If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
By: John Pavlovitz
4.40
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Thou Shalt Not Be Horrible. Imagine for a moment what the world might look like if we as people …
Want to Read $ 9.99"The Good Book makes a really lousy hammer."-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
"The Good Book makes a really lousy hammer."-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
"A God our brains and buildings can fully hold just isn’t big enough to be truly God. The moment we imagine a rigid box adequately capable of containing the who, what, how, and why of everything that is or ever was or ever might be is the moment we’ve shrunken all the answers to the elemental questions down into something that is no longer God-sized. If we can fully fathom it, it ceases to be worthy of our reverence."-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
"A God our brains and buildings can fully hold just isn’t big enough to be truly God. The moment we imagine a rigid box adequately capable of containing the who, what, how, and why of everything that is or ever was or ever might be is the moment we’ve shrunken all the answers to the elemental questions down into something that is no longer God-sized. If we can fully fathom it, it ceases to be worthy of our reverence."-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
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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. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
3.76
Format: 6 pages, ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grac… read more
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3. 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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4. 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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5. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
By: Peter Enns
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more
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6. The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
By: Brian D. McLaren
3.83
Format: 432 pages,
The Christian story, from Genesis until now, is fundamentally about people on the move--outgrowing … read more
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7. UnClobber
By: Glennon Doyle Melton , None
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
Churches in America are experiencing an unprecedented fracturing due to their belief and attitude t… read more
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8. Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
By: Mike McHargue
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
From the host of the popular podcasts, The Liturgists Podcastand Ask Science Mike, a story of havin… 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. 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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"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
11. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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12. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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"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)
15. Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world … read more
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16. Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country
By: Adam Kinzinger
4.14
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Adam Kinzinger captures one of the most transformative periods in… read more
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17. 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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18. 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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19. The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
By: Jermaine Fowler
4.46
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery… read more
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20. Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith
By: Mihee Kim-Kort
4.03
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
God's love for us breaks every boundary. So should our love for each other. Mihee Kim-Kort is a … read more
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"Enjoying God is a way to Glorify God"-Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith
"Loving a desiring God is a fuller picture of a God who also yearns for our happiness, our joy, and yes, even our pleasure."-Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith
"Queer intimacies are radical expressions of desire that open up traditional definitions and categories, and they invite us into understanding our humanity in new ways."-Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith
"A queer spirituality allows for loving pandemonium--the challenge of shifts and transitions, the realization that we are shaped by each other, and the emergence of new identities, new creations withi…"-Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith
21. If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
By: John Pavlovitz
4.40
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Thou Shalt Not Be Horrible. Imagine for a moment what the world might look like if we as people … read more
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"The Good Book makes a really lousy hammer."-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
"A God our brains and buildings can fully hold just isn’t big enough to be truly God. The moment we imagine a rigid box adequately capable of containing the who, what, how, and why of everything that …"-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
22. The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy
By: Jim Wallis
4.20
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
A major new work by the New York Times bestselling author, arguing that the answer to bad religion … read more
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23. 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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24. Still Christian: Following Jesus Out of American Evangelicalism
By: David P. Gushee
4.11
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
In this provocative tell-all, David Gushee gives an insider's look at the frictions and schisms of … read more
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25. Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person
By: Shane Claiborne
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for… read more
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"Being in proximity makes a difference. Relationships make issues real and complicated and personal. Relationships move us from ideology to compassion. We can't love our neighbor if we don't know them…"-Shane Claiborne, Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person
"To have a consistent ethic of life is to be comprehensive in our advocacy for life and to refuse to think of issues in isolation from each other. It is a fundamental conviction that every person is s…"-Shane Claiborne, Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person
26. 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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27. 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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28. The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics
By: Curtis Chang
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
For all who want to culturally engage but are exhausted by the tension in our families and churches… read more
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29. The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey (On Location Book 1)
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Bestselling author Brian D. McLaren followed his love of nature (specifically, tortoises) all the w… read more
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30. How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture
By: Dan Kimball
4.20
Format: None pages, Audio CD
When Dan Kimball first sat down to meet with a student who was disillusioned by Christianity, he wa… read more
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31. God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America
By: Lyz Lenz
3.85
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of the 2016 election, Lyz Lenz watched as her country and her marriage were torn apart … read more
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"Sometimes your biggest freedom is found in your greatest fear: letting go."-Lyz Lenz, God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America
