Christianity - Biographies

The Letters of John Knox

by John Knox Read by InTheDesert 4.8
The letters... will perhaps more clearly exhibit the temper and character of Knox, than his more elaborate compositions: but to understand t…

The History of the Church of Christ

by Joseph Milner Read by InTheDesert 5
It is certain, that from our Saviour's time to the present, there have ever been persons whose dispositions and lives have been formed by th…

The Life of St. Paul

by James Stalker Read by Ron Altman 4.8
Born into privilege and highly educated by the most esteemed teacher of his time, Saul of Tarsus became a leading thinker among the Pharisee…

Prophets & Kings

by Ellen G. White 5
Audiobook: Prophets & Kings Beginning with King Solomon, this book recounts the stories of great men and women of the Bible who lived fr…

Twenty Years on Horseback

by William Marion Weekley Read by Will Shakespeare 4.2
William Weekley was graduate of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, and a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. From the au…

The Life of Rev. Henry Martyn

by John Hall Read by Hannah Mary 4.7
Henry Martyn (1781-1812), a brilliant and ambitious young student in Cambridge, England, was led by God to be a missionary to India and Pers…

The Paradise, or Garden of the Holy Fathers

by Palladius Read by ancientchristian 5
The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St.…

One of China's Scholars

by Mrs. Howard Taylor Read by MaryAnn 5
The first of two volumes telling the life story of Pastor Hsi, a Confucian scholar from Shanxi province in Northern China who became a Chris…

Raymond Lull

by Samuel Zwemer Read by AletheiaCharis 5
With his vast knowledge in a wide range of subjects, Raymond Lull was a Renaissance man before the time of the Renaissance. After encounteri…

The Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts

by Richard Challoner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Enlightening, profitable, edifying, inspiring – a few words to describe this collection of lives and sayings of the Desert Fathers and Mothe…

De Smet's Letters and Sketches

by Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet Read by Carol Pelster 4.5
In 1841 and 1842, Fr. Pierre-Jean DeSmet traversed the wide and wild American West to bring the gospel to the Flatheads, who had sent multip…

The Life and Glories of St. Joseph

by Edward Healy Thompson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A wonderful work on the life of St. Joseph, the true husband of the Virgin Mary, and foster-father of Jesus Christ. - Summary by Mozartjr

Lives of the Saints

by Alban Butler Read by Maria Therese 3.8
Lives of the Saints offers a rich tapestry of short biographies celebrating the lives of saints, one for each day of the year. Compiled from…

Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy

by John Tulloch Read by Barry Ganong 4.1
In this second volume of his work on English rational theology in the seventeenth century, Tulloch describes the lives and works of the grou…

A Story of One Short Life

by Elisabeth G. Stryker Read by Larry Wilson 4.3
This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and als…

From Baca to Beulah

by Jennie Smith Read by TriciaG 4.5
Sequel to The Valley of Baca. This continues the personal account of Jennie Smith, who spent more than 20 years in pain, unable to walk, and…

War Memories of an Army Chaplain

by Henry C. Trumbull Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his…

Silver Chimes in Syria

by William S. Nelson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
William S. Nelson, D.D., was appointed as a missionary to Syria by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, USA in 1888. I…

The Apostles

by Ethan R. Longhenry 5
The good news of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, is a most compelling message.  Yet Jesus did not write anything down; everything we kno…

The Valley of Baca

by Jennie Smith Read by TriciaG 3.8
Jennie Smith was a 19th-Century Job. At 15 years old, her father's business and finances failed, and he later died of illness, leaving her f…

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