20 must-read christian books like Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield by Sean McGever

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Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield

By: Sean McGever

4.56

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Men of their time? Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three most promin…

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1. Whose Land? Whose Promise?: What Christians Are Not Being Told about Israel and the Palestinians

By: Gary M. Burge

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Whose Land? Whose Promise? is Burge's personal exploration of his feelings about the crisis in the … read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • nonfiction

2. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

By: Jeff Sharlet

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism's most elite organi… read more

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3. Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

By: Dallas Willard

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

"God spoke to me." "The Spirit spoke to my heart." "God revealed the idea to me." Being close to Go… read more

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Cover of Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did by John Mark Comer

4. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect

By: John D. Inazu

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective … read more

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Cover of Reckoning with Power: Why the Church Fails When It’s on the Wrong Side of Power by David E. Fitch

6. Reckoning with Power: Why the Church Fails When It’s on the Wrong Side of Power

By: David E. Fitch

4.25

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

History is Whenever the church has aligned itself with worldly, coercive power, it ends up on the … read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • theology
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7. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • religion
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  • audiobook
Cover of Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies by N.T. Wright

8. 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
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South by Esau McCaulley

9. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

By: Esau McCaulley

4.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more

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  • religion
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"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"

-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

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10. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
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  • nonfiction
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11. Ghosted: An American Story

By: Nancy French

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here by Kaitlyn Schiess

12. 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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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
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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

Cover of The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation by Daniel G. Hummel

13. The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation

By: Daniel G. Hummel

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating history of dispensationalism and its influence on popular culture, politics, and reli… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity by Carl R. Trueman

14. Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.41

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Carl Trueman Analyzes How Ancient Creeds and Confessions Protect and Promote Biblical Christianity … read more

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  • theology
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Cover of Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters by Carmen Joy Imes

15. Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters

By: Carmen Joy Imes

4.47

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be human? This timeless question proves critical as we seek to understand our … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hope in Our Scars: Finding the Bride of Christ in the Underground of Disillusionment by Aimee Byrd

16. The Hope in Our Scars: Finding the Bride of Christ in the Underground of Disillusionment

By: Aimee Byrd

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The church is struggling with a major PR problem. She's lost her respect and significance in the wo… read more

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  • theology
Cover of The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics by Curtis Chang

17. The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics

By: Curtis Chang

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

For all who want to culturally engage but are exhausted by the tension in our families and churches… read more

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  • christian
Cover of Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times by Elizabeth  Oldfield

18. Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times

By: Elizabeth Oldfield

4.26

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

'This remarkable book points not to some unreachable ideal of life but to a deeper, more soulful an… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
Cover of For the Life of the World: Theology That Makes a Difference (Theology for the Life of the World) by Miroslav Volf

19. For the Life of the World: Theology That Makes a Difference (Theology for the Life of the World)

By: Miroslav Volf

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Christianity Today 2020 Book Award (Award of Merit, Theology/Ethics) Outreach 2020 Recommended Reso… read more

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Cover of Turning Points in American Church History: How Pivotal Events Shaped a Nation and a Faith by Elesha J. Coffman

20. Turning Points in American Church History: How Pivotal Events Shaped a Nation and a Faith

By: Elesha J. Coffman

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"An excellent resource for those eager to learn more about the evolution of American Christianity."… read more

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  • history
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • church history
Cover of Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor by Caleb E. Campbell

21. Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor

By: Caleb E. Campbell

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ministering to Christian Nationalists Pastor Caleb Campbell has watched as Christian nationalism h… read more

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Cover of The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith by Michael O. Emerson

22. The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith

By: Michael O. Emerson

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Are most white American Christians actually committed to a Religion of Whiteness? Recent years hav… read more

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23. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield by Sean McGever

24. Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield

By: Sean McGever

4.56

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Men of their time? Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three most promin… read more

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Cover of When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter by Tim Cooper

25. When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter

By: Tim Cooper

4.06

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Two Oppositional Figures in Church History Shed Light on Division in the Church Today Our curren… read more

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  • theology
Cover of War in Heaven by Charles  Williams

26. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

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  • christianity
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

Cover of Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right by Scott M. Coley

27. Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right

By: Scott M. Coley

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Scott Coley exposes the inner workings of the religious right’s propaganda—and how Christians can r… read more

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Cover of Ancient Wisdom for the Care of Souls: Learning the Art of Pastoral Ministry from the Church Fathers by Coleman M. Ford

28. Ancient Wisdom for the Care of Souls: Learning the Art of Pastoral Ministry from the Church Fathers

By: Coleman M. Ford

4.50

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

Recovering the Wisdom of Early Christian Figures to Effectively Shepherd Modern Churches In additi… read more

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Cover of The Sacred Chain: How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith by Jim Stump

29. The Sacred Chain: How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith

By: Jim Stump

4.50

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking and eye-opening work by Jim Stump, Vice President at BioLogos and host of the L… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance by Jemar Tisby

30. The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance

By: Jemar Tisby

4.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

If you did a historical survey of racism in the United States, the overarching theme would be one o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today by Jennifer Powell McNutt

31. The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today

By: Jennifer Powell McNutt

4.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Who was among the last at the cross and the first at the empty tomb? Mary Magdalene.Her role in Jes… read more

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10 best-selling audiobook books like Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield by Sean McGever

Transform Your Habits

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

John Mark Comer

4.63

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Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect

John D. Inazu

4.06

Transform Your Habits

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

Sarah McCammon

4.21

Transform Your Habits

How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

Esau McCaulley

4.62

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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

Transform Your Habits

She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up

Sheila Wray Gregoire

4.49

Transform Your Habits

When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

Laura E. Anderson

4.38

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