8 Top faith books like How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith by Mariann Edgar Budde

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How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

By: Mariann Edgar Budde

4.21

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

An inspirational guide to the key junctures in life that, if navigated with faith and discernment, …

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1. In the Stillness

By: Andrea Randall

3.60

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Natalie is a wife. Natalie is a mother. Natalie is a cutter. Clawing at walls built by resentment, … read more

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2. Jesus and the Disinherited

By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more

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3. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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4. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

By: David von Drehle

4.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more

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5. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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6. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

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7. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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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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  • faith
  • christian
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9. Cold Sassy Tree

By: Olive Ann Burns

4.02

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around--fast. On July … read more

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"Also, he set great store on a man doing right by his family."

-Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

"She's as dead as she'll every be, ain't she? Well, ain't she?"

-Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

"But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person."

-Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

"Grandpa had made the Lord seem so real, I wouldn't of been surprised if he'd said good night to Him. But after a long pause he just said a-men."

-Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

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10. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… 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

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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. All You Have to Do Is Call

By: Kerri Maher

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women w… read more

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"I wish you could understand what it's like to have to stop doing something you love, something important , just because your body is made to carry children. No one else can do this for me...."

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"No matter what you want to call it," Veronica said, steering clear of words like cells and fetus that might further inflame Patty, "it resides inside a fully grown woman with a life to lead. Jane hel…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"[She] hadn't given a lot of thought to the many reasons why women needed abortions, but there was such a wide range: maternal health, money, rape and incest, shocking cluelessness about how pregnancy…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

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14. 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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"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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15. Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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16. The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy

By: Jim Wallis

4.20

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

A major new work by the New York Times bestselling author, arguing that the answer to bad religion … read more

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Cover of Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times by Michael B. Curry

17. Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times

By: Michael B. Curry

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Walk the path of love with one of the warmest, most beloved spiritual leaders of our time, and lear… read more

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  • spirituality
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18. Light of the World: A Beginner's Guide to Advent

By: Amy-Jill Levine

4.15

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

In Light of the World: A Beginner’s Guide to Advent, author, professor, and biblical scholar Amy-Ji… read more

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19. How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

By: Mariann Edgar Budde

4.21

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

An inspirational guide to the key junctures in life that, if navigated with faith and discernment, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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20. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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Cover of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy by William J. Barber II

21. White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy

By: William J. Barber II

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An explosive work with far-ranging historical implications, White Poverty promises to be one of the… read more

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8 must-read religion books like How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith by Mariann Edgar Budde

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

Transform Your Habits

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

Cole Arthur Riley

4.63

Transform Your Habits

The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days

Kate Bowler

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

Cole Arthur Riley

4.75

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Transform Your Habits

Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

Jared Cohen

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

4.21

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