Red Skies: 10 Essential Conversations Exploring Our Future as the Church
By: L. Rowland Smith
4.23
Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition
When it is evening, you say, “It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.” And in the morning, “It…
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1. A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land
By: Adam Shoalts
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called "Canada" like it's never bee… read more
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2. The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
By: Lisa Sharon Harper
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
God once declared everything in the world "very good." Can you imagine it? A Vision of Hope for a B… read more
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3. Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity
By: None
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
LGBTQ people are a gift to the Church and have the potential to revitalize Christianity. As an open… read more
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4. The Phantom Tollbooth
By: Jules Feiffer , Norton Juster
4.20
Format: 24 pages,
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5. 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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6. 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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7. Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying The great city of Tova… read more
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"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
"Duty is a fine thing for those whose shoulders are stooped to the yoke, but it smothers those born to the wing. —Exhortations for a Happy Life"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
"Some have called me a fool for seeking to master the wild magics. But they have called me a fool only once, and the plaints of the dead matter not. —From The Manual of the Dreamwalkers, by Seuq, a sp…"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)
8. 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
9. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
By: Beth Allison Barr
4.40
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more
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"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
10. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more
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"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
11. Asking Better Questions of the Bible: A Guide for the Wounded, Wary, and Longing for More
By: Marty Solomon
4.60
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
Too often when we come to the Bible, questions make us uncomfortable. But questions are often a goo… read more
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12. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?
By: Jim Davis
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater … read more
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13. Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
By: Tara Isabella Burton
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, pr… read more
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"When it comes to Remixed religion, at least, we all come out from under Severus Snape's robes."-Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
14. 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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15. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
By: Kaitlyn Schiess
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more
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"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
16. Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
By: Robert Chao Romero
4.37
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Interest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith … read more
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"Even though the Bible is God's inspired word, all biblical interpretation is informed for the cultural context of the interpreter."-Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
"As we walk with Jesus, he sends us to where he has already been at work -- among the poor, the suffering, the immigrant, and all who are cast aside."-Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
"God had given the Spaniards the opportunity to share the message of Jesus with love, and instead they exploited this divine opportunity for greed and selfish gain. The end result was genocide."-Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
"It was the poor, because of their suffering and struggle, who teach the world the meaning of Christian of love. Through entering into the world of the poor, all Christians come to a deep into faith i…"-Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
17. God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible
By: Esther J. Hamori
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bible is teeming with monsters. Giants tromp through the land of milk and honey; Leviathan swim… read more
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18. Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church
By: Eric Costanzo
4.39
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Outreach Resource of the Year The American church is at a critical crossroads. Our witness has been… read more
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19. Red Skies: 10 Essential Conversations Exploring Our Future as the Church
By: L. Rowland Smith
4.23
Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition
When it is evening, you say, “It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.” And in the morning, “It… read more
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20. Centering Discipleship: A Pathway for Multiplying Spectators into Mature Disciples
By: E.K. Strawser
4.37
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
Discipleship without mission is discipleship without Christ. The church often lacks maturity and mi… read more
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21. Mission Is the Shape of Water: Learning From the Past to Inform Our Role in the World Today
By: Michael Frost
4.69
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
In an ever-changing world, how can we learn from the past to discern the shape of mission today? I… read more
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