20 must-read nonfiction books like A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ by John Andrew Bryant

Cover of A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ by John Andrew Bryant

A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ

By: John Andrew Bryant

4.54

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Publishers Weekly starred review “This is a stunning book, so rare and so beautiful. I cannot recom…

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Cover of Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop

1. Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

By: Mark Vroegop

4.54

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Lament is how you live between the poles of a hard life and trusting God's goodness. Lament is h… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • counselling
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"To cry is human, but to lament is Christian."

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"Every lament is a prayer; a statement of faith"

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"When brokenness becomes your life, lament helps you turn to God. It lifts your head and turns your tear-filled eyes toward the only hope you have: God's grace."

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"The lament of Good Friday was answered three days later with the empty tomb. The greatest injustice in history became the greatest display of divine mercy. Tragedy became triumph. Lament was the voic…"

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

Cover of How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David  Brooks

2. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Cover of Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation by Collin Hansen

3. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

By: Collin Hansen

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
Cover of Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did by John Mark Comer

4. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

By: John Mark Comer

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Raised to Stay: Persevering in Ministry When You Have a Million Reasons to Walk Away by Natalie Runion

5. Raised to Stay: Persevering in Ministry When You Have a Million Reasons to Walk Away

By: Natalie Runion

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller An honest exploration of disappointment with the Churc… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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6. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

By: Andrew Wilson

4.51

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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7. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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8. The Lord of Psalm 23: Jesus Our Shepherd, Companion, and Host

By: David Gibson

4.74

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

Expository Study of Psalm 23 Reveals the Beauty and Deep Theological Meaning behind a Familiar Part… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age by Samuel James

9. Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

By: Samuel James

4.44

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian Wisdom With advancements in internet te… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship by Justin Whitmel Earley

10. Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship

By: Justin Whitmel Earley

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Loneliness is the most dangerous and least talked-about epidemic--but Made for People offers a cure… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith by Russ Ramsey

11. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

By: Russ Ramsey

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we un… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

Cover of Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture by Christopher Watkin

12. Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

By: Christopher Watkin

4.55

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

*With a foreword from Tim Keller* A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a wa… read more

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  • faith
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  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope by Curt Thompson

13. The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope

By: Curt Thompson

4.47

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

In the face of personal and global suffering, is it possible to live with hope rather than despair?… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living by Alan  Noble

14. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • counselling
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory by Abigail Rine Favale

15. The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory

By: Abigail Rine Favale

4.59

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The question of gender—who we are as men and women—has never been more pressing, or more misunderst… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South by Esau McCaulley

16. 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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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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

Cover of Overcoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for Those Who Struggle to Care by Uche Anizor

17. Overcoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for Those Who Struggle to Care

By: Uche Anizor

4.22

Format: None pages, ebook

Understanding Apathy and How to Combat It For many Christians, apathy can feel inescapable. They ex… read more

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  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes by Nancy R. Pearcey

18. The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

By: Nancy R. Pearcey

4.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How the Script for Masculinity Turned Toxic--and How to Fix It "Why Can't We Hate Men?" asks a hea… read more

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  • theology
Cover of Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity by Carl R. Trueman

19. Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.41

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Carl Trueman Analyzes How Ancient Creeds and Confessions Protect and Promote Biblical Christianity … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ by John Andrew Bryant

20. A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ

By: John Andrew Bryant

4.54

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Publishers Weekly starred review “This is a stunning book, so rare and so beautiful. I cannot recom… read more

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  • christian
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  • theology
  • faith
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal by Matthew T. Martens

21. Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal

By: Matthew T. Martens

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Noted Attorney and Seminary Graduate Matthew T. Martens Answers the Question: Does the Design and O… read more

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  • faith
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  • nonfiction
  • theology

7 best-selling spirituality books like A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ by John Andrew Bryant

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4.63

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Raised to Stay: Persevering in Ministry When You Have a Million Reasons to Walk Away

Natalie Runion

4.33

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Emily P. Freeman

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