General Biography

For decades, his family rescued lost and forgotten donkeys in the Irish countryside. He had no idea that one day, the donkeys would rescue him. Pat...

At the age of forty-five, unfit and overweight, Clark Berge, a professed Franciscan friar, took up running. In his younger life he had struggled wi...

Robert Lewis Dabney (1820–1898) was a Presbyterian theologian and educator who served on the faculties of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, t...

A raccoon bite on the arm doesn’t seem that serious, but it soon becomes a life-or-death medical crisis for Melissa Loomis. After days of treatment...

Frederick Buechner is one of the most gifted writers of his generation, and his legacy casts a long shadow over Christian letters today. As a memoi...

Who were the Puritans, and why are they important? What can we learn from them today? The Puritan movement began in England during the sixteenth ce...

One of the world's most influential religious leaders, Luis Palau, shares his legacy message and spiritual memoir for the first time. Tracing his f...

Stephen Derbyshire's life was spiralling out of control. Unable to break free from addiction, he was being enveloped by a suffocating blackness th...

A guided tour of spiritual autobiography that grants readers new insights and appreciation of the genre The genre of spiritual autobiography has f...

That the life story of this servant of Christ should be chronicled for others was inevitable, for there is so much in that life. Equally certain, t...

How Jesus made himself known to an insignificant Jewish family living in London. Principally the story of my 50-something mother who discovered her...

Martin Luther (1483-1546) contributed so much to the development of Western civilization that it is not overstatement to declare that he changed th...

The compelling and humorous story of a man born with no arms and his quest to be proved normal in an abnormal world! Brian Gault is one of the 450...

Barbara Brown Taylor is one of America's most renowned and beloved spiritual writers and author of the acclaimed An Altar in the World. Here she re...

A powerful, heartbreaking, and redemptive account of a boy who endured a childhood of poverty and abuse in an American Southwest trailer park named...

In this seminal work on the declining vocabulary of faith in America one of this generation's most prolific and respected religion writers breathes...

As a child, Tenzin Lahkpa (pseudonym) was forced to join a Buddhist monastery, where he suffered beatings and abuse. Even so, he grew to up to be a...

From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the Firs...

This brief historical introduction to Josephine Butler explores the social, political and religious factors that formed the original context of her...

John Wimber (1934–1997) has been called one of the most important and controversial figures in North American evangelicalism in the twentieth centu...

Boyce founded the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and was a prominent Southern Baptist figure. Nettles focuses on Boyce’s struggle to establi...

The amazing life story of Hudson Taylor explores the challenges of one man's life in Christ. Driven by a deep concern for those without Jesus, an...

As a child, Petr Jasek (Yash-eck) watched Soviet tanks roll through the streets of his village in Czechoslovakia, taking the country by force and s...

‘The sounds of heavy gunfire ripped the air apart. Each new volley of shots made me jump…“Get the children to safety!” someone yelled.’ When Liz Pa...

The True Crime Biography of John Lawson, born in Scotland and raised in South Africa until the age of ten, where his policeman father locked him ho...

'A leading new voice on racial justice' LAYLA SAAD, author of ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY A REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK * THE NEW YORK...

On April 3, 1996, a team of FBI agents closed in on an isolated cabin in remote Montana, marking the end of the longest and most expensive investig...

In the late summer of 1969, the nation was transfixed by a series of gruesome murders in the hills of Los Angeles. Newspapers and television progra...

​Henry Beeching (1859–1919), Dean of Norwich, was the quintessential Man of Letters. Many of the most celebrated scholars, poets and clergy of the ...

In this comprehensive work, which follows the lives of the sixty-nine bishops who served under Henry VIII, Dr Chibi not only asks why the Henrician...

Zac’s Place is a church in Swansea. It is a small chaotic community of Jesus followers where the most fragile of life’s walking wounded try to work...

She was going to be the fourth wife of a famous Muslim, but God had other plans for Rita C. Joy Vincent. Plans that took her into a white garment c...

Proclaim His greatness, let the whole world know what He has done.” 1 Chronicles 16:8 (NLT) The second Palestinian Intifada which started in 2000 ...

Rosemary was born at the end of the Second World War. She grew up in a poor family in Clitheroe, struggling for survival in the era of ration books...

'On the day that Mahatma Gandhi was killed, I arrived in Delhi just an hour and a quarter before the tragedy ... the greatest tragedy since the Son...

The works of German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, published in the early 1800s, deeply influenced subsequent European thought. In the secular sphere,...

While washing dishes God spoke softly to me: ,You will go to East Timor.' At that time I had no idea where that was on the map. And besides, it sou...