30 Best nonfiction books like A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing by Amanda Held Opelt

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A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing

By: Amanda Held Opelt

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In a raw and inspiring reflection on grief--selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books …

"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, slow, plodding toll of grief."

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

"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, slow, plodding toll of grief."

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

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing by Amanda Held Opelt , here is a list of 30 books like this:

1. Lament for a Son

By: Nicholas Wolterstorff

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

This book was written more than twelve years ago to honor the author's son Eric, who died in a moun… read more

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2. The Cross and the Lynching Tree

By: James H. Cone

4.51

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

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3. Wholehearted Faith

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life con… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity."

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

"It is nearly impossible to believe: God shrinking down to the size of a zygote, implanted in the soft lining of a woman’s womb. God growing fingers and toes. God kicking and hiccupping in utero. God …"

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

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4. 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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  • christian
  • memoir
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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5. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

By: Beth Moore

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

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6. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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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7. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

By: Shannon Harris

3.77

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

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8. The Book of Common Courage: Prayers and Poems to Find Strength in Small Moments

By: K.J. Ramsey

4.68

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Common Courage is a collection of prayers, poems, and blessings to help you find a flic… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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9. 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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  • christian
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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10. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.63

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Anxiety is not a passive predator."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

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11. The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days

By: Kate Bowler

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Warm and witty blessings found within the struggles of our shared humanity, from the New York Times… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Blessed are we who choose not to look away from systems that dehumanize, deceive, defame, and distort. We who recognize that thoughts and prayers are NOT enough. We who stand with truth over expedien…"

-Kate Bowler, The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days

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12. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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13. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

By: Alan Noble

4.33

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is. For the majority of people, sorro… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • counselling
  • nonfiction
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14. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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15. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

By: Laura E. Anderson

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

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16. Honest Advent: Awakening to the Wonder of God-with-Us Then, Here, and Now

By: Scott Erickson

4.48

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In a world that's difficult to make sense of, and a season that's so often overtaken by consumerism… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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17. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

By: Esau McCaulley

4.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"

-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

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18. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

By: Peter Enns

4.36

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

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19. 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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  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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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20. On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

By: Danya Ruttenberg

4.46

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm--from personal trans… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology
"Before we even understand what repentance is, we’re instructed to name, out loud, the harm that we have caused."

-Danya Ruttenberg, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

"[W]e all know that sometimes people mean well but cause harm nonetheless—out of ignorance, out of carelessness, out of deeply ingrained ways of thinking they haven't examined, out of an emotional rea…"

-Danya Ruttenberg, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

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21. Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence

By: Diana Butler Bass

4.27

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of  Grateful  goes beyond the culture wars to offer a refreshing take on t… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love by K.J.  Ramsey

22. The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love

By: K.J. Ramsey

4.58

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Walking through Psalm 23 phrase by phrase, therapist and author K.J. Ramsey explores the landscape … read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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23. My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church

By: Amy Kenny

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection,… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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24. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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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25. Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God

By: Sarah Bessey

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In her most personal book yet, popular speaker and bestselling author Sarah Bessey invites us into … read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"And part of why books matter and writing matters and storytelling matters is because the best writers go first: the best writers say the unsaid and unspoken, the secret truths we all feel but can't q…"

-Sarah Bessey, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God

"I remember hearing a preacher once claim the miracle of a good parking spot. As in, she taught a church full of people how to pray for a good parking spot, how to claim it, and how to rejoice when it…"

-Sarah Bessey, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God

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26. Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice rec… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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27. A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing

By: Amanda Held Opelt

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In a raw and inspiring reflection on grief--selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books … read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • 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

Cover of This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers by K.J.  Ramsey

28. This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers

By: K.J. Ramsey

4.40

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This book is not a before and after story.Our culture treats suffering like a problem to fix, a bli… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"All pain triggers a reminder, deeper than thought, buzzing through blood and bone, that we are fragile and finite."

-K.J. Ramsey, This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers

"Suffering whispers, shouts, and screams the story no one wants to remember: we are not in control, and we are all going to die."

-K.J. Ramsey, This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers

"When pain of any kind makes us feel less ourselves and less capable of engaging in relationships, we experience it as suffering."

-K.J. Ramsey, This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers

"Living with long-term suffering in American culture feels like being off-key. Suffering quiets and slows, but our culture prefers a crescendo."

-K.J. Ramsey, This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers

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29. Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

By: Sarah Stankorb

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Journalist Sarah Stankorb outlines how access to the internet—its networks, freedom of expression, … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
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30. 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

Similar categories in Ferguson Wilbert's Curious Faith book and Amanda Held Opelt's A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing

  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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 Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait West

31. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

By: Cait West

4.14

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more

Similar categories in Cait West's Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy book and Amanda Held Opelt's A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing

  • christian
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction

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