6 must-read theology books like All Shall Be Well: Awakening to God’s Presence in His Messy, Abundant World by Catherine McNiel

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All Shall Be Well: Awakening to God’s Presence in His Messy, Abundant World

By: Catherine McNiel

4.38

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this beautiful and broken world, God is here. The heavens declare the glory of God . . . but are…

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1. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, cat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology

2. Streams in the Desert

By: James Reimann , Lettie B. Cowman

4.05

Format: None pages,

The beloved classic devotional Streams in the Desert has been updated and rewritten in today's lang… read more

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3. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

By: Kate Bowler

3.80

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of… read more

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"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

4. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

By: Rachel Held Evans

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more

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5. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more

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"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

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6. 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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7. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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8. 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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  • nonfiction
  • theology
"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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9. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

By: John Mark Comer

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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10. How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

By: Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when … read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. 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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12. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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13. Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God

By: Strahan Coleman

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Move from a  transactional  experience with God to a  transformational  friendship with Him through… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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14. Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

By: Jamie Erickson

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Women were made to give life—and they can do that right in their own homes.  Hygge [HYOO-guh] ha… read more

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  • christian non fiction
"I’m caring enough about me to enjoy the simple pleasures I’ve planned for during this dark season so I can approach my days with a sense of abundance rather than scarcity."

-Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

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15. Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

By: Anne Lamott

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow co… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Look around and see whom you can serve."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"Look around and see whom you can serve. This will fill you."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"…[I] know that the movement of grace in our lives so often begins with desperation and blurt."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"Love is gentle if sometimes amused warmth for annoying and deeply disappointing people, especially ourselves."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

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16. No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

By: Kate Bowler

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do … read more

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"We live and we are loved and we are gone."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"Nothing will exempt me from the pain of being human."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"People say carpe diem. I mean, yes, unless you need a nap."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"I feel a spark of horror each time I remember it: we come undone."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

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17. Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy

By: Aundi Kolber

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

"In the wise and soulful tradition of teachers like Shauna Niequist and Brene Brown, therapist Aund… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
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18. Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity

By: Saundra Dalton-Smith

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Staying busy is easy. Staying well rested-now there's a challenge. How can you keep your energy, ha… read more

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19. The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor

By: Lore Ferguson Wilbert

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Walk in the woods with me." That's the invitation award-winning author Lore Ferguson Wilbert ex… read more

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  • theology
Cover of Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing by Aundi Kolber

20. Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing

By: Aundi Kolber

4.50

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

There's a cost to being a certain kind of strong. When it comes to difficult circumstances, we'v… read more

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21. All Shall Be Well: Awakening to God’s Presence in His Messy, Abundant World

By: Catherine McNiel

4.38

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this beautiful and broken world, God is here. The heavens declare the glory of God . . . but are… read more

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16 Best nonfiction books like All Shall Be Well: Awakening to God’s Presence in His Messy, Abundant World by Catherine McNiel

Transform Your Habits

The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

Henri J.M. Nouwen

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Kate Bowler

3.80

Transform Your Habits

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

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Wholehearted Faith

Rachel Held Evans

4.42

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12 Best audiobook books like Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did by John Mark Comer

Transform Your Habits

Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

Transform Your Habits

How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

Jennie Allen

4.24

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