10 Top theology books like What Is God Like? by Rachel Held Evans

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What Is God Like?

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.69

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The late, beloved Rachel Held Evans answers many children's first qu…

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1. Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from fre… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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2. Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith

By: Sarah Bessey

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From the popular blogger and provocative author of Jesus Feminist comes a riveting new study of Chr… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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3. The Wonderful Things You Will Be

By: Emily Winfield Martin

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestsellerthat celebrates the dreams, acceptance, and love that parents have for… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens

4. 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

Similar categories in Nadia Bolz-Weber's Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People book and Rachel Held Evans's What Is God Like?

  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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5. When God Made You

By: David Catrow , Matthew Paul Turner

3.65

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

YOU, you... God thinks about you. God was thinking of you long before your debut. From early on, ch… read more

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  • christian
  • childrens
  • christianity
  • faith
  • picture books
  • religion

6. 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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7. Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice

By: Brené Brown

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Audio CD

With her previous bestsellers, Dr. Brene Brown helped us realize that vulnerability is the birthpla… read more

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8. We're Different, We're the Same

By: Joe Mathieu , None

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Illustrated in full color. The colorful characters from Sesame Street teach young children about ra… read more

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9. One Morning in Maine

By: Robert McCloskey

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A Caldecott Honor Book! Today is a specidal day for Sal because she gets to go to Buck's Harbour wi… read more

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10. Learning to Walk in the Dark

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor's Learnin… read more

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11. An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."--Dallas Morning News), … read more

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12. Sulwe

By: Lupita Nyong'o

4.66

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller! From Academy Award–winning actress Lupita Nyong’o comes a powerful,… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
"Mama asked, "What is your name?" "Sulwe," she muttered. "And what doe sit mean?" "Star," Sulwe whispered. "Brightness is not in your skin, my love. Brightness is just who you are. As for beauty," Mam…"

-Lupita Nyong'o, Sulwe

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13. The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

By: Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.69

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the his… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
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14. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

By: Rob Bell

3.66

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God… read more

Similar categories in Rob Bell's Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived book and Rachel Held Evans's What Is God Like?

  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn’t waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up - God has already done it."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. "What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

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15. Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

By: Kevin Noble Maillard

4.42

Format: 42 pages, Hardcover

Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brin… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Noble Maillard's Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story book and Rachel Held Evans's What Is God Like?

  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
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16. Change Sings: a Children's Anthem

By: Amanda Gorman

4.56

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical picture book debut from Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman and illustrator Loren Long … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
"I can hear change humming In its loudest, proudest song. I don’t fear change coming, And so I sing along."

-Amanda Gorman, Change Sings: a Children's Anthem

"I hum with a hundred hearts, Each of us lifting a hand. I use my strengths and my smarts, Take a knee to make a stand."

-Amanda Gorman, Change Sings: a Children's Anthem

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17. 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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18. Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

4.40

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can."

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

"I had lived so long in the mainstream that I never even though about how I sounded from the margins"

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

"The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor... Jesus never commanded me to love my religion."

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

"...religion is more than a source of conflict or a calculated way to stay out of hell. Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millen…"

-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

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19. 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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20. What Do You Do With a Chance?

By: Kobi Yamada

4.56

Format: 38 pages, Hardcover

The award–winning creators of The New York Times best sellers What Do You Do With an Idea? and What… read more

Similar categories in Kobi Yamada's What Do You Do With a Chance? book and Rachel Held Evans's What Is God Like?

  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It by Brian D. McLaren

21. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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22. The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be

By: Joanna Gaines

4.45

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In the #1 New York Times bestseller The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be, Joanna Gaines and illu… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
Cover of A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal by Amena Brown

23. A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal

By: Amena Brown

4.40

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the weary, the angry, the anxious, and the hopeful, this collection… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex) by Nadia Bolz-Weber

24. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

By: Nadia Bolz-Weber

4.21

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

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25. Magnolia Flower

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.15

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston comes a moving adaptation by National B… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection by Kate Bowler

26. Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection

By: Kate Bowler

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflectio… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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27. What Is God Like?

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.69

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The late, beloved Rachel Held Evans answers many children's first qu… read more

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  • christian
  • childrens
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • picture books
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • juvenile
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28. When God Made Light

By: Matthew Paul Turner

4.53

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

From the author and illustrator of the best-selling When God Made You comes a new illuminating mess… read more

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  • christian
  • childrens
  • faith
  • picture books
  • religion
  • spirituality
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29. When I Pray for You

By: Matthew Paul Turner

4.73

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

USA TODAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From the author of the best-se… read more

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  • christian
  • childrens
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • picture books
  • religion
". . .I pray all that you do brings love and brings light. . ."

-Matthew Paul Turner, When I Pray for You

"I prayed you felt safe, full of joy and content. That when I whispered "I love you," you knew what I meant."

-Matthew Paul Turner, When I Pray for You

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30. When God Made the World

By: Matthew Paul Turner

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A journey through creation--for little readers who love science and wonder and the beginnings of al… read more

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  • christian
  • childrens
  • christianity
  • faith
  • picture books
  • religion
  • spirituality
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31. All the Colors of Christmas

By: Matthew Paul Turner

4.62

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of  When God Made You  and  When I Pray for You  captures the wonder of Chri… read more

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  • christian
  • picture books
  • childrens

14 Best childrens books like What Is God Like? by Rachel Held Evans

Transform Your Habits

The Wonderful Things You Will Be

Emily Winfield Martin

3.97

Transform Your Habits

When God Made You

David Catrow , Matthew Paul Turner

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Sulwe

Lupita Nyong'o

4.66

Transform Your Habits

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.69

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9 must-read audiobook books like Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell

Transform Your Habits

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Rachel Held Evans

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Rob Bell

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

Richard Rohr

4.45

Transform Your Habits

How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News

Peter Enns

4.29

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