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Let Me be a Woman

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Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

Frederick Buechner · 97 pages

Gift of Union Presby. Church Sustain Trust Fund.

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God in the Dock

C.S. Lewis · 346 pages

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Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 288 pages

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Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions

Naomi J. Williams, Huda Al-Marashi · 268 pages

"With stories by women from a wide range of religious communities--including Evangelical Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, Muslim, Calvinist, Moonie, the Unification Church, and Jehovah's Witnesses--the writers in Beyond Belief pull back a heavy curtain to reveal what they love about their lives within these communities, along with the pain that comes from the rigid expectations and diminishmen

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Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis

Lauren F. Winner · 272 pages

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Lectures to My Students

Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 290 pages

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Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends

Elie Wiesel · 208 pages

Discusses the Biblical stories of Adam, Job, Jacob, Cain and Abel, Abraham, Joseph, and Moses.

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The Gnostic Gospels

Elaine Pagels · 184 pages

The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow in reputation and influence over the past two decades. It is now widely recognized as one of the mo

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Orthodoxy

G.K. Chesterton · 156 pages

Orthodoxy is G. K. Chesterton’s response to his critics’ assertion that his earlier collection of essays, Heretics, had “merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy.” In his intellectual journey from pagan to agnostic to positivist philosopher, he had attempted to build a philosophy “some ten minutes in advance of the truth.” But when he compared his modern p

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Fear and Trembling/Repetition

Soren Kierkegaard · 464 pages

The two books comprised in this volume are in greater demand than any other works of Kierkegaard. This preference is a credit to the public taste, for Kierkegaard himself called them "the most perfect books I have written," though in this commendation he included The Concept of Dread, and later stretched it to include Training in Christianity.

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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

A.J. Jacobs · 492 pages

Raised in a secular family but interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to stone adulterers. The

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Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile

John Shelby Spong · 288 pages

An important and respected voice for liberal American Christianity for the past twenty years, Bishop John Shelby Spong integrates his often controversial stands on the Bible, Jesus, theism, and morality into an intelligible creed that speaks to today's thinking Christian. In this compelling and heartfelt book, he sounds a rousing call for a Christianity based on critical thought rather than blind

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Gospel Principles

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Future Grace

John Piper · 448 pages

In Future Grace, author John Piper helps readers discover the key to overcoming sin and living a life that honors God. Many men and women attempt to walk upright out of gratitude for what Christ did in the past, but Piper encourages believers to look ahead to the grace God provides for us on a day-by-day, moment-by-moment basis—putting faith into action by laying hold of God’s promises for the cha

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Truth Restored

Gordon B. Hinckley · 162 pages

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Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Rob Bell · 224 pages

"Bestselling author of VELVET ELVIS and the 2 million-plus selling Nooma videos, Rob Bell, reveals a secret deep in the heart of millions of Christians-they don't believe what they have been taught are the essential truths of their faith. Out of respect for their tradition, they keep quiet, confiding to a few close friends their doubts and questions about salvation, Jesus, and, of course, God. Is

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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Richard Rohr · 191 pages

"A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life. In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think of the second half of life as largely about getting old, dealing with health issues, and le

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The Miracle of Forgiveness

Spencer W. Kimball · 376 pages

The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul. In a world of turmoil and contention this is indeed a priceless gift.

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