The visit of the traveling Preacher Man to his small North Carolina town gives new impetus to thirteen-year-old Peter's struggle to reconcile his own deeply felt religious belief with the beliefs and non-beliefs of his family and friends.

John Updike's seventeenth novel begins in 1910, and traces God's relation to four generations of an American family, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith, and becomes an encyclopedia salesman and a motion-picture addict. The remainder of Clarence's family moves to the small town of Basingstoke, Delaware, where his cautious son, Teddy, becomes a mailman. Faithless himself, Teddy marries...

"Luke Chisolm ... [is] a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford ... But Johnny's more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life, love, and faith force Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the...

"A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scienist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses"--Container.

Albert Bentley was a troubled kid. He put all of his trust into his special rock. When he went to Sunday school with Jimmy Parker, Jimmy embarrassed him in front of all of his friends. Albert began stealing things, ignored his parents, and depended on his rock. Janie Logan and the unicorns help Albert to see that he needs God's help. As Janie and her friends help Albert, she learns a valuable lesson of her own.

Story of the inner struggles faced by a nun, the difficulties of obedience and her inablility to forgive the death of her father during WWII.

Letters from God in the form of e-mail written to teenagers to encourage them and strengthen their faith in God.

Regional princes and the powerful Catholic Church wield a fast, firm and merciless grip over 16th-century Germany. But when Martin Luther issues a shocking challenge to their authority, the people declare him their new leader - and hero. Even when threatened with violent death, Luther refused to back down, sparking a bloody religious revolution that shakes the entire continent to its core.

A sourcebook of poetry and prose which celebrates the many forms of women's spirituality.