads the Lord's Prayer as Jesus' description of God.

The final book in Oriah Mountain Dreamer's bestselling trilogy opens us to finding and consciously living the meaning and purpose-the unique calling-at the center of our livesIn The Invitation, visionary writer and teacher Oriah Mountain Dreamer wrote about what we long for.

In Made for Goodness, Archbishop Desmond Tutu explains that, though we sometimes act out of depravity and despair, we do know in our heart of hearts that we are not as we were meant to be, and were created to be so much more.

This book explores the impact of contextualized worship arts on the development of church ministry and missions in urban churches in Beira, Mozambique.

If we are being honest, many of us would admit that we spend practically no time praising God when we pray.

As one of the most outstanding Christian thinkers in history, John Henry Newman continues to influence theology, especially Catholic theology, long after his death in 1890.

The Five Disciplines for Christians are imperative for spiritual growth.