Religious Liturgical category: 223 books

This early work by Aleister Crowley was originally published in 1910. Born in Royal Leamington Spa, England in 1875, Crowley was raised by Christian fundamentalist parents. He attended Trinity College at Cambridge University, but left before graduating. After leaving the college, he devoted his time...

In a series of plays written for a teen audience, "Where Your Treasure Is" explores a variety of Christian concepts, from the real meaning of trust, freedom and forgiveness, to the importance of exercising the gifts we have been given. Plays range from 8 to 70 minutes and usually require...

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A Jesuit priest a New York play and questions as profound as they come . . . A few years after being called to the priesthood Father James Martin was startled to get a very different kind of call one evening in 2004: a phone call from actor Sam Rockwell. Rockwell had been cast for the part of Judas Iscariot...

"The Ninety-five Theses" or "Disputation on the Power of Indulgences" are a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin Luther, professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg. On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed this protest...

These two plays, Henry Had to Go and Evangel, are comical plays involving religion. The first is an edgy satire concerning church real estate and what might be called poorly managed human resources. In addition all the characters have a sometimes mystifying interest in music. Evangel is an...

Saul, First King of Israel is an attempt to present dramatically the story of Saul found in the biblical book of 1 Samuel from the perspective of Saul and the prophet Samuel. It covers Saul's call to become Israel's first king, his sins and their consequences, and his fall into murderous jealousy as his eventual successor, the boy David, comes to prominence.

Full Length Play, written and premiered in 2013.The play, with a cast of four (2M, 2F) follows the relationships, experiences and pressures of three workhouse inmates and a contentious new arrival - a nurse - during mid-nineteenth century Ireland.Story follows the courage and bravery of those in a tragic and harrowing environment striving to harness one objective: Survival.

Named one of the "Ten Best Plays of 2008" by The New Yorker “Sarah Ruhl’s bold, inventive, and ironic triptych [is] a meditation on devotion and its appropriation by the state. . . . Ruhl is an original; a storyteller with a fine mind evolving her own theatrical idiom.”—John...

Galen Hardaway is in a fight between warring factions of Christians. The strong bonds she forms as the walls around her crumble finally lead to her own healing and provethat love really is powerful enough to change the world.

13-Year old Madeleine approaches her dad, Rev. Clarke, for answer to a question on Trinity and a dialogue ensues. They begin by discussing problems of consciousness and personality in the Three persons of the Godhead and proceed on to evaluate various theories, models, and views on the doctrine before...

Wie ist es wirklich, als strenggläubiger Muslim, Jude, Christ, Hindu oder Buddhist durchs Leben zu gehen? Wie fühlt sich das vom Aufstehen bis zum Schlafengehen an? Christian Schwab, bekannt geworden als Mitglied der Kabarettgruppe Comedy Hirten sowie als Prominenten-Parodist und Comedy-Texter für...

“Murder in the Cathedral” by T. S. Eliot was first performed in 1935. It is a verse drama that presents the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.Most of the information that Eliot has drawn upon comes from the writing of Edward Grim who was an eyewitness...

Why Gary Neal Hansen's Christmas Play? Your church wants to put on a pageant this December. You want more than kids as shepherds in bathrobes and tinsel-winged angels. Sure, they're cute, but you want your congregation to know why the baby Jesus matters. You want to show the real meaning...