With gentle subtlety, C.S. Lewis emphasized the power of focusing the totality of our lives upon the grace of God. Keep your eyes fixed on Him regardless of what is thrown your way.

Till We Have Faces introduces us to the message of the power of the presence of God to heal grief.

After his conversion to Christianity, Tolstoy wrote a gut wrenching novel on the lesson to live a life of purpose and avoid superficiality.

In the most honest account of grief and suffering available, we are invited to join in Wolterstorff’s grief as well as his discovery of a God suffering with him. Lament for a Son invites us to grieve with a level of honesty few dare to consider.

Works of Love is a powerful call to the Church to pursue a life defined by “you shall love your neighbor;” Kierkegaard’s message from nearly 200-years ago cannot be lost to the dusty libraries of only a few. If we are to grow as the body of Christ, we must remember and value the wisdom of the saints that came before us.

The legacy of Brennan Manning is the radical romanticism of the gospel that held his life together; The Ragamuffin Gospel was written as good news for beggars and freedom for saints white knuckling their way to the loving Abba and racing after us all with a ferocious love.

The barbaric yawp of Wild at Heart echos as true today as it did when it was first published—Men of faith, arise! It is a message that should be passed down from generation to generation, father to son. All of creation is longing for the sons of God to be revealed in their wild warrior-hearted glory.

I and Thou is a philosophical work centered existentially on the meaning of life: intimate relationships. Martin Buber makes the needed argument that life is found in relationship, that we were created for relationship, and that we are able to find ourselves only through the lens of relationship.