National Poetry Series WinnerA collection of poems exploring religious and linguistic authority, from medieval England to contemporary Appalachia—with a foreword by Poet Laureate Tracy K. SmithThe poems in Scriptorium are primarily concerned with questions of religious authority. The medieval scriptorium, the central image of the collection, stands for that authority but also for its subversion; it is both a place where religious i...

Melissa Range’s Printer’s Fist, awarded the 2025 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection that tells the story of a political movement—its strides and setbacks, its unity and fractures—with a particular emphasis on print culture. Drawing upon more than a decade’s worth of archival research into nineteenth-century antislavery newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, and more, Range highlights the expansiveness of the movement by focusing not on one, but a chorus of abolition...

You are destined to have a soul mate. If you trust in God’s plan for love and hold on to faith and romance**, the picture of love you envision can become your reality. So believe…and learn to recognize those** romantic godwinks**, the** signs from God about love**.**Just like a jigsaw puzzle where every piece has its place, your life was designed with divine matchmaking in mind—cra...

Pastor Jim Cymbala calls us back to a fiery, passionate preoccupation with God that will restore what the enemy has stolen from us: our first love for Jesus, our zeal, our troubled children, our wounded marriages, our broken and divided churches.Born out of the heart and soul of The Brooklyn Tabernacle, the message of Fresh Faith is illustrated by true stories of men and women whose lives have been changed through the power of faith."Real faith is ...

We will never be short on fears. Failure, rejection, sickness, losing a loved one, being alone—the fears we carry are many and heavy. Fear can be a tyrant, a bully we can’t hide from. It can paralyze our spirit, damage our relationships, and hinder our faith.Trillia is no stranger to fear. She has known its harsh grip on her life, but she has also known the gentle hand of God, a peace and a faith from the One who conquers fears.In Fear and Faith, T...

Updated in 2020. Samuel Rees Howells, A Life of Intercession: The Legacy of Prayer and Spiritual Warfare of an Intercessor by Richard A. Maton, Paul Backholer and Mathew Backholer. Rees Howells, a powerful intercessor, taught his son Samuel the principles of intercession and commissioned him some weeks before his death, stating, “Whatever you do, stand and maintain these intercessions.” For the next fifty-four years, Samuel Rees Howells exercised a powerful intercessory ministry as he focu...

“Fruit of the Spirit: Spiritual Food to Live By” is a e-book written the most famous passage about the 'fruit of the Spirit' is found in Galatians 5:22, where Paul gives us a list of fruits. The list is meant as a contrast to the list of the deeds of the flesh' found in Galatians 5:19-21. The Bible clearly teaches that Christians are to bear fruit. Jesus said, "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring f...

Religion writer Jim Castelli set out to answer these profound questions by talking with twenty-six spiritual leaders and practitioners representing the wide spectrum of faith in America today. How I Pray gathers these remarkable conversations into a thought-provoking, personal, and deeply meaningful volume.In How I Pray Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, Native Americans and Mormons, and members of many other faiths describe the intimate ...

Pastor Ray Pritchard examines the Apostles' creed line-by-line,point-by-point. His explanations are vibrant, thorough, accessible,and firmly rooted in Scripture.

In 1878 D. S. Warner wrote: "The Lord ... gave me a new commission to join holiness and all truth together and build up the apostolic church of the living God."Bro. Warner and his associates, discerning the impossibility of the true church existing within the framework of denominationalism, declared their freedom from the "sin of sectism and division" and instituted the "evening light" restoration movement in the latter part of the nineteenth century in direct fulfillment of Bible ...

Jesus describes how to establish faith in God that is not blind, but is based on real evidence.Document source filename: 20100523 Relationship With God - Faith.This ebook is a transcript of a seminar delivered by Jesus (AJ Miller) on 23rd May 2010 in Buderim, Australia,as part of the Relationship with God series.