Human Growth

Human Gifts is a book about the innate capacities that lie within each of us and how, through developing and sharing them, we can find personal meaning and fulfill our potential in the world.

No one is born resilient. But you have the power to become stronger than you think. At one point or another, life will break us open—through loss, trauma, betrayal, or heartbreak. But as psychologist Dr. Sherry Hamby reveals, we are never beyond repair. We all have an incredible capacity for...

What Am I Missing? illuminates the difficult life lesson that everyone is missing something in their lives. This truth includes six significant characters of the Hebrew Bible: Abraham and Rachel; Moses and Miriam; and David and Esther. Using texts from the Hebrew Bible as our source of interpretation, we search for the meaning of "what is missing" in each of them and ourselves. These challenges provoke questions that have no simple answers and stimulate us to reflect on being a human with purpose and hope today.

Modern life often strips Sunday of its joy and meaning, leaving souls restless and distracted. Drawing from rich Catholic tradition and cultural insight, this reflection calls believers to reclaim the Lord’s Day as a time of festivity, worship, and true rest. Learn how to defeat spiritual sloth, reorder Sunday habits, and rediscover the power of the Eucharist and contemplation, turning each Sabbath into a foretaste of Heaven’s eternal celebration.

In The Gospel of Being Human, Marty Solomon (host of the BEMA podcast) and Reed Dent invite you on a journey of curiosity, attention, and wonder—asking better questions about who we really are and what Scripture actually says about our identity. As you go to God’s Word to explore ten common perspectives about sin, salvation, and our relationship with God, you’ll discover a more expansive and hopeful vision of what it means to be created in His image.

In the course of his work as a vicar, Dave Tomlinson meets lots of people who describe themselves as 'not good enough' to be Christians, thinking that faith involves going to church a lot or believing in a list of strange things or following certain rules. But being a Christian isn't about any of that - and actually, following Jesus is a lot easier, and more fun, than most people think....

From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo -- such as...

The enneagram, a funky nine-pointed geometric structure, has been all the talk in personality testing and career coaching over the past decade. The enneagram is an ancient personality system that can unearth some of your hidden desires and fears. One of the things that the enneagram can tell you about yourself is how desperate you are to find something that seems almost unattainable. This book will explore some of the things that each enneagram type searches for in life, but finds hard to actually maintain or grasp.

Too many people sleepwalk through life, following the wide path of societal expectations. Try hard in school, do your exams, go to university, get a good job, fall in love, get a mortgage, have kids, and then work like a dog for years and years, same old same old, without ever really taking the time to figure out what the point of it all is.

In The Customer Connection: Life Lessons from Behind the Chair, you’ll embark on a transformative journey into the world of a seasoned “hairapist,” where the salon chair becomes a unique vantage point for understanding human nature.

During her darkest season of life, a five-year battle caring for her ailing husband, watching him decline unto death, Valerie Hoffman wrote Encounters with the Lord.

This body positivity book for preschoolers is a joyful listen. From the way a body jiggles to the scars a body bears, this book is a pure celebration of all the different human bodies that exist in the world. Highlighting the various skin tones, body shapes, and hair types is just the beginning...

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally. You will learn to reach for the "ultimate step," which brings you face to face with your personal spirituality. It will be this that helps you appreciate the complexity that is life.