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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
C.S. Lewis · 238 pages
Autobiography of the English theologian, novelist, and scholar, concerning his early years. The author's spiritual journey from Chrisitanity to atheism and then back to Christianity.
Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman
Gladys Aylward, Christine Hunter · 160 pages
Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing
Stormie Omartian · 188 pages
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Karen Armstrong · 336 pages
The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
In the Presence of My Enemies
Gracia Burnham, Dean Merrill · 320 pages
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
Dan Barker
After 19 years as an evangelical preacher, missionary, and Christian songwriter, Dan Barker 'threw out the bathwater and discovered there is no baby there.' Barker, who is now co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (America's largest organization of atheists and agnostics), describes the intellectual and psychological path he followed in moving from fundamentalism to freethought. The
Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession
Anne Rice · 256 pages
In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel ***Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt***, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith. ***Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana*** followed. And now, in her powerful and haunting memoir, Rice tells the story of the spiritual transformation that produced a complete change in her literary goals. She b
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill · 241 pages
The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill (Goodreads Author) "At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life nothing at all out of the ordinary had ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her spinster sister a
Choosing to SEE
Mary Beth Chapman · 292 pages
From the beginning, Mary Beth Chapman's life was not how she planned. All she wanted was a calm, peaceful life of stability and control. Instead, God gave her an award-winning singer/songwriter husband, crazy schedules, and a houseful of creatively rambunctious children. And then, she experienced the tragedy she never could have imagined. In Choosing to See, Mary Beth unveils her struggle to allow
A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
Sheldon Vanauken · 240 pages
The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith
Joanna Brooks · 209 pages
Story about leaving behind the innocence of childhood belief and embracing the complications and heartbreaks that come to every adult life of faith. Explores the author's journey through her faith, and the experience of being a Mormon.
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman · 301 pages
Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very, definition of humanity.Now, in a poignant and insightful memoir, Jane Goodall explores her extraordinary life and personal spiritual odyssey, with observations as profound as the knowledge she has brought back from the forest.
The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton · 457 pages
The Seven Storey Mountain tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age of twenty-six, takes vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders—the Trappist monks. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, "the four walls of my new freedom," Thomas Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has fully immersed himself in it. At the abbey, he wrote th
Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor · 160 pages
Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return To His Jewish Family
Stephen J. Dubner · 336 pages
The youngest of eight children, Stephen J. Dubner grew up in a family that was industrious, rambunctious, and, above all, Catholic. His parents were true believers, their faith extending to every corner of their lives. But they were also Jewish converts. Only when he reached his twenties did he discover his parents' extraordinary story, a story full of bitter estrangements, hard-fought triumphs a
In God's Underground
Richard Wurmbrand · 270 pages
Born Again: What Really Happened to the White House Hatchet Man
Charles W. Colson · 382 pages
Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Barbara Ehrenreich · 272 pages
"In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part mem
Return of the Pharaoh: Memoir in Nasir's Prison
zynb lGzly · 214 pages
The Persecutor
Sergei Kourdakov · 254 pages
His job in the Russian police was to inflict terror and suffering on Christians, and he did it well. Sergei Kourdakov, whose daring escape from a Russian naval ship made headlines throughout the free world, tells the unforgettable story of his life in the Russian secret police and his remarkable flight to freedom. This book is an eye-opening, first-hand account of one man's journey to freedom and
Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir
Stanley Hauerwas · 319 pages
God's Smuggler
Brother Andrew · 226 pages
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
C.G. Jung · 449 pages
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
Dorothy Day · 288 pages
This inspiring and fascinating memoir, subtitled, “The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist,” The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day’s compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage. A founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and longtime associate of Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day was eulogized in the New York Times as, “a no