As matinee idols go, Montgomery Clift had the looks, the personality and the acting talent to climb to the top of the heap as one of Hollywood's leading men of the 1950s. Tackling westerns like Red River, suspense pictures like I Confess, war films like From Here to Eternity, to romance and drama in films like A Place in the Sun and The Heiress, Clift had it all.However, having it all was not everything it was cracked up to be for this complex man. Struggling with stardom and his p...

t was a rainy evening on April 4, 1958. Inside the master bedroom of a rented home at 730 North Bedford Drive a couple argued violently while a young 14-year-old listened in fear at the door. Fearing for her mother's safety and armed with a knife, as the door opened she rushed in, stabbing her mother's boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, to death. It was Good Friday. Movie Star & the Mobster goes behind the dark and stormy relationship of movie goddess Lana Turner and Johnny Stompanato, would-be...

"Wholly For God: The True Christian Life" by William Law is a timeless and deeply spiritual guide to living a life fully devoted to God. William Law, an influential 18th-century Anglican theologian and mystic, provides profound insights and practical wisdom for Christians seeking to deepen their faith and experience the transformative power of a life wholly surrendered to God.In this compelling work, Law explores what it means to live a true Christian life, emphasizing the importanc...

This classic Christian book combines the work of two famous authors from the past: Andrew Murray (a famous South African preacher and writer born in the 1800s) and William Law (a priest from the Church of England born in the 1600s).In it, Andrew Murray provides commentary on the work of William Law which tackles a very difficult subject for many Christians: dying to self. First published in the 1800s, "Dying to Self" is one of Murray's (and Law's) lesser known works. Though written ...

William Law, born in 1686, became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1711, but in 1714, at the death of Queen Anne, he became a non-Juror: that is to say, he found himself unable to take the required oath of allegiance to the Hanoverian dynasty (who had replaced the Stuart dynasty) as the lawful rulers of the United Kingdom, and was accordingly ineligible to serve as a university teacher or parish minister. He became for ten years a private tutor in the family of the historian Edwa...

Originally published in 1728 at the beginning of the Enlightenment when rational criticism of religious belief was at its peak, William Law's work succeeded in inspiring the most cynical men of the age with its arguments in favor of a spiritual life. Proclaiming that God does not merely forgive our disobedience, but directly calls us to obedience and to a life completely centered in him, Law declares, "If you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christi...

A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life teaches the nature, importance, and obligation of a Christian’s devotion, relating it to our employment, possessions, and education, and describing how it aff ects our peace and happiness.Acknowledging prayer is a vital part of devotion, Law offers insight for improving our rhythms of prayer and increasing the spirit of devotion—something we all desire but admittedly struggle to realize. He suggests using specific hours of the day to intentiona...

“In all my reading I have never found anyone who has so helped me in understanding the Scripture truth of the work of the Holy Spirit.” Andrew MurrayYearning for something beyond a mediocre and self-centered Christianity? Frustrated by the sterile intellectualism preached from many pulpits? Longing for the power of the Holy Spirit you have read about in books and believe is able to draw a wayward generation to Christ?Many of us are on our faces before God crying out for an ...

I am sensible that the Title of this little Book will, to the Generality of People, seem too high a Flight; that it will be looked upon as the Effect of a fanatical Spirit, carrying Matters higher than the Sobriety of Religion requires. I have only one Thing to ask of such People, that they will suspend their Judgment for awhile, and be content to read so small a Treatise as this is, before they pass any Judgment, either upon the Merits of the Subject, or the Temper of the Writer.

William Law's A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life is one of the great devotional classics of eighteenth-century Anglicanism, a searching appeal to make every aspect of life answerable to the love and service of God. Written in lucid, forceful prose, it combines moral exhortation, satire, practical counsel, and imagined character sketches to expose the vanity of nominal religion and social ambition. Its style is plain yet rhetorically powerful, belonging to the tradition of practical d...

A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life' by William Law, first published in 1729, is a powerful and enduring guide to Christian living. Written by a deeply spiritual English theologian, this work calls believers to move beyond mere outward religion and embrace a life of genuine devotion, humility, and moral discipline. With eloquence and conviction, Law urges readers to align their daily lives—through prayer, simplicity, and selflessness—with the teachings of Christ. He emphasizes that tr...

A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life' by William Law, first published in 1729, is a powerful and enduring guide to Christian living. Written by a deeply spiritual English theologian, this work calls believers to move beyond mere outward religion and embrace a life of genuine devotion, humility, and moral discipline.With eloquence and conviction, Law urges readers to align their daily lives—through prayer, simplicity, and selflessness—with the teachings of Christ. He emphasizes that tru...