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Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace

Patricia Raybon · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

"Mom, I have something I need to tell you..."They didn't talk. Not for ten years. Not about faith anyway. Instead, a mother and daughter tiptoed with pain around the deepest gulf in their lives - the daughter's choice to leave the church, convert to Islam and become...
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Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ

J. Todd Billings · Brazos Press

A Christian theologian shares his journey, struggle, and reflections on providence, lament, and life in Christ in light of his diagnosis of incurable cancer.,
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A Death on Diamond Mountain: A True Story of Obsession, Madness, and the Path to Enlightenment

Scott Carney · Gotham Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under...
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Get Your Hopes Up!: Expect Something Good to Happen to You Every Day

Joyce Meyer · Faith Words, 2015.
Pages: 186
Format: Large Print Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer teaches listeners how to transform their lives by tapping into the power of hope. One of the most powerful forces in the universe is hope--the happy and confident anticipation that something good is going to happen. Regardless of where one is in life,...
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Karen Armstrong · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general...
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The Spirit of Saint Francis: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

Pope Francis · Franciscan Media
Format: Hardcover

Some people want to know why I wished to be called Francis. For me, Francis of Assisi is the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation.  -- Pope Francis, March 16, 2013. Published in cooperation with the Vatican, this original collection brings the life...
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Loveology: God.

John Mark Comer · Zondervan

In the beginning, God created Adam. Then he made Eve. And ever since we’ve been picking up the pieces. Loveology is just that—a theology of love. With an autobiographical thread that turns a book into a story, pastor and speaker John Mark Comer shares about what is right...
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Prepare: Living Your Faith in an Increasingly Hostile Culture

J. Paul Nyquist , · Moody Publishers

Much like a person waking from a decades-long coma only to meet a radically different world, evangelicals are just awakening to the reality that they have lost the culture war in this country.We are seeing the rapid deterioration and dismantling of a Judeo-Christian culture in America—and...
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Finding Peter: A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life after Death

William Peter Blatty · Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller! For those who have lost a loved one to that liar and fraud named Death. So reads the dedication of William Peter Blattys Finding Peter, a deeply moving memoir that tests the bounds of grief, love, and the soul. Blatty, the bestselling author and Oscar Awardwinning...
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