Books & Films

Testimony

Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony

By Lillian Daniel

Lillian Daniel shares how her congregation re-appropriated the practice of testimony one Lenten season, a practice that would eventually revitalize their worship and transform their...

Matewan

Set in Mingo County, West Virginia, in 1920, this story relates the experiences of a local teenage preacher caught in a struggle between coal miners,...

Amistad

The story of an 1839 slave mutiny and the legal status of the Africans who rose up against their captors on the high seas and...

The Apostle

"Sonny" Dewey is a Texas evangelist on the lam after clubbing his wife's lover into a coma with a baseball bat. Baptizing himself with the...

The Witness of Preaching

By Thomas G. Long

Beginning with a solid theological basis, veteran preacher and best-selling author Thomas G. Long offers a practical, step-by-step guide to writing a sermon. Long centers...

The Sacred Journey

By Frederick Buechner

This memoir reflects on key moments of the author's early life, from childhood to his entering seminary, that reveal how God speaks to us in...

The Preaching Life

By Barbara Brown Taylor

In her bestselling preaching autobiography, Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a preacher of the gospel as a priest in the...

Ragman and Other Cries of Faith

By Walter Wangerin, Jr.

Ranging from gentle reflections to heart-rending invocations, these selections are powerful, thought-provoking explorations of the meaning of faith, the person of Christ, and the communion...

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

By Anne Lamott

At once tough, personal, affectionate, wise, and very funny, Traveling Mercies tells in exuberant detail how Anne Lamott learned to shine the light of faith...