⛪ Religious Childhood

Stories of growing up immersed in faith — the rituals, certainties, confusions, and eventual reckonings that shape a child's world when religion is the air they breathe.

The Whole Story for the Whole Family

by Michael Kelley • 2021

Fragments become one story: a year of family devotions tracing the Bible's rescue plan around Jesus.

4.55

🕯️ Family Devotions 📖 Biblical Theology 🔄 Redemptive History 🗺️ Bible Overview 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Discipleship

The Whole Story for the Whole Family Summary

The Whole Story for the Whole Family 90%

Fragments become one story: a year of family devotions tracing the Bible's rescue plan around Jesus.

by Michael Kelley 2021

4.55

11 ratings

🕯️ Family Devotions 📖 Biblical Theology 🔄 Redemptive History 🗺️ Bible Overview 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Discipleship

The Catholic All Year Compendium

by Kendra Tierney • 2018

Feast days, saints, and liturgical seasons, translated from monastery to messy kitchen table.

4.73

542

🧒 Catholic Parenting 📅 Liturgical Year 🏠 Domestic Church 🎉 Feast Day Traditions 🙏 Family Spirituality

The Catholic All Year Compendium Summary

The Catholic All Year Compendium 90%

Feast days, saints, and liturgical seasons, translated from monastery to messy kitchen table.

by Kendra Tierney 2018

4.73

542 ratings

🧒 Catholic Parenting 📅 Liturgical Year 🏠 Domestic Church 🎉 Feast Day Traditions 🙏 Family Spirituality

Autobiography of a saint, Thérèse of Lisieux

by Thérèse of Lisieux • 2007

Sainthood without heroics: a young French nun discovered holiness in ordinary acts of love.

4.17

🕊️ Spiritual Memoir ⛪ Carmelite Spirituality 💒 Catholic Saints 👶 Spiritual Childhood 🌿 Everyday Sanctity

Autobiography of a saint, Thérèse of Lisieux Summary

Autobiography of a saint, Thérèse of Lisieux 89%

Sainthood without heroics: a young French nun discovered holiness in ordinary acts of love.

by Thérèse of Lisieux 2007

4.17

12 ratings

🕊️ Spiritual Memoir ⛪ Carmelite Spirituality 💒 Catholic Saints 👶 Spiritual Childhood 🌿 Everyday Sanctity

The Year of Living like Jesus

by Edward G. Dobson • 2009

A pastor ate kosher, prayed the rosary, kept Sabbath. Following Jesus dismantled his certainties.

3.47

549

🖊️ Spiritual Memoir 🧪 Religious Experiment ✡️ Jesus' Jewish Roots 🙏 Spiritual Disciplines 📿 Prayer Traditions

The Year of Living like Jesus 89%

A pastor ate kosher, prayed the rosary, kept Sabbath. Following Jesus dismantled his certainties.

by Edward G. Dobson 2009

3.47

549 ratings

🖊️ Spiritual Memoir 🧪 Religious Experiment ✡️ Jesus' Jewish Roots 🙏 Spiritual Disciplines 📿 Prayer Traditions

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 89%

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

Surprised by Christ

by A. James Bernstein • 2008

He set out to debunk Jesus. The Jewish prophecies brought him to the Orthodox Church instead.

4.40

176

💒 Eastern Orthodoxy ✡️ Conversion Memoir 📜 Messianic Prophecy ⛪ Early Church 🕯️ Liturgical Worship

Surprised by Christ 89%

He set out to debunk Jesus. The Jewish prophecies brought him to the Orthodox Church instead.

by A. James Bernstein 2008

4.40

176 ratings

💒 Eastern Orthodoxy ✡️ Conversion Memoir 📜 Messianic Prophecy ⛪ Early Church 🕯️ Liturgical Worship

Hope

by Pope Francis • 2025

His family narrowly escaped a shipwreck: the pope on why mercy and memory build a future.

4.33

5k+

🕯️ Spiritual Autobiography ✝️ Catholic Social Teaching 🙏 Jesuit Spirituality 💛 Mercy And Forgiveness 🌍 Immigrant Experience

Hope 89%

His family narrowly escaped a shipwreck: the pope on why mercy and memory build a future.

by Pope Francis 2025

4.33

5k+ ratings

🕯️ Spiritual Autobiography ✝️ Catholic Social Teaching 🙏 Jesuit Spirituality 💛 Mercy And Forgiveness 🌍 Immigrant Experience

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 89%

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

Kisses from Katie

by Katie Davis Majors • 2011

A short Uganda mission trip at eighteen: she never left, adopting thirteen daughters instead.

4.4

35k+

👩‍👧‍👧 Orphan Care 🌍 Serving The Poor ✝️ Radical Faith 📖 Missionary Memoirs 💒 Young Women Of Faith

Kisses from Katie 89%

A short Uganda mission trip at eighteen: she never left, adopting thirteen daughters instead.

by Katie Davis Majors 2011

4.4

35k+ ratings

👩‍👧‍👧 Orphan Care 🌍 Serving The Poor ✝️ Radical Faith 📖 Missionary Memoirs 💒 Young Women Of Faith

Raising Passionate Jesus Followers

by Phil Comer • 2018

Ninety percent of churched youth walk away by college. The stage-by-stage plan to beat those odds.

4.56

1k+

🛐 Faith Formation 🧒 Child Discipline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Discipleship 📖 Biblical Parenting 🔄 Generational Faith

Raising Passionate Jesus Followers Summary

Raising Passionate Jesus Followers 89%

Ninety percent of churched youth walk away by college. The stage-by-stage plan to beat those odds.

by Phil Comer 2018

4.56

1k+ ratings

🛐 Faith Formation 🧒 Child Discipline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Discipleship 📖 Biblical Parenting 🔄 Generational Faith

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.

4.35

4k+

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

My Sisters the Saints 89%

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

Heaven is for Real

by Todd Burpo • 2010

His appendix burst. In surgery, a four-year-old meets the sister his parents never told him existed.

4.04

340k+

🔮 Near-Death Experiences 👶 Childlike Faith ✝️ Christian Testimony 💔 Miscarriage Grief ✨ Modern Miracles

Heaven is for Real 89%

His appendix burst. In surgery, a four-year-old meets the sister his parents never told him existed.

by Todd Burpo 2010

4.04

340k+ ratings

🔮 Near-Death Experiences 👶 Childlike Faith ✝️ Christian Testimony 💔 Miscarriage Grief ✨ Modern Miracles

In Good Company

by James Martin • 2000

He traded a corporate salary for a mop at Mother Teresa's, and found what he'd been missing.

4.30

381

📿 Catholic Memoirs 🙏 Ignacian Spirituality ✝️ Vocation Discernment 🤲 Service To The Poor 🌅 Spiritual Awakening

In Good Company 89%

He traded a corporate salary for a mop at Mother Teresa's, and found what he'd been missing.

by James Martin 2000

4.30

381 ratings

📿 Catholic Memoirs 🙏 Ignacian Spirituality ✝️ Vocation Discernment 🤲 Service To The Poor 🌅 Spiritual Awakening

Something Beautiful for God

by Malcolm Muggeridge • 1971

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

4.00

2k+

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

Something Beautiful for God 89%

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

Raising Giant-Killers

by Bill Johnson • 2018

Raise children who hear from God, confront spiritual darkness, and reshape the world.

4.33

536

🏰 Kingdom Parenting ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🔥 Supernatural Encounters 🌳 Generational Legacy 📏 Biblical Discipline

Raising Giant-Killers 89%

Raise children who hear from God, confront spiritual darkness, and reshape the world.

by Bill Johnson 2018

4.33

536 ratings

🏰 Kingdom Parenting ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🔥 Supernatural Encounters 🌳 Generational Legacy 📏 Biblical Discipline

Show Them Jesus

by Jack Klumpenhower • 2014

Sunday school moralism is driving kids away. The antidote: every lesson built around the cross.

4.51

1k+

🧒 Children's Ministry 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Gospel Parenting ✝️ Gospel Centrality ⚖️ Anti-Legalism ❤️ Heart Transformation

Show Them Jesus 89%

Sunday school moralism is driving kids away. The antidote: every lesson built around the cross.

by Jack Klumpenhower 2014

4.51

1k+ ratings

🧒 Children's Ministry 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Gospel Parenting ✝️ Gospel Centrality ⚖️ Anti-Legalism ❤️ Heart Transformation

The Seven Storey Mountain

by Thomas Merton • 1948

Pleasure, communism, literary fame: all failed him. A silent monastery in Kentucky did not.

4.08

21k+

🕯️ Catholic Conversion 📖 Spiritual Autobiography 🧠 Intellectual Conversion 🙏 Contemplative Life ⛪ Monastic Vocation

The Seven Storey Mountain 89%

Pleasure, communism, literary fame: all failed him. A silent monastery in Kentucky did not.

by Thomas Merton 1948

4.08

21k+ ratings

🕯️ Catholic Conversion 📖 Spiritual Autobiography 🧠 Intellectual Conversion 🙏 Contemplative Life ⛪ Monastic Vocation

Gospel-Centered Kids Ministry

by Brian Dembowczyk • 2017

Seven in ten church kids walk away. They learned morals and stories, never the gospel.

4.35

263

🧒 Children's Ministry ✝️ Gospel-Centered 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Discipleship 📖 Christ-Centered Teaching 💖 Heart Transformation

Gospel-Centered Kids Ministry 89%

Seven in ten church kids walk away. They learned morals and stories, never the gospel.

by Brian Dembowczyk 2017

4.35

263 ratings

🧒 Children's Ministry ✝️ Gospel-Centered 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Discipleship 📖 Christ-Centered Teaching 💖 Heart Transformation

Scouting the Divine

by Margaret Feinberg • 2009

Sheep, vines, honey, wool: one writer's search for the God the Bible's first readers knew.

4.22

912

🐑 Spiritual Memoir 🌾 Faith And Farming 🤲 Experiential Faith 👁️ Sensory Spirituality ✨ Everyday Sacred

Scouting the Divine 89%

Sheep, vines, honey, wool: one writer's search for the God the Bible's first readers knew.

by Margaret Feinberg 2009

4.22

912 ratings

🐑 Spiritual Memoir 🌾 Faith And Farming 🤲 Experiential Faith 👁️ Sensory Spirituality ✨ Everyday Sacred

Bad Habits

by Jenny McCarthy • 2012

Catholic schoolgirl. Playboy model. Mom. One woman's escape from the faith that raised her.

3.61

2k+

⛪ Catholic Upbringing 🔨 Religious Deconstruction 😰 Catholic Guilt 🌌 Spiritual Seeking 🎬 Hollywood Tell-All

Bad Habits 89%

Catholic schoolgirl. Playboy model. Mom. One woman's escape from the faith that raised her.

by Jenny McCarthy 2012

3.61

2k+ ratings

⛪ Catholic Upbringing 🔨 Religious Deconstruction 😰 Catholic Guilt 🌌 Spiritual Seeking 🎬 Hollywood Tell-All

Where the Light Fell

by Philip Yancey • 2021

His father's faith killed him. His mother's faith trapped him. A lifetime seeking his own.

4.51

7k+

🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🕊️ Religious Trauma 🔍 Faith Deconstruction 💔 Mother Wound 👥 Sibling Bond

Where the Light Fell 89%

His father's faith killed him. His mother's faith trapped him. A lifetime seeking his own.

by Philip Yancey 2021

4.51

7k+ ratings

🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🕊️ Religious Trauma 🔍 Faith Deconstruction 💔 Mother Wound 👥 Sibling Bond

Rome Sweet Home

by Scott Hahn • 1993

A Presbyterian minister set out to prove Catholicism wrong and studied his way into it instead.

4.43

13k+

🕊️ Conversion Memoirs 📖 Catholic Apologetics ✝️ Protestant To Catholic 🤝 Covenant Theology 🍞 Eucharistic Theology

Rome Sweet Home 89%

A Presbyterian minister set out to prove Catholicism wrong and studied his way into it instead.

by Scott Hahn 1993

4.43

13k+ ratings

🕊️ Conversion Memoirs 📖 Catholic Apologetics ✝️ Protestant To Catholic 🤝 Covenant Theology 🍞 Eucharistic Theology

The Cross and the Switchblade

by David Wilkerson • 1963

A Life photo pulls a rural pastor into Brooklyn's gangs, armed with prayer and an impossible love.

4.27

60k+

🏙️ Urban Ministry 🤝 Gang Intervention ✝️ Faith-Based Recovery 💊 Addiction Recovery 🔥 Pentecostal Testimony

The Cross and the Switchblade 89%

A Life photo pulls a rural pastor into Brooklyn's gangs, armed with prayer and an impossible love.

by David Wilkerson 1963

4.27

60k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban Ministry 🤝 Gang Intervention ✝️ Faith-Based Recovery 💊 Addiction Recovery 🔥 Pentecostal Testimony

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

751

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

John Paul the Great 89%

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

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus

by Nabeel Qureshi • 2014

Three dreams told him Christianity was true. The price of believing was losing everyone he loved.

4.59

43k+

🕌 Comparative Religion ✝️ Christian Apologetics 🚪 Leaving Islam 🔄 Conversion Story 🌙 Spiritual Dreams

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus 89%

Three dreams told him Christianity was true. The price of believing was losing everyone he loved.

by Nabeel Qureshi 2014

4.59

43k+ ratings

🕌 Comparative Religion ✝️ Christian Apologetics 🚪 Leaving Islam 🔄 Conversion Story 🌙 Spiritual Dreams

Dorothy Day

by Robert Coles • 1987

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

4.15

338

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

Dorothy Day 89%

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

Catholic Street Evangelization

by Steve Dawson • 2015

You don't need a theology degree to evangelize: a medal, your story, and a street corner.

4.22

🕊️ Catholic Evangelism 🗣️ Personal Testimony 🤝 Relational Evangelism 🌍 New Evangelization 🍞 Holistic Ministry

Catholic Street Evangelization 89%

You don't need a theology degree to evangelize: a medal, your story, and a street corner.

by Steve Dawson 2015

4.22

41 ratings

🕊️ Catholic Evangelism 🗣️ Personal Testimony 🤝 Relational Evangelism 🌍 New Evangelization 🍞 Holistic Ministry

Girl at the End of the World

by Elizabeth Esther • 2014

Her grandfather's cult taught her the world was ending. Motherhood taught her otherwise.

4.02

2k+

🧱 Cult Memoirs 🕊️ Religious Trauma ⛪ Spiritual Abuse 🔄 Breaking Cycles 🚪 Ex-Fundamentalist

Girl at the End of the World 89%

Her grandfather's cult taught her the world was ending. Motherhood taught her otherwise.

by Elizabeth Esther 2014

4.02

2k+ ratings

🧱 Cult Memoirs 🕊️ Religious Trauma ⛪ Spiritual Abuse 🔄 Breaking Cycles 🚪 Ex-Fundamentalist

Praying for Strangers

by River Jordan • 2011

One year of praying for a stranger each day: how an introvert rewired her heart.

4.09

704

✝️ Christian Memoir 🧪 Spiritual Experiments 🤝 Stranger Connection 🙏 Prayer Practice 🕯️ Faith In Action

Praying for Strangers 89%

One year of praying for a stranger each day: how an introvert rewired her heart.

by River Jordan 2011

4.09

704 ratings

✝️ Christian Memoir 🧪 Spiritual Experiments 🤝 Stranger Connection 🙏 Prayer Practice 🕯️ Faith In Action

The Mission Of Motherhood

by Sally Clarkson • 2003

How a mother's daily routines become the architecture of her children's faith.

4.37

3k+

🕊️ Christian Parenting 🎯 Intentional Motherhood 📖 Child Discipleship ✝️ Biblical Womanhood 🏡 Homemaking

The Mission Of Motherhood 88%

How a mother's daily routines become the architecture of her children's faith.

by Sally Clarkson 2003

4.37

3k+ ratings

🕊️ Christian Parenting 🎯 Intentional Motherhood 📖 Child Discipleship ✝️ Biblical Womanhood 🏡 Homemaking

Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary

by Brant Pitre • 2018

Every Catholic teaching on Mary that seems unbiblical is Jewish and hidden in the Old Testament.

4.55

3k+

📖 Biblical Typology 🌹 Mariology 🛡️ Catholic Apologetics ✡️ Jewish Roots Of Christianity ⛪ Early Church Fathers

Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary Summary

Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary 88%

Every Catholic teaching on Mary that seems unbiblical is Jewish and hidden in the Old Testament.

by Brant Pitre 2018

4.55

3k+ ratings

📖 Biblical Typology 🌹 Mariology 🛡️ Catholic Apologetics ✡️ Jewish Roots Of Christianity ⛪ Early Church Fathers

The Long Loneliness

by Dorothy Day • 1952

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

4.02

6k+

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

The Long Loneliness 88%

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

Surprised by Joy

by C.S. Lewis • 1955

One desire no pleasure could satisfy broke C.S. Lewis's atheism.

4.06

70k+

🕯️ Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Conversion Narratives 📖 Literary Memoir 🏔️ Spiritual Longing 🌅 Aesthetic Awakening

Surprised by Joy 88%

One desire no pleasure could satisfy broke C.S. Lewis's atheism.

by C.S. Lewis 1955

4.06

70k+ ratings

🕯️ Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Conversion Narratives 📖 Literary Memoir 🏔️ Spiritual Longing 🌅 Aesthetic Awakening

Consecration to St. Joseph

by Donald H. Calloway • 2020

Entrust yourself to the man who commanded Jesus on earth and still commands his heart in heaven.

4.59

4k+

🕯️ Catholic Devotion 📜 Josephology 👨👧👦 Spiritual Fatherhood ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🛡️ Catholic Masculinity

Consecration to St. Joseph 88%

Entrust yourself to the man who commanded Jesus on earth and still commands his heart in heaven.

by Donald H. Calloway 2020

4.59

4k+ ratings

🕯️ Catholic Devotion 📜 Josephology 👨👧👦 Spiritual Fatherhood ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🛡️ Catholic Masculinity

English Lessons

by Andrea Lucado • 2017

Raised to have all the answers, she moved to Oxford and learned to love the questions.

4.01

469

🕊️ Christian Memoir 🔨 Faith Deconstruction 🌱 Post-Evangelical 📚 Faith And Reason 🏠 Inherited Faith

English Lessons 88%

Raised to have all the answers, she moved to Oxford and learned to love the questions.

by Andrea Lucado 2017

4.01

469 ratings

🕊️ Christian Memoir 🔨 Faith Deconstruction 🌱 Post-Evangelical 📚 Faith And Reason 🏠 Inherited Faith

Six Ways to Keep the "Good" in Your Boy

by Dannah Gresh • 2012

Build your son's character before the culture does. Six ways for the tween years.

4.03

441

🕊️ Christian Parenting 👦 Raising Boys 💙 Mothers And Sons 📱 Screen Time And Kids ⛪ Purity Culture

Six Ways to Keep the "Good" in Your Boy Summary

Six Ways to Keep the "Good" in Your Boy 88%

Build your son's character before the culture does. Six ways for the tween years.

by Dannah Gresh 2012

4.03

441 ratings

🕊️ Christian Parenting 👦 Raising Boys 💙 Mothers And Sons 📱 Screen Time And Kids ⛪ Purity Culture

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

by John Henry Newman • 1864

Reading about a fifth-century heresy, Newman recognized his own church. He could not stay.

4.10

2k+

🛡️ Catholic Apologetics ✍️ Spiritual Autobiography ⛪ Anglo-Catholicism 🧠 Religious Epistemology 🏛️ Ecclesiology

Apologia Pro Vita Sua 88%

Reading about a fifth-century heresy, Newman recognized his own church. He could not stay.

by John Henry Newman 1864

4.10

2k+ ratings

🛡️ Catholic Apologetics ✍️ Spiritual Autobiography ⛪ Anglo-Catholicism 🧠 Religious Epistemology 🏛️ Ecclesiology

Saints Who Battled Satan

by Paul Thigpen • 2015

Seventeen saints who treated the devil as real, and the spiritual weapons that still work.

4.33

339

🛡️ Spiritual Warfare ✝️ Catholic Spirituality 📜 Saint Biographies 🍞 Sacramental Life 🙏 Prayer And Fasting

Saints Who Battled Satan 88%

Seventeen saints who treated the devil as real, and the spiritual weapons that still work.

by Paul Thigpen 2015

4.33

339 ratings

🛡️ Spiritual Warfare ✝️ Catholic Spirituality 📜 Saint Biographies 🍞 Sacramental Life 🙏 Prayer And Fasting

The Autobiography of Charles G. Finney

by Charles Grandison Finney • 1876

A lawyer turned preacher whose blunt sermons emptied a factory floor in a single afternoon.

3.83

448

🔥 American Revivalism 🕊️ Holiness Movement 🙏 Prayer And Intercession 💨 Holy Spirit Theology 🗣️ Plain Preaching

The Autobiography of Charles G. Finney Summary

The Autobiography of Charles G. Finney 88%

A lawyer turned preacher whose blunt sermons emptied a factory floor in a single afternoon.

by Charles Grandison Finney 1876

3.83

448 ratings

🔥 American Revivalism 🕊️ Holiness Movement 🙏 Prayer And Intercession 💨 Holy Spirit Theology 🗣️ Plain Preaching

All My Knotted-Up Life

by Beth Moore • 2023

Abused at eleven by her father. Driven out at sixty by her church. Beth Moore connects the dots.

4.43

46k+

🕊️ Evangelical Memoir 🏛️ Church Abuse 🚺 Women In Ministry 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🩹 Sexual Abuse Survival

All My Knotted-Up Life 88%

Abused at eleven by her father. Driven out at sixty by her church. Beth Moore connects the dots.

by Beth Moore 2023

4.43

46k+ ratings

🕊️ Evangelical Memoir 🏛️ Church Abuse 🚺 Women In Ministry 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🩹 Sexual Abuse Survival

Vintage Saints and Sinners

by Karen Wright Marsh • 2017

Saints were stubborn, anxious, doubting people. Their flaws are not a scandal; they are the point.

4.22

256

🕯️ Lives Of The Saints 📜 Spiritual Biography 💔 Flawed Believers ☀️ Everyday Spirituality 🌧️ Faith And Doubt

Vintage Saints and Sinners 88%

Saints were stubborn, anxious, doubting people. Their flaws are not a scandal; they are the point.

by Karen Wright Marsh 2017

4.22

256 ratings

🕯️ Lives Of The Saints 📜 Spiritual Biography 💔 Flawed Believers ☀️ Everyday Spirituality 🌧️ Faith And Doubt

The Insanity of God

by Nik Ripken • 2012

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

4.56

12k+

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

The Insanity of God 88%

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

Happy are You Poor

by Thomas Dubay • 1981

Radical poverty is not for saints alone. It is the normal Christian life, and it is joyful.

4.39

727

🕯️ Catholic Spirituality 🫴 Voluntary Poverty 🌾 Christian Simplicity 🔓 Detachment ✝️ Radical Discipleship

Happy are You Poor 88%

Radical poverty is not for saints alone. It is the normal Christian life, and it is joyful.

by Thomas Dubay 1981

4.39

727 ratings

🕯️ Catholic Spirituality 🫴 Voluntary Poverty 🌾 Christian Simplicity 🔓 Detachment ✝️ Radical Discipleship

A Praying Life

by Paul E. Miller • 2009

Why helplessness, not discipline, unlocks prayer, and how cynicism quietly kills it.

4.35

19k+

🛐 Christian Prayer 📖 Spiritual Disciplines 👶 Childlike Faith 😢 Lament And Suffering 🔄 Continuous Prayer

A Praying Life 88%

Why helplessness, not discipline, unlocks prayer, and how cynicism quietly kills it.

by Paul E. Miller 2009

4.35

19k+ ratings

🛐 Christian Prayer 📖 Spiritual Disciplines 👶 Childlike Faith 😢 Lament And Suffering 🔄 Continuous Prayer

Crazy for God

by Frank Schaeffer • 2007

Inside the machine: a son of evangelical royalty helps build the religious right, then defects.

3.68

2k+

⛪ Evangelical Movement 🐘 Religious Right 🧩 Faith Deconstruction 🏚️ Insular Communities 📜 Fundamentalism

Crazy for God 88%

Inside the machine: a son of evangelical royalty helps build the religious right, then defects.

by Frank Schaeffer 2007

3.68

2k+ ratings

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