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Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Bruce Feiler

2. On Holy Ground I bolted upright the first time I heard the bells—a sound so loud it yanked me from sleep. I held my ears when I realized the ...
( Category: Old Testament March 3,2015 )
Tortured for Christ by Wurmbrand Richard
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Wurmbrand, Richard [Wurmbrand, Richard]

I suffer in the West more than I did in Communist lands. My suffering consists first of all in the longing after the unspeakable beauties of the Underground Church, the ...
( Category: Religious February 15,2015 )
Liberation in One Lifetime: Biographies and Teachings of Milarepa by Francis V. Tiso
azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Francis V. Tiso

Folio 228: he kept to a diet of nettles. Even his body took on the green color of nettles.70 After a long time, Peta came, bringing along a half peck ...
( Category: Religious February 13,2015 )
Story of Milarepa by Ken Albertsen
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-20 | Author:Ken Albertsen

( Category: Religious February 13,2015 )
The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Saint Augustine

And then by little and little I recovered my former thoughts of Thy handmaid, her holy conversation towards Thee, her holy tenderness and observance towards us, whereof I was suddenly ...
( Category: Saints February 13,2015 )
Something Other Than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It by Jennifer Fulwiler
mobi |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Jennifer Fulwiler

20 “Take off your wedding ring”, Joe said. His eyes were fixed on the road in front of us, his hands cemented to the steering wheel. “It’s better if these ...
( Category: Religious February 12,2015 )
Something Other Than God by Fulwiler Jennifer
epub |eng | 2014-01-16 | Author:Fulwiler, Jennifer [Fulwiler, Jennifer]

I’d seen it before—I must have—but this time it caught my attention like a siren. I was shaken with a feeling that from the beginning of time, I had been ...
( Category: Religious February 12,2015 )
Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare by James H. Cone
epub |eng | 2012-06-07 | Author:James H. Cone [Cone, James H.]

And don't stop there. In fact, you won't be able to stop for long—his doormen are going to tell you "Move on!" But catch a subway and keep on downtown. ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 3,2015 )
A Brief Fantasy History of a Himalayan: Autobiographical Reflections by Thinley Norbu
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Thinley Norbu

Then, when the temporary benefits are exhausted, depression comes and people say, “Why do anything? Nothing makes sense.” But this is depression. It is not like the practitioner’s view of ...
( Category: Buddhism January 29,2015 )
Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
epub |eng | 2015-01-18 | Author:Marie Mutsuki Mockett [Mockett, Marie Mutsuki]

ELEVEN WHERE THE DEAD GO ACCORDING TO THE JAPANESE, when children die, their souls gather on a riverbank called Sai no Kawara. In the Pure Land sect of Buddhism, it’s ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
Seminary Boy by Cornwell John
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cornwell, John [John Cornwell]

60 THERE WAS, as it happened, a perennial and licit distraction that stirred the emotions of many boys at Cotton. As the autumn days shortened an elite set of rugby-football ...
( Category: Religious January 29,2015 )
Called to Controversy by Ruth Rosen
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Ruth Rosen

* Mama Cohen’s “Easy Brisket” recipe eventually turned up in the Jews for Jesus Family Cookbook, available through Purple Pomegranate Productions, http://store.jewsforjesus.org/. * The caveat, “I guess I should have ...
( Category: Missions & Missionary Work January 29,2015 )
Raising A Soul Surfer by Cheri Hamilton & Rick Bundschuh
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Cheri Hamilton & Rick Bundschuh

The church we were a part of began to grow as new people became believers and we all grew into spiritually healthy families together. God’s Word became the backbone of ...
( Category: Religious January 29,2015 )
The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson
epub |eng | 2010-01-28 | Author:G. Willow Wilson

Arabic Lessons Al qitu cat’u, al far rat’u, al nahr river’u. —early twentieth-century Arabic-English teaching song AS MY CONFIDENCE INCREASED, I BEGAN TO ASK FOR THE things I needed and ...
( Category: Religious January 29,2015 )
Strange Glory by Charles Marsh
epub |eng | 2014-04-28 | Author:Charles Marsh [Marsh, Charles]

When, two years earlier, in June of 1935, Barth had been removed from his post at the University of Bonn, he’d lashed out not only at Hitler but also against ...
( Category: Religious January 29,2015 )

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