Minimalism is the thing that gets us past the things so we can make room for life's most important things—which actually aren't things at all.At age 30, best friends Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus walked away from their six-figure corporate careers, jettisoned most of their material possessions, and started focusing on what's truly important.In their debut book, Joshua & Ryan, authors of the popular website The Minimalists, explore their troubled p...

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER****"The Minimalists show you how to disconnect from our conditioned material state and reconnect to our true essence: love people and use things. This is not a book about how to live with less, but about how to live more deeply and more fully."—Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Like a MonkAS SEEN ON THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARIES MINIMALISM & LESS IS NO...

“Living a better life…with less stuff.” —National PostWhat if everything you ever wanted isn’t what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore.Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the life he had built for himself. Then, he accidentally discovered a lifestyle known...

The best of The Minimalists.This book by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays—some short, some long—from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com. This collection has been edited and organized to create an experience that's considerably different from reading individual selections online. From simple living, decluttering, and finances, to passion, health, and relationships, Essential is for anyone who desires a more intentional...

Prologue of AnaniasI ANANIAS, of the proprætor’s body-guard, being learned in the law, knowing our Lord Jesus Christ from the Holy Scriptures, coming to Him by faith, and counted worthy of the holy baptism, searching also the memorials written at that time of what was done in the case of our Lord Jesus Christ, which the Jews had laid up in the time of Pontius Pilate, found these memorials written in Hebrew, and by the favour of God have translated them into Greek for the informatio...

The six documents inserted under this name are various forms of two books—two in Greek and one in Latin of the Acts of Pilate; one in Greek and two in Latin of the Descent of Christ to the world below. Of twelve mss., only two or three give the second part consecutively with the first, nor does it so appear in the Coptic translation. The title of Gospel of Nicodemus does not appear before the thirteenth century.Justin Martyr mentions a book called the Acts of Pilate, and Eusebius i...

The Scriptures provide essential guidance to believers on many subjects, and the topic of prayer is one of the most important legacies strengthening our faith. Prayer is crucial for survival in this modern world.The Holy Bible presents prayer as a permanent bond for communication between creature and Creator. It is both a manifestation of gratitude to God and a means of committing our desires and concerns to him. Prayer is a channel for praise, worship, confession, and intercession...

Love didn't arrive gently, it came suddenly, uninvited, like lightning splitting through the quiet lives of Seth and Addicus.For Addicus, shaped by silence and survival, art became the only language left when words failed. For Seth, already quietly unraveling, love became both refuge and reckoning.When they meet, it is not in one clear moment but in fragments, across city shadows, broken bridges, and the fragile spaces between who they were and who they are becoming. Their ...

Perciville Socrates Hammond, born and raised in the city of Boston by his overprotective mother and an elderly aunt who viewed the entire world as evil, was clueless when it came to the 'outside world'. Tall, gangly, and with a face only a mother could love, he was content to live in solitude, only leaving home for work or church.Then, out of the blue, he receives a shocking bit of information when he is contacted by an attorney about the death of his maternal grandfather—a man he h...

Elizabeth Parker was a dreamer, even in her twenties. She dreamed of leaving the small town of Tisdale, New England that had become her home after her mother had passed away. Living with her father's only sister, Aunt Matilda, was an every day learning experience. An aging seamstress and self-proclaimed spinster, Matilda Parker had never married. In her mind, there would never be another true love as she'd had taken from her in the blink of an eye so many years ago.Lizzy was a quick...

Ellsworth, my faithful canine companion and I were up the canyon early in the morning, checking on the spring that fed the creek. Everything was fine as far as the eye could see. The creek ran past the cabin that my pa and I had built on the ranch three years before. As I reflected on why I had found myself in this predicament at all, Ellsworth began licking my head as persistently as he would slurp down salt pork. I tried to sit up and focus on the situation that had developed. Whatever h...

Follow Reverend Jeremiah Boone, a traveling preacher who arrives in a struggling frontier town scarred by hardship and loss. As Jeremiah settles into Dust Creek, he becomes a beacon of hope, inspiring a fractured community to rebuild—not just their homes, but their spirits. Through trials of nature, conflict, and personal doubt, Jeremiah and the townsfolk forge new bonds, planting seeds of faith, resilience, and renewal. This heartfelt Western tale explores themes of redemption, the power ...