In the 8th century, Europe is newly Christian, but their system of government is still touched by their pagan past.
No one questions the necessity for a king to wage regular wars on neighbors, otherwise the system of government will not work and his rule will fail, to the detriment of all in the kingdom. Yet, how to be simultaneously a good king and a good Christian is an issue that preoccupies both the young King Eardwulf and his aunt, Mother Wynflaed, Abbess of Whitby. The influence of Christianity in 8th century Britain was increasingly strong and, inevitably, thoughtful people would begin to become keenly aware of the contradiction between the war-like culture and system of government inherited from pagan times, and Christianity, with its high ideals and demands. While Eardwulf often turns to Wynflaed for advice and scolding, he is also the first to show the Abbess the difficulties of implementing her high ideals in the real world. According to Venerable Bede (writing a little earlier) several kings even resigned their thrones and went on foot pilgrimages to Rome at the end of their lives, seeking to atone.
Great for fans of historical romance and well-researched historical fiction. G.M. Baker’s fiction is fiction both refreshing and fascinating; a real glimpse into the minds of the past. Nothing is sanitized to suit modern sensibilities.

The Rescue Sisters join a treasure hunt to find the first alien spaceship. Along the way the sisters and the crew work together to get past misunderstandings of faith and each other in order to survive the perils of space. 

What is the role of women in the Church? Is there a place for Woman leadership in a community with only male priests? Magia draws these present day questions back to the very beginning of Christiandom in the marriage of Peter. This book begins before Peter and his wife have been changed by Christ. They are struggling sinners and struggling in their marriage. This couple’s struggle to find solidarity in their marriage become a meditation on our present day church’s struggle to find our own balance of solidarity between men and women. 

In post-apocolyptic America, a young street kids finds himself unexpectedly ordained a Bishop when he stops to help a dying old man. The young clergyman finds himself working to help the fractured Christian community survive in this action packed story that pits solidarity against some seriously high stakes. 

In this sequel to The Fisherman’s Bride, Peter and his wife continue traveling with Christ. When Christ renames him Peter and it becomes clear that he is preparing him for some grand role, the apostle struggles with a manly sense of pride to protect his image. But when it is his wife, not him, who is given the gift to heal the sick his pride suffers a devestating blow. However in this fantastical retelling the gift of healing comes with a price– one that will require a heroic humility of the couple they may not yet be prepared to fulfill; for love always comes with suffering. Magia’s series explores the tension between men and women in the early church and urges readers to reflect on the humility that is required of us all– men and women alike– to be a truly united church.

The paranormalities of this book are known the world over, yet far much of the book revolves around the prayers of one young priest and one young mother. The priest is grieving for his recently dead mother and how his own vow of poverty sentenced his beloved to an ignoble death. The mother grieves for the suffering she sees happening to her young daughter as she is attacked by evil spirits over and over. Together this priest and this lay woman work together to save the life and soul of an innocent child.

 The  apostles are baffled by the mentally disabled disciple of Jesus. How can a man who understands nothing of what Jesus preaches truly be a disciple of the man they believe to be the Messiah. But as Jotham follows the twelve around his childlike faith begins to touch their souls and hearts one by one, even, in one of the most most poignant chapters, Judas Iscariot. Not just a story of the layman ministering to the clergy but the lowly to the high.

Young scholar Athene Howard finds herself part of a most unusal team, made up of lay and clergy, nuns and monks and one oddly jocular exorcist. Together they embark on a mission of mercy to free a young werewolf from the warlock who has enslaved him and bring him back to a monestary specifically for the healing and rehabilitation of werewolves. Gothic adventure fiction that takes the monsters of myth and explores them as the manifestations of modern spiritual decay.

When a priceless ruby goes missing Xan and the other orphans growing up in the monestary embark on a mission to find it before the adults mess things up and accuse the wrong person. Along the way Xan is fretfully discerning whether he has a vocation among the other monks or if he should accept his uncle’s offer of apprenticeship and pursue a lay life, perhaps with his childhood crush Lucy. His investigation leads him to see the pros and cons of both ways of life and the undercurrent of faith that unites them.

In Elizabethan England, everyday lives have been touched by the tradgedy that the English’s rupture with Rome has wrought, and yet somehow, despite this hope still survives. When the queen sends her agents to investigate the hidden Catholics in a small english town, regular people, some of them Catholic, some sympathetic Protestant and Atheist englishmen find among them a quiet unity and desire to work together to avert further disaster and injury to the soul of England. A moving meditation on the bonds that unite us even when government powers do their best to break them.

In the far future, the world is shocked when an Artilect (a sentient robot) enters a church and asks for an exorcism. At the same time, around the world, Artilects are receiving a strange vision of Mary visiting them. Is this a hoax, a hack or a real miracle? Sent to investigate by the Pope, Fr. Seraphian soon finds himself racing against time to save the world from a Posthumanism cult’s attempts to use technology to force their will on the world. Against such evil secular forces he finds allies in a Sufi mystic, and special agents from the allied countries of the revived Islamic Caliphate and the revived Hapsburg Empire. This visionary future imagines a world in which todays ‘aparent’ enemies have become a natural allies. A more powerful picture of ecumenical solidarity is difficult to find in this age of sectarian and political extremism.  

A forgotten classic, Lindop’s book was published under a secular press but if it was published today it would fit more naturally on a Church bookshelf. In 1920/30s Mexico, “Malo,” a ruthless young man who hates the Church and is little better than a bandit, has taken control of an isolated mountain town. Fr. Keogh is sent to bring the beleaguered population back to God. In the moral and physical struggle that ensues, can Fr. Keogh trust anyone—even himself?

What sets this book apart from most thrillers is that the struggle for physical control of the town is always secondary to the struggle for the hearts and minds of the population—and for the soul of “Malo” himself.

My Life’s Journey is the autobiography of Dr. Margaret P. Price, a black woman from the Caribbean Island of Tobago. Born in the early years of the 20^th century and growing up during WWII, she traveled abroad for her education and worked her way up to lead international health programs for governments and the United Nations across five continents, as well as to have an extensive family of adopted and fostered godchildren. It is remarkable to read a story from a woman of her generation who mixes her spiritual growth with her growing talents in leadership.

Formative in her spiritual growth were Dr. Price’s involvement in the St. Vincent de Paul society and the Cursillo Movement. Through these and through the wisdom of her Catholic convert mother, Dr. Price gives practical examples from her life about how to discern God’s will in making decisions and tend to one’s spiritual growth with the same attentiveness we do our worldly careers.

A murder mystery set in Joseon Dynasty, Korea. In this story the unique witness of the early Korean church is a powerful meditation on solidarity. Korean converted on their own to Catholicism without any missionary influence. For years they were a lay-led community, lacking even a priest. When they finally did get their first priest smuggled in he had to be hidden and protected by a lay woman and divorsee’ whose uniquely shamed position allowed her the freedom to hide the priest, fund the church and distribute Bibles. This background history to a thrilling mystery full of political intrigue will have any reader binging the book faster than they ever thought possible.