Showing results for "Faith and Community" in Biographies & Memoirs

The world can feel heavy, full of pain that outpaces our joy. A Fiercer Delight is Matt Gordon’s search for something brighter - conversations with coworkers, business leaders, neighbors, and friends who are chasing goodness, truth, and wisdom in their real, messy lives.Each episode explores the human experience - failures, turning points, small delights, and big transformations - to uncover how we might live with more light, more hope, and more joy. Starting with local voices and expanding nationally, A Fiercer Delight invites you to sit in on candid, thoughtful, sometimes funny talks that ...

Being a Christian has nothing to do with being Chinese American—that's what Kristin T. Lee learned as a child. A fissure between her identity and what she was told to believe opened wide. In We Mend with Gold, she asks: What if we can bridge the divide? Lee describes both the breaking of her...

After her husband became an agnostic, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left "spiritually single" - struggling to live the Christian life on her own, taking her kids to church by herself, and wrestling with her own questions and doubts. In this memoir, Kielsmeier-Cook tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found community in an unexpected place: an order of Catholic nuns in her neighborhood. As she spent time with them and learned about female Catholic saints, she began to see that she was not "spiritually single" after all - and that no one really is.

A moving and lyrical memoir about life, love and loss, from a true giant of Gaelic games. In a frenetic seven-year spell at the outset of his senior managerial career, Mickey Harte led Tyrone to four Ulster Championships and three All-Irelands. It was a run that shifted football’s balance of...

A warmly funny, intensely moving and startlingly personal account of the lives of an urban parish priest and his parishioners. Father Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calling while running an Argos store in his native Burnley, moonlighting as a stand-up comedian and...

Bloomsbury presents Celebrating Life: Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places by Jonathan Sacks, read by Daniel Epstein. Following the painful loss of his father, former Chief Rabbi Sacks began to learn how to celebrate life in a new way. Based, in part, on Rabbi Sacks’s collection of columns...

The Dallas police chief who inspired a nation with his response to the killing of five of his officers shares his personal story and his faith in America’s potential to unite communities through a dedication to transparency and trust. “The real deal: a real Christian, a real man, a real...

Join us on "Walking in Christ," a podcast dedicated to exploring the transformative power of faith in Jesus Christ. Hosted by Tamanna Tudu, each episode delves into the myriad ways in which the teachings of Jesus Christ intersect with our daily lives, relationships, and communities. Whether you're a seasoned believer, a curious skeptic, or somewhere in between, this podcast offers thoughtful insights, inspiring stories, and practical wisdom to help you navigate life's challenges and joys through the lens of Christian faith.

From one of America’s most prominent ministers comes an inspiring, provocative reflection on the necessity of community, the inevitability of conflict, and the transformative power of radical love. “I so love and admire the work and witness of Pastor Amy Butler.”—Anne Lamott “Here is...

The Faith Conversations Podcast brings people of faith to the table for honest, authentic conversations about personal faith journeys and what it is like to have a personal relationship with God through Jesus. Each episode highlights powerful testimonies, explores God’s character, and shares personal stories from the Christian experience — offering encouragement, hope, and advice for those who are curious, questioning, or struggling with their faith. Conversations cover topics such as finding peace, overcoming loneliness, facing health diagnoses, battling anxiety, healing from grief, ...