Based on ancient documents found in France around the turn of the century, HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL confronts and challenges traditional Christian beliefs. The authors’ alternative view of Christian history asserts that Jesus may ...
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, ...
Lawrence WrightA clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal inter...
James Martin has led a thoroughly modern life: from a lukewarm childhood Catholicism, to the Wharton School of Business, to the executive fast track at General Electric, to the Jesuits, to a media career in Manhattan. But at every ste...
Pagels, a noted authority of religion, examines what impact Gnosticism could have had on Christianity had it not been labelled heretical by the early church fathers. THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS offers up insights from this obscure branch of C...
Writing About the Amish: A Memoir
Beth WisemanWHY DOES EVERY BETH WISEMAN BOOK INCLUDE A RED SUITCASE?\n\nThis is one of the many questions answered by a bestselling and award-winning author who has sold over two million books. Beth has penned more than forty books about the Plai...
It's Not About Me Personal Guidebook
Max LucadoTo find our place in the world, we need a clear path that helps us move away from a life that doesn't make us happy to the one that genuinely does--the God-centered life. This guidebook is carefully designed to provide that step-by-st...
Whose side is Jesus really on? Whose views do his teachings support? Should we aspire to be 'Christlike'--meaning homeless, subversive, scandalous, in constant danger of being kidnapped or arrested, and keeping company with the less-t...
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas an...
Elaine PagelsThe two leading, bestselling experts on the Gnostic Gospels weigh in on the meaning of the controversial newly discovered Gospel of Judas. When the Gospel of Judas was published by the National Geographic Society in April 2006, it ...
Sharing from his own life, as well as the stories of others, Chuck Colson exposes the counterfeits of the good life and leads readers to the only true source of meaning and purpose, Jesus Christ. But he does that in an unusual way, al...
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism...
Jeff SharletThey insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congressmen of both parties describe them as the most influential religious organizat...
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of T...
Elaine PagelsThe award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels provides an intriguing analysis of the early origins of Christianity, based on the teachings from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, exploring the faith of the early Christians and offering r...
John Paul the Great: Remembering a Sp...
Peggy NoonanA portrait of Pope John Paul II recounts his struggles against Nazism, communism, and scandal and describes his written works, his survival of an assassination attempt, and his lasting influence on both world history and the Catholic ...
A Calvinist's Honest Doubts: Resolved...
Hunt DaveWe don't really know much about Calvinism,' my dinner companions confessed. 'But is was a strange experience. On the one hand, we had the impression that these people felt certain they were the elect. Yet there also seemed to be some ...
Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt. These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate vision of Christianity.
From Eternity to Here: Rediscovering ...
Frank ViolaDeep within God's Word lies a wondrous story like no other. A drama that originated before time began. An epic saga that resonates with the heartbeat of God. A story that reveals nothing less than the meaning of life. From Eternity to...
In his classic book, Lewis describes the four basic kinds of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. This BBC recording--the only commercial recording of Lewis available today--features a new audio Introdu...
Home Court Advantage: Preparing Your ...
Kevin LemanAsk today's parents how they spend their time, and they're likely to say, 'Working and driving the kids to their activities.' The modern reality is that well-meaning parents are working long hours and then signing their kids up for ev...
Fifteen hundred years ago, St. Benedict established a system of ora et labora - prayer and work - that monastics still follow today. Central to this prayerful integration of body and spirit is psalmody, or chanting the psalms. On Sing...
Feathers from My Nest: A Mother's Ref...
Beth MooreFacing the metaphorical empty nest, Beth Moore writes, 'The first morning I awakened to a house with no children, my home was quiet, but to my surprise it wasn't empty. Suddenly it felt full. Full of memories. Full of anticipation. Fu...
These Beautiful Bones: An Everyday Th...
Emily StimpsonIt was Blessed John Paul II's greatest gift to the Church: The theology of the body. A window into who we are, the theology of the body is a theology for the rooms where we make love. But it s also a theology for the rooms where we wo...
C.S. Lewis: The Signature Classics Au...
C. S. LewisAn unabridged collection of some of C. S. Lewis's finest religious and philosophical works--including The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, and Mere Christianity--is accompanied by a new edition of the author'...
Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An In...
David GregoryYou are Invited to a Dinner with Jesus of NazarethThe mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky’s desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already ea...
There's A Spiritual Solution to Every...
Wayne W. DyerDyer helps readers first to understand his spiritual approach to problem solving and then to apply those methods to practical issues, in this accessible, personal guidebook. First, he explains how the wisdom of Patanjali helped him to...
The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions ...
Andy AndrewsInspirational comedian Andy Andrews turns to fiction in this tale of a man named David Ponder, who time-travels after a car crash and is able to meet seven figures from history (including Anne Frank, Christopher Columbus, and the Ange...
Arguing that Jesus subscribed to no political program in spite of the claims of politicians who cite Christ as an ethical teacher who endorses their views, the author of Papal Sin draws on the gospel to explain Jesus's radical views a...
How the Catholic Church Built Western...
Thomas E. WoodsNo institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church and in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. This book by best-selling author and professor Thomas E. Woods is ess...
We hear the voices of the early Church Fathers even today. Their teachings, their guidance, their insights, and their sacrifice shaped the Catholic Church. They defined the canon of Scripture. They developed our creeds and forms of wo...
Love Is a Verb: Stories of What Happe...
Gary ChapmanDr. Gary Chapman has spent his life helping people communicate love more effectively and in turn build more satisfying and lasting relationships. His book The Five Love Languages is a regular on the New York Times Best Sellers list--e...
Cracking the Communication Code: The ...
Emerson EggerichsAn in-depth study of the vital principles from the best-selling Cracking the Communication Code now in workbook form. Communication between couples has been dissected in thousands of books and articles, so why does it remain the numb...
Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene: The F...
Bart D. EhrmanBart Ehrman, author of the bestsellers Misquoting Jesus and Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code, here takes readers on another engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of three of Jesus' most intriguing f...