Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength
By: Kat Armas
4.30
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
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1. 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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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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"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
3. Jesus and the Disinherited
By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more
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4. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despai… read more
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"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
5. 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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6. 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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"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
7. 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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"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
8. Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
By: Nijay K. Gupta
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers. Within Roman s… read more
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9. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
By: Beth Allison Barr
4.40
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more
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"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
10. She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up
By: Sheila Wray Gregoire
4.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This research-based, biblically informed book helps moms reject harmful teachings from the church a… read more
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11. 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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"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
12. Wisdom of Your Body
By: Hillary L. McBride
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body.Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of … read more
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"She cupped her hands around the remnant flame of spirit inside me, protecting the flickering light until it grew stronger, and then placed my own hands around the flame and made me the protector of t…"-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body
"Transcendence is beautiful, but I'm not convinced it's the full picture. One of my psychology professors used to remind us that if there are only two options and one of them is bad, then we aren't se…"-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body
13. 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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14. 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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"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
15. 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
16. Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
By: Mark Charles
4.38
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centurie… read more
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"We have embraced the stories of success and exceptionalism rather than engaging the narrative of suffering and oppression."-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
"The fact that America calls what Columbus did 'discovery' reveals the implicit racial bias of the country - that Native Americans are not fully human."-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
"The captivity to individualism in the West leads many to reject the possibility of institutions and systems inflicting social harm that requires a social response."-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
"The myth of redemptive violence allows Americans to see themselves as having superior intellect and value and therefore the ability to handle weapons capable of incredible violence in an appropriate …"-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
17. Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle
By: Danté Stewart
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black worldIn Shoutin… read more
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18. The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor
By: Lore Ferguson Wilbert
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Walk in the woods with me." That's the invitation award-winning author Lore Ferguson Wilbert ex… read more
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19. 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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20. Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs
By: Steve Cuss
4.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
You Can Learn to Handle the Onslaught of Internal and External Pressures Does anxiety get in the wa… read more
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21. 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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22. 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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"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
23. Women and the Gender of God
By: Amy Peeler
4.47
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
A robust theological argument against the assumption that God is male. God values women. While many… read more
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24. 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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25. Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength
By: Kat Armas
4.30
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Christianity Today 2022 Book Award Finalist (Christian Living & Discipleship) Outreach 2022 Reco… read more
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26. Start with Hello: (And Other Simple Ways to Live as Neighbors)
By: Shannan Martin
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A simple path to a more deeply connected life You want more. You want to belong to a community tha… read more
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27. Rewilding Motherhood: Your Path to an Empowered Feminine Spirituality
By: Shannon K. Evans
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Women are often told by their communities that being a mother will complete or define them. But man… read more
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28. Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From
By: Meredith Miller
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this inspiring parenting book, learn how to create space for your children to get to know God in… read more
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29. Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
By: Kaitlin B. Curtice
4.25
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Native is about identity, soul-searching, and being on the never-ending journey of finding ourselve… read more
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30. Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
By: Sandra L. Glahn
4.49
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Some Christians think Paul's reference to "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that… read more
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31. Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview: A Decolonized Approach to Christian Doctrine (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
By: Randy Woodley
4.37
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Written in an accessible, conversational style that incorporates numerous stories and questions, th… read more
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