Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God

Let Me be a Woman

Elisabeth Elliot · 190 pages

We are called to be women. The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. For I have accepted God's idea of me, and my whole life is an offering back to him of all that I am and all that he wants me to be. In these days of conflicting demands and cultural pressures, what kind of woman do you wish

Small and Simple Things

Marjorie Pay Hinckley · 154 pages

Miracles

C.S. Lewis · 192 pages

An impeccable inquiry into the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. C. S. Lewis uses his remarkable logic to build a solid argument for the existence of divine intervention. "This book is intended as a preliminary to historical inquiry. I am not a trained historian, and I shall not examine the historical evidence for the Christian miracles. My effort is to put my reade

Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw · 176 pages

Jesus for President is a radical manifesto to awaken the Christian political imagination, reminding us that our ultimate hope lies not in partisan political options but in Jesus and the incarnation of the peculiar politic of the church as a people "set apart" from this world. In what can be termed lyrical theology, Jesus for President poetically weaves together words and images to sing (rather tha

To Draw Closer To God: A Collection Of Discourses

Henry B. Eyring · 197 pages

Learning to Walk in the Dark

Barbara Brown Taylor · 208 pages

No Man Is an Island

Thomas Merton · 264 pages

No Man Is an Island encapsulates Merton's most profound teachings on love, hope, and the search for fulfillment and meaning. Merton writes with penetrating insight on topics such as frienship, personal vocation, temptation, humility, spiritual loneliness, courage, and life among others.

Lectures to My Students

Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 290 pages

Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Francis Spufford · 236 pages

"Suitable for believers who are fed up with being patronised, for non-believers curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century, this title presents an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the vocabulary of human feeling, and satisfying those who believe in it."--Www.whitcoulls.co.nz.

Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Thomas Merton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Meister Eckhart, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, J.B. Phillips, Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, Sylvia Plath, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Henri Nouwen, Bernard of Clairvaux, Kathleen Norris, Karl Rahner, Isaac Penington, Madeleine L'Engle, Alfred Del · 345 pages

When "Spiritual but Not Religious" Is Not Enough: Seeing God in Surprising Places, Even the Church

Lillian Daniel · 215 pages

A Senior Minister of a Chicago area church discusses the cliché of being spiritual without being religious and advocates for a church-based religious life that is backed by centuries of thought, meaningful debate and a supportive community.

Temple and Cosmos: Beyond This Ignorant Present (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 12)

Hugh Nibley, Don E. Norton · 597 pages

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Donald Miller · 256 pages

Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Anne Lamott · 112 pages

"I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe, over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple" -- Cover verso. Lamott has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to three simple fundamentals. Asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us-- that can

Finding God in Unexpected Places

Philip Yancey · 288 pages

Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

Nadia Bolz-Weber

What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace today? And what if that's the point? In Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling au­thor Nadia Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising encounter with what she calls “a religious but not-so-spiritual life.” Tattooed, angry and profane, this former standup comic turned pastor stubbornly, sometimes hilariously

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

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

Frederick Buechner · 97 pages

Gift of Union Presby. Church Sustain Trust Fund.

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.

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith

Kathleen Norris · 400 pages

Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment," "faith," "dogma," "salvation," "sinner"even "Christ"formed what she called her "scary vocabulary," words that had become so codified or abstract that their meanings were all but impenetrable. She found she had

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 288 pages

Surprised by Scripture: Engaging with contemporary issues

N.T. Wright · 223 pages

An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World

Pankaj Mishra

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