The Power of Ritual
By: Casper ter Kuile
Narrated by: Casper ter Kuile
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose—a message we need more... Read more
View audiobookDayspring
By: Anthony Oliveira
Narrated by: Davin Babulal, Landon Doak, Kai Cheng Thom, Dav...
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary coming-of-age story, connected in collapsing time across millennia.
There are few love stories in the holy books. Love is what ruins. Love is what costs. Love is a flaming sword at our backs, a garden left... Read more
Judaism Is About Love
By: Shai Held
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
Length: 15 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love.
A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is the religion of love, and Judaism the religion of law. In the face of centuries of this widespread... Read more
Life After Doom
By: Brian D. McLaren
Narrated by: Brian D. McLaren
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"His earnest, conversational tone sounds as though he's speaking directly to each individual listener" —AudioFile on Do I Stay Christian?, an Earphones Award winner
"As rich and thoughtful as all of Brian McLaren's work, but with a particular urgency!" —Bill McKibben
"Riveting. Challenging. Brave. Devastating.... Read more
Under the Banner of Heaven
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU.
“Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San... Read more
The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition
By: Anita Diamant
Narrated by: Carol Bilger
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In this modern classic interpretation of the biblical story of Dinah, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of The Red Tent, a New York Times bestseller and the basis of the A&E/Lifetime mini-series.
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
In the Bible, Dinah's life is only hinted at in a brief and violent... Read more
I'm Still Here
By: Austin Channing Brown
Narrated by: Austin Channing Brown
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals.
“Austin Channing Brown introduces herself as a master memoirist. This book will break open... Read more
Black Liturgies
By: Cole Arthur Riley
Narrated by: Cole Arthur Riley
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies
“A true spiritual balm for our troubled times.”—Michael Eric Dyson, author of What Truth Sounds Like
For years, Cole Arthur Riley was desperate for a spirituality... Read more
The Flowering Wand
By: Sophie Strand
Narrated by: Sophie Strand
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
• Reveals the restorative fungi archetype of Osiris, the Orphic mysteries as an underground mycelium linking forests and people, how Dionysus teaches us about invasive species and playful sexuality, and the ecology of Jesus as depicted in his nature-focused parables
• Liberates Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell’s... Read more
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
By: Tim Alberta
Narrated by: Tim Alberta
Length: 18 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant New York Times BestsellerOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearAn Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year""Brave and absorbing."" -- New York Times“Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in vivid hues.” -- Washington Post“An astonishingly... Read more
View audiobookInspired
By: Rachel Held Evans
Narrated by: Rachel Held Evans
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
If the Bible isn't a science book or an instruction manual, what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she embarked on a journey to better understand what the Bible is and how it's meant to be read. What she discovered changed... Read more
View audiobookLittle Pilgrim's Progress
By: Helen L. Taylor
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Fifty-five years ago, Helen L. Taylor took John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and simplified the vocabulary and concepts for young readers while keeping the storyline intact. The result was a classic in itself, which has now sold over 600,000 copies. It's both a simple adventure story and a profound allegory of the Christian journey through life,... Read more
View audiobookThe Vanished
By: Cara Putman
Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Janae Simmons left the small town of Kedgewick, Virginia, ten years ago to pursue her legal career and never looked back—until a professional mistake leads her to her grandmother's historic carriage house and to the town where her past threatens to find her. The streets echo with her grandfather's sterling reputation, one that conflicts with... Read more
View audiobookLoving Our Own Bones
By: Julia Watts Belser
Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disability in the Bible and contemporary culture
A 2024 National Jewish Book Award winner and essential read on disability, spirituality, and social justice
“What’s wrong with you?”
Scholar, activist, and rabbi Julia Watts Belser is all too familiar with... Read more
The Garden Within
By: Dr. Anita Phillips
Narrated by: Anita Phillips & Sarah Jakes Roberts
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERFeatured on SUPER SOUL PODCAST hosted by Oprah Winfrey. Read by the author.Too often we’ve been taught to view our emotions with suspicion, seeing them as something to be suppressed, managed, or mastered. This isn’t true. Emotions are not your enemy. Internal war is not your destiny. You... Read more
View audiobook10% Happier 10th Anniversary
By: Dan Harris
Narrated by: Dan Harris
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, a revised and updated edition of the award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller that changed the way we look at meditation, expanded with new material by Dan Harris.After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever,... Read more
View audiobookI Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening)
By: Sarah Stewart Holland & Beth A. Silvers
Narrated by: Beth Silvers & Sarah Stewart Holland
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
More than ever, politics seem to be driven by discord. People sitting together in pews every Sunday feel like strangers and loved ones at the dinner table feel like enemies. Toxic political dialogue, hate-filled rants on social media, and agenda-driven news stories have become the new norm. But it doesn't have to be this way.In I Think You're... Read more
View audiobookMisquoting Jesus
By: Bart D. Ehrman
Narrated by: Richard Davidson
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand--and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible... Read more
View audiobookForgiving What You Can't Forget
By: Lysa TerKeurst
Narrated by: Lysa TerKeurst & Gabe Wicks
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
READ BY THE AUTHOR#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYou deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have done to you.Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? You know you can't go on like this, but you don't know what to do next. Lysa TerKeurst has wrestled through this journey.... Read more
View audiobookFalling Upward
By: Richard Rohr
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In the revised and updated edition of Falling Upward, Richard Rohr seeks to help listeners come to terms with the two halves of life. In this book, Rohr teaches us that we can't understand the meaning of "up" until we have fallen "down." More importantly, Rohr describes what "up" can look like in the second half of life.
Most of us tend to... Read more
Feeding Your Demons
By: Tsultrim Allione
Narrated by: Tara Bast
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Allione -- one of only a few female Buddhist leaders in this country and comparable in American religious life to Pema Chodron -- bridges this ancient Eastern practice with today's Western psyche. She explains that if we fight our demons, they only grow stronger. But if we feed them, nurture them, we can free ourselves from the battle.
Through... Read more
The Pilgrimage
By: Paulo Coelho
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coehlo's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes are companions—to truly comprehend one, you must read the other.Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own... Read more
View audiobookThe Interior Castle
By: St Teresa of Ávila
Narrated by: Lucy Scott
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Interior Castle, Carmelite nun, mystic and patron saint of Spain Teresa of Ávila uses the metaphor of a giant crystal castle to explain her theory of the soul and the various stages it passes through as it progresses towards God. Beginning in the outer rooms, where demons are fought and vices are purged, the soul must reach the inner... Read more
View audiobookJesus and the Powers
By: N. T. Wright & Michael F. Bird
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
An urgent call for Christians everywhere to explore the nature of the kingdom amid the political upheaval of our day.Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their prophetic voice and to keep from being used as political pawns? Or should Christians be actively involved, seeking to utilize... Read more
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