Modern Martyrs Books | Summaries & Audio

God's Hostage

by Andrew Brunson • 2019

An American pastor arrested as a spy. Twenty-two months as Turkey's hostage. One faith to break.

4.41

810

✝️ Christian Persecution 🌍 Missionary Memoirs 🔒 Political Imprisonment 💪 Spiritual Perseverance 🙏 Suffering And Faith

God's Hostage 89%

An American pastor arrested as a spy. Twenty-two months as Turkey's hostage. One faith to break.

by Andrew Brunson 2019

4.41

810 ratings

✝️ Christian Persecution 🌍 Missionary Memoirs 🔒 Political Imprisonment 💪 Spiritual Perseverance 🙏 Suffering And Faith

The Insanity of God

by Nik Ripken • 2012

He went to study the persecuted church and discovered his own faith was failing the test.

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🕊️ Persecuted Church 🌙 Dreams And Visions ✝️ Cost Of Discipleship 🌍 Global Christianity 🩸 Modern Martyrdom

The Insanity of God 89%

He went to study the persecuted church and discovered his own faith was failing the test.

by Nik Ripken 2012

4.56

12k+ ratings

🕊️ Persecuted Church 🌙 Dreams And Visions ✝️ Cost Of Discipleship 🌍 Global Christianity 🩸 Modern Martyrdom

In the Presence of My Enemies

by Gracia Burnham • 2003

Captured by Abu Sayyaf on their 18th anniversary, she survived 376 days. Her husband did not.

4.30

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🎒 Missionary Memoirs 🔗 Hostage Survival ✝️ Faith Under Persecution 🙏 Unanswered Prayer 📖 Theology Of Suffering

In the Presence of My Enemies 88%

Captured by Abu Sayyaf on their 18th anniversary, she survived 376 days. Her husband did not.

by Gracia Burnham 2003

4.30

8k+ ratings

🎒 Missionary Memoirs 🔗 Hostage Survival ✝️ Faith Under Persecution 🙏 Unanswered Prayer 📖 Theology Of Suffering

Dorothy Day

by Robert Coles • 1987

She called her church a scandal and spent sixty years feeding the poor in its name.

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✝️ Conversion Stories 🕊️ Christian Pacifism 🤲 Social Justice And Faith 🤝 Mutual Aid 😇 Modern Saints

Dorothy Day 88%

She called her church a scandal and spent sixty years feeding the poor in its name.

by Robert Coles 1987

4.15

338 ratings

✝️ Conversion Stories 🕊️ Christian Pacifism 🤲 Social Justice And Faith 🤝 Mutual Aid 😇 Modern Saints

Faith Under Fire

by Andrew White • 2011

The Christians who suffer most are often the most joyful. A Baghdad vicar explains why.

4.16

137

⛪ Middle East Christians ⛓️ Persecuted Church ✨ Miracles And Healing 🕊️ Faith In Suffering ☮️ Interfaith Peacemaking

Faith Under Fire 88%

The Christians who suffer most are often the most joyful. A Baghdad vicar explains why.

by Andrew White 2011

4.16

137 ratings

⛪ Middle East Christians ⛓️ Persecuted Church ✨ Miracles And Healing 🕊️ Faith In Suffering ☮️ Interfaith Peacemaking

Life, God, and Other Small Topics

by Eric Metaxas • 2011

A pacifist pastor joined the plot to kill Hitler. His theology explains why.

4.03

504

🏰 German History 📚 20th Century Theology ✊ Resistance To Tyranny 🕊️ Faith Under Persecution ⚖️ Ethics Of Pacifism

Life, God, and Other Small Topics Summary

Life, God, and Other Small Topics 88%

A pacifist pastor joined the plot to kill Hitler. His theology explains why.

by Eric Metaxas 2011

4.03

504 ratings

🏰 German History 📚 20th Century Theology ✊ Resistance To Tyranny 🕊️ Faith Under Persecution ⚖️ Ethics Of Pacifism

John Paul the Great

by Peggy Noonan • 2005

The most powerful thing about the world's most watched pope: not his rallies, but his tremors.

3.99

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🏛️ Modern Papacy 🙏 Prayer And Mysticism ✝️ Redemptive Suffering 💒 Sacred Sexuality ⚖️ Catholic Social Thought

John Paul the Great 88%

The most powerful thing about the world's most watched pope: not his rallies, but his tremors.

by Peggy Noonan 2005

3.99

751 ratings

🏛️ Modern Papacy 🙏 Prayer And Mysticism ✝️ Redemptive Suffering 💒 Sacred Sexuality ⚖️ Catholic Social Thought

Christus Vincit

by Athanasius Schneider • 2019

Modernism emptied the Church of the supernatural. One ancient gesture can bring it back.

4.69

504

🕊️ Catholic Traditionalism 🛐 Liturgical Restoration 🍞 Eucharistic Reverence 🌹 Fatima Prophecies ⚔️ Anti-Modernism

Christus Vincit 88%

Modernism emptied the Church of the supernatural. One ancient gesture can bring it back.

by Athanasius Schneider 2019

4.69

504 ratings

🕊️ Catholic Traditionalism 🛐 Liturgical Restoration 🍞 Eucharistic Reverence 🌹 Fatima Prophecies ⚔️ Anti-Modernism

Through the Gates of Splendor

by Elisabeth Elliot • 1957

Five missionaries fly into the jungle to befriend a tribe that has always met outsiders with spears.

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33k+

📖 Missionary Biography 🙏 Radical Forgiveness 🤝 First Contact 🌴 Amazon Jungle ✝️ Costly Obedience

Through the Gates of Splendor 88%

Five missionaries fly into the jungle to befriend a tribe that has always met outsiders with spears.

by Elisabeth Elliot 1957

4.37

33k+ ratings

📖 Missionary Biography 🙏 Radical Forgiveness 🤝 First Contact 🌴 Amazon Jungle ✝️ Costly Obedience

Knife

by Salman Rushdie • 2024

A knife onstage. One eye gone. Thirty-three years after the fatwa, he writes back.

3.98

29k+

🩹 Trauma Memoir ✍️ Literary Memoir 🗽 Free Speech 🎯 Writers Under Threat ⚔️ Religious Violence

Knife 88%

A knife onstage. One eye gone. Thirty-three years after the fatwa, he writes back.

by Salman Rushdie 2024

3.98

29k+ ratings

🩹 Trauma Memoir ✍️ Literary Memoir 🗽 Free Speech 🎯 Writers Under Threat ⚔️ Religious Violence

Song of the Nightingale

by Helen Berhane • 2009

Her captors beat her until the stick broke. She still refused to recant.

4.35

173

✝️ Christian Persecution 🔥 Faith Under Fire 🇪🇷 Eritrean History 🚪 Prison Memoirs 😢 Suffering And Faith

Song of the Nightingale 88%

Her captors beat her until the stick broke. She still refused to recant.

by Helen Berhane 2009

4.35

173 ratings

✝️ Christian Persecution 🔥 Faith Under Fire 🇪🇷 Eritrean History 🚪 Prison Memoirs 😢 Suffering And Faith

The Long Loneliness

by Dorothy Day • 1952

From bohemian journalist to Catholic radical: she fed the hungry while the church debated doctrine.

4.02

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✝️ Radical Catholicism ✊ Faith And Activism 🏘️ Intentional Community 🥖 Voluntary Poverty 🧑 Personalism

The Long Loneliness 87%

From bohemian journalist to Catholic radical: she fed the hungry while the church debated doctrine.

by Dorothy Day 1952

4.02

6k+ ratings

✝️ Radical Catholicism ✊ Faith And Activism 🏘️ Intentional Community 🥖 Voluntary Poverty 🧑 Personalism

Something Beautiful for God

by Malcolm Muggeridge • 1971

When a cynical journalist met Mother Teresa, he discovered that holiness photographs.

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😇 Catholic Saints 🌍 Missionary Work 🤲 Faith In Action ❤️ Person-Centered Service 🕊️ Radical Simplicity

Something Beautiful for God 87%

When a cynical journalist met Mother Teresa, he discovered that holiness photographs.

by Malcolm Muggeridge 1971

4.00

2k+ ratings

😇 Catholic Saints 🌍 Missionary Work 🤲 Faith In Action ❤️ Person-Centered Service 🕊️ Radical Simplicity

Shadow of the Almighty

by Elisabeth Elliot • 1958

His journals chart a course from Oregon to the killing sandbar of the Auca tribe.

4.22

11k+

🗺️ Missionary Biography 🕊️ Christian Martyrdom 🔥 Radical Discipleship 🌴 Unreached Tribes ✍️ Journal-Based Narrative

Shadow of the Almighty 87%

His journals chart a course from Oregon to the killing sandbar of the Auca tribe.

by Elisabeth Elliot 1958

4.22

11k+ ratings

🗺️ Missionary Biography 🕊️ Christian Martyrdom 🔥 Radical Discipleship 🌴 Unreached Tribes ✍️ Journal-Based Narrative

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

by Timothy J. Keller • 2013

A God who suffered too: that changes everything about how you walk through pain.

4.49

6k+

📖 Theodicy 🙏 Suffering And Faith 😢 Lament 📜 Reformed Theology 💔 Grief And Loss

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering Summary

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering 87%

A God who suffered too: that changes everything about how you walk through pain.

by Timothy J. Keller 2013

4.49

6k+ ratings

📖 Theodicy 🙏 Suffering And Faith 😢 Lament 📜 Reformed Theology 💔 Grief And Loss

The Desecration of Man

by Carl R. Trueman • 2026

Modern identity is built on desecration: transgressing limits once sacred to prove we are gods.

4.58

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🧑 Theological Anthropology ⛪ Cultural Christianity 🕰️ Modernity And Religion 💆 Expressive Individualism ❤️‍🔥 Sexual Revolution

The Desecration of Man 87%

Modern identity is built on desecration: transgressing limits once sacred to prove we are gods.

by Carl R. Trueman 2026

4.58

464 ratings

🧑 Theological Anthropology ⛪ Cultural Christianity 🕰️ Modernity And Religion 💆 Expressive Individualism ❤️‍🔥 Sexual Revolution

A Third Testament

by Malcolm Muggeridge • 1976

Seven lives across fifteen centuries that refused a world without God.

3.94

268

📖 Christian Thought 👤 Spiritual Biography 📚 Literary Theology 🔥 Prophetic Critique 🏙️ Modernity And Faith

A Third Testament 87%

Seven lives across fifteen centuries that refused a world without God.

by Malcolm Muggeridge 1976

3.94

268 ratings

📖 Christian Thought 👤 Spiritual Biography 📚 Literary Theology 🔥 Prophetic Critique 🏙️ Modernity And Faith

Silence and Beauty

by Makoto Fujimura • 2016

Japanese Christians trampled Christ's image to survive. The worn faces became his truest portrait.

4.16

805

✝️ Japanese Christianity 🎨 Christian Aesthetics 🤫 Hidden Faith 💔 Cultural Trauma 🌸 Beauty And Suffering

Silence and Beauty 87%

Japanese Christians trampled Christ's image to survive. The worn faces became his truest portrait.

by Makoto Fujimura 2016

4.16

805 ratings

✝️ Japanese Christianity 🎨 Christian Aesthetics 🤫 Hidden Faith 💔 Cultural Trauma 🌸 Beauty And Suffering

No Greater Love

by Mother Teresa • 1997

Radical love is a thousand tiny gestures. It starts at home, and anyone can do it.

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3k+

🙏 Catholic Spirituality ✝️ Christian Living 🫴 Voluntary Poverty 🍞 Serving The Poor 💀 Death With Dignity

No Greater Love 87%

Radical love is a thousand tiny gestures. It starts at home, and anyone can do it.

by Mother Teresa 1997

4.37

3k+ ratings

🙏 Catholic Spirituality ✝️ Christian Living 🫴 Voluntary Poverty 🍞 Serving The Poor 💀 Death With Dignity

A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography

by David Platt • 2015

The gospel has a position on abortion, trafficking, race, and marriage. Comfort is not it.

4.15

4k+

🌍 Cultural Engagement 👣 Costly Discipleship 🛡️ Pro-Life Advocacy ⛓️ Human Trafficking 💍 Sexual Ethics

A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography 87%

The gospel has a position on abortion, trafficking, race, and marriage. Comfort is not it.

by David Platt 2015

4.15

4k+ ratings

🌍 Cultural Engagement 👣 Costly Discipleship 🛡️ Pro-Life Advocacy ⛓️ Human Trafficking 💍 Sexual Ethics

Bonhoeffer

by Eric Metaxas • 2010

When the German church bowed to Hitler, one theologian chose the gallows over complicity.

4.21

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✝️ Christian Biography ⚔️ German Resistance 🏛️ Theology And Politics 🙏 Sacrificial Faith 🗺️ Nazi Germany

Bonhoeffer 87%

When the German church bowed to Hitler, one theologian chose the gallows over complicity.

by Eric Metaxas 2010

4.21

84k+ ratings

✝️ Christian Biography ⚔️ German Resistance 🏛️ Theology And Politics 🙏 Sacrificial Faith 🗺️ Nazi Germany

Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism; Considered in Their Fundamental Principles

by Juan Donoso Cortés • 1851

For a 19th-century diplomat, liberalism was an evasion and socialism a counterfeit religion.

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✝️ Catholic Political Thought 🏛️ Political Theology 👤 Theological Anthropology 🗳️ Critique Of Liberalism 🔨 Critique Of Socialism

Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism; Considered in Their Fundamental Principles Summary

Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism; Considered in Their Fundamental Principles 87%

For a 19th-century diplomat, liberalism was an evasion and socialism a counterfeit religion.

by Juan Donoso Cortés 1851

4.13

135 ratings

✝️ Catholic Political Thought 🏛️ Political Theology 👤 Theological Anthropology 🗳️ Critique Of Liberalism 🔨 Critique Of Socialism

My Sisters the Saints

by Colleen Carroll Campbell • 2012

Infertility, a father's dementia, a stalled career: the six women saints who walked her through.

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📖 Spiritual Memoir 🙏 Catholic Spirituality ✨ Communion Of Saints 🌊 Faith And Doubt 🌱 Infertility And Faith

My Sisters the Saints 87%

Infertility, a father's dementia, a stalled career: the six women saints who walked her through.

by Colleen Carroll Campbell 2012

4.35

4k+ ratings

📖 Spiritual Memoir 🙏 Catholic Spirituality ✨ Communion Of Saints 🌊 Faith And Doubt 🌱 Infertility And Faith

The End of Faith

by Sam Harris • 2004

Religious moderates make faith immune to criticism, and extremists exploit that immunity.

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📖 New Atheism 💥 Religious Violence 🔴 Islam And Modernity 🧭 Secular Ethics ⚖️ Faith Vs Reason

The End of Faith 87%

Religious moderates make faith immune to criticism, and extremists exploit that immunity.

by Sam Harris 2004

3.89

44k+ ratings

📖 New Atheism 💥 Religious Violence 🔴 Islam And Modernity 🧭 Secular Ethics ⚖️ Faith Vs Reason

Prisoner

by Jason Rezaian • 2019

544 days inside Iran's most feared prison. The crime: journalism. The lifeline: his wife.

3.88

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✋ Political Imprisonment 📰 International Journalism 🧱 Solitary Confinement 🌉 Cross-Cultural Identity 🤝 Hostage Diplomacy

Prisoner 87%

544 days inside Iran's most feared prison. The crime: journalism. The lifeline: his wife.

by Jason Rezaian 2019

3.88

2k+ ratings

✋ Political Imprisonment 📰 International Journalism 🧱 Solitary Confinement 🌉 Cross-Cultural Identity 🤝 Hostage Diplomacy

No Man Is an Island

by Thomas Merton • 1955

True selfhood means giving yourself away, not asserting yourself. Merton on the relational soul.

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🧘 Monastic Spirituality 🕯️ Contemplative Life 🫀 Interior Life 🪽 Spiritual Detachment 🧭 Conscience Formation

No Man Is an Island 87%

True selfhood means giving yourself away, not asserting yourself. Merton on the relational soul.

by Thomas Merton 1955

4.16

5k+ ratings

🧘 Monastic Spirituality 🕯️ Contemplative Life 🫀 Interior Life 🪽 Spiritual Detachment 🧭 Conscience Formation

Awake, Not Woke

by Noelle Mering • 2021

Woke ideology is a rival faith: it reduces the person to desire and injury alone.

4.30

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🧭 Political Theology 🏛️ Catholic Social Teaching ⚖️ Woke Critique 💍 Sexual Ethics 📜 Natural Law

Awake, Not Woke 87%

Woke ideology is a rival faith: it reduces the person to desire and injury alone.

by Noelle Mering 2021

4.30

676 ratings

🧭 Political Theology 🏛️ Catholic Social Teaching ⚖️ Woke Critique 💍 Sexual Ethics 📜 Natural Law

Holy Envy

by Barbara Brown Taylor • 2019

A Christian theology built on admiring other faiths, tested by students in the Bible Belt.

4.39

6k+

☸️ Interfaith Dialogue 📚 Comparative Religion 🕊️ Spiritual Memoir 🙏 Religious Humility ⛪ Progressive Christianity

Holy Envy 87%

A Christian theology built on admiring other faiths, tested by students in the Bible Belt.

by Barbara Brown Taylor 2019

4.39

6k+ ratings

☸️ Interfaith Dialogue 📚 Comparative Religion 🕊️ Spiritual Memoir 🙏 Religious Humility ⛪ Progressive Christianity

Seven Women

by Eric Metaxas • 2015

The seven women history admires had something in common that most accounts leave out.

4.18

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🕊️ Christian Biography 🙏 Heroines Of Faith 🔥 Faith Under Fire ⚖️ Christian Activism 📖 Vocation And Calling

Seven Women 87%

The seven women history admires had something in common that most accounts leave out.

by Eric Metaxas 2015

4.18

7k+ ratings

🕊️ Christian Biography 🙏 Heroines Of Faith 🔥 Faith Under Fire ⚖️ Christian Activism 📖 Vocation And Calling

In the Name of Freedom

by Enes Kanter Freedom • 2025

A $500,000 bounty, an arrested father, and custom shoes the NBA banned for shaming China.

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🏀 Athlete Activism 🏟️ Nba Memoirs ✊ Political Dissidents 🗣️ Free Speech Battles 💰 Corporate Social Justice

In the Name of Freedom 87%

A $500,000 bounty, an arrested father, and custom shoes the NBA banned for shaming China.

by Enes Kanter Freedom 2025

4.32

117 ratings

🏀 Athlete Activism 🏟️ Nba Memoirs ✊ Political Dissidents 🗣️ Free Speech Battles 💰 Corporate Social Justice

A Subversive Gospel

by Michael Mears Bruner • 2017

O'Connor read the world through the cross. Violence, folly, ugliness: this is the shape grace takes.

4.00

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🕯️ Catholic Imagination 🤡 Grotesque Realism 🎨 Art And Faith 📖 Literary Theology

A Subversive Gospel 87%

O'Connor read the world through the cross. Violence, folly, ugliness: this is the shape grace takes.

by Michael Mears Bruner 2017

4.00

53 ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🕯️ Catholic Imagination 🤡 Grotesque Realism 🎨 Art And Faith 📖 Literary Theology

A través de los ojos del león

by Levi Lusko • 2015

When his five-year-old died, the easy answers vanished. What remained was hope stronger than death.

4.57

5k+

🕊️ Pastoral Grief ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🌅 Resurrection Hope ✝️ Suffering And Faith 🔭 Eternal Perspective

A través de los ojos del león 87%

When his five-year-old died, the easy answers vanished. What remained was hope stronger than death.

by Levi Lusko 2015

4.57

5k+ ratings

🕊️ Pastoral Grief ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🌅 Resurrection Hope ✝️ Suffering And Faith 🔭 Eternal Perspective

Joseph Anton

by Salman Rushdie • 2012

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

3.65

9k+

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

Joseph Anton 87%

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

by Salman Rushdie 2012

3.65

9k+ ratings

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

The Heart and the Fist

by Eric Greitens • 2011

A humanitarian became a SEAL to gain what his goodwill lacked: the physical strength to act.

4.12

10k+

🌍 Humanitarian Memoir ⚓ Navy Seal Memoir 🎖️ Military Leadership 🛡️ Moral Courage 🎌 Cultural Competence

The Heart and the Fist 87%

A humanitarian became a SEAL to gain what his goodwill lacked: the physical strength to act.

by Eric Greitens 2011

4.12

10k+ ratings

🌍 Humanitarian Memoir ⚓ Navy Seal Memoir 🎖️ Military Leadership 🛡️ Moral Courage 🎌 Cultural Competence

The Way of the Cross

by Caryll Houselander • 1955

Christ's Passion didn't end at Calvary. These Stations reveal it unfolding in your own life.

4.58

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🕯️ Catholic Spirituality ✝️ Passion Meditations ❤️‍🩹 Redemptive Suffering 🔥 Christian Mysticism 🙏 Contemplative Prayer

The Way of the Cross 87%

Christ's Passion didn't end at Calvary. These Stations reveal it unfolding in your own life.

by Caryll Houselander 1955

4.58

185 ratings

🕯️ Catholic Spirituality ✝️ Passion Meditations ❤️‍🩹 Redemptive Suffering 🔥 Christian Mysticism 🙏 Contemplative Prayer

Loving the City

by Timothy J. Keller • 2016

Four ways the church engages culture. Each is half-right, each is dangerous. The center is ancient.

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🏙️ Cultural Engagement 🏗️ Urban Ministry 🌍 Post-Christian Society 🖼️ Image Of God 🌐 Missional Theology

Loving the City 87%

Four ways the church engages culture. Each is half-right, each is dangerous. The center is ancient.

by Timothy J. Keller 2016

4.28

242 ratings

🏙️ Cultural Engagement 🏗️ Urban Ministry 🌍 Post-Christian Society 🖼️ Image Of God 🌐 Missional Theology

Women Who Risk

by Tom Doyle • 2021

When Jesus appears in a Muslim woman's dream, following him could cost her life.

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🕊️ Persecuted Church ✨ Supernatural Encounters 📖 Conversion Testimonies ✝️ Muslim Conversions 👩 Women Of Faith

Women Who Risk 87%

When Jesus appears in a Muslim woman's dream, following him could cost her life.

by Tom Doyle 2021

4.70

3k+ ratings

🕊️ Persecuted Church ✨ Supernatural Encounters 📖 Conversion Testimonies ✝️ Muslim Conversions 👩 Women Of Faith

One Dress. One Year.

by Bethany Winz • 2016

One girl, one dress, 365 days: a fight against trafficking that unraveled her first.

3.32

180

🔗 Human Trafficking ✊ Teen Activism 🙏 Faith In Action 👕 Everyday Activism 💔 Perfectionism

One Dress. One Year. 87%

One girl, one dress, 365 days: a fight against trafficking that unraveled her first.

by Bethany Winz 2016

3.32

180 ratings

🔗 Human Trafficking ✊ Teen Activism 🙏 Faith In Action 👕 Everyday Activism 💔 Perfectionism

Peace Pilgrim

by Peace Pilgrim • 1983

She walked 25,000 miles for peace, carrying no money, one tunic, and a single prayer.

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🕊️ Spiritual Memoir ✌️ Nonviolence 🌿 Simple Living 🧘 Inner Peace 🤲 Surrender

Peace Pilgrim 87%

She walked 25,000 miles for peace, carrying no money, one tunic, and a single prayer.

by Peace Pilgrim 1983

4.25

749 ratings

🕊️ Spiritual Memoir ✌️ Nonviolence 🌿 Simple Living 🧘 Inner Peace 🤲 Surrender

Son of Hamas

by Mosab Hassan Yousef • 2011

He was supposed to inherit Hamas. Instead he joined Israeli intelligence.

4.24

19k+

🕊️ Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 🕵️ Spy Memoirs ✝️ Faith Memoirs 🚪 Exit Narratives ☮️ Christian Pacifism

Son of Hamas 87%

He was supposed to inherit Hamas. Instead he joined Israeli intelligence.

by Mosab Hassan Yousef 2011

4.24

19k+ ratings

🕊️ Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 🕵️ Spy Memoirs ✝️ Faith Memoirs 🚪 Exit Narratives ☮️ Christian Pacifism

Who Am I to Judge?

by Edward Sri • 2016

The classical answer to moral relativism: a life of virtue that makes your reason unanswerable.

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🌀 Moral Relativism ⚖️ Virtue Ethics ✝️ Catholic Apologetics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Personalism 🏙️ Cultural Critique

Who Am I to Judge? 87%

The classical answer to moral relativism: a life of virtue that makes your reason unanswerable.

by Edward Sri 2016

4.31

551 ratings

🌀 Moral Relativism ⚖️ Virtue Ethics ✝️ Catholic Apologetics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Personalism 🏙️ Cultural Critique

Discover Your True North

by Bill George • 2015

One bareheaded selfie became a movement; a million Iranian women turned their hair into a weapon.

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1k+

🧕 Compulsory Hijab 📱 Digital Activism 👩🏽 Iranian Women ⛓️ State Oppression ✊ Memoir Of Resistance

Discover Your True North 87%

One bareheaded selfie became a movement; a million Iranian women turned their hair into a weapon.

by Bill George 2015

3.9

1k+ ratings

🧕 Compulsory Hijab 📱 Digital Activism 👩🏽 Iranian Women ⛓️ State Oppression ✊ Memoir Of Resistance

Jesus and the Disinherited

by Howard Thurman • 1996

The church preaches a gospel for the powerful. Jesus offered a strategy for the oppressed.

4.51

7k+

🕊️ Liberation Theology ⛪ Black Church Tradition ✊ Spiritual Resistance 🧠 Psychology Of Oppression 📜 Historical Jesus

Jesus and the Disinherited 87%

The church preaches a gospel for the powerful. Jesus offered a strategy for the oppressed.

by Howard Thurman 1996

4.51

7k+ ratings

🕊️ Liberation Theology ⛪ Black Church Tradition ✊ Spiritual Resistance 🧠 Psychology Of Oppression 📜 Historical Jesus

The Quest for God

by Paul Johnson • 1996

The 20th century was supposed to bury God. Instead, it made the case for him.

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🛡️ Christian Apologetics 📖 Spiritual Memoir 🧠 Faith And Reason 🌒 Problem Of Evil 🏛️ Critique Of Secularism

The Quest for God 87%

The 20th century was supposed to bury God. Instead, it made the case for him.

by Paul Johnson 1996

3.56

124 ratings

🛡️ Christian Apologetics 📖 Spiritual Memoir 🧠 Faith And Reason 🌒 Problem Of Evil 🏛️ Critique Of Secularism

The Powers That Be

by Walter Wink • 1998

Every institution is a spirit. The cross exposed the violence that holds civilization together.

4.24

1k+

🧭 Political Theology ✊🏾 Nonviolent Resistance 👁️ Powers And Principalities ✝️ Christian Nonviolence 🏛️ Institutional Sin

The Powers That Be 87%

Every institution is a spirit. The cross exposed the violence that holds civilization together.

by Walter Wink 1998

4.24

1k+ ratings

🧭 Political Theology ✊🏾 Nonviolent Resistance 👁️ Powers And Principalities ✝️ Christian Nonviolence 🏛️ Institutional Sin

The Insanity of Obedience

by Nik Ripken • 2013

Persecution follows obedience like a shadow. Most global believers know this. The West forgot.

4.36

2k+

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The Insanity of Obedience 87%

Persecution follows obedience like a shadow. Most global believers know this. The West forgot.

by Nik Ripken 2013

4.36

2k+ ratings

🌍 Global Missions ⛓️ Persecuted Church ⛪ Church Planting ✝️ Cost Of Discipleship 🌏 Cross-Cultural Ministry

Here All Along

by Sarah Hurwitz • 2019

She dismissed Judaism as frozen ancient rules, then discovered a tradition that runs on questioning.

4.44

3k+

🕍 Modern Judaism ✨ Jewish Spirituality 🌈 Progressive Judaism ⚖️ Jewish Ethics 📚 Adult Jewish Learning

Here All Along 87%

She dismissed Judaism as frozen ancient rules, then discovered a tradition that runs on questioning.

by Sarah Hurwitz 2019

4.44

3k+ ratings

🕍 Modern Judaism ✨ Jewish Spirituality 🌈 Progressive Judaism ⚖️ Jewish Ethics 📚 Adult Jewish Learning

Tramp for the Lord

by Corrie ten Boom • 1971

She survived Ravensbrück and traveled the world. Then a former camp guard reached out his hand.

4.50

26k+

🕯️ Holocaust Survivors 🧳 Missionary Memoir 🫂 Radical Forgiveness 🧭 Divine Guidance ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare

Tramp for the Lord 87%

She survived Ravensbrück and traveled the world. Then a former camp guard reached out his hand.

by Corrie ten Boom 1971

4.50

26k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Survivors 🧳 Missionary Memoir 🫂 Radical Forgiveness 🧭 Divine Guidance ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare

Gravity and Grace

by Simone Weil • 1947

The soul falls by its own weight. Grace lifts those who cease demanding that suffering make sense.

4.26

4k+

🕊️ Christian Mysticism 📖 Philosophical Theology 🧘 Spiritual Detachment ✝️ Redemptive Suffering 🙏 Contemplative Prayer

Gravity and Grace 87%

The soul falls by its own weight. Grace lifts those who cease demanding that suffering make sense.

by Simone Weil 1947

4.26

4k+ ratings

🕊️ Christian Mysticism 📖 Philosophical Theology 🧘 Spiritual Detachment ✝️ Redemptive Suffering 🙏 Contemplative Prayer

The Drone Eats with Me

by Atef Abu Saif • 2015

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

4.40

452

🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature 🛸 Drone Warfare 🛡️ Civilian Survival

The Drone Eats with Me 87%

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

by Atef Abu Saif 2015

4.40

452 ratings

🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature 🛸 Drone Warfare 🛡️ Civilian Survival

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