Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
By: Christian Wiman
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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3.95
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
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2. How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away
By: Emily P. Freeman
4.01
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3. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross
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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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4. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
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5. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
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6. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
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4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
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By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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10. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
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4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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11. Reading Genesis
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4.10
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12. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
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4.33
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14. Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
By: Christian Wiman
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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3.61
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17. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
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3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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18. The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy
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4.20
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4.10
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20. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
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4.23
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3.83
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