Do we choose God or does God choose us? Admittedly, there are Bible passages to support both.

In Owls Mate for Life, James Paauw chronicles the dramatic seven-month survival struggle of his wife, Liz, following a high-speed head-on motor vehicle crash.

My parents need more support, but my siblings don’t want to help. How can I get them to step up and honor their father and mother?

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My lifelong Christian identity meant patriarchal Abraham had been my spiritual father. But now I realized l also had a genetic connection to him.

While our national discourse rightfully condemns Islamophobia and antisemitism, the systematic persecution of Christians around the world receives only a fraction of our collective outrage.

Middle-grade readers will learn the little-known story of Mamie Tape, an 8-year-old Chinese American girl whose family fought for her right to attend public school in San Francisco.

After a brain injury erases the past eight years of Dr. Amy Larsen's life, she must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients, colleagues, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves, or the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away.

Dr. Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes's viral TED Talk on end-of-life care cemented her, a palliative care doctor in Brazil, as a global leader on living and dying well.

As a columnist for the New York Times who writes often about spiritual topics for a skeptical audience, Ross Douthat understands that many of us want to have more faith than we do. He argues that what we know today should make it harder to not have faith than to have it.

I need to spend more time on Bible study. Is there a best way to do that?

Whatever it is you want to do someday—whatever it is, go home and do it today.

In this beautifully illustrated mock-autobiography for middle-grade readers, Wind speaks directly to the reader, telling fascinating stories that show its cultural, historical, and technical importance to humans.

A documentary explores the beloved PBS television series for children.

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Prog rocker and believer Neal Morse forms a new band, The Resonance, with players much younger than him, to fascinating effect.

This nonfiction spy novel goes beyond Corrie ten Boom’s memoir The Hiding Place to give a bigger picture of her impact on the Dutch resistance and the world.

It was so natural to spoon nourishment into the mouth of a toddler. It was so strange to spoon food into the mouth of a 90-year-old man.

How do these two things connect?

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It means a whole lot to us who are left behind if you take care of things beforehand.

A fictional reimagining of Rachel Carson’s life, illustrated by Sophie Blackall. For 8-12 year olds.

Set in a small coastal town in British Columbia, this semi-cozy procedural stars Rossif Sutherland as melancholy detective Karl Alberg.