A True Story of Death and Life

Baptist minister Don Piper tells of experiencing heaven for the ninety minutes he was pronounced dead at the scene of a car accident. After miraculously coming back to life and working through a long and painful recovery, friends and family finally c...

One Father's Journey Through the Death of a Child

Floyd reveals his heart-breaking journey through the sorrow of losing his youngest son. He deals not only with his own broken heart, but also with the struggle to reconstruct his role as husband, father, and protector. A Grief Unveiled offers encoura...

A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

As in her best-selling Amazing Grace, Kathleen Norris demystifies a spiritual concept. She explores acedia--or soul-weariness--through the geography of her life as a writer, her marriage and the challenges of commitment in the midst of grave illness,...

A Vocabulary of Faith

Kathleen Norris takes readers on a moving journey in this thoroughly original investigation of faith. She explores the "scary words" that can intimidate us--words like judgment, faith, dogma, salvation, and sinner--and blends history, theology, story...

A Geography of Faith

The author of Leaving Church continues her spiritual journey by revealing how she learned to encounter the sacred everywhere in the world.

Reflections on Pastoral Ministry

J. Philip Wogaman offers candid reflections on his service as Senior Minister at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., an unexpected journey that he began at the age of sixty following a full career as an ethics professor. Wogaman chro...

My Spiritual Journey

With the publication of his groundbreaking The Church and Homosexuality in 1976, John McNeill placed himself in the vanguard of scholars who were challenging long-held assumptions about the Bible and homosexuality. Through his continued scholarship, ...

A Spiritual Memoir

Called to Question is Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Each chapter is an engaging dialogue between the author and many different wisdom sources about such topics as God's existence and call, experience, struggle, justice,...

Second Edition

Here is an engaging first-person study of a self-described straight, uptight, conservative Christian and the life situations that led him to a new sense of freedom and openness. Believing that experiences should be shared, Jack Rogers reflects on his...

Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up

The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper,...

This book is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian civic d...

William Sloane Coffin challenged the nation with his passionate calls for social justice. In this best-seller, Coffin gives a powerful record of his remarkable public life, offering his inspiring words on issues ranging from charity and justice to po...

William Sloane Coffin challenged the nation with his passionate calls for social justice. In this best-seller, Coffin gives a powerful record of his remarkable public life, offering his inspiring words on issues ranging from charity and justice to po...

One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia

Elizabeth Gilbert offers an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.

Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt

At age twenty-one, Andrea Palpant Dilley stripped the Christian fish decal off her car bumper in a symbolic act of departure from her religious childhood. At twenty-three, she left the church and went searching for refuge in the company of men who le...