Spirituality and Religion September 2025
Recent Releases
Made to Tremble : How Anxiety Became the Best Thing That Ever Happened to My Faith by Blair Linne
Made to Tremble : How Anxiety Became the Best Thing That Ever Happened to My Faith
by Blair Linne

Through gripping narrative and compelling biblical teaching, Blair Linne shares her own transformative journey through crippling anxiety and panic attacks. She helps the reader escape out of shame, isolation, quick fixes, and spiritual platitudes with profound lessons on what it means to be human and how it feels to not only know the God of Peace, but the peace of God.
How Not to Miss the Point: The Buddha's Wisdom for a Life Well Lived
by Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche

Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche cuts through spiritual clutter with clarity and warmth, offering timeless Buddhist teachings for modern life. Whether you're new to Buddhism or seeking deeper understanding, this book invites reflection, responsibility, and a renewed sense of purpose rooted in compassion and wisdom.
Tame your thoughts : three tools to renew your mind and transform your life by Max Lucado
Tame your thoughts : three tools to renew your mind and transform your life
by Max Lucado

Exploring three key thought-management tools and applying them to the most common thought problems -- worry, guilt, anxiety and other types of mental quicksand -- the author shows how to take thoughts captive, test each message against the truth of Scripture, interrupt poisonous thought threads and think and act like Jesus.
I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen and Other Lies I Think Will Make Me Happy
by Kate Strickler

Feeling stuck in comparison mode? Kate Strickler offers ten gentle mindset shifts to help you love the life you’re already living. With humor and honesty, she shares practical tips to quiet the “just wish” voice and embrace joy in the everyday.
A Rome for restless hearts : finding a spiritual home in Catholicism by Lisa Hezmalhalch
A Rome for restless hearts : finding a spiritual home in Catholicism
by Lisa Hezmalhalch

With her characteristic wit, a Protestant-turned-Catholic nun shares with readers her own questions, misunderstandings and reluctance about Catholicism, and how she discovered that the Catholic faith was already offering her soul what it was seeking: a deeper relationship with Jesus.
How to Be a Saint: An Extremely Weird and Mildly Sacrilegious History of the Catholic...
by Kate Sidley

History meets hilarity in this irreverent guide to sainthood. With wit and weirdness, Kate Sidley explores the bizarre lives of saints and the quirky process of canonization. This will delight anyone who loves religious history with a twist -- and a few severed heads.
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