God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music
By: Leah Payne
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Traces Contemporary Christian Music's role in creating a theological and political vision for publi…
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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. Exiles: The Church in the Shadow of Empire
By: Preston M. Sprinkle
4.45
Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition
A thoughtful exploration of the intersection of faith and politics, Exiles What if we considered o… read more
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5. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
By: Russell D. Moore
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more
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6. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
By: Shannon Harris
3.77
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more
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"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
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. 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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"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
9. 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
10. 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
11. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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12. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?
By: Jim Davis
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater … read more
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13. 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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14. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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15. 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
16. 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
17. Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found
By: Mike Cosper
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
In the years since leaving local church ministry, I've devoted an enormous amount of time and resou… read more
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18. Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come
By: John Daniel Davidson
4.51
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Evil Is Coming – Worse than You Imagine We live in an anxious age. Long-held certainties, cherishe… read more
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19. God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music
By: Leah Payne
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Traces Contemporary Christian Music's role in creating a theological and political vision for publi… read more
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20. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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21. How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture
By: Dan Kimball
4.20
Format: None pages, Audio CD
When Dan Kimball first sat down to meet with a student who was disillusioned by Christianity, he wa… read more
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