Writing Books

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

by Thomas Merton

In this series of notes, opinions, experiences, and reflections, Thomas Merton examines some of the most urgent questions of our age. With his characteristic...

tags: philosophy, essays, religion, spirituality, christianity, theology, politics, christian, writing, nonfiction, catholic

The Defendant

by G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton's collected essays on subjects ranging from detective stories and penny dreadfuls to heraldry and patriotism. The essays originally appeared in...

tags: 20th century, humor, writing, philosophy, european literature, essays, christianity, language, religion, nonfiction, literature, british literature, christian

Screwtape Proposes A Toast, And Other Pieces

Screwtape Proposes A Toast, And Other Pieces

Screwtape Proposes a Toast and other Pieces

tags: theology, spirituality, writing, essays, christianity, classics, religion, fantasy, fiction, christian fiction, christian

George Washington's Farewell Address

George Washington's Farewell Address

by George Washington

On September 17,1796, George Washington announced that he would leave the presidency. His famous farewell address encapsulates a view of the Union, the...

tags: american history, historical, american, writing, politics, philosophy, essays, classics, north american hi..., leadership, nonfiction, literature, history

Studies in Words

Studies in Words

Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's...

tags: writing, unfinished, christian, linguistics, philosophy, essays, language, humanities, nonfiction, literature, criticism, literary criticism

The Humanity of God

The Humanity of God

Karl Barth is generally regarded as the greatest Protestant thinker of modern times. The three essays in this book, "The Humanity of God," "Evangelical...

tags: theology, spirituality, writing, philosophy, christianity, essays, religion, god, nonfiction, christian living, christian

C.S. Lewis Essay Collection & Other Short Pieces

C.S. Lewis Essay Collection & Other Short Pieces

This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C.S. Lewis brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books,...

tags: theology, writing, audiobook, philosophy, essays, christianity, classics, religion, short stories, nonfiction, christian

Letters of C. S. Lewis

Letters of C. S. Lewis

A repackaged edition of the revered author’s collection of personal letters—a curated selection of the best of his correspondence with family, friends, and...

tags: biography memoir, writing, literature, faith, memoir, christianity, essays, religion, biography, nonfiction, autobiography, christian

The Idea of a University

The Idea of a University

by John Henry Newman

The issues that John Henry Newman raised—the place of religion and moral values in the university setting, the competing claims of liberal and professional...

tags: theology, catholic, writing, academic, philosophy, christianity, education, classics, essays, religion, nonfiction

A Writer's Diary

A Writer's Diary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete DiaryDiary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is...

tags: nonfiction, history, cultural, biography, diary, classics, language, literature, essays, writing, russia, russian literature

The Longing for Home: Reflections at Midlife

The Longing for Home: Reflections at Midlife

by Frederick Buechner

In this deeply moving book of reflection and recollection, Frederick Buechner once again draws us into his deeply textured life and experience to illuminate...

tags: spirituality, writing, christian living, faith, memoir, essays, christianity, religion, biography, nonfiction, autobiography, christian

A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

by Frederick Buechner

A Room Called RememberA Room Called Remember brings together some of Buechner's finest writings on faith, love, and the power of words in the form of essays,...

tags: theology, spirituality, writing, faith, memoir, essays, christianity, religion, nonfiction, autobiography, christian

Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say

Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say

by Frederick Buechner

Four Unexpected Prophets Who Shine Light into the Darkness

tags: spirituality, writing, poetry, faith, christianity, language, religion, biography, nonfiction, literature, christian

What I Saw in America

What I Saw in America

by G.K. Chesterton

Journalist, novelist, poet, artist and art critic, essayist, theologian, propagandist, philosopher, and creator of the wily old Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton...

tags: 20th century, travel, writing, catholic, politics, philosophy, essays, christianity, classics, nonfiction, literature, history, cultural

Human Happiness

Human Happiness

by Blaise Pascal

Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human HappinessHuman Happiness are a curiously optimistic look...

tags: french literature, writing, philosophy, european literature, essays, classics, religion, nonfiction

Fern Seed And Elephants

Fern Seed And Elephants

In I959, CS. Lewis read a paper to students at Cambridge attacking theologians who ‘claim to see fern-seed and can’t see an elephant ten yards away in broad...

tags: theology, spirituality, writing, philosophy, christianity, essays, religion, nonfiction, christian

When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature

When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature

by Thomas Merton

Over 300 nature writings by Thomas Merton are collected for the first time in When The Trees Say Nothing edited by Kathleen Deignan, art by John Giuliani,...

tags: essays, religion, nature, spirituality, poetry, christian, writing, environment, nonfiction

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donne by Izaak Walton

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donne by Izaak Walton

John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well...

tags: theology, writing, philosophy, essays, christianity, classics, religion, nonfiction, poetry, history, christian

The Inner Life

by Thomas a Kempis

'We are all frail; consider none more frail than yourself.'Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see...

tags: theology, spirituality, writing, philosophy, european literature, christianity, essays, classics, religion, german literature, nonfiction, christian

Optimism

by Helen Keller

Who better than Helen Keller to write about optimism? Helen Keller became blind when she was nineteen months old. At the time children who were deaf and blind...

tags: american, writing, philosophy, essays, classics, biography, nonfiction, literature

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