Temple and Cosmos: Beyond This Ignorant Present (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 12)

The Analects

Confucius · 252 pages

"Formulated in the ruins of a society that had been founded on untenable spiritualistic concepts of governance, Confucius' philosophy postulated a humanistic social order that has survived as China's social ideal ever since." "Confucius' teachings are very literary in nature. The Analects is made up of dialogues, stories, and anecdotes, always aphoristic and full of poetic turns of thought."--BOOK

Miracles

C.S. Lewis · 192 pages

An impeccable inquiry into the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. C. S. Lewis uses his remarkable logic to build a solid argument for the existence of divine intervention. "This book is intended as a preliminary to historical inquiry. I am not a trained historian, and I shall not examine the historical evidence for the Christian miracles. My effort is to put my reade

Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

Nadia Bolz-Weber

What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace today? And what if that's the point? In Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling au­thor Nadia Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising encounter with what she calls “a religious but not-so-spiritual life.” Tattooed, angry and profane, this former standup comic turned pastor stubbornly, sometimes hilariously

An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

Barbara Brown Taylor · 216 pages

In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir." — Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry to become a professor, a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World, she shares how she learned to encounter God beyond the walls of any church. From simple practices such as

Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw · 176 pages

Jesus for President is a radical manifesto to awaken the Christian political imagination, reminding us that our ultimate hope lies not in partisan political options but in Jesus and the incarnation of the peculiar politic of the church as a people "set apart" from this world. In what can be termed lyrical theology, Jesus for President poetically weaves together words and images to sing (rather tha

Let Me be a Woman

Elisabeth Elliot · 190 pages

We are called to be women. The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. For I have accepted God's idea of me, and my whole life is an offering back to him of all that I am and all that he wants me to be. In these days of conflicting demands and cultural pressures, what kind of woman do you wish

To Draw Closer To God: A Collection Of Discourses

Henry B. Eyring · 197 pages

No Man Is an Island

Thomas Merton · 264 pages

No Man Is an Island encapsulates Merton's most profound teachings on love, hope, and the search for fulfillment and meaning. Merton writes with penetrating insight on topics such as frienship, personal vocation, temptation, humility, spiritual loneliness, courage, and life among others.

Lectures to My Students

Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 290 pages

Small and Simple Things

Marjorie Pay Hinckley · 154 pages

Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Francis Spufford · 236 pages

"Suitable for believers who are fed up with being patronised, for non-believers curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century, this title presents an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the vocabulary of human feeling, and satisfying those who believe in it."--Www.whitcoulls.co.nz.

Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Thomas Merton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Meister Eckhart, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, J.B. Phillips, Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, Sylvia Plath, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Henri Nouwen, Bernard of Clairvaux, Kathleen Norris, Karl Rahner, Isaac Penington, Madeleine L'Engle, Alfred Del · 345 pages

Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God

Lauren F. Winner · 286 pages

"There are hundreds of metaphors for God, but the church only uses a few familiar images: creator, judge, savior, father. In [this book], Lauren Winner gathers a number of lesser-known tropes, reflecting on how they work biblically and culturally, and reveals how they can deepen our spiritual lives"--Amazon.com.

When "Spiritual but Not Religious" Is Not Enough: Seeing God in Surprising Places, Even the Church

Lillian Daniel · 215 pages

A Senior Minister of a Chicago area church discusses the cliché of being spiritual without being religious and advocates for a church-based religious life that is backed by centuries of thought, meaningful debate and a supportive community.

Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends

Elie Wiesel · 208 pages

Discusses the Biblical stories of Adam, Job, Jacob, Cain and Abel, Abraham, Joseph, and Moses.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Donald Miller · 256 pages

Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Anne Lamott · 112 pages

"I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe, over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple" -- Cover verso. Lamott has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to three simple fundamentals. Asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us-- that can

The Cloister Walk

Kathleen Norris · 392 pages

A New York Times bestseller for 23 weeksA New York Times Notable Book of the Year"A strange and beautiful book...Part memoir, part meditation, it is a remarkable piece of writing." -The Boston Globe"The Cloister Walk is a new opportunity to discover a remarkable writer with a huge, wise heart...Norris resonates deeply for a lot of people: She's one of those writers who demands to be handed around.

Finding God in Unexpected Places

Philip Yancey · 288 pages

Art and the Bible: Two Essays

Francis A. Schaeffer · 78 pages

"The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts," writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God." Many Christians, wary of creating graven images, have steered clear of artistic creativity. But the Bible offers a robust affirmation of the arts. The human impulse to create r

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 288 pages

Strength to Love

Martin Luther King Jr. · 155 pages

A collection of sermons by this martyred Black American leader which explains his convictions in terms of the conditions and problems of contemporary society.

Waiting for God

Simone Weil · 208 pages

"Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and "one of the most neglected resources of our century" (Adrienne Rich), Wa

Surprised by Scripture: Engaging with contemporary issues

N.T. Wright · 223 pages