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Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends

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Lectures to My Students

Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 290 pages

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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

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God in the Dock

C.S. Lewis · 346 pages

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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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Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis

Lauren F. Winner · 272 pages

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Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 288 pages

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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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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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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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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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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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Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It

Krista Tippett · 256 pages

An intimate, thought-provoking, and original appraisal of the meaning of religion in our time—from the creator and host of public radio's Speaking of FaithKrista Tippett, widely becoming known as the Bill Moyers of radio, is one of the country's mostintelligent and insightful commentators on religion, ethics, and the human spirit. With this book,she draws on her own life story and her intimate con

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King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

Timothy J. Keller · 238 pages

King’s Cross is Timothy Keller’s revelatory look at the life of Christ as told in the Gospel of Mark. In it, Keller shows how the story of Jesus is at once cosmic, historical, and personal, calling each of us to look anew at our relationship with God. Like Keller’s other books, King’s Cross is written for both skeptics and the faithful, for those struggling to understand who Jesus is and for Chris

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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

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An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

Barbara Brown Taylor · 216 pages

In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir." — Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry to become a professor, a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World, she shares how she learned to encounter God beyond the walls of any church. From simple practices such as

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The Cloister Walk

Kathleen Norris · 392 pages

A New York Times bestseller for 23 weeksA New York Times Notable Book of the Year"A strange and beautiful book...Part memoir, part meditation, it is a remarkable piece of writing." -The Boston Globe"The Cloister Walk is a new opportunity to discover a remarkable writer with a huge, wise heart...Norris resonates deeply for a lot of people: She's one of those writers who demands to be handed around.

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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Anne Lamott · 281 pages

"Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith. In a narrative spiced with stories and scripture, with diatribes, laughter, and tears, Lamott tells how, against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. She shows us the myriad ways in which this sustains and guides her, shining the light

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Strength to Love

Martin Luther King Jr. · 155 pages

A collection of sermons by this martyred Black American leader which explains his convictions in terms of the conditions and problems of contemporary society.

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Waiting for God

Simone Weil · 208 pages

"Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and "one of the most neglected resources of our century" (Adrienne Rich), Wa

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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

Christopher Hitchens · 98 pages

Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine? In a frank expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status besto

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Zen and the Birds of Appetite

Thomas Merton · 142 pages

Collection of essays about complex Asian concepts with a Western directness. Merton believed that there must be a little of Zen in all authentic creative and spiritual experience and the Study of Zen, then, is not a study of doctrine, still less a polemic about ultimate religious principles, it is simply an attempt to reach the ground of pure, direct experience which underlies all creative thought

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