8 Top theology books like The Meaning Is In The Waiting by Paula Gooder

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The Meaning Is In The Waiting

By: Paula Gooder

4.19

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

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1. Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life

By: Rowan Williams

4.31

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In the wake of political turmoil, who do you follow? When faced with difference and divergence… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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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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  • nonfiction
"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

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3. Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

By: Jodi Taylor

3.88

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

"History is just one damned thing after another." Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Ma… read more

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"Your primary survival strategy will always be running away."

-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

"He had fallen for Cal like a sperm-whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle."

-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

"The eyes of the world are fixed on Mars at the moment, sir. Everywhere I look the arts are being shunted aside for technology. It's not necessarily a bad thing but, maybe in some small way, this coul…"

-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

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4. A Thousand Mornings: Poems

By: Mary Oliver

4.21

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

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5. Hannah Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

4.38

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more

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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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6. Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

By: Christa Wolf , Jan van Heurck

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of … read more

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7. Little Men (Little Women, #2)

By: Louisa May Alcott , James Spanfeller

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, … read more

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8. Till We Have Faces

By: C.S. Lewis

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more

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  • christian
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9. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction

10. The Women of Easter: Encounter the Savior with Mary of Bethany, Mary of Nazareth, and Mary Magdalene

By: Liz Curtis Higgs

3.76

Format: 6 pages, ebook

This Season of Grace, Deepen Your Faith in God Who So Loved the World that He Gave Us His Son. You … read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
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11. The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

By: Ian Morgan Cron , Suzanne Stabile

4.21

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness... What you don't know about yourself can hurt you a… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier."

-Ian Morgan Cron, The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

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12. The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

Henry J.M. Nouwen, one of the greatest of all spiritual writers, invites us to search deeply for th… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

13. Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

By: Maya Angelou

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in … read more

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14. The History of Love

By: Nicole Krauss

4.39

Format: None pages,

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found  Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying t… read more

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15. 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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16. Jo's Boys (Little Women, #3)

By: Louisa May Alcott

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still pr… read more

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17. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District

By: James Rebanks

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more

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18. The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The Wounded Healeris a hope-filled and simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who … read more

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19. 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
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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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20. Dinosaurs

By: Lydia Millet

3.88

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more

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"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

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21. 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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  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
"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

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22. Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

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23. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

By: Mick Herron

4.37

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more

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"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"

-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

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24. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

By: Tyler Staton

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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25. Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)

By: Claire North

3.70

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting a… read more

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"...for it is the poet’s art to make every ear that hears the ancient songs think they have been sung for them alone, the old made new."

-Claire North, Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)

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26. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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27. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

By: Margaret Renkl

4.30

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

"When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

"Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

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28. Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone

By: James Martin

4.30

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

One of America’s most beloved spiritual leaders and the New York Times bestselling author of The Je… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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29. The Meaning Is In The Waiting

By: Paula Gooder

4.19

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

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  • christian
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  • christianity
  • faith
  • christmas
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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30. Pastoral Supervision: A Handbook New Edition

By: Jane Leach

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Pastoral Supervision is increasingly sought out by people working in ministry. It offers a safe spa… read more

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31. Brighter Days: 12 Steps to Strengthening Your Wellbeing

By: Patrick Regan

4.13

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

You probably don't need to be told that the demands of modern living are taking their toll on our w… read more

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Rowan Williams

4.31

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Judith Lewis Herman

4.39

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A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Mary Oliver

4.21

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Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

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