21 Top nonfiction books like Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality by Rachel Joy Welcher

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Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality

By: Rachel Joy Welcher

4.32

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

It's time to talk back. The generation born into evangelical purity culture has grown up, and many …

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1. The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

By: Timothy J. Keller , Kathy Keller

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Renowned pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church and author of The Songs of Jesus, Timoth… read more

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"Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

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2. The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict

By: Ken Sande

4.36

Format: None pages,

Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers." But it often seems like conflict and disagreement are un… read more

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  • relationships
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Cover of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren

3. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more

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4. Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

By: Mark Vroegop

4.54

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Lament is how you live between the poles of a hard life and trusting God's goodness. Lament is h… read more

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"To cry is human, but to lament is Christian."

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"Every lament is a prayer; a statement of faith"

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"When brokenness becomes your life, lament helps you turn to God. It lifts your head and turns your tear-filled eyes toward the only hope you have: God's grace."

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"The lament of Good Friday was answered three days later with the empty tomb. The greatest injustice in history became the greatest display of divine mercy. Tragedy became triumph. Lament was the voic…"

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

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5. Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad: The Perspective Shift That Could Completely Change the Way You Mother

By: Abbie Halberstadt

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER Bestselling author Abbie Halberstadt helps women see how God can us… read more

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6. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

By: John Mark Comer

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more

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7. Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church

By: Katelyn Beaty

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning writer shows how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical mov… read more

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"Celebrity, in the final analysis, is a worldly form of power and evaluation of human worth. It is not a spiritually neutral tool that can be picked up and put down, even for godly projects. The momen…"

-Katelyn Beaty, Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church

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8. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

By: Beth Allison Barr

4.40

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more

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"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

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9. Every Woman a Theologian: Know What You Believe. Live It Confidently. Communicate It Graciously.

By: Phylicia D. Masonheimer

4.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Know what you believe and live it boldly! Phylicia Masonheimer believes that every woman should be … read more

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10. She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up

By: Sheila Wray Gregoire

4.49

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This research-based, biblically informed book helps moms reject harmful teachings from the church a… read more

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11. Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality

By: Rachel Joy Welcher

4.32

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

It's time to talk back. The generation born into evangelical purity culture has grown up, and many … read more

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12. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

By: Nijay K. Gupta

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more

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Cover of The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended by Sheila Wray Gregoire

13. The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended

By: Sheila Wray Gregoire

4.56

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

What if it's not your fault that sex is bad in your marriage? Based on a groundbreaking in-depth s… read more

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Cover of Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord by Rebecca McLaughlin

14. Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord

By: Rebecca McLaughlin

4.39

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

If the women who followed Jesus could tell you what he was like, what would they say? Jesus’s tr… read more

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Cover of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here by Kaitlyn Schiess

15. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

By: Kaitlyn Schiess

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more

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"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

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16. On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

By: Karen Swallow Prior

4.36

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowled… read more

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"Pride is always a way of not seeing oneself properly, whereas humility is"self-knowledge perfected."

-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

"What does it mean to practice faith well? While our works cannot save us, our habits can strengthen our faith."

-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

"Seeing who we really are--which requires seeing ourselves in relationship to God--is true humility. Humility is taking our place, no matter how small (or big), and fulfilling that place with a heart …"

-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

"Humility is not, therefore, simply a low regard for oneself; rather, it is a proper view of oneself that is low in comparison to God and in recognition of our own fallenness. "Humility is thinking le…"

-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

Cover of Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing by Jay  Stringer

17. Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

By: Jay Stringer

4.61

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Unwanted. It describes how we feel about some of the things we do. We don't wake up in the morning … read more

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  • sexuality
Cover of Non-Toxic Masculinity: Recovering Healthy Male Sexuality by Zachary  Wagner

18. Non-Toxic Masculinity: Recovering Healthy Male Sexuality

By: Zachary Wagner

4.26

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Dismissals such as "boys will be boys" and "not all men" are ingrained in our world. And the purity… read more

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"Both parties can consent to one-sided sex, but that should not be the bar set for a healthy relationship. Just because it's not rape doesn't mean it isn't dehumanizing."

-Zachary Wagner, Non-Toxic Masculinity: Recovering Healthy Male Sexuality

"Why is the superficial, legalistic approach of purity culture often so ineffective in curbing toxic masculinity in Christian men? Because it deals in a truncated, false gospel. Rules and regulations …"

-Zachary Wagner, Non-Toxic Masculinity: Recovering Healthy Male Sexuality

Cover of Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose by Aimee Byrd

19. Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose

By: Aimee Byrd

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

While evangelicalism dukes it out about who can be church leaders, the rest of the 98% of us need t… read more

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20. Curious Faith

By: Ferguson Wilbert

4.37

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

God created us curious. We innately wonder about the world, one another, ourselves, and God. But te… read more

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"God asks questions too."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

"...all injustice is spiritual."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

"...heartsickness is a gateway to hard-heartedness."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

"Curiosity will free you to live in the mystery of God's love."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

Cover of Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us by Jasmine L. Holmes

21. Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us

By: Jasmine L. Holmes

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Maria Fearing, Charlotte Forten Grimk�, Sarah Mapps Doug… read more

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John Mark Comer

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