After a visceral near-death experience raised existential questions he had never previously considered, award-winning journalist and author of The Perfect Storm and Tribes Sebastian Junger shares his candid reflections on navigating this unanticipated shift in his worldview.
The sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports, who also happens to be the son of world-renowned spiritualist Deepak Chopra, explores how heavily sports and religion are intertwined with the help of personal anecdotes from such luminaries as Tom Brady, Serena Williams and Lebron James.
Readers interested in the intersections between their faith and the looming specter of climate change will want to check out this thought-provoking and surprisingly inspiring analysis of the detrimental effects of modern social structures on the planet, with examples from scripture of ways to meet potential calamity without succumbing to despair.
This history of practitioners of“service magic” in medieval and early modern Europe reveals the central place they occupied in everyday life and how they helped soothe the anxieties of both commoners and nobles.
Part memoir and part motivational guide, this heartwarming debut from Grammy award-winning gospel singer Tasha Cobbs Leonard is filled with moving and inspiring reflections on how her faith in God's plans for her life gave her the courage to pursue the "impossible" in her professional and personal lives.
Drawing as much from the conventions of true crime as from social history and folklore, journalist Randall Sullivan examines the pervasive nature of concepts of the Devil (and lowercase-D devils) across an array of cultures and how depictions of the satanic have changed over time.
A bioethics professor pits the traditional moral reasoning of philosophers like Plato, Hegel and Kant against the confusing and scary global problems of today and offers a personal guide to building a strong and modern ethical and moral compass.
Just as she does in her fiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson pairs her love of literature with her interest in theology in this thought-provoking close reading of the book of Genesis. Topics include: the "show, don't tell" storytelling rule of thumb, character archetypes as applied to biblical figures, and concepts like grace and justice.
One of the world's leading natural history filmmakers shows how we can reinvigorate our lives by developing a deep connection to the Earth, nurture our individual wildness and deepen our love for all living things.