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A Voice in the Wilderness by Giovanni Baptista   The internal light of truth burns in us all. How brightly it burns is determined by how much we feed the fire with the faith, hope, and love with which it burns. Even in the darkness, it will show the way, for it is then...

I am so glad, joyful, happy to write.This is peace, a gift from GOD to Him.There’s no way I could have made it without this gift.THANK GOD, THANK GOD, THANK GOD!A man not understood from day one.Lost (in His word); a child who could see;The world of tomorrow as only GOD had seen for me.Began to show him things.Why me, how blessed am I?For I have a job in God. (in his words)Royce Briddell

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Every cloud has a silver lining. The poems and stories in Faith, Courage, Wisdom, Strength and Hope will encourage readers to stay positive, because there is always a light at the end of the tunnel and a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. This book focuses on faith, courage, wisdom, strength...

Most readers of contemporary poetry would agree with literary critic Helen Vendler that "there is no significant poet whose work does not mirror, both formally and in its preoccupations, the absence of the transcendent"--that no major modern poet writes religious poetry. Indeed, the very idea that...

“Theoretical Religion is easy. Even a chimpanzee can get it. What the world needs is Practical Scientific Religion.” “Once upon a time, there was a frog that lived in a well. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. One day another frog that lived in the sea...

SAID’s 99 Psalms are poems of praise and lament, of questioning and wondering. In the tradition of the Hebrew psalmist, they find their voice in exile, in this case one that is both existential and geographical. His decision to include 99 in this collection recalls the ancient Muslim tradition that...

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, Christmas trees, lights, the baby Jesus, and, of course, presents. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your ears, or maybe you even picture nutcrackers or Scrooge and Tiny Tim. Christmas...

Aaron Zeitlin was a living cruse of sacred oil saved from the Holocaust. Wracked by guilt and despair for having survived by chance, Aaron Zeitlin, a Yiddish poet of religious intensity, reconfirmed his faith while memorializing Polish Jewry and his lost family. In Poems of the Holocaust and Poems...

The acclaimed and irresistible truth-telling poetics found in Ponder Awhile is magical. Poet Mohit K. Misra does more than ponder as he contemplates the nature of man and God, he unveils the very essence of humanity. An atheist from a long line of Hindu and Parsi priests, in his mid-twenties the sea...

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Practical Gods is the eighth collection by Carl Dennis, a critically acclaimed poet and recent winner of one of the most prestigious poetry awards, the Ruth Lilly Prize. Carl Dennis has won acclaim for "wise, original, and often deeply moving"...

It is nearly impossible to over-estimate your value to God. To answer the complaints of the religious leaders of his time, Jesus told a large crowd three stories in quick succession. In each story something of value was lost or out of place. In the first story it was a sheep. In the second...

A Buddhist holy man whose songs have been sung and studied since the twelfth century, Milarepa exchanged a life of sin and maliciousness for one of contemplation and love, eventually reaching—according to his disciples—the ultimate state of enlightenment. His thousands of extemporaneously composed...

Oneworld Publications and the Kahlil Gibran Research and Studies Project at the University of Maryland have put together The Essential Gibran, a volume of selected passages representative of Gibran’s style and thought. The collection includes selections from his Arabic works, English works, letters,...