How are you at reading the Bible? Is it easy? Hard? Or have you never really thought about it? However you find Bible study, this Our Daily Bread Teen Edition is for you! These 365 readings will help you find out who God is, what the Bible’s story is and where you fit into it all. Each one is a quick read. And there are even some Quick Start reading plans so you can get straight into what the Bible says about mental health, loneliness, addiction, dating, bullies, guilt, social media, and loads more! Get to know the story of the Bible for yourself, experience what it means to spend time with God every day and find answers to your big questions. It’s all in this Our Daily Bread Teen Edition!

In these essays, Peter M. Ball-Aurealis award-winning author and founder of Brian Jar Press-explores the seemingly unintuitive lessons he's learned over twenty years of writing, educating other writers, and running writing conferences attended by hundreds of authors at every level of experience. Drawn from some of his most popular blog posts, author presentations, and articles, You Don't Want To Be Published sets out to bring the kind of conversations established writers have in private to a more general audience. Here Ball explores the anxieties of building a writing career, the unexpected writing lesson drawn from other forms of narrative, the importance of treating your business like a business, and the subtle shifts in psychology and mindset that can help push your writing career to the next level. Primarily written during the years Ball convened the popular GenreCon Writers Conference and managed the Australian Writers Marketplace, these essays also strive to find the questions new writers don't yet know they should be asking, while arguing the most common inquiry new writers pursue-how do I get published?-is actually the worst place to start. Whether you're a new writer looking to sidestep the common problems, an established writer trying to figure out why your career feels like it's been derailed, or you're simply eager to figure out a new strategy that can push your career forward, You Don't Want to Be Published is full of blunt, irreverent, and unexpected advice that just might change the way you look at the writer's job forever.

Suicide, songwriting, and samurai philosophy within paper covers. It is 2005, your best friend just jumped from the 20th floor ... is it ever right to intervene in other's lives? With echoes of Catcher in the Rye and Anne Enright's The Gathering, a warm rites of passage debut novel.

Winner of a third-place award for best new religious book from the Catholic Media Association. Whether you are just beginning to develop a consistent prayer practice or are looking for a new approach to spiritual growth, Ten Ways to Pray will explore a variety of traditional forms of Catholic prayer that enable you to draw closer to God and the communion of saints. This practical introduction to ten traditional forms of prayer from the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame will help you develop a richer spiritual life that draws you closer to the triune God and the communion of saints. Carolyn Pirtle provides intriguing bits of history, engaging spiritual and theological commentary, and step-by-step guidance for trying ten distinct ways of praying that Catholics have utilized across the centuries and around the world in order to develop your own prayer practice. These include praying: with scripture to consecrate time through the Liturgy of the Hours and the Angelus through experience in the Examen through action in the Works of Mercy through the beauty of nature, art, and music through silence