Looking at that primal relationship between mother and daughter, the author tells the story of her mother and herself two very different people. She also addresses an issue that many of the baby boomer generation struggle with: the conflict between caring for family, caring for an aging parent and caring for one's soul.
An intellectual with a distinctive spiritual charisma, a prolific writer and poet, M Fethullah Gulen has been an extremely effective and popular scholar of Islam. This work presents Gulen through a short biography, a selection of various articles, his views on modern education and its importance, and how he has been presented in the media.
A lucid study that contextualizes the thinking of a pivotal personality in late medieval European Judaism relative to earlier and later mystical traditions.
Uncovers Tony Blair's religious and social motivations through a series of interviews and first-hand accounts with some of his closest contemporaries.
Examines the role of Christian missionaries in the Pacific Islands. This book presents George Brown's career (1860-1908) spanning one of the most tumultuous political periods in the South Pacific, as one by one islands were colonised by imperial nations. He was one of the politically engaged missionaries, encouraging colonial rule in the Pacific.
Tells the story of a young man who became enthralled with Catholicism around 1950, went on to become a priest, served in New Jersey parishes, and left the priesthood in 1967. What makes his story different is the phenomenon of the will to believe. This memoir is an insider's picture of Catholic life and Catholic education in the 1950s and 1960s.
John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. This title tells the story of the chequered attempts to establish Newman's sanctity against the background of major developments within Catholicism, including his profound influence on the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.