Religious Liturgical category: 223 books

A smooth talking American evangelist is building a church in a small town outside Vancouver and drops dead in the middle of a sermon. Many people who know and serve him have a motive to kill him. Was it murder or heart disease?

Get ready to be given a lesson in preparedness! What happens when you go before a group of people unprepared? Trust me, it's not pretty, and this skit will show you every ugly angle. Two people have agreed to sing a song for their church congregation during a service, but they haven't practiced...at...

Faith and Drama contains thirty-four short plays and dramatic readings that have been performed in churches, youth groups, conferences and special events in the Middle East as part of a Christian theater ministry. In places where people dont have the opportunity to read or study the Bible for...

A young, rightful queen returns from exile to her homeland. Her mission is to reclaim her country from the grip of an oppressive foreign occupation. To achieve her goal, she must find a king.Her quest leads to a charismatic and gifted man who possesses the ability to help her lead a nation to freedom....

Main character, Murphy Wilson who lived a slow moving normal simple yet boring life gets a change of pace on a Friday afternoon as he ends up at the wrong place at the wrong time. As he makes his way in to his financial institute for a quick cash withdrawal he ends up finding himself locked in the...

Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day. The energies of whole communities, notably...

"It is what it is, they say, but is it?" Jed McKenna has always been more about destroying questions than answering them, so it’s no surprise that Play is more Q than A. In fact, it might be viewed as a progression through the stages of self-inquiry, each of the seven vignettes...

The "Yiddish King Lear" by Jacob Gordin. Adapted in English and for the stage by David Serero. The Yiddish King Lear is without a doubt the most famous Yiddish Play of all time that changed Yiddish Theater forever. David Serero made a 1h30 modern adaptation for 6 characters.

This early work by Aleister Crowley was originally published in 1899. Born in Royal Leamington Spa, England in 1875, Crowley was raised by Christian fundamentalist parents. He attended Trinity College at Cambridge University, but left before graduating. After leaving the college, he devoted his time...

Goethe’s Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment...

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, normally known simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play.

While Chaim Potok is most famous for his novels, particularly his first book The Chosen (1967)—which was listed on The New York Times bestseller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies—he also wrote plays, which are collected and published here for the first time. Rena Potok edited...

On Yom Kippur eve in 1965, Elie Wiesel found himself in Russia, “in a synagogue crowded with people.  The air was stifling.  The cantor was chanting . . . Suddenly a mad thought crossed my mind: Something is about to happen; any moment now the Rabbi will wake up, shake himself, pound the pulpit...

An influential and controversial work by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), the colossus of Dutch literature, regarded as a major influence on Milton’s Paradise Lost. An angel returns from Eden, his wings singed by the beauty of Adam and Eve’s world, longing for the pleasures of their flesh.