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Books: Christianity
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The Enneagram
Simon Parke
The Enneagram is a time-honoured way of understanding personality types and human behavior. It is both ancient and modern. Developed over 1500 years… more
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Is There Life After Death?
Sjoerd L Bonting
Is there life after death? This question is raised by many people, both believers and non-believers alike. Surveys in the Netherlands have shown that 57%… more
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Christianity as Mystical Fact
Rudolf Steiner
Christianity As Mystical Fact was compiled from a series of lectures Rudolf Steiner gave in 1902. It was an attempt to explain the mystical qualities… more
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Forsaking the Family
Simon Parke
Forsaking the family, full of story and illustration, starts by considering the surprising approach of Jesus to his own family – in turns, rude,… more
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The Ministry of Healing
Ellen G. White
The Ministry of Healing emphasizes the link between diet and spiritual growth. It's a diet book, a self-help book, and a Christian spiritual guide… more
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Solitude
Simon Parke
What does solitude mean to you? Albert Einstein once said: ‘I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.’… more
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Afterlife Teaching From Stephen the Martyr
Michael Cocks
Early in 1974, a small group of religious friends began gathering periodically at the modest home of Thomas and Olive Ashman in Christchurch, New Zealand.… more
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Thirty Years Among the Dead
Carl Wickland
Wickland treated many patients suffering from mental illness of all kinds, and after many years experience came to the conclusion that a number of patients… more
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Revelations of Divine Love: A 2011 Edition
Julian of Norwich with Simon Parke
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich is the first book written in English by a woman. But the work is read now not for historical interest… more
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich is Tolstoy's attack on the smug satisfaction of a middle and upper class population, who in his mind live artificial meaningless… more
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Heaven and Hell: A 2011 Abridged Edition
Emanuel Swedenborg with Simon Parke
This is an abridged version of Swedenborg’s original, which is about twice the length. When deciding what to omit, avoidance of repetition was usually… more
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The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis with Simon Parke
The Imitation of Christ has won for itself a variety of celebrity admirers. John Wesley and John Newton were men of the Evangelical wing of the… more
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Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy
Published in 1900, Resurrection is Tolstoy’s final large-scale novel. It’s a morally-driven tale of personal redemption, featuring fewer characters… more
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Conversations with Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus of Nazareth with Simon Parke
In ‘Conversations with Jesus of Nazareth’, the questions are imagined, but the words of Jesus are not; they are authentically his, taken from the various… more
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Work While Ye Have the Light
Leo Tolstoy
‘Work while ye have the light,’ is Tolstoys fictional Christian tale, set in the 1st century AD. more
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What is Religion? And Other Writings
Leo Tolstoy
In ‘What is religion?’ Tolstoy explores the idea of religion and provides the following definition: ‘True religion is the establishment by man of a relation… more
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Conversations with Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh with Simon Parke
It is possible Van Gogh sold a painting whilst alive. There is rumour of the dealer Pere Tanguy selling one for a few francs in Paris. But whether he did… more
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Conversations with Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy with Simon Parke
This is Tolstoy is his own words, drawn from his extensive books, essays and letters. Vegetarianism, marriage, non-violence, the military, death, God and… more
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Conversations with Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart with Simon Parke
An imagined conversation with the famous 13th century mystic, on detachment, spirituality, God, the soul and suffering. While the conversation is imagined,… more
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Forbidden Words
Leo Tolstoy, edited by Simon Parke
Seven short works Tolstoy which he was never allowed to publish in his native Russia. Published in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Tolstoy’s death. more
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On Life
Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy wrote this book as a philosophical and religious search for an understanding of life beyond scientific formulae, and as part of his search for… more
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23 Tales
Leo Tolstoy
In this book, we see Tolstoy’s love of the short story, whether for children or adults; and witness the secret of simplicity and transparency of style,… more
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The Kingdom of God is Within You
Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy’s most significant work of non-fiction is a passionate defence of his position on non-violence. The book had a powerful infuence on Gandhi and… more
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My Religion
Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy develops his attack on the church he has left in this book. He accuses them of hiding the true meaning of Jesus, which is to be found in the Sermon… more
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The Gospel in Brief
Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy's harmonization of the four Gospels is, as Tolstoy said, ‘an examination of Christian teaching not according to the church’s interpretations, but… more
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Heretics
GK Chesterton
In this protest against a purely rationalist view of the universe, Chesterton rails against ‘the great mental destruction’, in which everything is denied,… more
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Orthodoxy
GK Chesterton
Chesterton charts his journey to faith, and his reasons for it, inviting the reader into 'the thrilling romance of Orthodoxy... there was never anything… more
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A Confession
Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy wrote this book to explain an existential crisis he passed through soon after the publication of his greatest novels, in which he searched for… more
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My Dream of Heaven
Rebecca Ruter Springer
Springer's classic book, written during a severe illness, is a series of basic truths about heaven, written in a simple and readable style, as if being… more
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Jesus the Son of Man
Kahlil Gibran
For Kahlil Gibran, re-telling the story of Jesus had been the ambition of a lifetime. He wanted tell the story as no one had told it before. With Jesus… more
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