Debra Maria Flint and Paul Murphy-Sanderson deserve credit for addressing a painful and long-neglected subject within Roman Catholicism in their book, The Sins of Mandatory Celibacy. Anyone who reads Murphy-Sanderson's testimony will sense that this was not an easy book to write. It gives voice...

The Parchment Burns, The Letters Rise: One God, One Lord, One Life examines the Shema as a declaration that refuses to separate belief from obedience. Robert John Popoff argues that Scripture presents hearing God as an act proven through the shape of a person’s life,...

The Hallway Miracle by Cara Shine is a memoir about transformation in the midst of chaos. After the horrifying experience of the September 11 attacks, Cara and her family had to face the terror of the 2002 Beltway Sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area....

What if the major world religions didn't exist today? What if Adam and Eve had a deep discussion about the nature of God, ethics, morality, and religion? That is exactly what happens in Aaron Wilkosz's The Modern Universal Faith. Adam and Eve have advanced degrees,...

Laura Ingalls Wilder once wrote, “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all,” a sentiment that gently weaves its way through The Diaries of a Teenage Pilgrim: The Early Journey by Lydia...

Sometimes in life, we feel like we're all alone. Problems seem so big that we start to think there's no way out. However, in adversity, we can be sure that God is always taking care of us. He puts obstacles in our way so our...

The Science and Spirit of Joy sets out to connect two ways of talking about happiness. John Stanczak first defines positive psychology as a research field that studies the conditions that support well-being, talking about how it took shape through people like Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi....

The Left Hand of the Biblical Gods by Carlton Morris argues that the Bible, read through the King James text, records a history of extraterrestrial intervention and lineage management, not universal theology. Morris says that Genesis separates an unknowable creator of physical law from the...

In her memoir The Hurricane Within: Beyond the Storm, Ashlee Leppert recounts her early life in Sterling Heights, Michigan, encompassing friendships, love, and loss. It is this loss that prompted her questions of faith, and to explore Christianity through conversations with a coworker. Leppert talks...

Through the Lens of an Ancient Yisra’elite Bible Study by Benjamin Nieves Carrasquillo Jr. presents biblical interpretation through historical, linguistic, and cultural analysis, emphasizing the distinction between hermeneutics, exegesis, and eisegesis. He traces Christianity’s evolution from Yahusha and Pharisaic Judaism, considering the influence of Roman...