26 Best nonfiction books like The Gospel of Inclusion by Brandan J. Robertson

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The Gospel of Inclusion

By: Brandan J. Robertson

3.92

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

One of the most fiercely debated topics in modern Christianity centers on the inclusion of sexual a…

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1. 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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2. Changing Our Mind: A call from America's leading evangelical ethics scholar for full acceptance of LGBT Christians in the Church

By: Brian D. McLaren , Matthew Vines , Phyllis Tickle , David P. Gushee

3.82

Format: 287 pages,

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3. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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4. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.39

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

 One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instructio… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"How could I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength while disengaging those very faculties every time I read the Bible?"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"The point is, if you pay attention to the women, a more complex history of Israel's conquests emerges. Their stories invite the reader to consider the human cost of violence and patriarchy, and in th…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"In other words, the prophets are weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political a…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The ligh…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

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5. Wholehearted Faith

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life con… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity."

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

"It is nearly impossible to believe: God shrinking down to the size of a zygote, implanted in the soft lining of a woman’s womb. God growing fingers and toes. God kicking and hiccupping in utero. God …"

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

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6. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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8. Miracles

By: C.S. Lewis

4.05

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

‘The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."

-C.S. Lewis, Miracles

"Sexual intercourse is rapidly becoming the one thing venerated in a world without veneration."

-C.S. Lewis, Miracles

"In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself."

-C.S. Lewis, Miracles

"Death is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

-C.S. Lewis, Miracles

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9. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

By: Ruby Warrington

3.86

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

What is “woman” if not “mother”? Anything she wants to be. Foregoing motherhood has traditional… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. 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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  • christian
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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12. Into the Heart of Romans: A Deep Dive into Paul's Greatest Letter

By: Tom Wright

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth study of Romans from today's foremost interpreter of Paul. Romans is often and for good… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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13. Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy

By: Aundi Kolber

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

"In the wise and soulful tradition of teachers like Shauna Niequist and Brene Brown, therapist Aund… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
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14. The Financial Diet

By: Chelsea Fagan

3.43

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

How to get good with money, even if you have no idea where to start.The Financial Diet is the perso… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It's not unhealthy or wrong to change your mind, career wise, nor is it selfish to dream for something better than what you have, even if what you already have is "pretty good" compared to what other…"

-Chelsea Fagan, The Financial Diet

"The worst thing about being an adult is the fact that we can do basically whatever we want. You can have Chicken McNuggets and champagne for dinner, but you know that the next day you'll feel like a …"

-Chelsea Fagan, The Financial Diet

"Creating a home that makes you feel wonderful is a gift you give yourself that echoes through the rest of your life. A bedroom you love is one in which you want to have an organized, well-cared-for w…"

-Chelsea Fagan, The Financial Diet

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15. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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16. The Electricity of Every Living Thing

By: Katherine May

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Perhaps he has just never been at the wrong end of a dead-eyed bombardment of boy-band facts from a particularly obsessed teenage girl."

-Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing

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17. 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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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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

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18. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.86

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that’s the thing. To ma…"

-Barbara Kingsolver, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

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19. Summer Fridays

By: Suzanne Rindell

4.04

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

You've Got Mail for a new generation, set in the days of AOL and instant messenger banter, about a … read more

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20. The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World

By: Gary Ferguson

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connecti… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians

By: Austen Hartke

4.40

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached “the transgender tipping point,” suggesti… read more

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  • christian
  • lgbt
  • christianity
  • faith
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"The thing is, we can't be in right relationship to each other if we can't see each other. We can't be fully present in any relationship if we're walling off part of ourselves or hiding beneath a mask."

-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians

"It might seem daunting to a congregation to have to learn about pronouns, or to designate a bathroom gender-neutral, or to have difficult conversations about what it means to affirm LGBTQ+ identities…"

-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians

"When we look at stories of renaming in the Bible, we often find that a character is handed a new name they never asked for. While I'm sure Abraham treasured the new name and promise God gave him, and…"

-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians

"There are two ways to interpret what Paul says in Galatians 3:28 about our being one in Christ: either it means that we're all whitewashed and homogenized and our differences are erased... or it mean…"

-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians

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22. Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships

By: Karen R. Keen

4.37

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

WHEN IT COMES TO SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS, this book by Karen Keen contains the most thoughtful, bala… read more

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  • christian
  • lgbt
  • christianity
  • faith
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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23. After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity

By: David P. Gushee

4.18

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

A building crescendo of developments, culminating in evangelical support for the Trump presidency, … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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24. Still Christian: Following Jesus Out of American Evangelicalism

By: David P. Gushee

4.11

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

In this provocative tell-all, David Gushee gives an insider's look at the frictions and schisms of … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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25. Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion

By: Matthias Roberts

4.22

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Holy Runaways speaks to people who are feeling ignored, oppressed, or rejected by their religious c… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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26. Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice

4.25

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Native is about identity, soul-searching, and being on the never-ending journey of finding ourselve… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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27. The Gospel of Inclusion

By: Brandan J. Robertson

3.92

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

One of the most fiercely debated topics in modern Christianity centers on the inclusion of sexual a… read more

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  • christian
  • lgbt
  • christianity
  • faith
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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28. Open and Relational Theology: An Introduction to Life-Changing Ideas

By: Thomas Jay Oord

4.16

Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition

Most theologies suck. They’re too technical or they describe a God nobody understands. Sometimes th… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"God is likely bigger and wilder than any box."

-Thomas Jay Oord, Open and Relational Theology: An Introduction to Life-Changing Ideas

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29. Lady Macbeth

By: Ava Reid

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more

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"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

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30. Queers The Word: A 40 Day Devotional for LGBTQ+ Christians

By: Brian G. Murphy

4.63

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

Deepen your relationship with God by diving into Scripture through a queer lensHave you ever wanted… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • theology
  • lgbt
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31. Moral Leadership for a Divided Age: Fourteen People Who Dared to Change Our World

By: David P. Gushee

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Great moral leaders inspire, challenge, and unite us--even in a time of deep divisions. Moral Leade… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology

15 Best religion books like The Gospel of Inclusion by Brandan J. Robertson

Transform Your Habits

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Rachel Held Evans

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Wholehearted Faith

Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Miracles

C.S. Lewis

4.05

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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4.37

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4.54

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