Biography & autobiography / Religious

God's Generals: Why They Succeeded and Why Some Failed

by Roberts Liardon

Roberts Liardon chronicles the lives and legacies of men and women who were empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring worldwide revivals.

Heart to Heart

by Janet Walker

Heart to Heart is a miscellany of reflections, parables, photographs and memories.If we are to continue learning and growing spiritually as we go through life, we must take the time to reflect on our experiences....

From the Prison of Pain to the Mountaintop of Freedom: Living Life Again

by Pam Anderson

Through journaling her struggles after losing her husband, son and close friends in a plane crash, Pamela recorded the comfort God gave her. Perfect for anyone who has lost a loved one or simply wonders, "Why...

Francis: Man of Prayer

by Mario Escobar

First Jesuit. First Latin American. And a new pope who chose as his first act a simple request: please pray for me.

The recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI took the world by surprise and for good reason....

Watchman Nee: Sufferer for China

by Bob Laurent

For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of Charles Spurgeon, Jim Elliot, Sojourner Truth, and Watchman Nee.

Sojourner Truth: American Abolitionist

by W. Terry Whalin

For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of Charles Spurgeon, Jim Elliot, Sojourner Truth, and Watchman Nee.

Jim Elliot: Missionary Martyr

by Susan Martins Miller

For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of Charles Spurgeon, Jim Elliot, Sojourner Truth, and Watchman Nee.

Pray for Me: The Life and Spiritual Vision of Pope Francis, First Pope from the Americas

by Robert Moynihan

From the founder and editor of Inside the Vatican magazine, the world's most well-informed, comprehensive monthly on the Roman Catholic Church, comes this enlightening introduction to the life and spiritual...

Like a Waking Dream: The Autobiography of Geshe Lhundub Sopa

by Paul Donnelly, Geshe Lhundub Sopa & His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Prior to his thirty-year career in the first-ever academic Buddhist studies program in the United States, Geshé Sopa was the son of peasant farmers, a novice monk in a rural monastery, a virtuoso scholar monk...

I Fired God

by Jocelyn Zichterman

A compelling memoir and account of the Independent Fundamental Baptist church and its shocking history of religious abuse.

Jocelyn Zichterman was born, raised, married into, and finally, with her family, fled the...

Pope Francis in His Own Words

by Julie Schwietert Collazo & Lisa Rogak

This revealing collection of Pope Francis's own words, gathered from sermons, interviews, and his books, prompts understanding and insight into his way of being and believing - and inspires goodwill, love, and...

Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words

by Sergio Rubin & Francesca Ambrogetti

His Life in His Own Words

On March 13, 2013, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, longtime Archbishop of Buenos Aires, now Pope Francis, was elected to succeed Pope Benedict.  He is the first Latin American...

Billy Sunday: The Man and His Message

by William Ellis

"It seemed impossible for Billy Sunday to stand behind the pulpit and talk only with his mouth. When he alluded to the man who acts no better than a four-footed brute, Sunday was down on all fours and you saw...

Archbishop Justin Welby: The Road to Canterbury

by Andrew Atherstone

This biography of Justin Welby, the 105th archbishop of Canterbury, traces the story of his life and ministry from his earliest years to the eve of his enthronement in March 2013. It examines his conversion...

Joy in Living: A Memoir of an MK, an MW and an MM

by Joy K. Boerop

Born and raised in China, Joy's riveting memoir tells of poverty, the Sino-Japanese war, air attacks on Shanghai, growing up separated from her parents, and Chinese taken to execution sites under the Communists....

Property: The True Story of a Polygamous Church Wife

by Carol Christie & John Christie

In the early 1970s an innocent teenager who had led a sheltered life was forced to leave her family and enter into a polygamous and abusive relationship with a man called the Prophet. In 2008, nearly 40 years...

Tales of the Village Rabbi

by Rabbi Harvey Tattelbaum

In the late fifties and sixties, Greenwich Village was the quirkiest, most charming, jazzy, eccentric and urban of environments, the center of all that was both quaint and "cool": brownstones and beatniks, coffeehouses...

Charles Spurgeon: The Prince of Preachers

by Dan Harmon

For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of Charles Spurgeon, Jim Elliot, Sojourner Truth, and Watchman Nee.

Pope Francis

by Matthew E. Bunson

Matthew Bunson brings his deep knowledge and understanding of Catholic history and Faith to this biography of the Holy Father.

Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Life and Letters of an Irish Zen Saint

by Maura O'Halloran

At age 24, Maura O’Halloran traveled to Japan, where she began studying Zen, first in Tokyo and later in the remote northern countryside. Her journey into the depths of her heart and mind is portrayed in this...