The Chastening of the Lord: The Forgotten Doctrine This book celebrates God’s goodness to chasten.

An antidote to the growing genre of another-notch-in-the-bedpost memoirs, Chastened is a refreshing look at what's to be gained by going without.

And he tells the story of meeting his boyfriend, whom he would marry and who would eventually become a major Democratic leader.

Bitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the Road We Trod (1991).

Now she can't help wondering - where was the romance? This is a story about rediscovering romance. Forget the fly-by-night cads, unreturned calls and futureless flings, Hephzibah decides.

Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates ...