11 Top memoir books like The Deep Down Things: Practices for Growing Hope in Times of Despair by Amber C. Haines

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The Deep Down Things: Practices for Growing Hope in Times of Despair

By: Amber C. Haines

4.15

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

There's no escaping Everyone experiences seasons of pain and despair.   In 2019, when Amber Hain…

If you liked the memoir plot in The Deep Down Things: Practices for Growing Hope in Times of Despair by Amber C. Haines , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. Surprised by Oxford

By: Carolyn Weber

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more

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2. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told book and Amber C. Haines's The Deep Down Things: Practices for Growing Hope in Times of Despair

  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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3. 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

Similar categories in John Mark Comer's Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did book and Amber C. Haines's The Deep Down Things: Practices for Growing Hope in Times of Despair

  • christian
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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4. 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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  • christian
  • memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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5. 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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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
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6. Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

By: Savannah Guthrie

4.36

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Mostly what God does is love you. If we could believe this, really believe this, how different w… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"He doesn't even need words from us. Just a sigh, a tear, or a whimper. What an amazing resource we have in a God who already understands our whole history, our intricate emotional fabric, our every i…"

-Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

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7. Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

By: Kate Bowler

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the … read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mental health
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8. 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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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
"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

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9. Advent: The Season of Hope (Fullness of Time)

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.52

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

"Christians believe not just in one coming of Christ, but in three." We tend to think of Advent as … read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
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10. 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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  • religion
  • 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

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11. 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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  • christian
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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12. 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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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. 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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  • christian
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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14. Even If He Doesn't: What We Believe about God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

By: Kristen LaValley

4.57

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

How can I approach God if I’m struggling to believe in His goodness?So much of our belief can be fo… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More by Ruth Chou Simons

15. Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More

By: Ruth Chou Simons

4.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Chou Simons guides readers who are restless in their current circumstances … read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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16. Bitter and Sweet: A Journey into Easter

By: Tsh Oxenreider

4.40

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Celebrate A Season of Renewal and Reflection The theme of bitterness runs through the Bible as a… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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17. Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life

By: Amanda Held Opelt

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover what it means to be blessed and challenge the false beliefs many in the church hold about … read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Logic doesn't always hold up against the complexity of real life. Our equations fail us. Our formulas break down and reasons escape us. We carry blessing, and we carry curse. Life is paradox. It cann…"

-Amanda Held Opelt, Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life

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18. The Deep Down Things: Practices for Growing Hope in Times of Despair

By: Amber C. Haines

4.15

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

There's no escaping Everyone experiences seasons of pain and despair.   In 2019, when Amber Hain… read more

Similar categories in Amber C. Haines's The Deep Down Things: Practices for Growing Hope in Times of Despair book and Amber C. Haines's The Deep Down Things: Practices for Growing Hope in Times of Despair

  • christian
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • mental health
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing by Aundi Kolber

19. Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing

By: Aundi Kolber

4.50

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

There's a cost to being a certain kind of strong. When it comes to difficult circumstances, we'v… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mental health
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20. Curious Faith

By: Ferguson Wilbert

4.37

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

God created us curious. We innately wonder about the world, one another, ourselves, and God. But te… read more

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  • christian
  • memoir
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"God asks questions too."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

"...all injustice is spiritual."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

"...heartsickness is a gateway to hard-heartedness."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

"Curiosity will free you to live in the mystery of God's love."

-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

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21. It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories

By: Lisa-Jo Baker

4.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid… read more

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  • religion
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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4.01

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Justin Whitmel Earley

4.47

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4.36

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4.52

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