19 Top nonfiction books like When the World Breaks: The Surprising Hope and Subversive Promises in the Teachings of Jesus by Jason Adam Miller

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When the World Breaks: The Surprising Hope and Subversive Promises in the Teachings of Jesus

By: Jason Adam Miller

4.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking book, Pastor Jason Adam Miller re-examines the Beatitudes—eight paradoxes fo…

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1. Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.

By: John Mark Comer

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You've heard people say "Who you are matters more than what you do". Does the Bible really teach th… read more

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2. Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America

By: Jeff Chu

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Hardcover

Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in Americais part memoir … read more

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3. 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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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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"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. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

By: Elise Loehnen

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more

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"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."

-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

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6. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

By: John Mark Comer

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more

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7. How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

By: Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when … read more

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8. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

By: Russell D. Moore

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more

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9. Why We're Polarized

By: Ezra Klein

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more

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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

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10. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.63

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more

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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

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11. The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins

By: Anita Phillips

4.37

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Too often we’ve been taught to view our … read more

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12. 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

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13. The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

By: Emily P. Freeman

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Nothing gets our attention like an unmade decision: Should I accept the new position? Which schooli… read more

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"Making a living is nothing if you're not also making a life."

-Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

"Just because things change doesn't mean you chose wrong in the first place. Just because you're good at something doesn't mean you have to do it forever."

-Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

"A No Mentor is there to help you feel confident about saying no to the things you really don’t want to do anyway or to help you finally discover your strong, brave yes in the midst of fear."

-Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

"Sometimes it looks like you're going nowhere or that you're headed in the wrong direction. I'm learning that the decision itself is rarely the point. The point is becoming more fully ourselves in the…"

-Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

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14. 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

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15. Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture (Daily Bible Devotions on Belonging to God, the Earth, & One Another)

By: Kat Armas

4.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this forty-day devotional, Cuban American writer Kat Armas shows us that reading the Bible with … read more

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"We are creatures both brilliant and ignorant, significant and insignificant: broken, whole, and healing."

-Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture (Daily Bible Devotions on Belonging to God, the Earth, & One Another)

"This is a testament to what we already know to be true: we belong to the earth, and she belongs to us too."

-Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture (Daily Bible Devotions on Belonging to God, the Earth, & One Another)

"To notice the weather is to speak to an embodied way of being; it is to recognize our connection to all created things."

-Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture (Daily Bible Devotions on Belonging to God, the Earth, & One Another)

"That’s what this devotional is about: being human. And with our humanity comes the ability to inquire, to imagine, to dream, to create."

-Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture (Daily Bible Devotions on Belonging to God, the Earth, & One Another)

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16. Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice rec… read more

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17. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

By: Karen Tang

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more

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18. Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life

By: Amanda Held Opelt

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover what it means to be blessed and challenge the false beliefs many in the church hold about … read more

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"Logic doesn't always hold up against the complexity of real life. Our equations fail us. Our formulas break down and reasons escape us. We carry blessing, and we carry curse. Life is paradox. It cann…"

-Amanda Held Opelt, Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life

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19. Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing

By: Aundi Kolber

4.50

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

There's a cost to being a certain kind of strong. When it comes to difficult circumstances, we'v… read more

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Cover of Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From by Meredith Miller

20. Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From

By: Meredith Miller

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring parenting book, learn how to create space for your children to get to know God in… read more

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21. When the World Breaks: The Surprising Hope and Subversive Promises in the Teachings of Jesus

By: Jason Adam Miller

4.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

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Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

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4.63

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How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

Emily P. Freeman

4.01

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4.45

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