Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World--and How to Repair It All
By: Lisa Sharon Harper
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A Word & Way 2022 Book of the Year Sojourners' 2022 Book Roundup to Inspire Faith and Justice "Ext…
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1. Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way
By: Richard Twiss
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
One of Seedbed's 10 Notable Books from 2015 The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for N… read more
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2. A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing
By: Scot McKnight
4.34
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What is the way forward for the church?Tragically, in recent years, Christians have gotten used to … read more
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3. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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4. 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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5. 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
6. I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
By: Tyler Merritt
4.52
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of his deeply powerful viral videos ("Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Blac… read more
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"Life is too short to spend tons of time around people who suck."-Tyler Merritt, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
"If you don't deal with your stuff, your stuff will deal with you."-Tyler Merritt, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
"Someone once told me that true change always begins in our mind, and that people who live great lives are people who habitually think great thoughts."-Tyler Merritt, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
"The deepest part of you is NOT your mistakes or your failures. When God looks at you, He sees so much deeper than your mistakes to your actual identity, your true worth and value. And those of us who…"-Tyler Merritt, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
7. Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
By: Katelyn Beaty
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer shows how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical mov… read more
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"Celebrity, in the final analysis, is a worldly form of power and evaluation of human worth. It is not a spiritually neutral tool that can be picked up and put down, even for godly projects. The momen…"-Katelyn Beaty, Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
8. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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9. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
By: Shannon Harris
3.77
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more
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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
10. All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives
By: Andre Henry
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the on… read more
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11. 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
12. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Nijay K. Gupta
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more
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13. The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do
By: Casper ter Kuile
3.88
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Ter Kuile, cohost of the podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, demonstrates in his thoughtful d… read more
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"That's what this book is all about--taking things we do every day and layering meaning and ritual onto them, even experiences as ordinary as reading or eating--by thinking of them as spiritual practi…"-Casper ter Kuile, The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do
"I am convinced we are in the midst of a paradigm shift. That what used to hold us in community no longer works. That the spiritual offerings of yesteryear no longer help us thrive. And that, just lik…"-Casper ter Kuile, The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do
14. 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
15. Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
By: Barbara Brown Taylor
4.40
Format: 256 pages, ebook
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to… read more
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"Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can."-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
"I had lived so long in the mainstream that I never even though about how I sounded from the margins"-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
"The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor... Jesus never commanded me to love my religion."-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
"...religion is more than a source of conflict or a calculated way to stay out of hell. Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millen…"-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
16. 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
17. Ghosted: An American Story
By: Nancy French
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more
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18. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more
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19. God Is a Black Woman
By: Christena Cleveland
4.32
Format: 256 pages, ebook
In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland… read more
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20. My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church
By: Amy Kenny
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection,… read more
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21. The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
By: Jermaine Fowler
4.46
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery… read more
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- race
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22. Nothing Is Missing: A Memoir of Living Boldly
By: Nicole Walters
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A profound and gripping memoir by Nicole Walters, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants who became a … read more
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23. Having the Mind of Christ: Eight Axioms to Cultivate a Robust Faith
By: Matt Tebbe
4.60
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Reader's Choice Award Winner "Why doesn’t the Christian life work like I thought it would?" While w… read more
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24. 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
25. Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story
By: Julie Rodgers
4.55
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
After decades of bouncing between hope and despair, Evangelical, Baptist-raised Julie Rodgers found… read more
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"You can't be loved when you aren't known."-Julie Rodgers, Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story
26. 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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27. Now What?: How to Move Forward When We're Divided (About Basically Everything)
By: Sarah Stewart Holland
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From friendships to Facebook to far-off countries, what do we do when our lives seem mired in confl… read more
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28. Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World--and How to Repair It All
By: Lisa Sharon Harper
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A Word & Way 2022 Book of the Year Sojourners' 2022 Book Roundup to Inspire Faith and Justice "Ext… read more
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29. The Brave In-Between: Notes from the Last Room
By: Amy Low
4.34
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Lessons and advice on navigating uncertainty while battling stage four cancer after divorce in midl… read more
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30. The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
By: Sharon McMahon
4.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
America’s favorite government teacher offers thrilling, heartfelt stories of ordinary American hero… read more
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31. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
