There is no better season to renew one's relationship with God than Easter, the most joyful days of the church's year. Rejoice with these inspiring reflections on the daily Mass readings. In just minutes per day, the insightful medita...

Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African American spirituals provide profound insights into the human condition and Christian life. Many spirituals focus on the climax of the Christian drama, the death and r...

Spring brings renewal, hope, rebirth, new growth--and a new issue of Easter Ideals, which celebrates all of this and more. The annual compilation of poetry, prose, recipes, and Bible excerpts, paired with gorgeous seasonal photograph...

The annual compilation of poetry, prose, recipes, and Bible excerpts, paired with gorgeous seasonal photography and artwork, returns once again with a new edition for 2021. Spring brings renewal, hope, rebirth, new growth — ...

With spring comes fresh growth, warmer days, a bit of extra hope within us, and a new 2022 edition of Easter Ideals to celebrate it all. This beautiful softcover treasury will plant seeds of inspiration in readers after a long, dreary...

Celebrate all things Easter and springtime with this softcover book of seasonal photography and artwork as well as inspiring poetry, prose, recipes, and Bible excerpts.  Along with longer, warmer days, and new life all around, s...

Find hope in the pages of this family-favorite, time-honored Easter tradition.   Loyal readers are drawn to Idealsfor its celebration of life’s most treasured moments. This year's compilation of prose and poetry continu...

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is a truly epic story. Whether you've tackled the 1,400-page 19thcentury novel, witnessed the Broadway musical (and memorized its soundtrack), or seen the several screen adaptations of it, you already know...

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is a truly epic story. Whether you've tackled the 1,400-page 19thcentury novel, witnessed the Broadway musical (and memorized its soundtrack), or seen the several screen adaptations of it, you already know...

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is a truly epic story. Whether you've tackled the 1,400-page 19thcentury novel, witnessed the Broadway musical (and memorized its soundtrack), or seen the several screen adaptations of it, you already know...

In 40 Days, 40 Prayers, 40 Words, Reyes-Chow encourages readers to pause in the bustle of their daily lives to reflect, engage, and share during the Lenten season. Forty devotions are each framed around a word inspired by the daily le...

While many of us naturally wish to avoid the reality of the cross, it’s from the cross that Jesus speaks and shows his deepest love for us. It’s from the cross that Jesus' full humanity draws us closest to him. It’s ...

While many of us naturally wish to avoid the reality of the cross, it’s from the cross that Jesus speaks and shows his deepest love for us. It’s from the cross that Jesus' full humanity draws us closest to him. It’s ...

Though we cannot see the wind, we know it by its effects and interpret it by its results. The same can be said for the work of the Hebrew prophets, who communicated God's vision of justice and faithfulness throughout the history of Go...

A new springtime edition of Ideals that celebrates the beautiful traditions and significance of the season When spring returns this year, so will Ideals, with a new springtime edition to celebrate this season of hope. Bursting with co...

Often, when we recall Our Lord’s Passion, the scenes flash by so quickly that deeper recollection is difficult. This forty-day meditation on the fourteen Stations of the Cross, designed for use in your home, presents them for yo...

Authors Rev. Warren J. Savage and Mary Ann McSweeny extend their popular seasonal meditation series into Easter and Pentecost. Each day, focus on one scriptural theme by breaking open God's Word. The reflection then makes us pause in ...

As we mark the 50th Earth Day (April 22, 2020), Christians can reflect on how caring for God's creation is connected to our faith. Drawing on the beloved hymn "For the Beauty of the Earth," each week of this 40-day Lenten de...

Episcopal priest Tim Schenck offers good humor and spiritual direction for the journey through Lent and Easter. With keen observations and a clever wit, Schenck connects the mundane with the divine, from dust bunnies and egg hunts ...

The Seven Last Words by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is an exploration and explanation of the seven statements made by Christ upon the Cross. Unlike the detailed instructions offered a few years earlier in the Sermon on the Mount, these...

Central to the Christian faith is a man who denies all our pre-conceived notions about what God should look like. Joining his movement will mean coming to terms with the real Jesus, the rebel Jesus.Jesus didn't come to start a religio...

How do you share the deep mysteries of Lent, Easter, and Resurrection with children? Parents, guardians, teachers, and ministers will find dozens of fun and easy practices for celebrating the Easter season with our kids. The practices...

The desert, a landscape both severe and beautiful, embodies spiritual struggle and divine support. Jesus experienced forty days of testing and transformation in the rugged Judean desert. Whether disease, social injustice, personal los...

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2021 explores the idea of evangelism as a way of sharing God's love with people.

On a seven mile journey from Jerusalem to Emmaus, the resurrected Jesus captivated two travelers with stories from the Old Testament pointing to his life and death. Walking with Jesus through the Old Testament invites readers to embar...

St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938) immersed herself in a vision of Christ’s Passion that became a predominant theme in her famed Diary. In Praying with Jesus and Faustina During Lent and in Times of Suffering, award winning and b...

This unique short-term Bible study combines an in-depth look at Scripture, American history, and the music and lyrics of six African American spirituals. The six-session study provides biblical, social, and historical analyses of the ...

Christians often have the head knowledge that we are beloved, but deep in our hearts do we truly believe it? When we encounter Jesus in scripture, we tend to hear Jesus' words with judgment, thinking we cannot be beloved because we wi...

Lent is a journey of the mind, heart, and spirit from the ashes of humanity to the cross and beyondto the empty tomb. The central figure in that journey is Jesus. But who was he really? Why did he come and minister among us? How can h...

THE FORGOTTEN PAGAN ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY’S MOST EMBLEMATIC CELEBRATION “Easter — by whatever name it may be known — is a theme common to almost every religion and every people.” — Alan Wat...