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Include books by the same authorGodless: 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
Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
Lauren F. Winner · 272 pages
Living with the Himalayan Masters
Swami Rama · 486 pages
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
In God's Underground
Richard Wurmbrand · 270 pages
Surprised 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
The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt
Parley P. Pratt · 480 pages
The Autobiography of St. Teresa Of Avila: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
Teresa of Avila, Benedict Zimmerman, David Lewis · 516 pages
Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing
Stormie Omartian · 188 pages
Open Heart
Elie Wiesel · 79 pages
In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflected on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.
God's Smuggler
Brother Andrew · 226 pages
All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir
Brennan Manning · 240 pages
Brennan Manning roves back through his past, honoring the lives of the people closest to him, family and friends who've known the saint and the sinner, the boy and the man. Far from some chronological timeline, these memories are witness to the truth of life by one who has lived it.
The Pastor: A Memoir
Eugene H. Peterson · 336 pages
The Pastor's Wife
Sabina Wurmbrand · 218 pages
The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross · 286 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
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
Unveiling Grace: The Story of How We Found Our Way out of the Mormon Church
Lynn K. Wilder · 368 pages
Narrates the story of how a Mormon family left the religion after questioning many of its teachings and describes what it was like to grow up as a Mormon, comparing many Mormon beliefs and practices with those of more traditional Christian religions.
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Immaculee Ilibagiza · 215 pages
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other
Rebel With A Cause
Franklin Graham · 314 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.