Through short cameos from his own life and others – all accompanied by stunning photos – Sheridan Voysey stimulates you to reflect on yourself, your relationships and your Creator, who loves you.
This moving book can be read as a series of interlocking romances, but it’s much more than that. Life on the Orkney island of Raumsey is tough after the Great War and the widow Isa, who has returned from Canada with her daughter Annie, is poor and hardly able to maintain the family croft without a…
Ein spannender Roman über eine monatige Reise irischer Auswanderer nach Amerika in 1847 auf einem Dampfer. Nicht für fremdsprachige geeignet! Fast unglaublich, wie millionen von landlosen Iren wegen der Kartoffelfäulnis (potato blight) fast oder ganz verhungern, wie dies den adligen reichen (meist englischen) Landbesitzern völlig egal ist. Wo ist die Gerechtigkeit, die Barmherzigkeit? Zählt dann…
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn The double bombshell of unjust eviction and a diagnosis of a terminal illness precipitates the devoted, ‘old’ couple of fifty years on a homeless hike with no future in sight. Backpacking, camping wild, surviving sometimes on little more than fruit gums and boiled limpets.
Paul Keeble shares, on the one hand, his family’s experiences of living for over 30 years as part of an underprivileged community in inner-city Manchester and, on the other hand, his personal (theological, social, political) reflections on his motivation and influence in that situation.
God intervenes in astonishing ways. Glory Zone in the War Zone: Miracles, Signs, and Wonders in the Middle East, by Andrew White One cannot repudiate Canon Andrew White’s frequent experiences of divine intervention, guidance and help in scenes of horrendous tragedy in the war zones of Baghdad and the religious tensions in other parts of…
A good, honest, inspirational book. Brian McLaren dares to face the real struggles involved in experiencing God in daily life and cultivating a vital relationship with him. The first parts (Spring and Summer) made sense for me, the rest resonated less. I had the impression the latter chapters floundered a bit, trying to discover a…