9 Best christian books like The Search for Common Ground by Howard Thurman

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Similar categories in Christena Cleveland's Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• christian
• theology
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"If we are a body, then we are on that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease."

-Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart

"If we are a body, then we are one that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease."

-Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart

Similar categories in Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• philosophy
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice

"We are winning,"

-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

"The moon is profound except when we land on it."

-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

"Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible."

-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

"Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait."

-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

Similar categories in James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• politics
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Marshall B. Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• philosophy
• nonfiction

"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Similar categories in Anonymous's Holy Bible: New International Version book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

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• theology
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"Meaningless! Meaningless!"

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

"Thou shalt not stand idly by"

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

"A unjust law, is no law at all."

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

"Love never fails. —I Corinthians 13:8a "

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

Similar categories in Beverly Daniel Tatum's "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

Similar categories in Clarissa Pinkola Estés's Women Who Run With the Wolves book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• philosophy
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's This is the Story of a Happy Marriage book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

Similar categories in Hillary Rodham Clinton's What Happened book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

Similar categories in Steve Silberman's NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

Similar categories in Parker J. Palmer's Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

Similar categories in Imani Perry's South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice

"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's A Grief Observed book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• christian
• theology
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction

"Time itself is one more name for death."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• philosophy
• politics
• nonfiction

"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Similar categories in Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• christian
• theology
• politics
• religion
• nonfiction
• sociology

Similar categories in Sharon Brous's The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• theology
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Shauna Niequist's I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• christian
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Kati Marton's The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• politics
• nonfiction

"This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. “Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction,"

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

"Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari’s somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music."

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

"Her description of a perfect day sounds perfectly ordinary: “I will sleep long, have a relaxed breakfast. Then I’ll go out for some fresh air, chat with my husband or with friends. I might go to the …"

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• nonfiction
• sociology

Similar categories in Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• sociology

"Racist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"I use “anticapitalist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• nonfiction

"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Similar categories in Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• sociology

"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Similar categories in Jeff Guinn's The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• religion
• nonfiction

"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"

-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Similar categories in Austin Channing Brown's I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• social justice
• christian
• nonfiction
• religion

"I am not a priest for the white soul."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"Rare is the ministry praying that they would be worthy of the giftedness of Black minds and hearts."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"This is the shadow of hope. Knowing that we may never see the realization of our dreams, and yet still showing up."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"Reconciliation is the pursuit of the impossible - and upside-down world where those who are powerful have relinquished that power to the margins"

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's We All Want Impossible Things book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."

-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

Similar categories in Irwyn L. Ince Jr.'s The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• christian
• theology
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• christian
• theology
• politics
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• social justice
• mysticism
• sociology

Similar categories in Rebecca Solnit's Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• sociology

"Cynicism is, first of all, a style of presenting oneself, and more than anything, cynics take pride in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is fr…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

"The current President's verbal abuse of language itself - with his slurred, sloshing semi-coherent word salad and his insistence that truth and fact are whatever he wants them to be, even if he wants…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

Similar categories in Amanda Held Opelt's A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• christian
• theology
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"I think of the people I've lost. I loved them. I still love them. To say it was easy or that I was past it would be to diminish the love we shared. Because of my love for them, I will endure the long…"

-Amanda Held Opelt, A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing

Similar categories in Chris Hamby's Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia book and Howard Thurman's The Search for Common Ground

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• sociology