Spiritual Growth

How can we live on a daily basis with increasing integrity, wholeness and well-being?

An observant insight into Muslim culture, written by the Western wife of an Arab from a conservative Muslim family.

The nation's most well-known prayers and the stories behind them

Wisdom for life's journey from around the world

The Archbishop of Canterbury explores the lessons we can learn from the wisdom and spirituality of the desert fathers.

God is with us, but we often don't see Him at work because we fail to understand who He is or how He works.

God is with us, but we often don't see Him at work because we fail to understand who He is or how He works.

For many women in difficult situations, fear takes a powerful hold. The reasons, whether real or imagined, abound: the possibility of illness or de...

What place does 'sacrifice' have in the modern world? The Bible says it is central - and that sacrifice is not only a vital key to the future, it i...

When spiritual growth is stagnant, beloved leaders fail, and friends and family trickle away from church, it's easy to feel disappointed in a faith...

John Shower has one main doctrine to expound in this important work: Pardoning mercy is the most valuable mercy. There is no blessedness in this wo...

True meditation is not emptying the mind, but filling it. And everyone meditates on something. The Puritans viewed meditation as essential for spi...

The demands of life coupled with the myriad of challenges people face daily leave them feeling tired, discouraged and overwhelmed. Waking up in the...

Pray with Power to Restore Justice and Bring America Home.America is in crisis. Once a nation under God, the Supreme Court has turned us away from ...

Crack the Code to Miracles—and Watch the Impossible Bow to Jesus!Why do sickness and struggle still cling to you when God’s Word declares healing i...

The Battle for Your Heart Is the Most Important Battle You’ll Ever Face.Do you ever feel torn between trusting God and giving in to fear? Have life...

The Clock Is Ticking. You Are the Tipping Point.Are you waiting on someone else to lead the charge? Wondering if the shift our world so desperately...

Why God Allows Suffering and How He Uses It to Transform Us Why does God allow his children to suffer? While we may not always learn the cause of a...

Severing the Root of Sin with the Promises of God Sin ensnares us in a false sense of happiness. When it takes hold, it leads us away from God and ...

Loneliness has reached epidemic proportions, according to many sources. In an age of mobility and fraying civic life, we are all susceptible to its...

Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers. Through brief daily readings and reflections, the 30-Day Journey series invites r...

Praise is the only path to God--at least this is what many of us have been taught. But the notion that we have to be positive all the time, putting...

Over the last twenty years spiritual director, teacher, and pilgrim Tracy Balzer has made more than a dozen transatlantic visits to Scotland's Isle...

Stillness. Prayer. Sabbath. In a restless world, what do those words even mean? Public health expert Kate H. Rademacher grew up thinking it was up ...

Contemporary life is leaving us frazzled, overwhelmed, and out of sorts.Our life's rhythm is often borrowed from the pace of life around us. Humans...

Jesus ascended to heaven. End of story. But then how do we explain the many Christians, in nearly every century since, who claimed to have seen, he...

What is a blessing? Do you have to believe to receive one? Can you doubt while you pray? And can you extend grace to others while still desperately...

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.--Howard Th...

In a world eager to promote the newest wunderkind, grandmother theology carries us two or more generations back: to the kitchens, hair salons, gard...

No one asks for restless moments. No one wants to feel irritated, unsettled, or stuck. When pressed into restless seasons in our relationships, wor...

An overlooked background figure in the grand narrative of the apostle Paul, Agabus (Acts 21:10-14) bursts from the epistles with an audacious proph...

What would Jesus see if he looked at the world around us today?In these pages, Aaron Rosen, one of the world's leading experts on art and religion,...

Many of us have heard about the recently discovered writings by the early followers of Jesus through newspapers, magazines, video and audio intervi...

This revised and expanded edition offers a big possibility: the hope of achieving real, experiential union with God.The Christian of the future wil...

Holy Runaways speaks to people who are feeling ignored, oppressed, or rejected by their religious community and church, offering a path forward bui...

Following the way of Jesus should lead us into authentic and life-giving relationships.The Jesus Way calls us into community with others to form a ...

A better story of faith exists, and it has the capacity to heal the world--if we only embrace, articulate, and live it more courageously.You know w...

When your faith begins to feel too small, too confining, you could choose to leave it. But what if the faith we inhabit is roomier than we'd though...

What is spiritual intelligence? How do you gain it? And what if it looks a lot like love?This first-of-its-kind guide to spiritual intelligence--ro...