When Father Tim finds a battered nativity scene in an antique shop, something stirs within him. Recalling memories of the creche he had as a child, he embarks on a renovation project that soon becomes a journey of faith. Before he is...
Clergy
- Author:Karon, JanSummary:
- Author:Ramsay, FrederickSummary:
Waldo Templeton was, at best, a mediocre organist. He was also careless, so his killer was able to follow him to the sanctuary of Stonewall Jackson Memorial Church in Picketsville, VA, and dispatch him. Then the Vicar’s secretary...
- Author:Carter, Karen E.Summary:
In 1770, the priest Nicolas Vernier was accused of neglecting church services, inappropriate behaviour in the confessional, financial improprieties, and affairs with the village schoolmistresses. In a contentious church court case,...
- Author:Ciufo, PaulSummary:
To a conservative church in a south-western Ontario town comes Jonah Arias - a troubled, left-leaning, pill-popping United Church minister. Jonah is also young and idealistic, with courage enough to challenge the power-brokers in his...
- Author:Marchand, CarlSummary:
«J’ai besoin que le monde m’aime.» Voilà, c’est dit... Après neuf mois d’entretiens et de rencontres, Raymond Gravel laisse tomber cette toute petite phrase. Si quelques mots suffisaient à le définir, ce serait ceux-là: ce besoin d’...
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
The seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new...
- Author:Coleman, BrittaSummary:
Mark Reynolds is an up-and-coming minister in an affluent Houston church and Amanda is the girl of his dreams. The outlook for his future is extremely bright until Amanda tells him that she is pregnant. The newlyweds are tormented with...
- Author:Chapman-Adisho, AnnetteSummary:
In 1790, the French revolutionary government reformed the Catholic Church and demanded that clerics swear an oath of allegiance to the nation and its vision for French Catholicism. Although half of France's parish clergy refused to...
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
Winner of Silver Angel and Golden Heart Awards, Lauraine Snelling is the multimillion-selling author of over 50 inspiring books. As Opal begins, it's 1886 in the wild and untamed Dakotah Territory. To avoid a drifter's murderous...
- Author:Quealey, Michael, Haberman, Arthur, Rehner, JanSummary:
My Basilian Priesthood is a memoir of Michael Quealey's six years in the order in the 1960s. During his priesthood, Quealey was director of the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto and engaged in reforming the mass and in...
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church -- the only available shelter from the rain -- and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of...
- Author:Sherrod, Leslie J.Summary:
Focusing on executive success and pursuit of His abundance, minister Anthony Murdock withdraws from reconciling past sins. But now those sins threaten to destroy his success and harm his relationship with God.
- Author:Cliche, NormandSummary:
L’ange tourmenté raconte les mésaventures d’un jeune curé, Isidore Bilodeau, dont la foi est mise à rude épreuve par l’Archevêque de Québec, un homme aux intentions et au désir de vengeance pas très « catholiques ». En raison d’une...
- Author:GRAHAM, BillySummary:
In Just As I Am, Billy Graham looks back at it all - remembering his dairy farm upbringing, his early preaching experiences, and the overwhelming international response to his public ministry based on his unshakable belief in Christ....
- Author:Heinlein, Robert A.Summary:
Fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer knew that Armageddon was near. Somehow, he had to bring his beloved heathen, Margrethe, to a state of grace--and, while he was at it, save the rest of the world.
- Author:Altenberg, KarinSummary:
Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction July, 1830. On the ten-hour sail west from the Hebrides to the islands of St. Kilda, everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie. Neil is to become the minister to the small community...
- Author:Kelln, BradSummary:
In the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University there lies a 400-year-old document that no one has been able to decipher. Twenty years ago the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) secretly...
- Author:Karon, JanSummary:
This novel takes Father Tim Kavanaugh and his wife Cynthia to Ireland for a long-planned foray into Kavanaugh history. But while they are basking in the beauty of their surroundings, trouble comes to paradise when Cynthia surprises a...
- Author:Sheldon, Charles MonroeSummary:
The last words of a desperate, unemployed printer point out the difference between believing in Christianity and actually living it.
- Author:Karon, JanSummary:
Lured by a mysterious note, recently retired Father Tim heads for his boyhood home of Holly Springs, Mississippi. But as memories flood his mind, he soon encounters a life-altering truth and receives a gift that could cost him...