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 ...

A 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...

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...

The 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 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...

A 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 ...

We 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.

Deep 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...

Ask 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...

Facing 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...

An 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'...

You 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...

Dyer 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...

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...

No 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...

Dr. 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...

An 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...

Bart 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...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis here invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his ...

A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of me...

Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the perennial best seller The Five Love Languages, provides an easytograsp framework to help couples understand their marriage and seven practical strategies for strengthening or improving their marriage re...

The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. ...

What I propose to do in this book is to take you on a guided exploration of the Catholic world, but not in the manner of a docent, for I am not interested in showing you the artifacts of Catholicism as though they were dusty objets d ...

n this concise introduction to Calvin's life and thought, Elwood offers an insightful and accessible overview of Calvin's key teachings within his historical context. The trials and travails Calvin encountered as he ministered and tau...