Religion bestsellers

Courageous World Changers

50 True Stories of Daring Women of God

By: Shirley Raye Redmond
Narrated by: Sybil Johnson
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Children of all ages will be inspired by the stories of these women: -Corrie ten Boom—activist, author, and Holocaust survivor -Laurie Hernandez—gymnast who won both gold and silver medals in her sport -Florence Nightingale—health-care reformer -Madeline L’Engle—author of children’s literature -Mother Teresa—missionary and winner of the Nobel... Read more

Brave Heroes and Bold Defenders

50 True Stories of Daring Men of God

By: Shirley Raye Redmond
Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Children of all ages will be inspired by the stories of these men: -C.S. Lewis—professor and author of the influential Chronicles of Narnia series -Zhang Boli—Chinese dissident, journalist, and Christian pastor -Richard Allen—former slave and founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church -Tim Tebow—athlete, Heisman trophy winner, and... Read more

Educated

A Memoir

By: Tara Westover
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

“Raised by Mormon fundamentalists, mistrustful of the medical community while having never stepped foot in a classroom setting, Tara Westover's memoir, "Educated" is excruciatingly painful at times. From witnessing devastating destruction deep in the woods of Idaho to enduring an abusive bi-polar brother to becoming ostracized by her survivalist... Read more

C. S. Lewis Essential Audio Library

By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Joss Ackland, James Simmons & Douglas Gresham
Length: 38 hours 46 minutes

Nine essential works by C. S. Lewis in one deluxe audio edition: • Mere Christianity • The Screwtape Letters • The Great Divorce • Miracles • The Problem of Pain • A Grief Observed • The Abolition of Man • The Weight of Glory • George MacDonald • Read more

The Dragon and the Stone (The Dream Keeper Saga Book 1)

The Dream Keeper Saga

By: Kathryn Butler
Narrated by: Shannon McManus
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Even though she's only 12 years old, Lily McKinley already feels the weight of the world's brokenness. She's seen it in her mother's exhaustion, her grandmother's illness, and the cruelty of Adam, the bully at her school. But most tragically, she experienced it two months ago when her father died in a terrible accident.  As an artistic... Read more

The Prince and the Blight (The Dream Keeper Saga Book 2)

The Dream Keeper Saga

By: Kathryn Butler
Narrated by: Shannon McManus
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

It's been a month since 12-year-old Lily McKinley was whisked away to the Somnium Realm to rescue her father, and although she's overjoyed to have him home, she can't leave the magical world behind. The glowing stone pendant that transported her is now bringing strange creatures to life against her will, with her paper mâché pterodactyl and even... Read more

Jesus and John Wayne

How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

“Believe it or not Christianity and American politics were separated at one point. However in the last century Evangelical Christianity has become synonymous with conservative politics. This book walks you through the time frame of how that happened and how we are feeling that divide today. We also see how figures like John Wayne became symbols... Read more

The Exvangelicals

Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon
Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

This program is read by the author.

"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon’s story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes and fears of millions of... Read more

Somehow

Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love

“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to... Read more

The Lightlings

By: R. C. Sproul
Narrated by: R. C. Sproul
Length: 11 minutes

In The Lightlings, Dr. R.C. Sproul weaves an allegorical tale that captures the essence of the biblical story of redemption in a manner that will fascinate and delight children. A race of tiny beings known as lightlings are a picture of humanity as they pass through all the stages of the biblical drama – creation, fall, and redemption. In the... Read more

Radical Compassion

Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

By: Tara Brach
Narrated by: Tara Brach
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart

Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on... Read more

The Interior Castle

By: St Teresa of Ávila
Narrated by: Lucy Scott
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

In The Interior Castle, Carmelite nun, mystic and patron saint of Spain Teresa of Ávila uses the metaphor of a giant crystal castle to explain her theory of the soul and the various stages it passes through as it progresses towards God. Beginning in the outer rooms, where demons are fought and vices are purged, the soul must reach the inner... Read more

Soul Boom

Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

By: Rainn Wilson
Narrated by: Rainn Wilson
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

In this New York Times bestseller, comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson explores the problem-solving benefits that spirituality gives us to create solutions for an increasingly challenging world. The trauma that our world experienced in recent years—as result of both the pandemic and societal tensions that threaten to overwhelm... Read more

The Princess and Curdie

By: George MacDonald
Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Creative, delightful, moving, and full of real truth, this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin is a must read for all ages.  Join Curdie as he is called to a higher purpose that leads to a journey to save the kingdom.  His path becomes one full of sacrifice, valuable lessons, and thrilling adventures.  With disguises, lies, and illnesses... Read more

Hallelujah Anyway

Rediscovering Mercy

By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

“Hallelujah Anyway completely consumed me. The world has changed so much in the last year and it seems overwhelming at times. Lamott's new book is the answer to that despair, hopelessness, and futility. It's exactly what the title says - mercy through difficult times, kindness when it's not deserved, and singing hallelujah anyway. Lamott writes... Read more

Almost Everything

Notes on Hope

By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

“How does she do it? How does Anne Lamott capture the tension of mystery and truth in a way that makes you want to follow her anywhere and believe everything? If you opened this book to any random page you’d find something you’d feel compelled to read aloud to the stranger at the next table. Her familiar writing style spreads a blanket in the... Read more

How to Stay Married

By: Harrison Scott Key
Narrated by: Harrison Scott Key & Lauren Key
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, “shot through with sharp humor” (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage.

One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife—the sweet, funny, loving mother of their... Read more

Dayspring

By: Anthony Oliveira
Narrated by: Davin Babulal, Landon Doak, Kai Cheng Thom, David Demchuk, Anthony Oliveira, Rowan Jette Knox, Alicia Elliott, Nadia Shammas, Iain Stewart, Amanda Cordner & Carole Pope
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary coming-of-age story, connected in collapsing time across millennia.

There are few love stories in the holy books. Love is what ruins. Love is what costs. Love is a flaming sword at our backs, a garden left... Read more

Grimoire Girl

A Memoir of Magic and Mischief

By: Hilarie Burton Morgan
Narrated by: Hilarie Burton Morgan
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

New York Times Bestseller The long-awaited next book from actress and New York Times bestselling author of The Rural Diaries, Hilarie Burton Morgan. Through memoir essays and magical practices, Grimoire Girl connects us to the enchantment that exists inside us all.Since childhood, Hilarie Burton Morgan has felt the call to record, keep, and... Read more

All My Knotted-Up Life

A Memoir

By: Beth Moore
Narrated by: Beth Moore
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few.

“It’s a peculiar thing, this having lived long enough to take a good look back. We go from knowing each other better than we know ourselves to barely sure if we know each other at all, to precisely... Read more

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

By: John Mark Comer
Narrated by: John Mark Comer & Kris Koscheski
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

ECPA BESTSELLER • A compelling emotional and spiritual case against hurry and in favor of a slower, simpler way of life—from the New York Times bestselling author of Practicing the Way

“Prophetic, practical, and profoundly life giving . . . provides a way forward that creates hope, hunger, and a vision of a beautiful life. I consider this... Read more

Fierce Self-Compassion

How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive

By: Kristin Neff
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

The author of Self-Compassion follows up her groundbreaking book with new ideas that expand our notion of self-kindness and its capacity to transform our lives, showing women how to balance tender self-acceptance with fierce action to claim their power and change the world.

Kristin Neff changed how we talk about self-care with her enormously... Read more

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta
Narrated by: Tim Alberta
Length: 18 hours 15 minutes

Instant New York Times BestsellerOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearAn Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year""Brave and absorbing."" -- New York Times“Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in vivid hues.” -- Washington Post“An astonishingly... Read more

The Power of Ritual

Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices

By: Casper ter Kuile
Narrated by: Casper ter Kuile
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose—a message we need more... Read more

Lilith

By: George MacDonald
Narrated by: Jonathan St. John
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

A fantastical and intricate novel, Lilith brings all the elements of a fascinating and epic journey with the added layer of spiritual and theological themes woven into the characters, trials, and temptations. Follow as Mr. Vane enters the vast, complex, and multidimensional “Region of the Seven Dimensions” and learns how much a connection to... Read more

On Repentance and Repair

Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

By: Danya Ruttenberg
Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Winner NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS in Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice
Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award

A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture's most painful and unresolved issues.

American culture focuses on letting go of grudges and redemption narratives... Read more

How to Walk into a Room

The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

By: Emily P. Freeman
Narrated by: Emily P. Freeman
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

New York Times BestsellerIf life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when a room we’re in is no longer a room where we belong?What do you do when you start to feel a shift and must decide if it’s time to make a change? When it comes to navigating big decisions about when to stay and go, how can we know for sure when the... Read more

Under the Banner of Heaven

A Story of Violent Faith

By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

“So often it seems that people approach events like these wondering how someone could possibly do something so terrible. Jon Krakauer bypasses the 'how' and goes immediately for the 'why.' With a keen eye for discrepancies and Scott Brick's intense narration for the audiobook, Krakauer leaves no stone unturned when it comes to detailing what led... Read more

The Places That Scare You

A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

Shambhala

By: Pema Chödrön
Narrated by: Joanna Rotte
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

We always have a choice, Pema Chödrön teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches,... Read more

Gentle and Lowly

The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

By: Dane Ortlund
Narrated by: Dane Ortlund
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Pastor Dane Ortlund Explores Jesus's Heart to Reveal His Tender Love for Sinners and Suffers  Christians know that God loves them, but can easily feel that he is perpetually disappointed and frustrated, maybe even close to giving up on them. As a result, they focus a lot—and rightly so—on what Jesus has done to appease God's wrath for sin. But... Read more

Living Resistance

An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice
Narrated by: Kaitlin B. Curtice
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together.

Curtice... Read more

The Life Council

10 Friends Every Woman Needs

By: Laura Tremaine
Narrated by: Laura Tremaine
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Read by the author.Offering a path for a new way to think about friendships, The Life Council will inspire and equip you to be a better friend, make new friends, and appreciate how different types of friendships can bring a richness to your life like never before.You'd love to have a "ride or die" posse like you see on social media, but instead... Read more

Inspired

Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

By: Rachel Held Evans
Narrated by: Rachel Held Evans
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

If the Bible isn't a science book or an instruction manual, what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she embarked on a journey to better understand what the Bible is and how it's meant to be read. What she discovered changed... Read more

Between Two Trailers

A Memoir

By: J. Dana Trent
Narrated by: J. Dana Trent
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

A powerful, unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer in rural Indiana—only to find that no one can really “make it out” until they make peace with where their story began: home

Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It’s also where the healing begins.

Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time... Read more

The Hebrew Bible

A Translation with Commentary

By: Robert Alter
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 63 hours 57 minutes

A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original. A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compact poetry... Read more

As Long as You Need

Permission to Grieve

By: J. S. Park
Narrated by: J. S. Park
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Read by the author."A heartfelt invitation for grieving readers...An excellent resource for those working their way through loss." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to grieve and heal at your own pace.In As Long As You... Read more

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Find quiet reflective moments in your life—and reduce your stress levels drastically—with this classic bestselling guide updated and featuring a new introduction and afterword. When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell... Read more

Untangle Your Emotions

Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

By: Jennie Allen
Narrated by: Jennie Allen
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Get Out of Your Head provides a revolutionary path to embracing a healthy relationship with your emotions, one that leads to life-giving connection with God and others as well as to a richer understanding of yourself.

“This book is worth thousands of dollars of counseling.”—Jonathan Pokluda, bestselling... Read more

I'm Still Here

Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

By: Austin Channing Brown
Narrated by: Austin Channing Brown
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals.

“Austin Channing Brown introduces herself as a master memoirist. This book will break open... Read more

Ishmael

A Novel

Ishmael Series: Book #1

By: Daniel Quinn
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Morgan Freeman
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.
 
“A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an... Read more

Preparing for War

The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

By: Bradley Onishi
Narrated by: Bradley Onishi
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip or an aberration. It was the logical outcome of years of a White evangelical subculture's preparation for war. Religion scholar and former insider Bradley Onishi maps the origins of White Christian nationalism and traces its offshoots in Preparing for War.

Combining his own... Read more

Witchcraft

A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson
Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

A “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.

This “inventive and compelling” (Times Literary Supplement) work of... Read more

Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table

It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

By: Louie Giglio
Narrated by: Louie Giglio
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Publishers Weekly bestsellerThis audiobook edition features exclusive content including a recording of Louie’s sermon that inspired this book; an interview with Jay and Katherine Wolf, the authors of Hope Heals and Suffer Strong; and off-script commentary from Louie that expands on his message. Discover how to break free from the chains of... Read more

The Garden Within

Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins

By: Dr. Anita Phillips
Narrated by: Anita Phillips & Sarah Jakes Roberts
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERFeatured on SUPER SOUL PODCAST hosted by Oprah Winfrey.  Read by the author.Too often we’ve been taught to view our emotions with suspicion, seeing them as something to be suppressed, managed, or mastered. This isn’t true. Emotions are not your enemy. Internal war is not your destiny. You... Read more

10% Happier

How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found a Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story

By: Dan Harris
Narrated by: Dan Harris
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable.After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong... Read more

The Whole Language

The Power of Extravagant Tenderness

By: Gregory Boyle
Narrated by: Gregory Boyle
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Beloved Jesuit priest and author of the inspirational bestsellers Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir returns with a call to witness the transformative power of tenderness, rooted in his lifetime of experience counseling gang members in Los Angeles.

Over the past thirty years, Gregory Boyle has transformed thousands of lives through his... Read more

Falling Upward

A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

By: Richard Rohr
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

In the revised and updated edition of Falling Upward, Richard Rohr seeks to help listeners come to terms with the two halves of life. In this book, Rohr teaches us that we can't understand the meaning of "up" until we have fallen "down." More importantly, Rohr describes what "up" can look like in the second half of life.

Most of us tend to... Read more

Building a Life Worth Living

A Memoir

By: Marsha M. Linehan
Narrated by: Hillary Huber & Stephen Mendel
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.

“This book is a victory on both sides of the page.”—Gloria Steinem

“Are you one of us?” a patient once asked Marsha Linehan, the world-renowned... Read more

Faith After Doubt

Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It

By: Brian D. McLaren
Narrated by: Brian D. McLaren
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

This program is read by Brian D. McLaren

From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world and your faith.

"Will help you live fuller and breathe easier..” —Glennon Doyle

Sixty-five million adults in the U.S. have dropped out of active church attendance and about 2.7 million more are leaving every... Read more

Beyond Belief

My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

By: Jenna Miscavige Hill
Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the church's highest ministry, speaks of her "disconnection"... Read more