A pastor's wife's shattering yet ultimately hopeful story of her husband's death by suicide, her journey to understand mental illness, and the light she found in the darkness. On August 25, 2018 Kayla Stoecklein lost her husband, Andrew -- megachurch pastor of Inland Hills Church in Chino, California -- to suicide. In the wake of the tragedy, she embarked on a brave journey to better understand his harrowing battle with mental illness and, ultimately,...

"To belong helps me to believe. We are all messy and miraculous, at the same time. Church scrapes us up against each other. It skins our knees. It wounds and then it heals. We are supposed to love each other all the time, and I don't think it ever stops being hard. We are people with ragged edges. And because we are in community with each other, pointed in the same general direction toward God, gathering, worshiping, praying, and eating at all those...

An explosive, sweeping account of the pedophile scandal that has sent the Catholic church into a tailspin and the fight to bring it to justice.

An inside look at the life and work of the noted civil rights leader, from the viewpoint of his wife Coretta Scott King.

Short autobiography about Robert Nelson "Buzz" Buswell (Aprill 15, 1912 - February 2, 2000) from text that he narrated or drew from records he kept about his father, grandfather and himself. Buswell was born in Meriden, Iowa, attended Coe College, sold photographs during the Depression on the road (including parts of Wyoming), earned his divinity degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, and served as a Presbyterian minister in Montana...

It was April 5, 1943, and the Gestapo would arrive any minute. Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been expecting this day for a long time. He had put his papers in order -- and left a few notes specifically for Hitler's men to see. Two SS agents climbed the stairs and told the boyish-looking Bonhoeffer to come with them. He calmly said good-bye to his parents, put his Bible under his arm, and left. Upstairs there was proof, in his own handwriting, that this...

Profiles the life of the South African bishop who has worked energetically and courageously to improve the lot of black people in South Africa.

As a minister, Kate Braestrup regularly performs weddings. She has also, at 44, been married twice and widowed once, and accordingly has much to say about life after "the ceremony." From helping a newlywed couple make amends after their first fight to preparing herself for her second marriage, Braestrup offers her insights and experiences on what it truly means to share your life with someone, from the first kiss to the last straw, for better or for...