Biography & Autobiography : Religious

This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, .. more...

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In this frank, funny, and often challenging memoir about life in and out of the church, twenty-something Patton Dodd reveals his quest for an authentic experience of God. On his journey he attempts to pinpoint and justify his belief in God, first with the fervent absolutes that characterize a new believer’s faith but then with a growing awareness of the cultural complexities that define his faith and encompass his understanding of Christianity. more...

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The author of the bestselling Joshua series and other popular inspirational books chronicles his own spiritual journey and describes with stunning honesty the difficult decisions he made along the way. Joseph Girzone has attracted a tremendous following with his series of novels that imagine Jesus living in the contemporary world. more...

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Pontius Pilate arrived in Judaea in the year 26, sent to collect taxes and oversee the firm establishment of Roman law. His ten-year term was a time of relative peace in this fractious new outpost of the Roman Empire, where violence was not uncommon. He was not loved and not quite feared, and might have vanished into obscurity had he not come to preside, with some reluctance, over the most famous trial in history. more...

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An NPR commentator’s story of an unlikely epiphany and the healing power of faith. After years of sleeping around, working as a waitress, and suffering booze-induced blackouts, Heather King. settled into sobriety, marriage, and a financially lucrative but unfulfilling career in a Beverly Hills law firm. As. someone who had reached middle age “never believing in much of anything,” she found herself in the last. place she thought she’d end up: the Catholic church. Redeemed describes the steps of King’s journey—from finding herself holed up on the couch reading. Hermits of the World (and then wondering why she and her husband weren’t having sex) to dealing. with the breast cancer that brought her face-to-face with the Virgin Mary. With the death of her father and. the devastation of divorce, she connects with Jesus Christ: “A guy who hung out with lepers, paralytics, the. possessed: this is someone I can trust.”. This is a profound, fervent, darkly funny tale of an ongoing conversion by a Catholic who, however devout, is. about as far from saintlike as can be imagined. Fans of Lauren Winners’s Girl Meets God and Anne. Lamott’s writings will be drawn to King’s refreshing sense of humor, mesmerizing voice, and piercing. honesty. more...

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