Religion audiobooks

Did Jesus Exist?

By: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In Did Jesus Exist? historian and Bible expert Bart Ehrman confronts the question, "Did Jesus exist at all?" Ehrman vigorously defends the historical Jesus, identifies the most historically reliable sources for best understanding Jesus’ mission and message, and offers a compelling portrait of the person at the heart of the Christian... Read more

Velvet Elvis

By: Rob Bell

Narrated by: Rob Bell

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Velvet Elvis is the first book from Rob Bell, the New York Times bestselling author of Love Wins.  Selected as one of 2011’s most influential people by Time Magazine, pastor Bell offers original and refreshingly personal perspectives on what Christianity is truly all about in Velvet Elvis.  A vibrant voice for a new generation of Christians—the... Read more

Sex God

By: Rob Bell

Narrated by: Rob Bell

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From Rob Bell, the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Love Wins and a Christian pastor named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential people in 2011, comes Sex God, an enlightening exploration of sexuality and spirituality. With profound beauty and insight, Bell addresses the truism that we can’t talk about ourselves as... Read more

Jesus Wants to Save Christians

By: Rob Bell & Don Golden

Narrated by: Rob Bell

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Bell and Golden trace redemption from Genesis to Revelation...[delivering] a tough message the American church needs to hear.”
—Christianity Today“Equal parts prophetic warning and call to action, Jesus Wants to Save Christians exhorts Jesus’s followers to sacrifice their comforts and hear the ‘cry of the oppressed.’”
—Grand Rapids PressIn Jesus... Read more

What We Talk About When We Talk About God

By: Rob Bell

Narrated by: Rob Bell

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell, whom The New Yorker describes as “one of the most influential Christian leaders in the country,” does for the concept of God what he did for heaven and hell in his book Love Wins: He shows how traditional ideas have grown stale and dysfunctional and how to return vitality and vibrancy to lives of faith... Read more

The Problem of Pain

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: James Simmons

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Why Must We Suffer?“If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?” And what about the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of our time sets out to disentangle these knotty issues. With his signature wealth of compassion and insight, C.S. Lewis... Read more

Beyond Belief

By: Jenna Miscavige Hill & Lisa Pulitzer

Narrated by: Sandy Rustin

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the church's highest ministry, speaks of her "disconnection"... Read more

Why Science Does Not Disprove God

By: Amir Aczel

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space for the Divine in the universe, and why faith in both God... Read more

The Pope's Last Crusade

By: Peter Eisner

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on untapped resources, exclusive interviews, and new archival research, The Pope’s Last Crusade by Peter Eisner is a thrilling narrative that sheds new light on Pope Pius XI’s valiant effort to condemn Nazism and the policies of the Third Reich—a crusade that might have changed the course of World War II.A shocking tale of intrigue and... Read more

Buddhist Boot Camp

By: Timber Hawkeye

Narrated by: Timber Hawkeye

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Buddhism is all about training the mind, and boot camp is an ideal training method for this generation's short attention span. The chapters in this small book can be read in any order, and are simple and easy to understand. Each story, inspirational quote, and teaching offers mindfulness-enhancing techniques that anyone can relate to. You don't... Read more

An Appetite for Wonder

By: Richard Dawkins

Narrated by: Richard Dawkins & Lalla Ward

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Timesbestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today  
“A memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a... Read more

The Art of Communicating

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Zen master Thick Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace is Every Step and one of the most respected and celebrated religious leaders in the world, delivers a powerful path to happiness through mastering life's most important skill.How do we say what we mean in a way that the other person can really hear?How can we listen with compassion and... Read more

The Case for the Psalms

By: N. T. Wright

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world's most trusted Bible scholars, N. T. Wright turns his attention to the central collection of prayers that Jesus and Paul knew best: the book of Psalms. Wright points out that the Psalms have served as the central prayer and hymnbook for the church since its beginning—until now. In The Case for the Psalms, Wright calls us to... Read more

Learning to Walk in the Dark

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

Narrated by: Barbara Brown Taylor

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times BestsellerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don’t have all the answers.Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all that is good with lightness and all... Read more

Good Tidings and Great Joy

By: Sarah Palin

Narrated by: Sarah Palin

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In her New York Times bestsellers Going Rogue and America by Heart, Sarah Palin revealed the strong Christian faith that has guided her life and family. In Good Tidings and Great Joy she calls for bringing back the freedom to express the Christian values of the season. She asserts the importance of preserving Jesus Christ in Christmas—in public... Read more

Pope Francis

By: The Staff of The Wall Street Journal

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 13, the cardinals of the Catholic Church, gathered to elect a successor to a living Pope for the first time in 600 years, announced a dramatic shift. By elevating Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina to become Pope Francis the 266th Pontiff, the cardinals were naming the first-ever Pope from the growing New World to take the helm... Read more

The First Phone Call From Heaven

By: Mitch Albom

Narrated by: Mitch Albom

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most thrilling and magical novel yet—a page-turning mystery and a meditation on the power of human connection.One morning in the small town of Coldwater, Michigan, the phones start ringing. The voices say they are... Read more

Jesus

By: James Martin

Narrated by: James Martin

Length: 18 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2015 CATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD.“James Martin’s riveting new meditation on Jesus is one of the best books I’ve read in years—on any subject.”  — Mary Karr, author of LitJames Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller and New York Times bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, brings... Read more

The Book of Forgiving

By: Desmond Tutu & Mpho Tutu

Narrated by: Mpho Tutu & Hakeem Kae Kazim

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness—helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation.Tutu's role as the Chair of the Truth and... Read more

How Jesus Became God

By: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus... Read more

Cloudsplitter

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 29 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

""Deeply affecting. . . . Like the best novels of Nadine Gordimer, it makes us appreciate the dynamic between the personal and the political, the public and the private, and the costs and causes of radical belief."" — New York TimesA triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic... Read more

The Zimzum of Love

By: Rob Bell & Kristen Bell

Narrated by: Rob Bell & Kristen Bell

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

As he revolutionized traditional teaching on hell in the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Love Wins, Rob Bell now transforms how we understand and practice marriage in The Zimzum of Love, co-written with his wife, Kristen.Despite the divorce statistics, people are still committing to each other, instinctively believing and hoping that theirs... Read more

10% Happier

By: Dan Harris

Narrated by: Dan Harris

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable.After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong... Read more

Convictions

By: Marcus J. Borg

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the renowned scholar Marcus J. Borg shares how he formed his bedrock religious beliefs, contending that Christians in America are at their best when they focus on hope and transformation and so shows how we can return to what really matters most. The result is a manifesto for all progressive Christians... Read more