19 Top religion books like Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel by Wilda C. Gafney

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Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel

By: Wilda C. Gafney

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

There are untold numbers of female prophets hiding in the masculine grammar and androcentric focus …

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1. No Man Is an Island

By: Thomas Merton

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Here, in one of his most popular of his more than thirty books, Thomas Merton provides further medi… read more

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  • christian
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  • christianity
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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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2. Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)

By: James Patterson

3.82

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carol… read more

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3. Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores

By: None , Diane Langberg

2.64

Format: 110 pages,

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
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4. Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women

By: Rachel Held Evans , Sarah Bessey

3.87

Format: 216 pages, ebook

Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fe… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction

5. The Prophetic Imagination

By: Walter Brueggemann

3.88

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
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6. What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?

By: Kevin DeYoung

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

In this timely book, award-winning author Kevin DeYoung challenges each of us--the skeptic and the … read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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7. Naked in Death (In Death, #1)

By: J.D. Robb

4.62

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a world of danger and deception, she walks the line--between seductive passion and scandalous mu… read more

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8. God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships

By: Matthew Vines

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of most young people: to some… read more

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9. 1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)

By: James Patterson

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

James Patterson, bestselling author of the Alex Cross novels Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls, a… read more

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10. 2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club, #2)

By: Andrew Gross , James Patterson , Melissa Leo , Jeremy Piven

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

2nd Chancereconvenes the Women's Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant d… read more

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11. Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

By: Richard Rohr

4.23

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

In Falling Upward , Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves o… read more

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"The ego hates losing – even to God."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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12. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.13

Format: 180 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and n… read more

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"COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

13. Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle's Vision for Men and Women in Christ

By: None

4.11

Format: 274 pages,

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14. Wholehearted Faith

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life con… read more

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  • spirituality
"Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity."

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

"It is nearly impossible to believe: God shrinking down to the size of a zygote, implanted in the soft lining of a woman’s womb. God growing fingers and toes. God kicking and hiccupping in utero. God …"

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

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15. 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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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
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  • nonfiction
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16. 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

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17. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

By: Tyler Staton

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more

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18. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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19. Into the Heart of Romans: A Deep Dive into Paul's Greatest Letter

By: Tom Wright

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth study of Romans from today's foremost interpreter of Paul. Romans is often and for good… read more

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20. 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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  • womens
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21. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

By: Jemar Tisby

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on… read more

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"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

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22. Women and the Gender of God

By: Amy Peeler

4.47

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

A robust theological argument against the assumption that God is male. God values women. While many… read more

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23. The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong

By: Karen González

4.34

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Meet people who have fled their homelands.Hagar. Joseph. Ruth. Jesus. Here is a riveting story of s… read more

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Cover of Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World by John Philip Newell

24. 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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Cover of Reading Romans Backwards: A Gospel of Peace in the Midst of Empire by Scot McKnight

25. Reading Romans Backwards: A Gospel of Peace in the Midst of Empire

By: Scot McKnight

4.13

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

To read Romans from beginning to end, from letter opening to final doxology, is to retrace the step… read more

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26. In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit

By: Yolanda Pierce

4.57

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

What if the most steadfast faith you'll ever encounter comes from a Black grandmother? The churc… read more

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Cover of Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God by Matthew J. Lynch

27. Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God

By: Matthew J. Lynch

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

What do we do with a God who sanctions violence? Old Testament violence proves one of the most trou… read more

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  • old testament
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28. Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God

By: Marva J. Dawn

4.02

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

As we embark on the new millennium, uncharted challenges await the church. This volume by one of to… read more

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29. Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)

By: Jonathan Tran

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism … read more

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"Deracialization, not postracialism, should be the goal."

-Jonathan Tran, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)

"Relying, as identarianism increasingly does, on vague concepts like “whiteness"

-Jonathan Tran, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)

"Identarianism’s individualizing approach will not do. If we hope to succeed, we will need others."

-Jonathan Tran, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)

"Approaching race through political economy will not get at everything that racism is, and does, but it gets at what can be managed, and in the last resort lived."

-Jonathan Tran, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)

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30. Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel

By: Wilda C. Gafney

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

There are untold numbers of female prophets hiding in the masculine grammar and androcentric focus … read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • old testament
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • womens
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31. Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like

By: Susan Hylen

4.30

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Forget what you think you know about women in the early church.    In this learned yet accessible… read more

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7 must-read history books like Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel by Wilda C. Gafney

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Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

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Amanda Gorman

4.28

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Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

Nijay K. Gupta

4.35

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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

Jemar Tisby

4.49

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New Seeds of Contemplation

Thomas Merton

4.26

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Rob Bell

4.32

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Cynthia Bourgeault

4.12

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