The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution
10 best books like The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution (John L. Allen Jr.): My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness, With God in Russia, Beyond Bin Laden: America and the Future of Terror, Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day, Angel Girl, The Inklings of Oxford: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their Friends, The Old Testament, The Price to Pay: A Muslim Risks All to Follow Christ, A Soldier Surrenders: The Conversion Story of Saint Camillus De Lellis, Good God, Lousy World, and Me: The Improbable Journey of a Human Rights Activist from Unbelief to Faith
My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
| Author | Howard Jones |
| ISBN | 0195393600 |
During the summer of 1971, in the midst of protests and demonstrations in the United States against the Vietnam War, it became evident that something horrific had happened in the remote South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. Three years previously, in March 1968, a unit of American soldiers engaged in seemingly...
| Author | Walter J. Ciszek |
| ISBN | 0898705746 |
By Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J. Father Walter Ciszek, S.J., author of the best-selling He Leadeth Me, tells here the gripping, astounding story of his twenty-three years in Russian prison camps in Siberia, how he was falsely imprisoned as an "American spy", the incredible rigors of daily life as a prisoner,...
| Author | Jon Meacham |
| ISBN | 0679644490 |
Osama bin Laden was the most wanted man in American history—an enemy who brought the United States what President George W. Bush called “a day of fire,” and ushered in a new era of terrorism. It took a decade of blood and sacrifice, of determination and frustration, but finally, in a nighttime raid...
| Author | David Steindl-Rast |
| ISBN | 1569752974 |
Read this little book in preparation for and on a Quiet Retreat. It was a helpful overview of the monastic hours of the day and the gifts each hour brings. A great book to read to help re-cover a sense of the rhythms of our days and years.
I particularly like the chapter on the hour of Prime in that it...
| Author | Laurie B. Friedman |
| ISBN | 0822587394 |
EDIT on 12/28: I changed this from 5 to 3 stars given that the 5 star rating was based partially on the assumption that this was a true story and some of it was also based on the post story "non-fction" material. It might be a 4 star book for me, even as a fictional book, but I read it as non-fiction (which I just...
| Author | Harry Lee Poe |
| ISBN | 0310285038 |
Oxford s fabled streets echo with the names of such key figures in English history as Edmund Halley, John Wycliffe, and John and Charles Wesley. Of more recent times are those of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the other members of the renowned literary circle to which they belonged, the Inklings. What...
| Author | Amy-Jill Levine |
| ISBN | 1565853652 |
Course Lecture Titles
1. In the Beginning
2. Adam and Eve
3. Murder, Flood, Dispersion
4. Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar
5. Isaac
6. The Jacob Saga
7. Folklore Analysis and Type Scenes
8. Moses and Exodus
9. The God of Israel
10. Covenant and Law, Part I
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| Author | Joseph Fadelle |
| ISBN | 1586175998 |
During his military service, Muhammad, a young Muslim Iraqi from a leading Shiite family, discovers to his dismay that his roommate is a Christian. Muhammad tries to convert his roommate, but he is the one who is converted. In Islam changing one's religion is a crime, and Muhammad's family does everything...
A Soldier Surrenders: The Conversion Story of Saint Camillus De Lellis
| Author | Susan Peek |
| ISBN | 1586171186 |
A dramatic and powerful story of a great sinner who became a great saint, similar to the famous conversion stories and lives of St. Augustine, St. Paul, and St. Mary Magdalene. St. Camillus is a man that anyone can relate to and be inspired by, a moving story that will appeal to people of all walks of life...
| Author | Holly Burkhalter |
| ISBN | 1601425082 |
“In this extraordinary memoir of grace, one of the foremost human rights advocates of the last half century shares her brutally and hilariously honest story of finding God on one of the most unlikely, irreverent, and utterly beautiful pilgrimages through life as it actually is.”
—Gary...
| Author | Benedict XVI |
| ISBN | 1592764401 |
I've just finished this and already I am ready to begin it again ... except for the fact that now I have so many other excellent and learned men I want to read. Where to begin?
Pope Benedict's book is a fine introduction to the Church Fathers, but it is only that, an introduction. He barely scratches...
| Author | Takashi Nagai |
| ISBN | 4770018452 |
‘Yes, we were a defeated army in retreat, but even so we were still the faculty of a university. We were dedicated to the truth. We were determined to come to the assistance of the needy, using all our resources. In the heat and the din, searching for the wounded, it was still the pursuit of truth that gave...
Autobiography of a Hunted Priest
| Author | John Gerard |
| ISBN | 1586174509 |
Truth is stranger than fiction. And nowhere in literature is it so apparent as in this classic work, "The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest." This autobiography of a Jesuit priest in Elizabethan England is a most remarkable document and John Gerard, its author, a most remarkable priest in a time when...
The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria
| Author | John W. Kiser |
| ISBN | 0312302940 |
The inspiration for the major motion picture "Of Gods and Men"
In the spring of 1996 armed men broke into a Trappist monastery in war-torn Algeria and took seven monks hostage, pawns in a murky negotiation to free imprisoned terrorists. Two months later their severed heads were found in a tree;...
| Author | Dale Ahlquist |
| ISBN | 0898708575 |
The English author G.K. Chesterton was one of the most well-known and beloved writers of his time. Yet he has been strangely neglected today. Dale Ahlquist's television series, The Apostle of Common Sense, introduced Chesterton to a new generation, and re-introduced him to a generation that had forgotten...
The Historical David: The Real Life of an Invented Hero
| Author | Joel S. Baden |
| ISBN | 0062188313 |
David is one of the most celebrated characters in the Bible. We know him as the brave young man who defeated Goliath, the first king of a united Israel, the composer of the beloved Psalms, and, for Christians, the messianic forerunner to Jesus. And yet for all the glory we attribute to David's legend, the...
| Author | Simone Troisi |
| ISBN | 1622823052 |
Do you believe that books ‘find’ us, or that we are supposed to read certain books? Recently I encountered two recommendations for this book which were so compelling I felt this book was calling to me. Yesterday after downloading it to my Kindle and finishing it in a marathon session, it would seem...
| Author | Michael Coren |
| ISBN | 0771023219 |
A practicing Catholic defends the faith and offers a passionate response to current anti-Catholic opinion.
In Why Catholics Are Right, author, columnist, and practicing Catholic Michael Coren examines four main aspects of Catholicism as they are encountered, understood, and more...
| Author | Shirley du Boulay |
| ISBN | 0974240524 |
This intelligent, balanced portrait of an irreverent, intense, and fiery Renaissance woman and her times includes moving excerpts from her letters and sublime spiritual writings. Her unconventional, progressive views on prayer and worship, her outstanding administrative and literary talents,...
| Author | Michael Grant |
| ISBN | 0760700885 |
The twelve Caesars of ancient Rome (Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus & Domitian) form a fabulous series. The themes of countless legends, these men were infamously depicted in Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars as strange...
| Author | Debbie Morris |
| ISBN | 0310231876 |
It was just another time of enjoying milkshakes and small talk. Neither Debbie Cuevas nor her boyfriend, Mark Brewster, gave much thought to the white pickup truck that had pulled up beside them on the riverfront. Until . . . a revolver thrust through the driver’s window . . . a hand jerked Debbie’s...
| Author | Francis J. "Bing" West Jr. |
| ISBN | 1400068738 |
America cannot afford to lose the war in Afghanistan, and yet Americans cannot win it. In this definitive account of the conflict, acclaimed war correspondent and bestselling author Bing West provides a practical way out. Drawing on his expertise as both a combat-hardened Marine and a former assistant...
| Author | Wes Davis |
| ISBN | 0307460134 |
The incredible true story of the World War II spies, including Patrick Leigh Fermor and John Pendlebury, who fought to save Crete and block Hitler's march to the East.
In the bleakest years of World War II, when it appeared that nothing could slow the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean...
