15 Top religion books like Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly by Trey Ferguson

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Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly

By: Trey Ferguson

4.76

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Theologizin' Bigger is a book by bestselling author, pastor, podcaster, and public theologian Trey …

If you liked the religion plot in Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly by Trey Ferguson , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

By: Derrick A. Bell

4.35

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a radical vision of… read more

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"Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform."

-Derrick A. Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

2. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

By: Rachel Held Evans

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more

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3. 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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4. 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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  • christianity
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5. 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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6. Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

By: Scot McKnight

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

See how the Book of Revelation can be read as a book of discipleship , challenging Christ-followers… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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"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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9. 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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"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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10. 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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11. Medusa's Sisters

By: Lauren J.A. Bear

4.18

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

A vivid and moving reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the sisters who loved her. The end of t… read more

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"To have choices is to have power. Most women have neither."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"When I choose myself, do not be afraid if my choice looks different than yours"

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"She thought love a perfect pain. Come then. Break me, bend me. Hurt me flawless."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"Find delight in your pain, she said, and rejoice in your longing. If it still hurts, you are alive, you are alive."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

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12. Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the… read more

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  • christianity
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13. 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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"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

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14. Hell Is a World Without You

By: Jason Kirk

4.59

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Rarely has an Evangelical upbringing been depicted with the relentless honesty, wide-ranging empath… read more

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"It's a disorienting moment, when you realize the Christmas story you've read a hundred times has always included, hidden in plain sight, an anarchist manifesto."

-Jason Kirk, Hell Is a World Without You

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15. As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

By: J.S. Park

4.63

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permissio… read more

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"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answe…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radi…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

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16. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

By: Laila Lalami

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize… read more

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"Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"White" is seen as the default, the absence of race. ...Whiteness, then, is shrouded in silence. To speak about it openly is to break a taboo."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"From my mother and grandmother, I learned about faith as a private relationship with the cosmic, which did not need to be measured by adherence to strict rules and rituals."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

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17. The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

By: Kaitlyn Schiess

4.29

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

A generation of young Christians are weary of the political legacy they've inherited and hungry for… read more

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"Perhaps our kitchens can be outposts of the kingdom of God, as well as our churches."

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

"It might be the most common perversion of God's people: to expect our religious devotion to excuse our injustice."

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

"The line between our political beliefs, our moral beliefs, and our theological beliefs is blurry, if not entirely invented."

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

"Our religious activities are worthless if they aren't causing us to live and act justly.  God does not divide between justice and worship."

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

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18. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

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19. Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly

By: Trey Ferguson

4.76

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Theologizin' Bigger is a book by bestselling author, pastor, podcaster, and public theologian Trey … read more

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20. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

By: Cait West

4.14

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more

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21. The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith

By: Michael O. Emerson

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Are most white American Christians actually committed to a Religion of Whiteness? Recent years hav… read more

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Brian Zahnd

4.53

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Tim Alberta

4.45

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Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

Scot McKnight

4.37

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Sarah Bessey

4.49

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4.45

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Sarah McCammon

4.21

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Sheila Wray Gregoire

4.49

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