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…
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1. Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
By: Michael J. Gorman
4.48
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
Reading Revelation Responsibly is for those who are confused by, afraid of, and/or preoccupied with… read more
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"To pray for the coming of the kingdom, the coming of the Lord, is to commit oneself and one’s community to embody the values and practices of that kingdom-now-in whatever circumstances we find oursel…"-Michael J. Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
"According to Revelation, in the church’s worship we should remember and honor the prophets and martyrs, not veterans and fallen warriors; faithful witnesses, not loyal patriots; the One who was slain…"-Michael J. Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
"It has often been said that the most common idols in the West are Power, Sex, and Money; with this I am not in any profound disagreement. However, inasmuch as these idols are connected to a larger vi…"-Michael J. Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
2. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
By: Joe Barrett , Peter Enns
3.63
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adamrecounts his transformative spir… read more
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3. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
By: Peter Enns
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more
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4. 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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5. The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again
By: Justin Brierley
4.43
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Could We Be Witnessing a Return of Belief in Our Generation? Justin Brierley is convinced that in … read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. Olivetti
By: Allie Millington
4.10
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and r… read more
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10. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
By: N.T. Wright
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their pr… read more
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11. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Laura E. Anderson
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more
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"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
12. How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News
By: Peter Enns
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal P… read more
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13. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
By: Peter Enns
4.36
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more
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"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
14. 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
15. Where'd You Park Your Spaceship?: An Interplanetary Tale of Love, Loss, and Bread (WHERE'D YOU PARK YOUR SPACESHIP? Series)
By: Rob Bell
4.34
Format: 558 pages, Paperback
Heen Gru-Bares has been SERIES 5 for most of his adult life, traveling from planet to planet collec… read more
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16. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more
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17. Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.17
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
A highly readable, deeply insightful exploration of how to live with wisdom, resilience and love in… read more
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18. If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
By: John Pavlovitz
4.40
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Thou Shalt Not Be Horrible. Imagine for a moment what the world might look like if we as people … read more
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"The Good Book makes a really lousy hammer."-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
"A God our brains and buildings can fully hold just isn’t big enough to be truly God. The moment we imagine a rigid box adequately capable of containing the who, what, how, and why of everything that …"-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
19. 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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20. 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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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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