13 must-read christianity books like Following the Celtic Way: A New Assessment of Celtic Christianity by Ian Bradley

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Following the Celtic Way: A New Assessment of Celtic Christianity

By: Ian Bradley

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Marking the 25th anniversary of Ian Bradley’s classic The Celtic Way – the scholarly and accessible…

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1. Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirituality

By: John Philip Newell , J. Philip Newell

4.34

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

An overview of Celtic spirituality and its implications for us today. read more

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  • christianity
  • spirituality
  • theology
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2. The Writing Life

By: Annie Dillard

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more

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3. Tuck Everlasting

By: Natalie Babbitt

4.02

Format: 424 pages,

Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wand… read more

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4. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

By: John O'Donohue

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging. John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you… read more

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  • spirituality
  • theology
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5. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

By: Aldo Leopold

4.30

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more

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"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

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6. The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination

By: Esther de Waal

3.58

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Esther de Waal, one of Celtic Christianity's preeminent scholars, shows how this tradition of worsh… read more

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  • christianity
  • spirituality
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7. Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

By: N.T. Wright

4.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why do we expect justice? Why do we crave spirituality? Why are we attracted to beauty? Why are rel… read more

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  • christianity
  • spirituality
  • theology
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8. Holy Bible: New International Version

By: Anonymous

4.62

Format: 1213 pages, Hardcover

The New International Version is the world's most popular Bible in modern English and is renowned f… read more

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  • christianity
  • spirituality
  • theology
"Meaningless! Meaningless!"

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

"Thou shalt not stand idly by"

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

"A unjust law, is no law at all."

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

"Love never fails. —I Corinthians 13:8a "

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

9. Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation

By: Ruth Haley Barton

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

Winner of a 2006 Logos Book Award! Do you long for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God… read more

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10. Water from an Ancient Well: Celtic Spirituality for Modern Life

By: Kenneth McIntosh

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Using story, scripture, reflection, and prayer, this book offers readers a taste of the living wate… read more

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11. Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Initially written for a Jewish friend, Life of the Beloved has become Henri Nouwen's greatest legac… read more

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12. The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

By: Lesslie Newbigin

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

How does the gospel relate to a pluralist society? What is the Christian message in a society marke… read more

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13. 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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14. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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15. Death Rocks (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #21)

By: L.J. Ross

4.64

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A COINCIDENCE...When the body of a talented photographer is found on the r… read more

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16. Bamburgh (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #19)

By: L.J. Ross

4.46

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

When a cantankerous old woman dies at her home in the sleepy, picturesque village of Bamburgh, DCI … read more

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17. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

By: Rob Bell

3.66

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God… read more

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  • christianity
  • spirituality
  • theology
"You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn’t waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up - God has already done it."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. "What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

"Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want."

-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

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18. 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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  • christianity
  • theology
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19. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

By: Bono

4.20

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more

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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

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20. Nights of Plague

By: Orhan Pamuk

3.58

Format: 683 pages, Hardcover

From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic--a… read more

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21. The Every (The Circle, #2)

By: Dave Eggers

3.70

Format: 580 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the … read more

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"How is freedom exercised?"

-Dave Eggers, The Every (The Circle, #2)

"The world is undergoing a movement toward authoritarianism, Delaney, and this is about order. People think the world is out of control. They want someone to stop the changes. This aligns perfectly wi…"

-Dave Eggers, The Every (The Circle, #2)

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22. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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23. Wild Mercy

By: Mirabai Starr

4.25

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

We live in a world that has suffered the abuses of an unbalanced masculine rule for thousands of ye… read more

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  • spirituality
"Our capacity to forgive is our superpower."

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

"When we show up to make art, we need to get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed though us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it. We must be willing to abide in a space of no…"

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

"The more you turn inward, the more available the sacred becomes. when you sit in. silence and turn your gaze toward the holy mystery you once called God, the mystery follows you back out into the wor…"

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

"Mystics seem to have no shame about contradicting themselves left and right. They blithely proclaim that the cure for pain is in the pain itself and that the cry of longing is the sigh of merging. Th…"

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

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24. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies

By: N.T. Wright

4.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their pr… read more

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  • christianity
  • theology
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25. 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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  • christianity
  • spirituality
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26. Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World

By: John Philip Newell

4.35

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A leading spiritual teacher reveals how Celtic spirituality—listening to the sacred around us and i… read more

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  • christianity
  • spirituality
  • theology
Cover of Braving the Thin Places: Celtic Wisdom to Create a Space for Grace by Julianne Stanz

27. Braving the Thin Places: Celtic Wisdom to Create a Space for Grace

By: Julianne Stanz

4.29

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

2023 Illumination Book Awards Gold Medalist, Spirituality 2023 Independent Press Awards Winner, Spi… read more

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  • spirituality
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28. Churches and the Crisis of Decline: A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age

By: Andrew Root

4.31

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Named One of Fifteen Important Theology Books of 2022, Englewood Review of Books Congregations oft… read more

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  • christianity
  • theology
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29. Following the Celtic Way: A New Assessment of Celtic Christianity

By: Ian Bradley

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Marking the 25th anniversary of Ian Bradley’s classic The Celtic Way – the scholarly and accessible… read more

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  • spirituality
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30. Celtic Spirituality

By: Philip Freeman

3.57

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Celtic Spirituality , acclaimed translator and scholar Philip Freeman allows the voices of the C… read more

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  • christianity
  • spirituality
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31. Celtic Christianity: Deep Roots for a Modern Faith

By: Ray Simpson

4.08

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Celtic Spirituality for the Modern World The world of the long-ago Celts appeals to many of us in t… read more

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12 best-selling spirituality books like Following the Celtic Way: A New Assessment of Celtic Christianity by Ian Bradley

Transform Your Habits

Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirituality

John Philip Newell , J. Philip Newell

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

John O'Donohue

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination

Esther de Waal

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

N.T. Wright

4.48

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9 must-read audiobook books like Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell

Transform Your Habits

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Rachel Held Evans

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Rob Bell

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

Richard Rohr

4.45

Transform Your Habits

How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News

Peter Enns

4.29

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