Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works

Whether religiously theists, atheists, agnostics, or simply seekers, each of us is on a journey of faith, spiraling through stages, seasons, or phases of spirituality.

Pastor and Professor is one pastor's story of a rich life filled with experiences that tested his faith and demanded growth that was both exhilarating and painful.

Embedded Faith explores the way Christian faith journeys of young adults are embedded within church communities.

God Is a Strong Shelter: Weathering the Storms through Reading Psalms brings faith to the center stage for believers.

A Roman centurion asks Jesus to heal his dying servant.

In a cinematic culture where multiple visions of reality "e;play"e; at the same time, it is critical that Christian believers know how to confidently identify and "e;discern,"e; among other stories, the Jesus-story that defines their most important commitment in life.

In 1924, an Australian minister observed that while the world may be getting better off, the world is not getting better.

We know guilt, if at all, by the message of badness that it seems to communicate to us.

If living with a deep awareness of God in our lives is important, how do we do it without moving to a monastery?

In the words of Saint Augustine, the Bible is long, complicated, and difficult to read.

Are you floundering in your walk with God?

This book explores the dynamics of interaction between pragmatism and spirituality in the constitution and working of consciousness, freedom and solidarity.

The author, Daniel Bourguet, addresses readers as a friend on a potentially difficult pathway along which we need to proceed one step at a time.

This book traces the life course of Richard Quinney, one of the most cited authors in the social sciences and a key figure in the development of critical criminology in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

In A Moth to the Flame, the first novel about the life of the Sufi Poet Rumi, based on original sources in both Farsi and English, we discover the key moments that shaped his genius.

This book explores Daoist philosophies of qi and virtue through inquiry into their potential as technologies for cultivating good among individuals and society within educational settings, as well as in the modern world.

What if the annoying person you try to avoid is actually an accidental saint in your life?

The key to becoming a saint is to actively practice the virtues.

How should we positively interact with others from all types of backgrounds in ways that acknowledge God's diversity in the world?

Acceptance of Christianity in Southern Polynesia during the eighteenth century proceeded rapidly without missionary activity.

What can transcendence mean for us?

This book discusses mysticism and its possible contributions to a positive common human future.

As one of the fastest growing Pagan traditions, Feminist Wicca appeals to many through its emphasis on the deep interconnectedness of life and its focus on the woman's religious experience.

This is a Comprehensive Survey of the Bhakti Movement as it sprang in South India to spread across the subcontinent in independent and multifarious manifestations yet marked with amazing commonalities.

If you want to arrive at a new destination, you must be willing to travel on a new road.

This volume offers Christian spiritual instructors a language for the soul uncovered from the storehouses of Christianity's ancient living spiritual tradition.

Contrary to popular culture, the goal of life is not happiness, but meaning.

Our known world, the world of twenty-first century Americans, is shaped and defined by consumer choice.

Journeying with Hope into a New Year: Reflections for Advent and Christmas originated in 1982 when our family lived at Tantur, an ecumenical institute between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Pastor Blackstone is once again on a spiritual journey to the subcontinent of India.

This book is about a Black man's experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time while in graduate school.

Dive into the enigmatic world of Freemasonry with The Hidden Path of Freemasonry, a comprehensive exploration of one of the most influential and secretive fraternal orders in history.

The Hindu-derived meditation movement, The Art of Living (AOL), founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Bangalore, has grown into a global organization which claims presence in more than 150 countries.

During the 1950s, a seven-year-old boy from a church-going family in a Texas suburb has a night-time vision of Jesus.

Known as one of the most challenging and charismatic leaders in Christianity, Joan Chittister is a Benedictine sister with an ecumenical outreach and vision.