Christianity - Biographies
The History of the Church of Christ
It is certain, that from our Saviour's time to the present, there have ever been persons whose dispositions and lives have been formed by th…
The Paradise, or Garden of the Holy Fathers
The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St.…
Down In Water Street
Written by the Superintendent of the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission, "Down in Water Street" is intended to share some of the e…
Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son
A collection of nine letters written by the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, to his teenage son. "Their purpose…
Twenty Years on Horseback
William Weekley was graduate of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, and a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. From the au…
The Jesus of History
A collection of a series of lectures delivered while Glover was in India setting the life of Jesus into its historical context and seeing wh…
Prophets & Kings
Audiobook: Prophets & Kings Beginning with King Solomon, this book recounts the stories of great men and women of the Bible who lived fr…
Life of Luther
A short biography of Martin Luther, by Gustav Just, who taught at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran School, St. Louis.Martin Luther (1483-1546)…
Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador
Gabriel Gregorio Fernando José María García y Moreno y Morán de Buitrón (1821–1875) was an Ecuadorian pol…
John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides
Despite the trouble and dangers John G. Paton had faced on the island of Tanna (as recounted in the first part of his autobiography), his tr…
The King's Son
Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving sch…
The Sainted Queens
A collection of short biographies of six Catholic Queens who became saints. Saint Margaret of Scotland - Saint Elisabeth of Portugal - Saint…
One of China's Scholars
The first of two volumes telling the life story of Pastor Hsi, a Confucian scholar from Shanxi province in Northern China who became a Chris…
Jerry McAuley
Jerry McAuley was a missionary and founder of the Water Street Mission (later the New York City Rescue Mission), the first rescue mission in…
Hildebrand and his Times
W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-…
The Rule of Pachomius at Tabenna
The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St.…
Blessed Edmund Campion
Saint Edmund Campion, S.J., (1540 – 1581) was an English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry to the …
The Life that Counts
Borden of Yale '09 is the inspiring biography of William Borden, a young American millionaire. During a trip around the world, Borden commit…
The Apostles
The good news of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, is a most compelling message. Yet Jesus did not write anything down; everything we kno…
Charles Simeon
Charles Simeon had come up to King’s college from Eton, a wild undergraduate, famous for his love of horses and extravagance in dress; but o…