Spiritual Memoir

In 1963, following twenty-three years of hard labor and abuse in Russian prison camps, Walter J. Ciszek, S.J., finally returned to America. Had he come back a bitter man, or a man of diminished faith, it would have been hard to fault him. But he didn’t. For the remainder of his years, until his death in 1984, Fr. Ciszek’s grace, faith, and wisdom touched—often in profound and lasting ways—everyone who came into contact with him.

Falling to Grace – A Powerful Journey from Brokenness to Purpose What if the lowest point in your life was the very place you were meant to rise from? Falling to Grace is a deeply personal and inspiring testimony of transformation, redemption, and faith. From a strict and conflicted childhood to serving in the U.S. Navy, from becoming a bestselling science fiction author to finally stepping into true identity, this memoir traces a remarkable path of struggle, discovery, and healing. Told with raw honesty and heartfelt conviction, this is the story of a life that seemed to fall apart—...

Domestic Violence... One Christian Womans Story. What Would You Do in These Heart-Wrenching Circumstances? Are you, or someone you love, a victim of violence? Statistics show that abuse is rising worldwide, spreading like a devastating disease—even into Christian homes. You may know someone who seems to be on this destructive path or might even recognize these signs in your own life. From the very beginning, the warning signs were there, yet love blinded her to the inevitable. When you’re a kind and decent person, you want to believe the best in others. But some people see your goodness...

This book follows the story of highly motivated and entrepreneurial twin brothers David and Jason Benham, from their formative years and ventures into professional baseball to their rise as owners of a multimillion-dollar business empire and securing an HGTV reality series.

“I Want to Trust You God, but It’s Scary” is a deeply honest and hopeful journey through faith, fear, disappointment, and rediscovery. In these pages, you’ll find the voice of someone who’s been there—someone who believed in God’s power but wrestled with His silence. Someone who prayed hard, waited long, and wondered why trusting God felt so complicated. With vulnerable storytelling and spiritual insight, this book explores the subtle but powerful ways childhood faith can turn into adult confusion—and how to relearn who God really is when your expectations don’t match your...

Born and raised in a small Oregon town, all-American girl Rebecca Bender was a varsity athlete and honor-roll student with a promising future. Then a predator pretending to be her boyfriend lured her into a web of lies that sent her down a path she never imagined possible. For nearly six years, Rebecca was sold across the underground world of sex trafficking in Las Vegas. She was branded, beaten, told when to sleep and what to wear, and traded between traffickers. During that time, God began revealing himself to her.

My story is not about my past, but about your future, says Marie Roberts Monville. In the startling tragedy of the Amish schoolhouse shooting at Nickel Mines, one story has never been told; Marie Roberts Monville, the wife of the man who created such horror, tells her story for the very first time. It is a story of sorrow and destruction, but also one of majestic deliverance, unending compassion, breathtaking forgiveness, and grace-filled redemption. Within a solitary moment, Marie Monville realized that life, as she knew it, was over.

Do you ever feel controlled by your life? Is it hard for you to release anger from the past? Are you just surviving and calling it living? Face your fears and their message! Each experience is perfectly aligned for your purpose, peace, and freedom. Listen and trust. Your life lessons will guide you. * * * In her memoir, Lynn Balter shows how she transformed unimaginable traumas into a triumphant life of compassion, purpose, and philanthropy. Her life story illustrates the important lessons she learned while surviving and thriving after childhood trauma, sexual assault, divorce, addiction, ...

From zeniths of ecstasy and through valleys of darkness, one man’s journey leads him across a colorful landscape of strange adventures, and into the depths of truth that we all eventually seek. After attempts to escape the troubles of his mysterious past through sex, drugs, and violence; things end up in ruin. But then, a series of profound mystical experiences compels him along the path of self-knowledge. An unfoldment of the spiritual sciences opens up before him and leads the way to realization and lasting happiness.

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. (Revelation 12:11) Are you battling demons from your past? Feeling bound by the shackles of shame? Do you long to break free from bondage? Kelsey Decker’s memoir is Mary Magdalene meets Damascus Road. A poetic story written for God’s glory. These pages are filled with love, loss, grief, trauma, and abuse. They also overflow with God’s mercy and grace. It’s shocking, intriguing, and beautiful. She is an overcomer of impossible odds, freed from addictions, prostitution, cult abuse, New Age beliefs, ...

The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers focuses on Mr. Rogers' spiritual legacy, but it is much more than that. It shows us a man who, to paraphrase the words of St. Francis of Assisi, "preached the gospel at all times; when necessary he used words".

With God, your suffering is redeemed. Find strength, purpose and hope when suffering finds you. Suffering is inevitable-whether it be physical, emotional, relational, or circumstantial. Ongoing suffering can leave us feeling hopeless and helpless. In Suffering Redeemed, Karis Meier explores what it looks like to suffer well by chronicling her own compelling story of physical illness. She processes the raw struggle, endless questions, cycles of disappointment and hope, and the treasure of intimacy with God through her journey. She offers practical applications from Scripture and strategies ...

Dallas Willard was a personal mentor and inspiration to hundreds of pastors, philosophers, and average churchgoers. His presence and ideas rippled through the lives of many prominent leaders and authors, such as John Ortberg, Richard Foster, James Bryan Smith, Paula Huston, and J. P. Moreland. As a result of these relationships and the books he wrote, he fundamentally altered the way tens of thousands of Christians have understood and experienced the spiritual life.

“Even when life doesn’t look like green pastures… I’m learning to trust the Shepherd anyway.” Have you ever walked through a season so heavy, so quiet, so uncertain—you wondered if God had forgotten you? In Lord, Show Me Your Green Pastures, mother-daughter duo Betty Poole and Lakeshia Poole offer a gentle, heartfelt meditation on Psalm 23, written for anyone navigating grief, loss, burnout, or spiritual exhaustion. This book invites you to pause, reflect, and rediscover the peace and presence of God—even in the middle of life’s hardest moments. This book is perfect for: ...

When Ernest Gordon was 24 he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious "Railroad of Death", where nearly 16,000 prisoners of war gave their life. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds.

Unstuck in Time: Memoir of a Time Traveler is a TRUE story about how love transcends time. It is a spiritual quest through many lives to discover the reasons why we reincarnate and how awareness of other lives can affect the present life. As a Soul Medium, Past Life Regression Therapist/Reincarnation Researcher as well as the subject, Carole Louie's story gives a unique perspective to the process. Louie shares eight past lives from a concubine to an archbishop, from the Second Opium War to the Holocaust, from suicide to the continuity of life. The Backstories connect the individual stories ...

In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith. And now, in her powerful and haunting memoir, Rice tells the story of the spiritual transformation that produced a complete change in her literary goals.

A Life Observed tells the inspiring story of Lewis' spiritual journey from cynical atheist to joyous Christian. Drawing on Lewis' autobiographical works, books by those who knew him personally, and his apologetic and fictional writing, this spiritual biography brings the beloved author’s story to life while shedding light on his best-known works.

In a culture that praises blending in over standing out, productivity over purpose, and noise over truth, many women find their God-given voice compromised, quieted, or even mocked. We all long to live out our divinely designed passions and unique talents, yet too often it becomes so much easier in the face of opposition to stay silent altogether. What if God is calling you to so much more? As a working mom, wife, artist, and abolitionist, Natalie Grant has struggled to live on purpose while battling the worldly demands of keeping up the appearance of perfection.

There’s a lie masquerading as truth that’s running rampant in our culture. It goes something like this: you are powerful enough to control your circumstances and create the life you want through positive thinking, solid planning, and dreaming big enough. But if you’ve ever tried to control your life or to strive your way to self-fulfillment, you’ve discovered what lies on the other side of this supposedly empowering message. Tara Sun explores why the quest for control is overrated—not to mention downright dangerous—and reveals the surprising, lifegiving alternative: radical surrender to God.