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In Search of the Source: A First Encounter with God's Word
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Peggy Noonan
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez · 197 pages
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a "minority student" who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation
Jonathan Edwards
George M. Marsden · 640 pages
"Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century." "In this biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George M. Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Gregory A. Prince, William Robert Wright · 520 pages
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism is an insightful and detailed account of the exemplary life and remarkable influence of the 1st 'modern' Mormon prophet, David Oman McKay. Significantly enhanced by access to the private journals, office records and prolific correspondences kept by President McKay's long-time secretary, Claire Middlemiss; this book is a more intimate and personalized
Living Faith
Jimmy Carter · 273 pages
This is a book about the values and experiences that have shaped my life, and how the religious beliefs I inherited have been transformed into a living faith. I have waited a long time to write these words, because religion is a private matter-and my own faith has been the subject of much public speculation. Yet I think that my close relationship with God is something I share with many Americans o
My Life with the Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician
Lon Milo DuQuette · 191 pages
The Wind Is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman
Bear Heart, Molly Larkin · 265 pages
In 1938, a young Muskogee Creek Indian walked unharmed through a den of rattlesnakes as part of his initiation into the "medicine ways" of his tribe. More than fifty years later Bear Heart, now a medicine man and a respected elder of his tribe, tells his story and shares his teachings. With eloquent simplicity, Bear Heart shares a lifetime of training that has enabled him to survive personal trag
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
David Brainerd · 376 pages
David Brainerd's life and thought influenced not only his own generation but have also exerted influence on the generations that have lived after him. His life was characterized by an unusual devotion to God and an agonizing examination of personal motives and aspirations. Unswerving in his purpose after being converted to Christ, Brainerd endured many disappointments and hardships in order to tak
Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
Shauna Niequist · 256 pages
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Simon Wiesenthal · 198 pages
Rebel With A Cause
Franklin Graham · 314 pages
Appointments with Heaven: The True Story of a Country Doctor's Healing Encounters with the Hereafter
Reggie Anderson · 320 pages
Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim
Ziauddin Sardar · 354 pages
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk, John G. Neihardt · 298 pages
This is the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. It is at once a tale of Lakota life, a history of a Native nation, and an enduring spiritual testament, wherein the author conveys Black Elk's searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth. Black Elk met the author, a distinguishe
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
Something Other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It
Jennifer Fulwiler · 253 pages
When I Lay My Isaac Down: Unshakable Faith in Unthinkable Circumstances
Carol J. Kent · 195 pages
Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma
Brad Warner · 225 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
Faitheist: How An Atheist Found Common Ground With The Religious
Chris Stedman · 208 pages
Falling Free: Rescued from the Life I Always Wanted
Shannan Martin · 240 pages
Churched: One Kid's Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess
Matthew Paul Turner · 256 pages
He spent his childhood trapped within the confines of countless bizarre, strict rules. And lived to tell about it.In this first-hand account, author Matthew Paul Turner shares amusing--sometimes cringe-worthy--and poignant stories about growing up in a fundamentalist household, where even well-intentioned contemporary Christian music was proclaimed to be "of the devil." churched is a collection of