Religious Authors

The Beech Bank Girls are back! Teenage friends Chloe, Willow, Annie, Rachel, Holly, and Amber become absorbed in a diary from the First World War, and discover that the choices they make have consequences, just as they did for 14-year-old Grace 100 years ago...the girls continue to live, love, and laugh together through all the trials and joys of life. And discover that even when things seem to be going wrong, God is still at work.

Six teenage friends draw nearer to God and to each other through real-life issues. Amber, Holly, Willow, Annie, Rachel, and Chloe share their laughter, their tears, their hopes, their fears, and their secrets with each other and with us. Miracle and party included! Brilliantly written Christian chick lit for ages 10-14.

Three months into her pregnancy with her first child, Hilary Yancey received a phone call that changed everything. As she learned the diagnosis - cleft lip and palate, a missing right eye, possible breathing complications - Hilary began to pray in earnest. Even in the midst of these findings, she prayed that God would heal her son. God could do a miracle unlike anything she had seen. Only when Hilary held her baby, Jack, in her arms for the first time did she realize God had given her something drastically different than what she had demanded.

Albert Espinosa never wanted to write a book about cancer - so he didn’t. Instead, he shares his most touching, funny, tragic, and happy memories in the hopes that others, healthy and sick alike, can draw the same strength and vitality from them.

The three sections of Terrance Hayes’ seventh collection explore how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. In “Watch Your Mouth,” a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of birds; in “Watch Your Step: The Kafka Virus,” a talking cat tells jokes in the Jim Crow South; in “Watch Your Head,“ green beans bling in the mouth of Lil Wayne, and Bob Ross paints your portrait.

How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable from it? Starting at the birth of Christianity - a religion inextricably bound to Western thought - Jack Miles reveals how the West's "common sense" understanding of religion emerged and then changed as insular Europe discovered the rest of the world. Finally, in a moving postscript, he shows how this very story continues today in the minds and hearts of individual religious or irreligious men and women.

ولدَ حسان بن ثابت قبل الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم بثماني سنواتٍ في المدينة المنورة لأسرةٍ ذي شأن والده ثابت بن المنذر من سادة قبيلة الخزرج، أشهر قبائل المدينة مع الأوس، ونشأ نشأة مترفة بين اللهو والخمر وكتب فيهما شعراً، شهد حسّان على معارك ومنازعات بين قبيلته وبين قبيلة الأوس التي تنافسها على السيادة على يثرب، وفي هذا الجو من الصراع القبلي تشكلت موهبته الشعرية ليكون رأس حربة في المواجهة، يفخر بانتصارات الخزرج ويهجو الأوس ويدخل في سجالات مع شعرائهم، واتصل بملوك الغساسنة في الشام ونَظَم الشعر في مدحهم وحصل على أعطيات منهم...

В двадцать восемь лет Шмитт предпринял пеший поход по пустыне Сахара. Он отправился туда будучи атеистом, а, десять дней спустя, вернулся глубоко верующим человеком. Вдали от привычного окружения писатель и драматург открыл для себя простую жизнь, завязал дружбу с туарегами. А потом он заблудился на просторах Ахаггара. На протяжении тридцати часов он ничего не ел и не пил, он не понимал, где оказался, и сумеют ли его найти. И ночь, проведенная под звездами, открыла ему новый духовный путь.

No se sabe qué se desarrolló primero, si el lenguaje o la religión; lo más seguro es que se desarrollaron al mismo tiempo y ambos surgieron como respuesta a los asombros de la existencia. Entre ensayo literario y libro confesional, Lo diferente es una generosa invitación a reflexionar sobre la experiencia religiosa y, sobre todo, a descubrir la singular y regocijante vía mística. Hugo Hiriart, uno de los escritores más brillantes en lengua española, comparte aquí las memorias sobre su relación íntima y solitaria con Dios.

Antes de ser um dos escritores mais queridos do Brasil, Pedro Salomão atuou como palhaço na Santa Casa de Misericórdia e no Hospital do Câncer, e viu de perto como é transformador o poder da alegria. Felicidade em copo d'água reúne alguns causos vividos pelo autor e que revelarão aos leitores o que muitos já sabem: nem sempre dá para se preparar para o inesperado, mas é possível encontrar o que mais procuramos onde menos imaginamos—até mesmo em um copo d'água.

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first published book of poetry by an African-American woman. Phillis Wheatley was a servant to a family in Massachusetts, and initially promoted her poetry in Boston newspapers to find a publisher. When she was initially unable to find a publisher in America, she sent her poetry overseas to England, hoping to eventually find someone who would both believe in the authenticity of her words and allow them to be widely printed.

One of the best-known poets of the Revolutionary War era, Phillis Wheatley made history with this collection, which was the first such work to be published from an African American woman. Celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, Wheatley found admirers in the likes of Voltaire, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and John Paul Jones.

Imprisoned for preaching outside the Anglican Church, John Bunyan recorded the doubts, temptations, and hopes of his own spiritual journey, a journey later traveled by the searching sojourner in The Pilgrim's Progress.

New York Times best-selling author J. A. Jance's heartrending collection of poetry and essays recounts a dark chapter of her own life, her first marriage to an alcoholic - a powerful look at the emotional cost of addiction and an inspiring story of courage and triumph in the wake of crushing defeat.

Enter into ageless philosophy of the great, silent spiritual master Avatar Meher Baba in this comprehensive compendium of this iconic teacher’s greatest thoughts and ideas. Sri Meher Baba is the popular spiritual master of the great Pete Townshend of the iconic rock band The Who, as well as the inspiration behind the composer’s greatest works. Here is a rare audio encounter that is a must-have for everyone, perfect for all school or university collections.

Enter into ageless philosophy of the great, silent spiritual master Avatar Meher Baba in this comprehensive compendium of this iconic teacher’s greatest thoughts and ideas. Sri Meher Baba is the popular spiritual master of the great Pete Townshend of the iconic rock band The Who, as well as the inspiration behind the composer’s greatest works. Here is a rare audio encounter that's a must-have for everyone, perfect for all school or university collections.

Many years ago, the great British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin urged Herman Wouk to write his autobiography. Wouk responded, "Why me? I'm nobody." Berlin answered, "No, no. You've traveled. You've known many people. You have interesting ideas. It would do a lot of good."

lemon is an exploration of body and health. The poems in this chapbook come from learning to navigate life with a disability, anxiety and depression, bodily changes, illness and associated medical trauma, and the intersection of physical and mental health.

In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, quoted in the New York Times, posted online in the Academy of American Poets poem-a-day series, gathered in a chapbook sold to benefit Ukrainian refugees, posted online in response to Supreme Court decisions, composed for a painter’s gallery opening, and in other ways engaged a world at war with itself.

Waves of Faith depicts the author’s personal journey shared through hardships of faith, struggles, and victory obtained; because for better or worse, every human being is born into a family that shapes who and what we become. The Lord has seen Dorothea through joblessness, poverty, homelessness, and separations. Through her story, she hopes future listeners will see that new love can be developed and experienced through nurturing a Christian family.