Religion

Mecca is the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction towards which Muslims turn when they pray and the site of pilgrimage which annually draws some...

When actor Richard Dreyfus gazed up into the heavens during the hit film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, audiences looked with him, in rapt attention. Alien encounters cropped up...

"Here's an adult fable for anyone who has come through a difficult time and found joy, new self-esteem and compassion for others". -- Journal of Christian Nursing "This beautiful story...

The True Story Behind the Powerful Film ALL SAINTS Newly ordained, Michael Spurlock's first assignment is to pastor All Saints, a struggling church with twenty-five devoted members and a mortgage...

Daily Blessings to Lift a Woman's Soul Begin your day with a reminder of God's love and purpose. This beautiful devotional book is filled with words of comfort, encouragement, and...

God is speaking, readers just need to learn how to listen. This is especially true during times of trial or heartache, when women need to be reassured that God has...

A message of revitalization and encouragement for leaders before they leave the ministry. Wayne Cordeiro, author of Doing Church as a Team, found himself paralyzed by burnout. He had been...

Philip Yancey's What's So Amazing About Grace? won the Book of the Year Award in 1998 and has sold over one million copies since it was first published in 1997....

How does your personal faith journey relate to the big picture of the Bible? Christians often encounter various Bible passages through unrelated readings, studies, and sermons, making it difficult to...

Rabbi Milton Steinberg's Basic Judaism is "one of the best presentations of essential Judaism" ( Christian Century ). Concise and elegant, this is a book about the faith, ideals, and...

An intimate biography of the Prophet and a compelling meditation on Islam in the modern world The life of the Prophet Muhammad, to whom the Angel Gabriel revealed the verses...

The story of educated, principled, and brave Catholic women--nuns, newly ordained priests, lay preachers, and organizers--who have inspired a reform movement determined to restore women and lay Catholics to their...

This biography draws new conclusions about Paul's contribution to the modern papacy. Unlike his predecessor, John XXIII, there are few anecdotes about Paul. There is consequently no "industry" surrounding him....

100 years, the popes have spoken about women on more than 40 occasions. This book is the first study, in any language, of that teaching. From speeches to encyclicals, Richard...

Our Father in heaven Hallowed be your name ...' When Jesus' disciples asked him for help with prayer, he gave them a beautifully simple but spiritually profound outline known as...

If you think Intelligent Design Theory (IDT) is merely the respectable face of Christian fundamentalism, and Evolution the only sensible scientific world-view, think again. Historically, the situation is almost exactly...

Winning Your Family's Battle Over Worry Worry Free Living explores every family's daily battles with stress from three perspectives - how it affects our mind, body, and spirit - and...

Churches around the world have been confronted by shame and culpability in widespread revelations of child sexual abuse. In this book, Jeffrey Driver, who has served the Australian Anglican Church...

You can't kidnap someone's hope. They were teachers, engineers, nurses, students, and artists from around the world who answered God's call to help Afghan refugees rebuild their lives following decades...

In the light of the practice of Jesus own table and the Eucharistic practice of the early Church . . . is our contemporary Church still 'clasping sinners to her...

God has dreams- just for you Becoming Myself is a hope-filled book for anyone who wonders if her life will ever change-if she will ever change.In Stasi Eldredge's most intimate...

A unique visual guide to life inside the spiritual centre of the Catholic Church, updated to include Pope Francis The Vatican explores Vatican City, the world's smallest sovereign state and...

God wants His people to prosper financially, but many Christians aren't experiencing the blessings God promises in His Word. There are reasons why. Rev. Kenneth E. Hagin once said, "If...

Does your family history or that of a loved one have a common thread of dysfunction, marital problems, sickness, or abuse that goes from generation to generation? If so, this...

Neil Anderson comes from a poor farming background. A fun-loving, sports-crazy child, no one suspected that he would eventually become a pastor, complete five degrees, write sixty books and found...

The role of Christian faith in contemporary culture has changed dramatically. Both de-traditionalization (the interruption of the handing on of faith from one generation to the next) and pluralization (Christianity...

T.D. Jakes takes readers through the book of Ephesians chapter by chapter, teaching what it means for the Christian to have a life overflowing and how to "walk worthy of...

How can a woman cope...survive...and even thrive again after divorce? There are no easy answers. Kari West and Noelle Quinn offer their experience and companionship to the reader along a...

It's never too late to do the impossible. Meet Ida Keeling, a 104-year-old mother, activist, and world record-holding runner. Her fierce independence and deep faith carried her through the Depression...

The Scripture Source Book for Catholics is a collection of information about Scripture gathered to help people of faith learn about the Catholic understanding and interpretation of Scripture and enrich...

"Only the church that manages to free itself from its sexist definition of women, anchored significantly in the Virgin Mary tradition, will survive", writes Bishop Spong. He challenges the doctrine...

The intellectual power of this book presents a challenge to unthinking piety; its deep Christian devotion, with no loss of scholarly precision, challenges unthinking reductionism, not least that of the...

In this new century, born in hope but soon thereafter cloaked in terror, many see religion and politics as a volatile, if not deadly, mixture. For All Peoples and All...

An enduring legacy of the Ecumenical Decade -- Churches in Solidarity with Women (1988-98), is the rich treasury of new liturgical, spiritual and artistic resources which it has generated. Through...

Recent years have seen a growing demand from individuals and churches for prayers, music and liturgical material that make sense of the global nature of the Christian family. This collection...

In Future Faith , Sam Chand introduces a fresh metaphor for church leadership, that of working with both "natives," longtime church members who dutifully carry on as usual, and "immigrants,"...

A biblical defense of the Catholic faith This exciting book shows that, far from straying from the Bible, Catholicism is eminently and thoroughly biblical. Indeed, Catholicism is the only Christian...

We live in a world of rampant individualism and self-fulfilment. We're entitled to sexual satisfaction; our culture vigorously affirms it. The result is dissatisfaction - sex is not as frequent,...

A Church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a Gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God that does not get under anyone's skin, or the word...

The motionless form of a giant of Gath lay face down on the battlefield of Shochoh and blood from his forehead seeped into the earth below his face. The great...