Non-Fiction

The award of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama has focused the attention of the free world on the Chinese oppression of the Tibetans in their homeland....

C. S. Lewis here offers wisdom and lessons that illuminate our private dialogue with God-prayer-in this collection drawn from the breadth of his writings. The revered teacher and bestselling author...

This anthology of Christian readings provides a diary of readings drawn from the mainstream of Christian thought. It is intended that each of the 365 passages should serve as the...

When we talk about the connection between art and religion, the most basic similarity is clarity of vision. Art teaches us how to see what is, rather than what is...

Fr Kevin Scallon's book, I Will Come Myself, is a beautiful illustration of the priesthood, allowing us to see the humanity of man combined with the divinity of the Saviour....

This is a collection of texts on prayer, taken from Greek and Russian sources. The spiritual teaching of the Orthodox Church appears here in its classic and traditional form, but...

Benedict XVI's retirement made news around the world, and changed the dynamics of the Catholic Church. The new pope, Francis I, has already brought a breath of fresh air into...

These 66 poems, here in English and Yiddish on facing pages, were collected in the first book Abraham Joshua Heschel ever published. They appeared in Warsaw in 1933 when Heschel...

Writing for people of every religious allegiance, John Kelly gives concise accounts not only of all the officially recognized popes from St Peter to John Paul 11, but also of...

A collection of services and liturgies covering a range of pastoral situations from birth to death. Each of the eleven liturgies contains appropriate reflections and songs to comfort those affected...

God has a plan for your life. Don't let Satan steal it.Despite our best efforts, many of us struggle with the same sins time and again, leaving us feeling hopeless...

During his life Jesus did not view himself as divine, nor did his disciples. In THE CHANGING FACES OF JESUS the great scholar Vermes works back through successively earlier accounts...

In The Authentic Gospel of Jesus, renowned biblical scholar Geza Vermes distils a lifetime's knowledge to examine every saying attributed to Jesus and return to the true teachings of the...

The late 20th century saw the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon, culminating in a devastating onslaught in the West in 2001: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early...

The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle....

Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings...

The Rule of Taize was written by Brother Roger, its founder, during the winter of 1952-3. His intention was to express for the young men who had committed themselves to...

'For far too long the word evangelism has been a dirty word in the life of the Church. We have talked mission, we have talked service and we have talked...

Dear God, Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother. Dear God, Who draws the lines...

Spoken worship ... is poetry of the soul, reaching out to the soul's greatest lover. Where deep calls to deep, spoken worship heeds the call. Spoken Worship is written with...

According to legend the Ark of the Covenant was an ornate golden chest that was both a means of communicating with God and a terrible weapon used against the enemies...

Great Stories of the Bible is a six book treasury of level 2 Adventure Bible I Can Read titles designed for newly independent readers and based on the Adventure Bible-the...

In this second book in her series on Benedictine spirituality, Norvene Vest brings the insights of Benedict's Rule to the world of work. A gifted interpreter of Benedict's wisdom, Vest...

Mary Magdalene might be the most understood person in the story of Jesus. Yet, Mary was also the first person to whom Jesus appeared after his resurrection. It was Mary...