A journalist explores how the Seven Deadly Sins still circumscribe women’s behavior, revealing how we’ve been programmed to obey the rules represented by these sins and how doing so qualifies us as “good,” and showing how we can break free and discover the integrity and wholeness we seek.

What makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition. This search for meaning, as Yale professors Volf, Croasmun, and McAnnally-Linz argue, is at the crux of a crisis that is facing Western culture, a crisis that, they propose, can be ameliorated by searching, in one's own life, for the underlying truth. In A Life Worth Living, named after its authors' highly sought-after undergraduate course, Volf, Croasmun, and McAnnally-Linz...

Elevating astrology from horoscopes to self-actualization, Aliza goes beyond the zodiac, illuminating the universe within. As a rising star in modern spirituality, Aliza shares the wisdom of her extensive private practice, synthesizing thousands of one-on-one client sessions, intimate stories from her personal journey, and esoteric mystical knowledge to inspire readers through hands-on exercises, radical techniques, and groundbreaking insight.

In each chapter of Somehow, Lamott explores the unexpected love for a partner later in life. The bruised (and bruising) love for a child who disappoints, even frightens. The sustaining love among a group of sinners, for a community in transition, in the wider world. The lessons she underscores are that love enlightens as it educates, comforts as it energizes, sustains as it surprises. She draws from her own life and experience to delineate the intimate...