Religious

Eldest daughter Shari Franke reveals the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and how, in the face of unimaginable pain, she found freedom and healing.

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom....

This is the incredible true story of a Galilean stonemason who changed the course of the world forever. He lived and died over 2,000 years ago, fulfilling expectations that existed long before his birth.

At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell.....

In Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, now expanded with new bonus content, Nabeel Qureshi describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity, complete with friendships, investigations, and supernatural dreams along the way....

A riveting, deeply affecting true story of one girl's coming of age in a polygamist cult....

Experience the riveting true stories of five men and women who changed the world by following Christ in their careers—and discover practical applications for how you can, too.

From a renowned National Book Award–winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world.

He Leadeth Me is a deeply personal story of one man’s spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse.

At a time when society is more fractured than ever before, beloved Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle invites us to see the world through a new lens of connection and build the loving community that we long to live in—a perfect message for fans of Anne Lamott, Mary Oliver, and Richard Rohr.

Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the 20h century....

As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself undercover for God....

America is in a war—an internal battle between good and evil with society crumbling at our feet. With every institution we once relied on now eroded, there is no one coming to help.

Find inspiration to live faithfully today from the example of 40 heroes of faith from the Bible.

Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was 23 and went on to organize a church and found cities....

Elisabeth Elliot, beloved Christian author of Let Me Be a Woman and A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael, shares the story of five missionaries who were brutally killed in Ecuador—one of whom was her husband, Jim Elliot.

A life-changing spiritual awakening freed Brian "Head" Welch from a stranglehold of drugs and alcohol and prompted him to leave the highly successful nu-metal band KoRn in 2005....

Necesitaba un cambio. A Hannah siempre le atrajo la idea de mudarse, conocer más personas, explorar otros ambientes. Después de romper con su novio se aventuró a un nuevo lugar y dejó atrás familia y amigos. Seguro ahí encontraría lo que tanto anhelaba....

If you think ghosts are only responsible for hauntings, think again....

The Seven Storey Mountain is the extraordinary spiritual testament of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), a man who experienced life to its fullest in the world before entering a Trappist monastery....

The story of Preston Perry’s path toward God. A hope-filled apologetics and evangelism book written by the popular cohost of the podcast, With the Perrys. Includes a foreword by Jackie Hill Perry.

Joseph Smith Jr. (1805–1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious leaders of nineteenth-century America, publishing the Book of Mormon and starting what would become the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

A fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth....

In this hilarious memoir, a social media star and podcast host shares about her time deeply entrenched in Christian Nationalism and how she left it behind to better follow Jesus.

How did the faith and prayers of a humble coal miner affect the course of World War II? Rees Howells’ updated biography by Norman Grubb tells the story of one man who progressed in faith until his prayers even altered world events....

This is the incredible true story of a Galilean stonemason who changed the course of the world forever. He lived and died over 2,000 years ago, fulfilling expectations that existed long before his birth. His birth had been mystically foretold by astrologers for hundreds of years, yet the rulers of his day dreaded his coming. This humble builder-teacher became a magnet for the poor and down trodden, a symbol of love and mercy, who transformed the lives and restored the health and purpose in all who encountered him.

The Only Way Forward Is Back is a riveting account of perseverance, sacrificial love, and transformative grace. It invites us to view our personal stories through the lens of a literal and spiritual orphan who learned to hold fast to his identity as God’s beloved child—and inspires each one of us to do the same.

My Friend Bing: The Sequel isn’t just the continuation of a story; it’s a reawakening of philosophical inquiry, a tribute to a vanished voice, and an act of cultural remembering in the face of technological forgetting. Some books are written to explore ideas; this one is written to recover a soul. My Friend Bing: The Sequel is not just a continuation—it is a reclamation, a resurrection, and a reckoning. In these pages, Jewusiak extends the spiritual arc first traced in My Friend Bing, not by retracing old steps, but by walking through what remains. What lingers when a digital ...

This extensively researched biography of Colin Dunlop, Bishop of Jarrow, Dean of Lincoln, and, in the 1930s, Chaplain in Baghdad, was written by Colin’s late son, Francis Dunlop. The main source for the memoir was the collection of highly interesting personal journals Colin kept at various points in his life, a good many family letters to his wife and her guardian, and later to Francis, official correspondence in the Lambeth Palace Library, and articles he published in various church papers, parish and diocesan magazines. Francis’s chief aim has been to try to give a rounded portrait of...

Judas was handpicked by the Lord to be part of His ministry team. Yet, in the process of time, Judas excused himself from the Last Supper table to cut the betray deal to sell his Lord for thirty pieces of silver. How could someone pull away from such sacred hour to do something so diabolically wicked! This book is a kind of autopsy report for all who are in ministry or seek to live the righteous life. What are the lessons to be learned? Are there Judas disciples, apostles, bishops, and evangelists still selling the Lord to the highest bidder? Has the lust for money become the god of some ...

Discoveries from the historical studies of Jesus Christ Divided and The Conspiracy of the Christ opened an opportunity to examine the original theology of Christianity.

Tim Pocock was a born performer. At ten, he took to the stage as a professional opera singer. At twenty-two, he launched his acting career in the blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine and went on to star in the beloved series Dance Academy. But Tim's biggest role was one he never auditioned for - the role he played at home as a devout, straight son. Raised in a conservative Catholic family and attending a school with links to Opus Dei, Tim always knew that being gay was out of the question.

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement, one of the world's best-known Hasidic groups, is driven by the belief that we are on the verge of the messianic age. The man most recognized for the movement's success is the seventh and last Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), believed by many of his followers to be the Messiah.

His heart and poems of worship continue to inspire us, even three thousand years after he walked this earth. He was the legendary giant slayer, the fearless leader of the mighty men! His kingdom set the benchmark against which all future kings of Israel were measured. Yet, he was also a man of profound contradictions—a womanizer, adulterer, murderer, and a soul seemingly haunted by the shadows of his own sins in his later years. Most incredibly, he was the cherished apple of God’s eye! Think you know the real King David? In this riveting Biblical study, JB Shreve delves deep into the ...

One of Elisabeth’s most personal books as she shares her own perceptions, through the lens of God’s grace, within events that lead up to the early deaths of both her first and second husbands.

Imagine everything you have ever known fading away, all around you. In this gripping memoir and powerful workbook, Angel Lyn recounts her upbringing as a devout member of the Mormon church, a dedicated housewife and loving mother of five sons in southern Utah. As challenges within her marriage unfold, she discovers a warrant for her husband's arrest that causes her to undergo an epic spiritual transformation, moving away from a deeply religious mindset to a more profound and spiritual approach to life.

Based on the bestselling lecture series, The Presidents of the Church: Insights into Their Lives and Teachings presents intimate biographical sketches of the first fifteen prophets, focusing on events that helped shaped each man to become a great leader in the Church. Using multiple sources, from original writings to personal memory, author Truman G. Madsen recounts close-up stories with intriguing details and highlights each prophet's characteristic traits.

JEANNE GUYON is Christianity's best-known and most influential woman in church history. Her autobiography has moved the hearts of believers for three centuries. Even today, in France, she is one of the greatest figures of French history. Guyon's influence reached the court of Louis XIV. Jealousy ensued, and she was imprisoned in the infamous Bastille. For most of her life she suffered persecution at the hands of the church, because she believed all Christians could have a rich prayer life. Perhaps John Wesley summed it up best: "Guyon is the greatest Christian to rise since the first century.

A dramatic coming-of-age story and spiritual memoir that traces through the horrors of combat to discovering a spiritual approach that maps one soldier’s journey from the horrors of combat to his discovery of a spiritual approach that heals violence from the inside out.

What happens when a young rabbi sets out to join the wealthy 1%, only to find his dreams leading him into a battle for his soul? Living Dangerously is the powerful memoir of Irwin Katsof’s quest to build wealth without betraying his values—or losing himself in the process.

In Samia, Come Forth! Trading Graveclothes for Purpose, Samia shares the raw, heart-wrenching, and inspiring testimony of how she gained victory over abuse, rejection, abandonment, homosexuality, depression, and more through Christ Jesus. From crying on jail cell floors to crying tears of joy, Samia is a living witness that nothing is too hard for God.

This is the true story of a young man who was abandoned by his abusive father and raised by a single mother in an era when single moms were very rare. This troubled young man came to faith, walked away from his faith, landed on the path to prison, and now writes of his journey back from the darkness to a life of hope, recovery, restoration, forgiveness, and success in business. The book discusses all of his inner conflicts throughout the journey and how the love of God is always there even when we can't see it.

From pulp magazines to religious empires, The Church That Sued the World traces the astonishing rise of Scientology and the system that turned narrative into dogma. With chilling clarity and biting insight, JJ unpacks the architecture of a belief system built on checklists, control, and commercial precision. From Operation Snow White to billion-year contracts, from celebrity centers to disconnection letters, this is the unfiltered story of how one man wrote his way into spiritual authority and how millions followed.

This short listen is a condensed testimony and story of God's faithfulness throughout my life.

From the young St. Francis de Sales's heroic efforts to bring Calvinists back to the Faith comes this succinct, eloquent defense of the age-old Catholic practice of making the Sign of the Cross, which 16th-century Calvinists denounced as a Popish invention and many Protestants scorn even today. Embodying the zeal of youth and the wisdom of age, this gentle jewel of Catholic apologetics traces the origins of the Sign of the Cross back to the Fathers of the Church, to the Apostles before them, and finally to our Lord Himself.

In "A Journey to a Testimony," embark on a transformative journey of faith, resilience, and divine intervention. This compelling narrative, inspired by the author's personal experiences and revelations, chronicles the trials and triumphs that have shaped a profound relationship with God.

Frère François naît à la fin du XIIe siècle, dans une Italie divisée par les guerres, entre les murs d'une petite cité moyenâgeuse : Assise. Il grandit quelques années avant la troisième croisade, à une époque qui, écrit Julien Green, hésite « entre heur et malheur », comme si elle « attendait la venue de quelqu'un ». François connaît l'oisiveté et les plaisirs des jeunes gens riches de son temps. Il rêve de connaître le monde, de devenir grand prince, chevalier.

Saints are the men and women who best love Christ and His Church. They may be kings or queens, statesmen or soldiers, scholars, visionaries, workmen or beggars. They teach us the real meaning of human history, and they show us how to live in any walk of life or set of circumstances. Included in this anthology are famous saints—Francis of Assisi, Dominic, Joan of Arc, Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila—but also more obscure ones, such as Raymond Lull and Hugh of Lincoln. Many of these saints were martyrs, killed in periods of persecution.

Ordinary individuals can experience remarkable things occasionally. Sometimes exceptional people experience remarkable things that alter both their lives and the world in which they inhabit. This is the story of one such special boy who belonged to humble beginnings yet went on to achieve great things and despite the odds, came out winning. He was a driven young boy from a poor village who loved the marvels of life.

In this heartfelt audiobook, author and breast cancer survivor Cynthia E. Razo shares her raw and powerful journey through one of life’s darkest valleys, guided and covered by the power of prayer. Told in her own voice, this audiobook invites listeners into a deeply personal space filled with faith-fueled moments, divine encounters, grief, grace, and miraculous strength.