Soul Searchers: An Anthology Of Spiritual Journeys

The Story

From the beginning of history men and women have been spiritual pilgrims seeking after religious truth. Soul Searchers offers modern-day seekers guidance on this journey by presenting inspiring stories of those who have gone before.Drawing on a wealth of biographical, autobiographical, and fictional material spanning four millennia and five continents, Soul Searchers features stories of past and present writers, thinkers, and social figures whose diverse lives attest to the difficulties and delights found along the pilgrimage of life. Those whose stories or writings appear in the book include Abraham, Jesus, Augustine, Dante, Joan of Arc, Ignatius Loyola, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, C. S. Lewis, Anne Frank, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dylan Thomas, Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, Charles Colson, Kathleen Norris, and Billy Graham. In all, eighty compelling stories are included.To better illuminate the spiritual journey of life, the book is divided into three sections. The first looks at the challenges of childhood and the teenage years, wherein each of us discovers the meaning of