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Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us?Now in his ninth decade...
Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and wome...
St Patrick is Ireland's best-known and best-loved saint. His life and legacy is deeply ingrained in Irish history and society, as the annual 17 March ...
Drawing on the experiences and lessons of over forty years working on the frontline of reconciliation and peace building, in Northern Ireland, Latin A...
April Holden was told Africa would lead to her death. She went anyway. Despite chronic health problems, she was accepted by a mission, which sent her ...
In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fas...
During a career spanning sixty years, the Reverend Billy Graham's resonant voice and chiseled profile entered the living rooms of millions of American...
Rudolf Steiner -- educator, architect, artist, philosopher and agriculturalist -- ranks amongst the most creative and prolific figures of the early tw...
Composed entirely of texts from the Pali canon, this unique biography presents the oldest authentic record of the Buddha's life and revolutionary phil...
London-born Kate Bowler, a thirty-five year-old professor at the school of divinity at Duke, hadfinally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart when ...
A unique personal survival account of the Piper Alpha disaster, seen from inside the Control Room.
The 30th anniversay of the disaster will be on 6th...
Shirley Leach lived in a world of extreme comfort, wealth, and status. With every good thing life had to offer, she was due to marry the man she loved...
The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, ...
A New York Times columnist and one of America's leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis's efforts to change the church he governs.Born Jo...
The celebrated General Sir Herbert Plumer once referred to BEF Deputy Chaplain General Llewellyn Henry Gwynne (1863-1957) as the man who did most to ...
As L'Arche Daybreak and L'Arche Canada approach their 50th anniversary, this beautifully-written memoir tells the inside story of daily life with peop...
On 28 February 2013, a 600-year-old tradition was shattered: the conservative Pope Benedict XVI made a startling announcement. He would resign. Reelin...
Emily Owen was a highly intelligent teenager who was also athletic and a skilled musician. Tragically, in her late teens she was diagnosed as sufferin...
Pope Francis has thoroughly re-engaged the Catholic Church with the modern world, by tackling the difficult and urgent questions that we face as a civ...
An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America Born and raised in a New England garrison town,...
When John Henry Newman spoke of his hopes for the renewal of the Church, he imagined not only sunshine and the blossoming of new life, but icy winds a...
Today the Byzantine mystic, writer, and monastic leader Symeon the New Theologian (ca. 949 to 1022 ce) is considered a saint by the Orthodox Church an...
In an age when few people ventured beyond their place of birth, André Palmeiro left Portugal on a journey to the far side of the world. Bearing the ti...
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the ...
First-time parents Joe and Tahni Cullen were thrust into the confusing world of autism when their toddler, Josiah, suddenly lost his ability to speak, play, and socialize. The diagnosis - autism spectrum disorder. In their attempts to see Josiah recover and regain speech, the Cullens underwent overwhelming physical, emotional, and financial struggl
After a life of sex, drugs and the Communards, recounted in his acclaimed memoir Fathomless Riches, the Reverend Richard Coles devoted himself to God ...
Eight first-hand accounts by individuals who were forced to flee their own countries and seek refuge in the UK. These refugees tell their stories from birth to persecution, from escape to seeking asylum, and from rejection to welcome. What kind of reception do their contemporaries receive in modern Britain and what should the church be doing?
A reprint of the Schocken Books edition of 1961.
One of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the history of Western thought, St Thomas Aquinas established the foundations for much of ...
In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrat...
Donald J. Trump was raised as a Presbyterian and has praised both Christianity and the primacy of the Bible. In the Oval Office, he has surrounded him...
In this biography of the noted French philosopher and theologian Jean Gerson, the first since 1929, Brian Patrick McGuire presents a compelling portra...
Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturali...
Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century Orthodox Judaism. The Bais Yaakov schools she founded in interwar Poland had an unpar...
WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDIn the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deep...
In Pure, Linda Kay Klein uses a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir to take us inside religious purity culture as only ...
An instant New York Times bestseller! As a lifelong student of Scripture, Kathie Lee Gifford has always desired a deeper understanding of God's Word a...
In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of h...
The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessio...
A beautifully written story about a British poet's conversion from staunch atheism to devout Catholicism, all in the space of nine electric months. In...
Pope Benedict XVI, the only modern-day Pope to retire whilst in office, now finally breaks his silence.
Since retiring from the papacy in 2013, the f...
As her body lay dying, her spirit began to travelA Second Chance at Heaven is an unforgettable account of one young woman's encounter with the Lord of...
Public relations expert and business consultant, ROMAL TUNE, provides insights on how authenticity with God will help you heal your past, love yoursel...
M. Sydney Park examines the key female figures in both the Old and the New Testaments, providing a key contribution to our understanding of the role...
Ed and Lorraine Warren are considered America's foremost experts on demonology and exorcism. With thousands of investigations to their credit, they re...
Aisha al-Ba'uniyya (c.1456-1517) was one of the greatest women mystics in Islamic history. A Sufi master and an Arab poet, her religious writings were...
The day Lacey Sturm planned to kill herself was the day her grandmother forced her to go to church, a place Lacey thought was filled with hypocrites, ...
In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accurac...
One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.The son of a pagan father and ...