Chiara Lubich is now being called a great Catholic mystic of our times. In these letters we encounter the mystical charism of unity given to Chiara, the unity that Jesus asked for us from his Father:
This “ridiculous” religious thinking—that when we help the poor, they end up helping us—is at the heart of the 30 stories that Jane Knuth shares in Thrift Store Graces, the sequel to her popular Thr
People on the lookout for trends in the Catholic Church will be very happy to discover Brendan Leahy's Ecclesial Movements and Communities. His overview of their rise and development over the last 50
Forest draws from the wealth of journals and letters left by Day to present a biography of the founder of the Catholic Worker movement. He details her work during the first half of the twentieth centu
In January 2002, investigative reporting at the Boston Globe set off a wave of revelations regarding child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy and the transferring of abusive priests from parish to parish
Moody Bible Institute will celebrate 125 years of ministry in 2011. The "official" history of MBI is being updated by Jim Vincent, to be released in time for Founder's Week in February, 2011.Jim Vince
The influence of Christians is a part of our inheritance and a key factor in the creation of a moral fabric underpinning our society.For a society to function there have to be norms of acceptable beha
This is not a book about why people give; it is a guide for how to create outreach partnerships to provide better help more efficiently and responsibly. With text aided by practical worksheets, it exp
Moral Re-Armament's followers hailed it as the most important spiritual movement of the twentieth century. It claimed supporters from Mohandas Gandhi to Mae West, who praised its contributions to glob
There are a variety of people, practices, and celebrations in the Catholic Church. At times some of these can be dismissed too easily as extreme, superstitious, or uninformed. Such is the case with th
A collection of photos, stories, and devotions, which celebrates the rich history of The Upper Room daily devotional guide over the past 75 years.In 1935, The Upper Room began as a way to connect indi
A doctor, a professor, a dancer, a stay-at-home mom, and a marketing executive are some of the inspiring women portrayed in this collection that describes the women of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic orga
Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) was probably the single greatest intellectual influence on young evangelicals of the 1960s and ’70s. He was cultural critic, popular mentor, political activis
In 1999 Kathy Berken left Green Bay, Wisconsin, for her new home as a live-in assistant in a L'Arche community in Clinton, Iowa. Although the life she left was not necessarily one of balmy beaches, sh
Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million. Nonde
When Dorothy Day died in 1980, many people assumed that the movement she had founded would gradually fade away. But the current state of the Catholic Worker movement - more than two hundred active co
Black and white women's struggles over race relations in the YWCA and beyond As the major national biracial women's organization, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) provided a unique venu
