He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
By: Christian Wiman
4.28
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets What i…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The hunger that gives rise to art must be greater than what art can satisfy."-Christian Wiman, He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
"The hunger that gives rise to art must be greater than what art can satisfy."-Christian Wiman, He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
"The hunger that gives rise to art must be greater than what art can satisfy."-Christian Wiman, He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
"The hunger that gives rise to art must be greater than what art can satisfy."-Christian Wiman, He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
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1. American Primitive
By: Mary Oliver
4.39
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Her most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive … read more
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- poetry
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"there's a sickness worse than the risk of death and that's forgetting what we should never forget."-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"Fear defeated me. And yet, not in faith and not in madness but with the courage I thought my dream deserved, I stepped outside."-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"The sky, after all, stops at nothing, so something has to be holding our bodies in its rich and timeless stables or else we would fly away"-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it…"-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
2. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
3. Being Peace (Being Peace, #1)
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Since its publication in 1987, "Being Peace" has become a classic of contemporary religious literat… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
4. Phantastes
By: George MacDonald
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. L… read more
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5. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.10
Format: 264 pages,
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more
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- poetry
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6. The Drop That Became the Sea: Lyric Poems
By: Yunus Emre , Kabir Helminski , Refik Algan
4.40
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
This collection of poems introduces a general readership to Yunus Emre (1240-1321), called the "gre… read more
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- spirituality
7. Wolf in White Van
By: John Darnielle
1.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolat… read more
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8. Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
By: Mary Oliver
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of p… read more
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9. Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
Initially written for a Jewish friend, Life of the Beloved has become Henri Nouwen's greatest legac… read more
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10. In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
There's an old Irish proverb: 'It is in the shelter of each other that the people live'. In this bo… read more
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11. On the Holy Spirit
By: David Anderson , Basil the Great
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This classic exposition of Trinitarian doctrine eloquently sets forth the distinction yet perpetual… read more
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12. Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
By: Mary Oliver
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes i… read more
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13. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- poetry
- religion
- nonfiction
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
14. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
15. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross
By: Brian Zahnd
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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- theology
- christianity
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
16. 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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- memoir
- christianity
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17. Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
By: Makoto Fujimura
4.29
Format: 167 pages, Hardcover
From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessential—and often overlooked—r… read more
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18. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
19. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more
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- theology
- christianity
- faith
- religion
- nonfiction
"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
20. 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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21. Where the Light Fell
By: Philip Yancey
4.52
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the allure of extremist faith, one of today's… read more
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22. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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23. Tiny Love Stories: True Tales of Love in 100 Words or Less
By: Daniel Jones
4.38
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be swept away—in less time than it takes to read this paragraph. T… read more
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24. Ghosted: An American Story
By: Nancy French
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more
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25. 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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- christianity
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- nonfiction
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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
26. Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne
By: Wilda C. Gafney
4.64
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Womanist Midrash is an in-depth and creative exploration of the well- and lesser-known women of the… read more
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27. Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much: The Way of Love in a World of Hurt
By: Charlie Peacock
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A hopeful and practical model for what it means to be a culture-maker and a Christian in a world in… read more
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"The artist's role in the world involves God's people being artistic for everyone, everywhere, and in everything inspired and directed by the law of love."-Charlie Peacock, Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much: The Way of Love in a World of Hurt
"We need reminders at every stage of life that our bits and pieces have meaning. At one time or another, we will struggle with feeling invisible and weary and lonely in the work. It's hard to do the s…"-Charlie Peacock, Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much: The Way of Love in a World of Hurt
28. He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
By: Christian Wiman
4.28
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets What i… read more
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- memoir
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- faith
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
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"The hunger that gives rise to art must be greater than what art can satisfy."-Christian Wiman, He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
29. Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart: Meditations for the Restless Soul
By: Jon M. Sweeney
4.45
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church… read more
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- spirituality
30. The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes
By: Denise Levertov
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Conceived as a convenience to those readers concerned with doubt and faith, Denise Levertov's 34 se… read more
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31. Holler: A Poet Among Patriots
By: Danielle Chapman
4.65
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
A tour de force of prose style, Holler is poet Danielle Chapman's moving and provocative portrait o… read more
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