28 Top nonfiction books like The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation by Miles McPherson

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Similar categories in Gary L. Thomas's Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christianity
• faith
• christian
• nonfiction

"Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit."

-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

"Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him."

-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

"Contempt is born when we fixate on our spouse’s weaknesses. Every spouse has these sore points. If you want to find them, without a doubt you will. If you want to obsess about them, they’ll grow – bu…"

-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

"The mature response, however, is not to leave; it's to change -- ourselves. Whenever marital dissatisfaction rears its head in my marriage -- as it does in virtually every marriage -- I simply check …"

-Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

Similar categories in Mark Driscoll's Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christianity
• christian
• nonfiction
• leadership

Similar categories in N.T. Wright's The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2–3 and the Human Origins Debate book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christianity
• christian
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Mark Logue's The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

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• audiobook

Similar categories in Liz Curtis Higgs's The Women of Easter: Encounter the Savior with Mary of Bethany, Mary of Nazareth, and Mary Magdalene book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christianity
• faith
• christian
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Mark Dever's Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

Similar categories in Michael S. Heiser's The Unseen Realm book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

Similar categories in Priscilla Shirer's Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christian
• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Brant Hansen's Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

Similar categories in Nancy R. Pearcey's Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

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• christian
• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Troy Senik's A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Greg Lukianoff's The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• cultural
• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

Similar categories in Esau McCaulley's Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christian
• race
• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• social justice
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Jackie Hill Perry's Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christian
• christianity
• faith
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• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Carl R. Trueman's The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• cultural
• christian
• christianity
• politics
• nonfiction

"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

Similar categories in Preston Perry's How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christian
• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Don't let your pride murder your message."

-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments

"When we're more invested in politics than we are in people--when someone shares their story--we won't hear a testimony, but a position. We won't hear a cry, but a stance."

-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments

"Let us ask God to kill our pride and all the other sin inside us that might be in the way of the gospel. We don't ever want our personal conduct or behavior to be the reason someone rejects the gospe…"

-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments

"The way we do apologetics looks different when we are motivated not by our desire to conquer the other person, but by our genuine love and compassion, and by our desire to see people discover God's l…"

-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments

Similar categories in Tyler Staton's Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christian
• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Four Loves book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christianity
• faith
• christian
• nonfiction

"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Similar categories in Wim Hof's The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

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• audiobook

Similar categories in Coleman Hughes's The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

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• race
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• audiobook

"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

Similar categories in Tori Hope Petersen's Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• faith
• christian
• nonfiction

"The foster care system should not be used solely to house children but should be used to help them heal."

-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care

"Too many people throw money and goods at vulnerable youth when they need time, basic skills, and long-term relationships."

-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care

"Being a safe person is something I've strived for. When all is said and done, I don't care to be remembered as a powerhouse. I hope to be remembered as a safe house."

-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care

"When we place children to fill beds, we are creating a system of temporary housing rather than a long-term solution of finding children their forever, safe, and loving families."

-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care

Similar categories in Esau McCaulley's How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christian
• race
• faith
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Wendy Speake's The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christian
• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"The same God who saves also speaks! So listen."

-Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

"Fasting is abiding on a gut level—an empty gut level."

-Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

"Each time I forget to feast, I fast in order to remember."

-Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

"The One who made our core is the only One able to fill it."

-Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

Similar categories in Jemar Tisby's The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christian
• race
• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• social justice

"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

Similar categories in Autumn Calabrese's Lose Weight Like Crazy Even If You Have a Crazy Life!: Life Lessons and a Breakthrough 30-Day Nutrition and Fitness Solution book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

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• audiobook

Similar categories in LaTasha Morrison's Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christian
• race
• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• social justice
• audiobook

"We can’t bypass the weight of our guilt and shame if we intend to arrive at true reconciliation and justice."

-LaTasha Morrison, Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation

"Confession of our entanglement in racism and systemic privilege is essential for complete healing and restoration."

-LaTasha Morrison, Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation

"Reconciliation requires truth telling and empathy and tears. It requires changed perspectives and changing directions (also known as repentance)."

-LaTasha Morrison, Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation

"Repairing what’s broken is a distinctly biblical concept, which is why as people of faith we should be leading the way into redemption, restoration, and reconciliation."

-LaTasha Morrison, Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation

Similar categories in Jackie Hill Perry's Upon Waking: 60 Daily Reflections to Discover Ourselves and the God We Were Made For book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christianity
• faith
• christian
• nonfiction

"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

Similar categories in John Onwuchekwa's Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church (9marks: Building Healthy Churches) book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christian
• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• leadership

Similar categories in Andy Stanley's Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christian
• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Keith E. Webb's The Coach Model for Christian Leaders: Powerful Leadership Skills for Solving Problems, Reaching Goals, and Developing Others book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• christianity
• christian
• nonfiction
• leadership

Similar categories in Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation book and Miles McPherson's The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation

• audiobook
• cultural
• christian
• race
• christianity
• faith
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• leadership

"I was having a race conversation in my head."

-Miles McPherson, The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation