Religion audiobooks

Educated

By: Tara Westover
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University
 
“An amazing story, and truly inspiring. It’s even better than you’ve heard.”—Bill... Read more »

Fierce Self-Compassion

By: Kristin Neff
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No

The author of Self-Compassion follows up her groundbreaking book with new ideas that expand our notion of self-kindness and its capacity to transform our lives, showing women how to balance tender self-acceptance with fierce action to claim their power and change the world.

Kristin Neff changed how we talk about self-care with her enormously... Read more »

The Making of Biblical Womanhood

By: Beth Allison Barr
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No

Biblical womanhood—the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers—pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the everyday lives of evangelical women. Yet biblical womanhood isn't biblical, says Baylo Read more »r...

Breaking Free from Body Shame

By: Jess Connolly
Narrated by: Jess Connolly
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

Includes audiobook-exclusive coaching sessions from Jess!

You were made for more than a love/hate relationship with your body.

It's one thing to know in your head that you were created in the image of God. Yet it's quite another to experience this belief in your body, against the cultural ideals of a woman's worth. And between the two lies a world... Read more »

Soundtracks

By: Jon Acuff
Narrated by: Jon Acuff
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

Overthinking isn't a personality trait. It's the sneakiest form of fear. It steals time, creativity, and goals. It's the most expensive, least productive thing companies invest in without even knowing it. And it's an epidemic. In Soundtracks, New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff offers a proven plan to change overthinking from a supe Read more »r...

When Things Fall Apart

By: Pema Chödrön
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No

Pema Chödrön's perennially best-selling classic on overcoming life's difficulties cuts to the heart of spirituality and personal growth, and makes for a perfect addition to one's spiritual library. 

How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart—when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrö Read more »n...

What Comes After

By: JoAnne Tompkins
Narrated by: Mark Deakins, Kristen DiMercurio & Kirby Heyborne
Length: 13 hours
Abridged: No

Named a top beach read of summer by Oprah Daily, Good Housekeeping, The Wall Street Journal, and more

“Nail-biting wallop of a debut . . . a thoughtful, unexpectedly optimistic tale.” —The New York Times

“If you enjoyed The Searcher by Tana French, read What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins. . . . a mystery—and a gritty meditation on loss and... Read more »

Better to Have Gone

By: Akash Kapur
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

A spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia—and the often devastating cost of idealism.

It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a ne Read more »w...

Praying with Jane Eyre

By: Vanessa Zoltan
Narrated by: Vanessa Zoltan & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No

“In these soaring, open-hearted essays, Vanessa Zoltan writes with fierce brilliance about suffering, survival, and the kind of meaning in life that can withstand real scrutiny.”—John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and The Anthropocene Reviewed
 
 
A deeply felt celebration of a classic novel--and a reflection on the ways our... Read more »

The Color of Compromise

By: Jemar Tisby
Narrated by: Jemar Tisby
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response.

The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling, telling a history we either ignore or just don't know. Equal parts painful and inspirational,... 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 X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK 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.... Read more »

The 5 Love Languages

By: Gary Chapman
Narrated by: Gary Chapman
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

Simple ideas, lasting love.

Between busy schedules and long days, expressing love can fall by the wayside. We forget to compliment, to give gifts “just because,” to linger in an embrace. The things that say “I love you” seem to either not get said or not get through. This is an audio book about saying it — and hearing it — clearly. No gimmicks.... Read more »

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 »

Ishmael

By: Daniel Quinn
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Morgan Freeman
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.
 
“A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an... Read more »

Love is the Way

By: Bishop Michael Curry & Sara Grace
Narrated by: Bishop Michael Curry
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No

Walk the path of love with one of the warmest, most beloved spiritual leaders of our time, and learn how to put faith into action.

As the descendant of slaves and the son of a civil rights activist, Bishop Michael Curry's life illustrates massive changes in our times. Much of the world met Bishop Curry when he delivered his sermon on th Read more »e...

Don't Overthink It

By: Anne Bogel
Narrated by: Anne Bogel
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

We've all been there: stuck in a cycle of what-ifs, plagued by indecision, paralyzed by the fear of getting it wrong. Nobody wants to live a life of constant overthinking, but it doesn't feel like something we can choose to stop doing. It feels like something we're wired to do, something we just can't escape. But is it?

Anne Bogel's answer i Read more »s...

Dusk, Night, Dawn

By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” -Chicago Tribune

From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives.

In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that see Read more »m...

Healing Ourselves Whole

By: Emily A. Francis
Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

Healing Ourselves Whole will give you the tools you need to clean your emotional house from top to bottom.

As a trained body worker, Emily Francis offers a refreshing perspective into healing trauma. She reveals unique knowledge of the body as a holder for memory. Emily will lead you on a path deep within yourself to rearrange the ways tha Read more »t...

Under the Banner of Heaven

By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.

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Decluttering at the Speed of Life

By: Dana K. White
Narrated by: Dana K. White
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff—you can get rid of clutter for good! Decluttering expert Dana White identifies the emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter and provides workable solutions to break through and make progress.

While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, many of us... Read more »

Here All Along

By: Sarah Hurwitz
Narrated by: Sarah Hurwitz
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

A renowned political speechwriter rediscovers Judaism, finding timeless wisdom and spiritual connection in its age-old practices and traditions.

“Sarah Hurwitz was Michelle Obama’s head speechwriter, and with this book she becomes Judaism’s speechwriter.”—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take, Originals, and co-author of... Read more »

A People's History of Christianity

By: Diana Butler Bass
Narrated by: Karen Saltus
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

For too long, the history of Christianity has been told as the triumph of orthodox doctrine imposed through power and hierarchy. In A People's History of Christianity, historian and religion expert Diana Butler Bass reveals an alternate history that includes a deep social ethic and far-reaching inclusivity: "the other side of the story" is not a... Read more »

Wherever You Go, There You Are - Abridged - Abridged

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes

This 10th Anniversary edition of the inspiring and practical guide to meditation, includes a brand new afterword and an audio-exclusive interview with the author

A simple and straightforward introduction to Buddhist meditation practice from one of the country's leading authorities on stress-reduction techniques, Dr. Kabat-Zinn has taught this... Read more »

Unholy

By: Sarah Posner
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

“In terrifying detail, Unholy illustrates how a vast network of white Christian nationalists plotted the authoritarian takeover of the American democratic system. There is no more timely book than this one.”—Janet Reitman, author of Inside Scientology

Why did so many evangelicals turn out to vote for Donald Trump, a serial philanderer wit Read more »h...