25 Books Every Christian Should Read: A Guide to the Essential Spiritual Classics
10 best books like 25 Books Every Christian Should Read: A Guide to the Essential Spiritual Classics (Renovare): The Rule of Saint Benedict, If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood, Lost and Wanted, The Secret of the Swamp King, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, The Newlyweds, The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why, Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
The Rule of Saint Benedict
Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Benedict has for centuries been the guide of religious communities. St. Benedict's rules of obedience, humility, and contemplation are not only prerequisites for formal religious societies, they also...
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors.
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons,...
| Author | Nell Freudenberger |
| ISBN | 0385352689 |
'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently.'
Helen Clapp is a physics professor. She doesn't believe in pseudo-science, or time travel and especially not in ghosts. So when she gets a missed call from Charlie, her closest friend from university...
| Author | Jonathan Rogers |
| ISBN | 0805431322 |
As book two opens, Aidan is living in the court of King Darrow. He has become best friends with Darrow's son Steren, and he enjoys great favor among the courtiers. But King Darrow's suspicion is growing and his insecurity causes him to hate the young man who saved his kingdom. Concerned about his king's...
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 0061853984 |
“Some books provide us with information about the world, but every once in a while a book appears that enables us to imagine new, more wonderful worlds. [A New Kind of Christianity] is one of these.” —Peter Rollins, Ikon
A New Kind of Christianity is Brian D. McLaren’s much anticipated...
| Author | Daniel Ladinsky |
| ISBN | 0142196126 |
Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz
In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his gifted and bestselling interpretations of the great...
| Author | Nell Freudenberger |
| ISBN | 0307268845 |
A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals.
A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and...
| Author | Phyllis A. Tickle |
| ISBN | 1596445750 |
From the church's birth to the reign of St. Gregory the great, to the Great Schism and through the Reformation, Phyllis Tickle notes that every 500 years the church has been rocked by massive transitions. Remarkably enough, Tickle suggests to us that we live in such a time right now. The Great Emergence...
Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1616367016 |
Francis of Assisi is one of the most beloved of all saints. Both traditional and entirely revolutionary, he was a paradox. He was at once down to earth and reaching toward heaven, grounded in the rich history of the Church while moving toward a new understanding of the world beyond.
Globally...
The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, catapulted Henri Nouwen into a long spiritual adventure. In his highly-acclaimed book of the same title, he shares the deeply personal meditation that led him to discover the place within which God has...
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
| Author | John Bunyan |
| ISBN | 1406822949 |
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners is one of the great classic autobiographies, part of the Christian tradition of testimony from The Confessions of St. Augustine to Corrie Ten Boom's The Hiding Place. In Grace Abounding, John Bunyan (1628?1688), the author of Pilgrim's Progress, describes...
