The Mind in Another Place: My Life as a Scholar
By: Luke Timothy Johnson
4.34
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A witness to the peculiar way of being that is the scholar’s Luke Timothy Johnson is one of the b…
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1. Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)
By: Patricia Briggs
4.12
Format: 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Anna never knew werewolves existed, until the night she survived a violent attack... and became one… read more
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" Illegitimis nil carborundum. "-Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)
"I thought it would be quieter here."-Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)
"Anna: “I thought Indians built fires with fiction."-Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)
"Our Mercy, who never gets mad when she can get even."-Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)
2. Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
By: Michael J. Gorman
4.48
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
Reading Revelation Responsibly is for those who are confused by, afraid of, and/or preoccupied with… read more
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- new testament
- nonfiction
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"To pray for the coming of the kingdom, the coming of the Lord, is to commit oneself and one’s community to embody the values and practices of that kingdom-now-in whatever circumstances we find oursel…"-Michael J. Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
"According to Revelation, in the church’s worship we should remember and honor the prophets and martyrs, not veterans and fallen warriors; faithful witnesses, not loyal patriots; the One who was slain…"-Michael J. Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
"It has often been said that the most common idols in the West are Power, Sex, and Money; with this I am not in any profound disagreement. However, inasmuch as these idols are connected to a larger vi…"-Michael J. Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness: Following the Lamb into the New Creation
3. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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- nonfiction
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
4. Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
By: Michael Ward
4.33
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently dis… read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
5. Remembering
By: Wendell Berry
4.02
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depress… read more
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"They were not going to live again in a time like that."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
"There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
"It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
"We stood and looked and knowed it was all the time we had and from now on we must remember. We must look now forever."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
6. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- nonfiction
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- theology
7. Flint
By: Louis L'Amour
5.00
Format: 384 pages,
He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of viol… read more
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8. The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible
By: Scot McKnight
4.82
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
"Why Can't I Just Be a Christian?" Parakeets make delightful pets. We cage them or clip their wings… read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
9. On the Incarnation
By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more
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10. How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
By: Francis A. Schaeffer
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
In dit boek, dat ontstaan is naar aanleiding van de gelijknamige televisie serie, neemt de auteur o… read more
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11. The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture
By: Christian Smith
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together th… read more
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12. Praying the Bible
By: Donald S. Whitney
4.49
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
All Christians know they should pray, but sometimes it’s hard to know how—especially if the minutes… read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
13. The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day
By: Justo L. González
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This highly informative, narrative history covers the events, persons, external influences, and for… read more
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14. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
15. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
By: Collin Hansen
4.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- theology
16. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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17. Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
By: John Mark Comer
4.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
We are at war. Not with a foreign government or domestic terrorists or a creepy new artificial inte… read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
"Anxious to avoid a repeat of history, Edmund Burke laid out the logic behind the American architecture in a letter from 1791: "Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their dispos…"-John Mark Comer, Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
18. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
19. The Problem of Pain
By: C.S. Lewis
4.13
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
20. Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)
By: Jack Carr
4.54
Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition
You think you know James Reece. Think again. A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbe… read more
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21. Where the Light Fell
By: Philip Yancey
4.52
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the allure of extremist faith, one of today's… read more
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- biography
- memoir
22. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
24. A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message
By: Winn Collier
4.65
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This essential authorized biography of Eugene Peterson offers unique insights into the experiences … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- theology
25. Trinitarian Dogmatics: Exploring the Grammar of the Christian Doctrine of God
By: D. Glenn Butner Jr.
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Christianity Today 2023 Award of Merit (Academic Theology) This introduction draws on the breadth … read more
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- theology
26. Suffering: Gospel Hope When Life Doesn't Make Sense
By: Paul David Tripp
4.58
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes life doesn't make sense. When death, illness, unemployment, or a difficult relationship c… read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
27. Paul: The Pagans' Apostle
By: Paula Fredriksen
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking new portrait of the apostle Paul, from one of today’s leading historians of antiqu… read more
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- biography
- theology
28. The Mind in Another Place: My Life as a Scholar
By: Luke Timothy Johnson
4.34
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A witness to the peculiar way of being that is the scholar’s Luke Timothy Johnson is one of the b… read more
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- new testament
- nonfiction
29. Reading the Prophets as Christian Scripture: A Literary, Canonical, and Theological Introduction (Reading Christian Scripture)
By: Eric J Tully
4.73
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Southwestern Journal of Theology 2022 Book of the Year Award (Honorable Mention, Biblical Studies) … read more
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30. Reading Biblical Poetry: An Introductory Guide
By: J.P. Fokkelman
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
A companion to Reading Biblical Narrative , this volume provides an authoritative introduction and … read more
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- theology
31. Preaching to Be Heard: Delivering Sermons That Command Attention
By: Lucas O'Neill
4.16
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
"If a sermon is preached in a church and no one is listening, does it make a difference?" There … read more
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