memoir
Jesus saved Beth Moore’s life. Twitter blew it up. A new memoir will tell the story.
By Bob Smietana — April 26, 2022
(RNS) — Moore's memoir, 'All My Knotted-Up Life,' is due out from Tyndale in 2023.
Wajahat Ali recounts joy and pain of his Muslim immigrant upbringing in new book
By Yonat Shimron — February 4, 2022
(RNS) — The title of the pundit's memoir, 'Go Back to Where You Came From,' is taken from one of the more polite epithets the Pakistani American has received over the years.
An American Jew turned Hindu holy woman tells her story
By Yonat Shimron — September 9, 2021
(RNS) — Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati quit her Ph.D. program, divorced her husband, moved to India and became a Hindu renunciate. In her new memoir she reveals a past life of sex abuse and bulimia.
In Linda Sarsour’s new memoir, all activism is personal
By Simran Jeet Singh — July 14, 2020
(RNS) — Linda Sarsour's new memoir, ‘We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders’ reminds us that what makes us ordinarily human is what drives the most extraordinary and prominent among us.
‘The Survivors’ unmasks the generational trauma of the Holocaust
By Yonat Shimron — December 4, 2019
(RNS) — A former speechwriter for Barack Obama, Adam Frankel has written heart-wrenching memoir about confronting the secrets of the past.
Jamie Aten doesn’t just study disaster. He’s lived it.
By Yonat Shimron — January 4, 2019
(RNS) — In his new memoir, Aten, a Wheaton College professor, recounts how his oncologist told him, 'You’re in for your own personal kind of disaster.'
Winter books: The ‘Me! Me! Memoir’ edition
By Kimberly Winston — December 5, 2017
(RNS) — Here are 10 memoirs that blend the spiritual or religious with politics, mental health, death and dying, marriage, motherhood, divorce, academia and founding a business.
In her own words: Coretta Scott King on faith, materialism and grief
By Adelle M. Banks — January 13, 2017
(RNS) She helped type and edit her husband's sermons and rejected the asceticism he had wanted to model after traveling to India and studying Gandhi's words. Excerpts from her book, as told to the Rev. Barbara Reynolds.
In memoirs, ex-Pope Benedict says Vatican ‘gay lobby’ wielded power
By David Gibson — July 1, 2016
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) The book, to be published in September, marks the first time in history that a former pope judges his own pontificate after it is over.
Atheist or believer? Frank Schaeffer is a bit of both
By Kimberly Winston — June 12, 2014
(RNS) The title of Frank Scaheffer's new book says he is an atheist. But he prays every day. And goes to church every week. Catch him on the right day and he believes in God. What's going on here?
Indonesian president says he believes in witchcraft
By Vishal Arora — January 21, 2014
(RNS) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may be the first Indonesian president to acknowledge publicly he believes in witchcraft. In a recently published memoir, he describes a “horror movie” style encounter with black magic at his residence.
Theologian Richard Lischer tries to make sense of his son’s death
By Yonat Shimron — April 18, 2013
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) Duke Divinity School Professor Richard Lischer has written a memoir about the death of his son to cancer more than seven years ago. While memoirs about grief are plentiful, Lischer's book is a testament to how people of faith grapple with loss and try to make sense of death.
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