Barbara Brown Taylor, once hailed as one of America's most effective and beloved preachers, eloquently tells the moving and delightful story of her search to find an authentic way of being Christian-even when it meant giving up her pulpit. The eBook includes a special excerpt from Barbara Brown Taylor's Learning to Walk in the Dark.

"To belong helps me to believe. We are all messy and miraculous, at the same time. Church scrapes us up against each other. It skins our knees. It wounds and then it heals. We are supposed to love each other all the time, and I don't think it ever stops being hard. We are people with ragged edges. And because we are in community with each other, pointed in the same general direction toward God, gathering, worshiping, praying, and eating at all those...

This is the luminous personal story of a great man of God, written by his wife -- a moving record of an inspired ministry and a warm, truly happy marriage. - Jacket. Reliving and recording parts of the life that Peter and I shared has been a joyous task. The presence of Christ has shed glory on even the hard-to-bear parts of it. I hope that you will enjoy it, and that by the time you have come to the last page, you will know that if God can do so...

The popular minster and author of "The Power of Positive Thinking" recalls his eventful life and the individuals, including his own family, who influenced his ministry and his thinking.

"Exploring the enduring influence of John Stott's views on the Christian life, this book will encourage a new generation of evangelical Christians to benefit from Stott's life and teaching"--

Recounts the life and career of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.

"With more than four decades of firsthand experience reporting from Vatican City, David Willey explores the religious and personal background of Pope Francis and his ability to fulfill the promises of reform made during the first two years of his papacy"--

The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world's religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations. Barbara Brown Taylor continues her spiritual journey begun in Leaving Church of finding out what the world looks like after taking...

Spiritual Street Fighter. Radical Educator. Christian Entrepreneur. The late Reverend Jerry Falwell was a controversial and divisive religious and political figure whose legacy will long outlive him. Falwell Inc. is the first close examination of how he built his conservative empire, from the inner workings of the fund-raising juggernauts behind his church, university, and conservative causes, to the explosive growth of Liberty University, founded...

The author describes the devastating impact of his father's alcoholism and suicide on his personal life as husband, father, writer, and minister.