A Gospel of Hope
By: Walter Brueggemann
4.17
Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition
Beloved and respected by scholars, preachers, and laity alike, Walter Brueggemann offers penetratin…
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1. Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?
By: Gary L. Thomas
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Happy is good. Holy is better. Your marriage is more than a sacred covenant with another person. I… read more
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"Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit."-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?
"Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him."-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?
"Contempt is born when we fixate on our spouse’s weaknesses. Every spouse has these sore points. If you want to find them, without a doubt you will. If you want to obsess about them, they’ll grow – bu…"-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?
"The mature response, however, is not to leave; it's to change -- ourselves. Whenever marital dissatisfaction rears its head in my marriage -- as it does in virtually every marriage -- I simply check …"-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?
2. Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading (Spiritual Theology #2)
By: Eugene H. Peterson
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eat This Book challenges us to read the Scriptures on their own terms, as God's revelation, and to … read more
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3. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
By: Nancy E. Turner
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these … read more
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4. Beauty Will Save the World: Rediscovering the Allure and Mystery of Christianity
By: Brian Zahnd
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
In today's world we have technology, convenience, security, and a measure of prosperity, but where … read more
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5. Jesus: A Very Short Introduction
By: Richard Bauckham
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, eval… read more
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6. Opening to God: Lectio Divina and Life as Prayer
By: David G. Benner
3.67
Format: 348 pages,
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7. Benediction (Plainsong, #3)
By: Kent Haruf
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife must work together, along with th… read more
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8. Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology (Spiritual Theology #1)
By: Eugene H. Peterson
4.50
Format: 60 pages, Hardcover
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places reunites spirituality and theology in a cultural context where … read more
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9. The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
By: Richard Rohr , None
3.24
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
Invitation to a Dance The Trinity is supposed to be the central, foundational doctrine of our entir… read more
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10. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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11. 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
12. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
By: Tyler Staton
4.60
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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- spirituality
"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
15. 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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16. Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
By: Austen Hartke
4.40
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached “the transgender tipping point,” suggesti… read more
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"The thing is, we can't be in right relationship to each other if we can't see each other. We can't be fully present in any relationship if we're walling off part of ourselves or hiding beneath a mask."-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
"It might seem daunting to a congregation to have to learn about pronouns, or to designate a bathroom gender-neutral, or to have difficult conversations about what it means to affirm LGBTQ+ identities…"-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
"When we look at stories of renaming in the Bible, we often find that a character is handed a new name they never asked for. While I'm sure Abraham treasured the new name and promise God gave him, and…"-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
"There are two ways to interpret what Paul says in Galatians 3:28 about our being one in Christ: either it means that we're all whitewashed and homogenized and our differences are erased... or it mean…"-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
17. A Hanging at Dawn (Bess Crawford, #11.5)
By: Charles Todd
4.01
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery series, a short story that … read more
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"A lot of people have to spend so much energy on overcoming their low opinion of themselves that they seldom get round to asking about the purpose of their existence. And if they do, it is often out o…"-Charles Todd, A Hanging at Dawn (Bess Crawford, #11.5)
18. A Gospel of Hope
By: Walter Brueggemann
4.17
Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition
Beloved and respected by scholars, preachers, and laity alike, Walter Brueggemann offers penetratin… read more
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19. The Lost World of the Torah: Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context
By: John H. Walton
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Our handling of what we call biblical law veers between controversy and neglect. On the one han… read more
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20. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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21. Open and Relational Theology: An Introduction to Life-Changing Ideas
By: Thomas Jay Oord
4.16
Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition
Most theologies suck. They’re too technical or they describe a God nobody understands. Sometimes th… read more
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"God is likely bigger and wilder than any box."-Thomas Jay Oord, Open and Relational Theology: An Introduction to Life-Changing Ideas
