19 Best nonfiction books like Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens by Kate Bowler

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Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

By: Kate Bowler

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the …

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1. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • self help
  • inspirational
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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2. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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3. How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

By: Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when … read more

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  • self help
  • christian
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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4. Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

By: Jennie Allen

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head provides a revolutionary path to embr… read more

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  • self help
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  • faith
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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"Feelings aren’t meant to be fixed. Feelings are meant to be felt."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Let me be clear, you will never be emotionally healthy outside the will of God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Our willingness to feel what we feel connects us to ourselves, to others, to God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"After all, where did those of us who know Jesus get the idea that we were going to have a straight and easy path all the way to heaven? It’s a wild ride all the way home."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

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5. Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

By: Savannah Guthrie

4.36

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Mostly what God does is love you. If we could believe this, really believe this, how different w… read more

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"He doesn't even need words from us. Just a sigh, a tear, or a whimper. What an amazing resource we have in a God who already understands our whole history, our intricate emotional fabric, our every i…"

-Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

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6. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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8. Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

By: Kate Bowler

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the … read more

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  • poetry
  • self help
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • theology
  • faith
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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9. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

By: Anna Gazmarian

3.63

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

By: Sarah Bessey

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more

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  • self help
  • christian
  • theology
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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"

-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

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11. The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor

By: Lore Ferguson Wilbert

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Walk in the woods with me." That's the invitation award-winning author Lore Ferguson Wilbert ex… read more

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  • theology
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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human by Cole Arthur Riley

12. Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the… read more

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  • poetry
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  • theology
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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

13. 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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14. Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture (Daily Bible Devotions on Belonging to God, the Earth, & One Another)

By: Kat Armas

4.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this forty-day devotional, Cuban American writer Kat Armas shows us that reading the Bible with … read more

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"We are creatures both brilliant and ignorant, significant and insignificant: broken, whole, and healing."

-Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture (Daily Bible Devotions on Belonging to God, the Earth, & One Another)

"This is a testament to what we already know to be true: we belong to the earth, and she belongs to us too."

-Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture (Daily Bible Devotions on Belonging to God, the Earth, & One Another)

"To notice the weather is to speak to an embodied way of being; it is to recognize our connection to all created things."

-Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture (Daily Bible Devotions on Belonging to God, the Earth, & One Another)

"That’s what this devotional is about: being human. And with our humanity comes the ability to inquire, to imagine, to dream, to create."

-Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture (Daily Bible Devotions on Belonging to God, the Earth, & One Another)

Cover of Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More by Ruth Chou Simons

15. Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More

By: Ruth Chou Simons

4.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Chou Simons guides readers who are restless in their current circumstances … read more

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  • self help
  • christian
  • inspirational
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life by Amanda Held Opelt

16. Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life

By: Amanda Held Opelt

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover what it means to be blessed and challenge the false beliefs many in the church hold about … read more

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"Logic doesn't always hold up against the complexity of real life. Our equations fail us. Our formulas break down and reasons escape us. We carry blessing, and we carry curse. Life is paradox. It cann…"

-Amanda Held Opelt, Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life

Cover of Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From by Meredith Miller

17. Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From

By: Meredith Miller

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring parenting book, learn how to create space for your children to get to know God in… read more

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  • self help
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  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Blessed Are the Rest of Us: How Limits and Longing Make Us Whole by Micha Boyett

18. Blessed Are the Rest of Us: How Limits and Longing Make Us Whole

By: Micha Boyett

4.35

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When Micha Boyett's son was born with Down's Syndrome and later diagnosed with autism, she was draw… read more

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  • christian
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Cover of The Unfiltered Enneagram: A Witty and Wise Guide to Self-Compassion by Elizabeth  Orr

19. The Unfiltered Enneagram: A Witty and Wise Guide to Self-Compassion

By: Elizabeth Orr

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From Instagram’s snarkiest Enneagram expert comes a hilarious and insightful book that shows how em… read more

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  • self help
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre

By: Niigaan Sinclair

4.65

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

From ground zero of this country's most important reconciliationNiigaan Sinclair has been called p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Practices for Embodied Living by Hillary L. McBride

21. Practices for Embodied Living

By: Hillary L. McBride

4.25

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In The Wisdom of Your Body , clinical psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride exp… read more

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  • audiobook
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17 Best audiobook books like Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens by Kate Bowler

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

Transform Your Habits

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

John Mark Comer

4.63

Transform Your Habits

How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

Jennie Allen

4.24

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12 Best audiobook books like Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did by John Mark Comer

Transform Your Habits

Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

Transform Your Habits

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

John Mark Comer

4.63

Transform Your Habits

How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

Jennie Allen

4.24

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