Books

For over six centuries, The Imitation of Christ has been the most beloved book of devotional literature, second only to the Bible as a pathway to e...

From the snake in the Garden of Eden to the lost sheep in Luke’s parable, stories about fish and birds, rams and goats abound. We read about them, ...

A new, but ancient, way to pray can turn your life around. Discover how to experience God’s love at your core, freeing you to love others, and even...

From beloved spiritual writer and Catholic leader Gregory Floyd comes a moving meditation on the power of memory and how God is often more clearly ...

What is the foundation of work that lasts?  As Christians in a hypermobile culture, most of the time we talk about going and doing, about the need ...

Franciscan Lectio is for all those on a spiritual journey who long to see the world more beautifully and deeply and become more attentive and prese...

For over a thousand years, Benedictine monks around the world have followed the daily pattern of morning, noon, and evening prayer known as the Lit...

For most religious people, the words God and sex never go together.   God is conceived of as holy, pure, sexless, and as morally above the raw desi...

This book is a collection of some of the more famous and not so famous stories about animals in the Bible, the lives of Catholic saints, and instan...

A love letter to a community of Trappist monks who provided family when it was needed the most.  This warmhearted memoir describes how a small, ins...

The poems in Flying Yellow cry out for the day just out of reach, the day which unaccountably may in a moment or a season let down a joyful light i...

A companion book for anyone celebrating the season of Easter, with prayers and practices from a variety of denominations and traditions. Sections i...

A view from Nazareth for the future of Christianity.​ In our deeply troubled times, a message of hope comes from the tiny village of Nazareth . . ....

A companion book for anyone observing the Christian season of Lent, with prayers and practices from a variety of denominations and traditions. Begi...

 The most ancient form of prayer is probably petition. Scot McKnight has set out to understand this better, and guide pray-ers and churches to rein...

How much time is enough to be with God? While it could be the 40 days or years used so often in the Bible, it’s also possible that simply stealing ...

The Church of the Transfiguration is a contemporary expression of fourth-century basilican architecture. The more than 200 photographs in this boo...

The Life of Christ As It’s Never Been Told BeforeEvery scene, in wondrous prose, comes to life anew in this powerful book.How might a literary arti...

"Before Margaret met the Pope, she lived on the streets of Rome. She was a small cat in one of the busiest, most crowded, cities in all Europe. Rom...

"In The Fidelity of Betrayal, Peter Rollins has teased out—as Bonhoeffer never had the chance to do—profound possibilities hidden in the phrase. As...

In her memoir, Flunking Sainthood, Riess failed twelve different spiritual practices over the course of a year but discovered to her surprise that ...

One of America's finest living poets has breathed new life into the early Christian mystics. From Saint Paul to Julian of Norwich, the original tex...

Winner of the 2020 Paraclete Poetry Prize, Litany of Flights is a luminous examination of the journey of the soul, from moments of loss to moments ...

In this collection, poet Sarah Law presents lucid, lyrical reflections on the much-loved saint, Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-97), whose life and writin...