Biography & Autobiography - Religious

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If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters ...

Jo Piazza

Veteran reporter Jo Piazza profiles ten extraordinary nuns and the causes to which they have dedicated their lives-from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a brave sister who rescues victims of human trafficking Meet Sister S...

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Published: Sep 2014

End of the Spear

Steve Saint

2005 ECPA Retailer's Choice Award winner for best biography/autobiography! Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having ...

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Published: Mar 2007

Listening For God: A Ministers Journe...

Renita Weems

Throughout the past two decades, Renita J. Weems has been noted and praised for her writing, galvanizing national speaking, and pioneering scholarship in the field of Old Testament studies. Yet in the midst of her celebrated work, she...

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Published: Sep 2005

Billy Graham: His Life and Influence

David Aikman

IF THERE WERE SUCH A JOB AS THE NATION'S PASTOR, IT WOULD GO TO BILLY GRAHAMGraham wasn't born with a mandate to become the face of modern evangelism. Growing up, he wasn't much different from other boys in his town. Billy was more in...

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Published: Jun 2010

Locked in: The Will to Survive and th...

Victoria Arlen

ESPN personality, former Dancing with the Stars contestant, and Paralympics champion Victoria Arlen shares her courageous and miraculous story of recovery after falling into a mysterious vegetative state at age eleven and how she brok...

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Published: Aug 2019

A Table in the Presence: The Dramatic...

Carey H. Cash

On April 10th, 2003, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, faced with the task of seizing the presidential palace in downtown Baghdad, ran headlong into what Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North called, 'the worst day of fighting for U.S...

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Published: Apr 2005

Padre Pio: Glimpse Into the Miraculou...

Pascal Cataneo

Glimpse into the life and miracles of Padre Pio in this collection of inspiring, astonishing, and humorous anecdotes. Written by Pascal Cataneo-a fellow priest and contemporary of Padre Pio-this collection contains Padre Pio's en...

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Published: Jan 2013

All Cracked Up: Experiencing God in t...

Patsy Clairmont

Sometimes if we try we can disconnect from tough problems around us, but eventually the network of fractures spreads to our front doors when a husband walks out, a loved-one is arrested, a friend betrays us, a church splits, a job is ...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Long Loneliness

Dorothy Day

A compelling autobiographical testament to the spiritual pilgrimage of a woman who, in her own words, dedicated herself 'to bring[ing] about the kind of society where it is easier to be good.

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Published: Jan 1997

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and ...

Elisabeth Elliot

The bestselling account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Auca Indians in Ecuador. New introduction by the author.

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Published: Jul 1989

Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land ...

Bruce Feiler

Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic odyssey—by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel—through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mt. Sinai to ...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of...

Louis Fischer

Gandhi's most intimate thoughts about life are revealed in these excerpts from his great body of writings, which includes the author's ideas and beliefs on politics, spirituality, poverty, suffering, love, nonviolence, civil disobedie...

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Published: Nov 2002

Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story o...

Mohandas Gandhi

Translated by Mahadev Desai and with a New PrefaceThe only authorized American editionMohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he devel...

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Published: Jun 1983

Sixty People Who Shaped the Church: L...

Alton Gansky

The Church exists today in its current form because of the people who have come before us. Who were those people? Staid and dour scholars? Cultural movers and shakers? How does their contribution to history affect us today?From a cons...

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Published: May 2014

C.S. Lewis: A Life Inspired

Christopher Gordon

A man of reason and vigorous discourse, and a renowned professor of literature and philosophy, C.S. Lewis, always "Jack" to family and friends, never shied from intellectual debate, and through his written works encouraged o...

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Published: Feb 2014

Travelers Along the Way: The Men and ...

Benedict J. Groeschel

In a series of always moving, sometimes surprising, and often hilarious stories, Fr. Benedict Groeschel introduces you to the men and women who have influenced him over the course of his life. Some are unknown, such as Mr. Graff, a Je...

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Published: Nov 2010

The Life of Milarepa: A New Translati...

Gtsa

Now recognized as the standard translation of one of the most beloved stories of the Tibetan people, The Life of Milarepa is both a portrait of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist saint and folk hero and a profoundly detailed guidebook to t...

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Published: Feb 1992

Teresa of Avila: Selections from the ...

HarperCollins Spiritual Classics

Teresa of Avila, a renowned sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, received the vision for The Interior Castle one Sunday in 1577. In this signature work, Teresa uses the castle as a symbol for the interior life to describe her mystical ex...

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Published: Sep 2004

A Different Kind of Cell: The Story o...

W. Paul Jones

Foreword by Sr. Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking. Gripping account of one man's spiritual transformation while in solitary confinement. Clayton Fountain was thought by most to be beyond all hope of redemption. Serving s...

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Published: Aug 2011

God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Li...

Paul Kengor

Ronald Reagan is hailed today for a presidency that restored optimism to America, engendered years of economic prosperity, and helped bring about the fall of the Soviet Union. Yet until now little attention has been paid to the role R...

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Published: Jan 2005

Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Moder...

Gary Lachman

A thoughtful biography of one of the most polarizing pioneers of alternative spirituality, the occult-mystic Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. /Bdiv divPioneer. Visionary. Provocateur. Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky—mystic, occult write...

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Published: Oct 2012

Bonhoeffer Abridged: Pastor, Martyr, ...

Eric Metaxas

From the New York Times best-selling author, Eric Metaxas, an abridged version of the groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, a man who stood up to Hitler. A definitive, de...

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Published: Oct 2014

Seven Women: And the Secret of Their ...

Eric Metaxas

In this highly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history's greatest women, each of whom changed the course ...

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Published: Oct 2016

Anything but Simple: My Life as a Men...

Lucinda Miller

Like her grandmother, Lucinda J. Miller wears long dresses and a prayer covering. But she uses a cellphone and posts status updates on Facebook, too. Anything but Simple is the riveting memoir of a young woman's rich church tradition,...

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Published: Jul 2017

Called to Be Amish: My Journey from H...

Marlene C. Miller

Fewer than one hundred people have joined the Old Order Amish and stayed since 1950. Marlene C. Miller is one of them. In this rare memoir, Marlene recounts her unhappy and abusive childhood, how she throws herself into cheerleading a...

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Published: Feb 2015

Release the Power of Prayer

George Muller

Receive Your Miracle from GodGeorge Mller was the worst of sinners--a thief and a liar. But after turning to Christ, he provided for over 10,000 orphans--without ever asking anyone but God to supply his needs! He testified that he kne...

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Published: Feb 2005

Thea Bowman: Faithful and Free (Peopl...

Maurice J. Nutt

With every passing year since her death in 1990, more people are recognizing Sister Thea Bowman as one of the most inspiring figures in American Catholic history. This granddaughter of slaves became Catholic on her own initiative at t...

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Published: Jun 2019

Contending for Our All: Defending Tru...

John Piper

Piper's brief biographies of Athanasius, Owen, and Machen tell the stories of great men who passionately defended the truth of the gospel, despite many struggles and much suffering.Athanasius, John Owen, and J. Gresham Machen stood...

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Published: Jan 2011

The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Ad...

Janet Soskice

In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: beneath...

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Published: Aug 2010

Hudson Taylor (Men of Faith)

J. Hudson Taylor

The inspiring story of one man's love for God and his unflinching commitment to present the Gospel of Christ to the Chinese.Previously published under the title To China With Love, this book recounts the thrilling story of Hudson Tayl...

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Published: Feb 1987
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