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Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 290 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
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
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
The Tao of Pooh
Benjamin Hoff · 158 pages
The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! Yes, Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain Way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear. In these pages Benjamin Hoff shows that Pooh's Way is amazingly consistent with the principles of living envisioned long ago by the Chinese founders of Taoism. The author's explanation of Taoism is through Pooh, and Poo
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
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
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.
Small and Simple Things
Marjorie Pay Hinckley · 154 pages
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
Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God
Lauren F. Winner · 286 pages
"There are hundreds of metaphors for God, but the church only uses a few familiar images: creator, judge, savior, father. In [this book], Lauren Winner gathers a number of lesser-known tropes, reflecting on how they work biblically and culturally, and reveals how they can deepen our spiritual lives"--Amazon.com.
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.
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
Temple and Cosmos: Beyond This Ignorant Present (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 12)
Hugh Nibley, Don E. Norton · 597 pages
Finding God in Unexpected Places
Philip Yancey · 288 pages
There's Probably No God: the Atheists' Guide to Christmas
Ariane Sherine · 352 pages
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.
For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
Jen Hatmaker · 224 pages
The popular writer, blogger, and television personality reveals with humor and style how Jesus' extravagant grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don't like, don't und