Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger and feelings of condemnation: all these are attacks on the mind.

Many preachers today avoid the topic altogether because people today don't quite know what to do with words like "awe" or "fear.It's the one thing the world cannot duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else — for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world. His grades weren't good enough to get into law school, so he sat on a bench outside the Dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll. I had several personal and professional relationships that improved when I could appreciate that their "love language" was different than mine. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs—even when these beliefs inspire the worst human atrocities. Look out for Timothy Keller's latest book, The Songs of Jesus, coming from Viking on November 10, 2015.

Brennan Manning 's now-classic meditation on grace and what it takes to access it--simple honesty--has changed thousands of lives. In an age where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, The Shack wrestles with the timeless question: Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain? The Shack, the cherished novel that sold over 23 million copies worldwide, spent 147 weeks on the bestseller list, and went on to become a major motion picture, is now available in a beautiful keepsake edition to celebrate its tenth anniversary of touching lives all over the world. He actually never wrote that, but the sentiment certainly runs through much of his work, and most especially through The Brothers Karamazov.Relevant and prescient, American Gods has been lauded for its brilliant synthesis of “mystery, satire, sex, horror, and poetic prose” (Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World) and as a modern phantasmagoria that “distills the essence of America” ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer).