Spiritual Memoirs

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...

A coming-of-age travel memoir that probes thorny spiritual questions while taking the reader on a wild ride from the deep American South to the Mid...

You’ve checked all the boxes. You’ve followed all the rules.   But something has still gone terribly wrong.   This is where Wendi Nunnery—Jesus fol...

“A stunner...every sentence is a feast for the senses.” —Rachel Held Evans When you have an experience and tell the story of that experience to som...

Most people likely know of Mother Teresa’s great faithfulness to God’s call as she started her ministry to the poor in Calcutta. But at the time, f...

This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the...

If you have not read Heather King before, her honesty may shock you. In this remarkable memoir, you will see how a convert with a checkered past ...

Phyllis Tickle has had a significant impact on the religious landscape in America over her 50-year career. As a college dean, a publishing gadfly, ...

After her conversion from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity, Lauren Winner found that her life was indelibly marked by the rich traditions and spiri...

Indelibly marked by the rich traditions and spiritual practices of Judaism, a convert from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity explores eleven Jewish ...

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

“It's not just that Jesus was a Jew, Jesus still is a Jew. Engaging Jewish practice and tradition is one important way of overcoming the gaps that...

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