13 best-selling christianity books like The Gospel of Mark: A Beginner's Guide to the Good News by Amy-Jill Levine

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The Gospel of Mark: A Beginner's Guide to the Good News

By: Amy-Jill Levine

4.21

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the Good News in the Bible’s earliest GospelWalk through the Bible’s earliest source for t…

If you liked the christianity plot in The Gospel of Mark: A Beginner's Guide to the Good News by Amy-Jill Levine , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

By: N.T. Wright

4.18

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed Simply Christian and Surprised by Hope comes a book that addresses… read more

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"Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise."

-N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

"The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present."

-N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

"We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess."

-N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

"Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God."

-N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

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2. All I Really Want: Readings for a Modern Christmas

By: Quinn Caldwell

4.39

Format: 280 pages, ebook

Readings for the harried, hurried and spiritually hungry in the season of Christmas. read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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3. St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate

By: Karen Armstrong

3.90

Format: 205 pages,

St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twe… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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4. Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament

By: Ellen F. Davis

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God what it takes, what it costs, what it … read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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5. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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6. A Single Thread (Cobbled Quilt #1)

By: Marie Bostwick

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

Marie Bostwick weaves the unforgettable story of four very different women whose paths cross, chang… read more

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7. The Apostle Paul

By: Luke Timothy Johnson

3.50

Format: None pages,

Coming to grips with Christianity means coming to grips with Paul. There is no figure aside from Je… read more

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8. Genesis for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Controversial, Misunderstood, and Abused Book of the Bible

By: Peter Enns , Jared Byas

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Given the fever-pitched controversies about evolution, Adam and Eve, and scientific evidence for th… read more

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9. Paul: A Biography

By: N.T. Wright

4.34

Format: 480 pages, ebook

In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T.… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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10. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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11. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

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12. Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling

By: Nijay K. Gupta

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers. Within Roman s… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
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  • nonfiction
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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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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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14. Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

By: Dan Ariely

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

“In this thoughtful, moving, and well-written book, Dan Ariely narrates his personal and profession… read more

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"A higher level of income inequality in our community can fray our sense of social trust."

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"How can science - which is slow and methodical, providing only an occasional breakthrough - compete with creative minds unfettered by facts?"

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"Would you enthusiastically recommend that a friend purchase something you'd never tested yourself? Probably not. But you may be unwittingly doing this with information every day."

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"[M]isbelief is enormously engaging and even fun for those who become deeply involved in its cleverly constructed alternate worlds. People who work in the gaming industry have drawn striking parallels…"

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

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15. The Framed Women of Ardemore House

By: Brandy Schillace

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sharp, savvy mystery about an autistic editor who inherits a crumbling English estate, only to fi… read more

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16. 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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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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17. American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

By: Andrew L. Whitehead

4.20

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

"Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration."-- Library Journal Power. Fear. Viol… read more

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"Jesus calls us to be a light, not a wildfire."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"When it comes down to democracy or power, white Christian nationalism will choose power every time."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"Christian nationalism is not interested in a government for the people, by the people, but rather for a particular people, by a particular people."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"Our ability to love, serve, and act as salt and light in our communities is not dependent on various symbols of Christianity dominating the civic landscape."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

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18. 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
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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19. When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation

By: Paula Fredriksen

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars … read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • new testament
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  • nonfiction
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20. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

By: Caleb Carr

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling author of  The Alienist,  Caleb  Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. The Gospel of Mark: A Beginner's Guide to the Good News

By: Amy-Jill Levine

4.21

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the Good News in the Bible’s earliest GospelWalk through the Bible’s earliest source for t… read more

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  • new testament
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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22. God After Deconstruction

By: Thomas Jay Oord

4.25

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

Deconstruction is hard!Bad views of God and harmful experiences lead many of us to deconstruct. But… read more

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23. God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

By: Candida Moss

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meani… read more

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  • theology
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  • religion
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24. Luke: Jesus and the Outsiders, Outcasts, and Outlaws

By: Adam Hamilton

4.44

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

From Birth to Resurrection in the Gospel of LukeJesus came to lift up the lowly. Throughout his min… read more

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25. Heaven and Earth: Advent and the Incarnation

By: William H. Willimon

4.03

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

Watch out. God is on the way.It’s not within our own power to make a fresh start. If we’re to have … read more

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26. Exodus for Normal People: A Guide to the Story—and History—of the Second Book of the Bible

By: Peter Enns

4.30

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Behind the scenes of movies like The Ten Commandments, The Prince of Egypt, or Gods and Kings is a… read more

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27. The Third Day: Living the Resurrection

By: Tom Berlin

4.35

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

On the third day, he rose again.In The Third Living the Resurrection, Tom Berlin uses his gifts of… read more

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28. Returning to Eden: A Field Guide for the Spiritual Journey

By: Heather Hamilton

4.34

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

"Wherever I open Returning to Eden, I find wisdom, insight, and love! It is indeed a good 'Field Gu… read more

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29. Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus's Death

By: Andrew Remington Rillera

4.69

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Lamb of the Free analyzes the different sacrificial imagery applied to Jesus in the NT in light of … read more

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30. Common Ground - Women's Bible Study Guide with Leader Helps: Loving Others Despite Our Differences

By: Amberly Neese

4.14

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn to live at peace with others even when you disagree by studying biblical stories of rivalries… read more

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Karen Armstrong

3.90

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N.T. Wright

4.34

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Nijay K. Gupta

4.29

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Erik Larson

4.24

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4.54

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4.14

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