Always A Guest: Speaking of Faith Far From Home
By: Barbara Brown Taylor
4.55
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
From beloved writer and renowned preacher Barbara Brown Taylor comes a new collection of stories an…
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1. Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
4.33
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Seven million copies of his books in print! This collection of over 100 unpublished letters from th… read more
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2. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
By: Judith Lewis Herman
4.39
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In th… read more
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"Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
3. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
3.76
Format: 6 pages, ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grac… read more
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4. Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams (Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop, #1)
By: Jenny Colgan
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled sweeties (you do get mor… read more
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5. Nothing to Prove: Why We Can Stop Trying So Hard
By: Jennie Allen
3.77
Format: 300 pages, Audio CD
No More Pretending. No More Performing. No More Fighting to Prove Yourself. Are you trying your bes… read more
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6. The Pastor: A Memoir
By: Eugene H. Peterson
4.23
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In The Pastor, author Eugene Peterson, translator of the multimillion-selling The Message, tells th… read more
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7. The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief
By: Jan Richardson
3.99
Format: None pages,
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8. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
By: Kathleen Norris
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A beautiful meditation on life in the Great Plains from award-winning author and poet Kathleen Norr… read more
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9. The Seven Storey Mountain
By: Thomas Merton , Robert Giroux , William H. Shannon
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influenti… read more
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10. 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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11. 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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"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
12. 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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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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14. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
By: Jon Ward
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two dec… read more
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15. Wild Mercy
By: Mirabai Starr
4.25
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
We live in a world that has suffered the abuses of an unbalanced masculine rule for thousands of ye… read more
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"Our capacity to forgive is our superpower."-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
"When we show up to make art, we need to get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed though us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it. We must be willing to abide in a space of no…"-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
"The more you turn inward, the more available the sacred becomes. when you sit in. silence and turn your gaze toward the holy mystery you once called God, the mystery follows you back out into the wor…"-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
"Mystics seem to have no shame about contradicting themselves left and right. They blithely proclaim that the cure for pain is in the pain itself and that the cry of longing is the sigh of merging. Th…"-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy
16. The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days
By: Kate Bowler
4.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Warm and witty blessings found within the struggles of our shared humanity, from the New York Times… read more
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"Blessed are we who choose not to look away from systems that dehumanize, deceive, defame, and distort. We who recognize that thoughts and prayers are NOT enough. We who stand with truth over expedien…"-Kate Bowler, The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days
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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"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
18. 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
19. The Journey Toward Wholeness: Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation
By: Suzanne Stabile
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In everything from health care and politics to technology and economics, we are experiencing feelin… read more
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20. 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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21. 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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22. God Is a Black Woman
By: Christena Cleveland
4.32
Format: 256 pages, ebook
In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland… read more
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23. A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal
By: Amena Brown
4.40
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the weary, the angry, the anxious, and the hopeful, this collection… read more
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24. 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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25. Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks
By: Diana Butler Bass
3.82
Format: 256 pages, ebook
The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle. … read more
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26. Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection
By: Kate Bowler
4.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflectio… read more
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27. A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing
By: Amanda Held Opelt
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a raw and inspiring reflection on grief--selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books … read more
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"I think of the people I've lost. I loved them. I still love them. To say it was easy or that I was past it would be to diminish the love we shared. Because of my love for them, I will endure the long…"-Amanda Held Opelt, A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing
28. Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A moving meditation on the hidden, sometimes difficult topics we must consider to live an authentic… read more
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"I WAS ASKED recently, “Who is your best friend?"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
"Being labeled is claustrophobic. It locks you into connotations."-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
"It takes a safe and wide love to teach a man that it's possible to fail and remain."-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
"As I get older and listen to my life, the truest things seem to live in paradoxical tension. Hope holding hands with understanding. Expectation dancing with the hard lessons of humility. The human he…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
29. Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
By: Gregory Boyle
4.57
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the Jesuit priest and bestselling au… read more
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"What if we ceased to pledge our allegiance to the bottom line and stood, instead, with those who line the bottom?"-Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
"Moral outrage is the opposite of God; it only divides and separates what God wants for us, which is to be united in kinship. Moral outrage doesn't lead us to solutions - it keeps us from them. It kee…"-Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
"But I know, with all the certainty of my being, that Jesus has no interest in my doing this. To just say, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I'm your biggest fan," causes him to stare at his watch, tap his feet, …"-Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
"[...] But then he adds quickly, "You know what I do when I'm low on faith?" I shake my head and lean in. My faith's gas tank has been known to hover at "E", so I wanted to know. "I stand right here a…"-Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
30. Rewilding Motherhood: Your Path to an Empowered Feminine Spirituality
By: Shannon K. Evans
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Women are often told by their communities that being a mother will complete or define them. But man… read more
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31. Always A Guest: Speaking of Faith Far From Home
By: Barbara Brown Taylor
4.55
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
From beloved writer and renowned preacher Barbara Brown Taylor comes a new collection of stories an… read more
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