Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us
By: Jasmine L. Holmes
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Maria Fearing, Charlotte Forten Grimk�, Sarah Mapps Doug…
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1. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despai… read more
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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
2. Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him
By: Jackie Hill Perry
4.40
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Why is it so hard to trust God sometimes? We say we trust Him with our mouths, but often not with… read more
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"The soil from which all sin grows is unbelief."-Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him
"Sin at its core is selfish. Holiness at its core is self-giving."-Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him
"Holiness is what makes real love possible. Without it, love is purely sentimental, easily misplaced, and unconditionally conditional."-Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him
"Holiness (and goodness) should never be determined by the whims, wishes, and standards of a created thing or even a whole culture. Especially when that culture’s ideas are so easily influenced by dec…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him
3. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
By: Beth Moore
4.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more
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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
4. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
By: Russ Ramsey
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we un… read more
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"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
5. The Book of Common Courage: Prayers and Poems to Find Strength in Small Moments
By: K.J. Ramsey
4.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Book of Common Courage is a collection of prayers, poems, and blessings to help you find a flic… read more
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6. She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up
By: Sheila Wray Gregoire
4.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This research-based, biblically informed book helps moms reject harmful teachings from the church a… read more
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7. Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality
By: Rachel Joy Welcher
4.32
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
It's time to talk back. The generation born into evangelical purity culture has grown up, and many … read more
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8. Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship (Gift Edition)
By: Jonathan Gibson
4.69
Format: 352 pages, Imitation Leather
A 31-Day Liturgical Style Devotional, Now in a Timeless Gift Edition Every Christian knows the impo… read more
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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. In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character
By: Jen Wilkin
4.45
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
Sometimes we ask What is God's will for my life? when we should really be asking Who should I be? T… read more
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"How should the knowledge that God is ______ change the way I live?"-Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character
"God's will for our lives is that we conform to the image of Christ, whose incarnation shows us humanity perfectly conformed to the image of God."-Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character
"No longer can we parse our fellow humans into the categories of ‘lovable’ and ‘unlovable.’ If love is an act of the will — not motivated by need, not measuring worth, not requiring reciprocity — then…"-Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character
"If we focus on our actions without addressing our hearts, we may end up merely as better behaved lovers of self (...) The hope of the gospel in our sanctification is not simply that we would make bet…"-Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character
11. Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
"Lent is inescapably about repenting." Every year, the church invites us into a season of repentanc… read more
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"We hope that as Christians we mature and grow and become more and more like Christ. But the church and its wisdom assumes we will fail even after our baptism. The church presumes that life is long an…"-Esau McCaulley, Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal
12. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
By: Jemar Tisby
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on… read more
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"Throughout the course of US history, when Christians had the opportunity to decisively oppose the racism in their midst, all too often, they chose silence. They chose passivity. The refusal to act…"-Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
13. Habits for a Sacred Home: 9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families (Helping Moms Experience Peace & Return to Simple Daily Rhythms from Historic Christians like St. Benedict)
By: Jennifer Pepito
4.14
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Frightened by the chaos in society, many parents fear for their children's futures--and end up rais… read more
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14. Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord
By: Rebecca McLaughlin
4.39
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
If the women who followed Jesus could tell you what he was like, what would they say? Jesus’s tr… read more
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15. Even If He Doesn't: What We Believe about God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
By: Kristen LaValley
4.57
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
How can I approach God if I’m struggling to believe in His goodness?So much of our belief can be fo… read more
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16. The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
By: Kaitlyn Schiess
4.29
Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition
A generation of young Christians are weary of the political legacy they've inherited and hungry for… read more
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"Perhaps our kitchens can be outposts of the kingdom of God, as well as our churches."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
"It might be the most common perversion of God's people: to expect our religious devotion to excuse our injustice."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
"The line between our political beliefs, our moral beliefs, and our theological beliefs is blurry, if not entirely invented."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
"Our religious activities are worthless if they aren't causing us to live and act justly. God does not divide between justice and worship."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
17. Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More
By: Ruth Chou Simons
4.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Ruth Chou Simons guides readers who are restless in their current circumstances … read more
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18. Upon Waking: 60 Daily Reflections to Discover Ourselves and the God We Were Made For
By: Jackie Hill Perry
4.74
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Upon Waking is a USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publisher's Weekly bestseller! Join the thous… read more
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"When our hearts are hard on some level and the sound of God’s voice comes through Scripture, or through the Spirit, or through a person He indwells, we always hide."-Jackie Hill Perry, Upon Waking: 60 Daily Reflections to Discover Ourselves and the God We Were Made For
19. Curious Faith
By: Ferguson Wilbert
4.37
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
God created us curious. We innately wonder about the world, one another, ourselves, and God. But te… read more
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"God asks questions too."-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith
"...all injustice is spiritual."-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith
"...heartsickness is a gateway to hard-heartedness."-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith
"Curiosity will free you to live in the mystery of God's love."-Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith
20. Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us
By: Jasmine L. Holmes
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Maria Fearing, Charlotte Forten Grimk�, Sarah Mapps Doug… read more
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21. The Seed of the Woman: 30 Narratives that Point to Jesus
By: Nana Dolce
4.56
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Seed of the Woman traces the gospel storyline through the narratives of women—from the garden o… read more
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