"Even when we can't see past our fears or griefs, God offers us a path to hope. Ginny Owens has a unique perspective on the darkness of life, as she has lived without sight since the age of three. In Singing in the dark, Ginny invites us to offer our petitions to God through music, prayer, and lament as she helps us: understand how songs led David, Hannah, Paul, and so many others closer to God; immerse ourselves in the songs God sings over us; write...

A repackaged edition of the revered author's first book-a collection of poems, written in the wake of World War I, in which the young intellectual and soldier wrestles with the perplexing polarities of life, including love and war, evil and goodness, and other complex dichotomies. In 1919, C. S. Lewis-the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters,...

Artistic representations were of significant value to early Christian communities. In Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Art, Lee Jefferson argues that images provided visual representations of vital religious and theological truths crucial to the faithful and projected concepts beyond the limitations of the written and spoken word. Images of Christ performing miracles or healings functioned as advertisements for Christianity and illustrated...

Egypt, the birthplace of communal monasticism, has a rich store of monasteries and monastic art. Coptic Monasteries takes the reader on a tour of the best preserved and most significant of these ancient religious centers, documenting in exhaustive detail the richness and the glory of the Coptic heritage. An informative introduction by Tim Vivian brings to life the early Christian era, with background information on the origins of the Coptic Church...

Hailed by his contemporaries as "the divine painter," Raphael Sanzio of Urbino (1483-1520) was one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. A contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael was sought out by popes, kings and aristocrats to decorate their residences. Michael Collins' new biography, Raphael's World, portrays the era in which the divine painter lived. Born thirty years after the invention of the printing press...

The Western Catholic Church is fast losing her centuries-old sense of the uncreated beauty of God, as manifested through the created beauty of sacred art, by buying into postmodern minimalism for the adornment of new churches. This loss is occurring despite the Church's longstanding tradition as Patroness of the Arts and the 1999 call of Saint John Paul II for the urgent need to return to "epiphanies of beauty" in Catholic churches worldwide. In the...

A repackaged edition of the revered author's collection of four poems: "Dymer," "Launcelot," "The Nameless Isle," and "The Queen of Drum." C. S. Lewis-the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics-was also a talented poet. In this collection of four longer works of verse, Lewis...

St. John of the Cross, was a Carmelite friar and priest. He is renowned for his cooperation with Saint Teresa of Ávila in the reformation of the Carmelite order, and for his poetry and his studies on the growth of the soul. Dark Night of the Soul is, considered one of the greatest religious poems ever written. This masterpiece of Mystic Christianity examines, faith and how to keep faith, when all seems lost. Think of it as guide to making it through...

In this engaging study, the author compares Mary Oliver's poetry and traditional religious language and provides a fresh perspective from which to enjoy her work.

Growth is a book born from the years of learning and lessons that the Lord has revealed to Kelsey throughout her life. It correlates to the process of a plant: just as a plant does not bloom in the same day its seed has been planted, the same is true of the seasons in life. Healing, beauty, and ultimately growth come from seasons of life that are cultivated by the Creator who lovingly tends to His children.