The Classic Story of a Family's Pilgrimageinto the Orthodox ChurchVeiled in the smoke of incense, the Eastern Orthodox Church has long been an enigma to the Western world.
In thisfour-color illustrated journey that is part travelogue and part theological investigation, bestselling author and acclaimed Bible scholar John Dominic Crossan and his wife Sarah painstakingly travel throughout the ancient Eastern church, documenting through text and image a completely different model for understanding Easters resurrection story, one that provides promise and hope for us today.
Beginning with the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, this fully revised and updated second volume of The Story of Christianity continues the marvelous history of the worlds largest religion.
';An intimate, revealing and sometimes wrenching family memoir of the journalist and social advocate who is now being considered for canonization' (The New York Times), told with illuminating detail by her granddaughter.
A funny, fierce, imaginative memoir chronicling New York Times bestselling author and Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaines remarkable experiences filming Wild Oats in the Canary Islands and the extraordinary memories her time there brought forth of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis.
In Pure, Linda Kay Klein uses a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir to take us ';inside religious purity culture as only one who grew up in it can' (Gloria Steinem) and reveals the devastating effects evangelical Christianity's views on female sexuality has had on a generation of young women.
A powerful new movement is sweeping across America:Christian men are coming together to make a difference in their families, churches, businesses, and communities.
Journey to the Heart by New York Times bestselling author of Codependent No More, Beyond Codependency, and Lessons of Love, contains 365 insightful daily meditations that inspire readers to unlock their personal creativity and discover their divine purposes in life.
This pocket edition of Richard McBriens acclaimed Lives of the Popes is a practical quick reference tool for scholars, students, and anyone needing just a few concise facts about all the popes, from St.
"e;For many of the nation's 52 million Catholics, Christ Among Us has become an indispensable guide to applying Church teachings to contemporary problems.
Now in paperback, revised and redesigned: This is Thomas Merton's last book, in which he draws on both Eastern and Western traditions to explore the hot topic of contemplation/meditation in depth and to show how we can practice true contemplation in everyday life.
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.
Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianitys leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new spiritual but not religious movement.
"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.
Drawing on untapped resources, exclusive interviews, and new archival research, The Pope's Last Crusade by Peter Eisner is a thrilling narrative that sheds new light on Pope Pius XI's valiant effort to condemn Nazism and the policies of the Third Reich-a crusade that might have changed the course of World War II.
The author of the bestselling celebration of discipline explores the great traditions of Christian spirituality and their role in spiritual renewal today.
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.
Spell-binding, horrific, poetic, apocalyptic, heart-rending, disturbing, prophetic, seditious, compelling and utterly fascinating - the dreams of Lucrecia de Leon have lain virtually undisturbed in the archives of the Spanish Inquisition for more than four hundred years.
With the election of a new Abbot at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton enters a period of unprecedented freedom, culminating in the opportunity to travel to California, Alaska, and finally the Far East journeys that offer him new possibilities and causes for contemplation.
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.
The starting point for the book is the following anomoly: If Jesus lived as has been supposed at the beginning of the 1st century AD, the only NT documents written by a near contemporary, the Epistles of St Paul, make no mention of him as an historical figure, neither do they record any of his sayings, but rather they talk of him as a vision or mystical experience of the risen 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.
