How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News
By: Peter Enns
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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1. What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
By: Rob Bell
4.32
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep … read more
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2. Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
By: Sarah Bessey
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From the popular blogger and provocative author of Jesus Feminist comes a riveting new study of Chr… read more
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3. The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2–3 and the Human Origins Debate
By: N.T. Wright , John H. Walton
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For centuries the story of Adam and Eve has resonated richly through the corridors of art, literatu… read more
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4. Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
By: Rachel Held Evans , Sarah Bessey
3.87
Format: 216 pages, ebook
Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fe… read more
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5. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
By: Rob Bell
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
We have to test everything.I thank God for anybody anywhere who is pointing people to the mysteries… read more
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6. What We Talk about When We Talk about God
By: Rob Bell
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Rob Bell's bestselling book Love Winsstruck a powerful chord with a new generation of Christians wh… read more
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7. Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
By: Rachel Held Evans
3.98
Format: None pages,
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought… read more
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8. Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
By: Brian Zahnd
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love? In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hand… read more
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9. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
By: Rachel Held Evans
4.39
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instructio… read more
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"How could I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength while disengaging those very faculties every time I read the Bible?"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"The point is, if you pay attention to the women, a more complex history of Israel's conquests emerges. Their stories invite the reader to consider the human cost of violence and patriarchy, and in th…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"In other words, the prophets are weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political a…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The ligh…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
10. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
By: Rob Bell
3.66
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God… read more
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"You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn’t waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up - God has already done it."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. "What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
11. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross
By: Brian Zahnd
4.53
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The cross is the heart of Scripture Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and pro… read more
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12. 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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13. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
By: Richard Rohr
4.45
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more
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14. How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News
By: Peter Enns
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal P… read more
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15. Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps Us from Loving Like Jesus
By: Jared Byas
4.47
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
For years, Christians have argued, debated, and fought one another while "speaking the truth in lov… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more
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18. When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes
By: Brian Zahnd
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Is it possible to hold on to faith in an age of unbelief? Intellectual certainty has long been a co… read more
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"If we intend to purely think our way to God, the more likely result is crippling skepticism. As Kierkegaard pointed out, “When thinking turns toward itself in order to think about itself, there emerg…"-Brian Zahnd, When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes
19. After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity
By: David P. Gushee
4.18
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
A building crescendo of developments, culminating in evangelical support for the Trump presidency, … read more
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20. God After Deconstruction
By: Thomas Jay Oord
4.25
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
Deconstruction is hard!Bad views of God and harmful experiences lead many of us to deconstruct. But… read more
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21. Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
By: Ami Loper
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Many believers in Jesus Christ are living life against the backdrop of disenchantment. They have a … read more
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"A God-given longing must have a God-given fulfillment"-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
"I feel his love most strongly when I am confident in his love."-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
"Be willing to be a place where God can let His dreams for you grow."-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
"Since the moment of the Fall, God has never stopped searching us out."-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God