22 must-read christian books like A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality by Mekdes Haddis

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Similar categories in Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

Similar categories in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Similar categories in Rachel Held Evans's Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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Similar categories in Peter Scazzero's The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

Similar categories in Ruth Haley Barton's Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

Similar categories in Philip Jenkins's The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

Similar categories in Daniel Hill's White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

Similar categories in Richard Twiss's Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

Similar categories in James H. Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

Similar categories in Dallas Willard's Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

Similar categories in Esau McCaulley's Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."

-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"

-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

Similar categories in Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad Is Untrue book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

Similar categories in John Mark Comer's Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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Similar categories in Beth Moore's All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

Similar categories in Scot McKnight's Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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Similar categories in Beth Allison Barr's The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

Similar categories in Timothy J. Keller's Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I? book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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Similar categories in Russell D. Moore's Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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Similar categories in Shannon Harris's The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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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

Similar categories in Aundi Kolber's Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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Similar categories in Cole Arthur Riley's This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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"Anxiety is not a passive predator."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

Similar categories in Nijay K. Gupta's Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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Similar categories in Esau McCaulley's How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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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

Similar categories in Tara Isabella Burton's Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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"When it comes to Remixed religion, at least, we all come out from under Severus Snape's robes."

-Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

Similar categories in Amy Kenny's My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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Similar categories in Kaitlyn Schiess's The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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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

Similar categories in Amy Peeler's Women and the Gender of God book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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Similar categories in Robert Chao Romero's Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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"Even though the Bible is God's inspired word, all biblical interpretation is informed for the cultural context of the interpreter."

-Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity

"As we walk with Jesus, he sends us to where he has already been at work -- among the poor, the suffering, the immigrant, and all who are cast aside."

-Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity

"God had given the Spaniards the opportunity to share the message of Jesus with love, and instead they exploited this divine opportunity for greed and selfish gain.  The end result was genocide."

-Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity

"It was the poor, because of their suffering and struggle, who teach the world the meaning of Christian of love. Through entering into the world of the poor, all Christians come to a deep into faith i…"

-Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity

Similar categories in Sandra L. Glahn's Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament book and Mekdes Haddis's A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

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