Love Makes Room: And Other Things I Learned When My Daughter Came Out
By: Staci Frenes
4.41
Format: 240 pages, ebook
When Christian singer and speaker Staci Frenes learned her teenage daughter was gay, she found her …
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1. Mercy
By: Jodi Picoult
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life … read more
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2. Paper Girls, Vol. 1 (Paper Girls, #1)
By: Matthew Wilson , Brian K. Vaughan , Cliff Chiang
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the m… read more
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3. Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
By: Rachel Held Evans
3.98
Format: None pages,
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
4. 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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5. Changing Our Mind: A call from America's leading evangelical ethics scholar for full acceptance of LGBT Christians in the Church
By: Brian D. McLaren , Matthew Vines , Phyllis Tickle , David P. Gushee
3.82
Format: 287 pages,
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6. Learning to Walk in the Dark
By: Barbara Brown Taylor
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor's Learnin… read more
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7. UnClobber
By: Glennon Doyle Melton , None
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
Churches in America are experiencing an unprecedented fracturing due to their belief and attitude t… read more
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8. People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue
By: Wesley Hill , Preston Sprinkle
3.73
Format: 216 pages,
Christians who are confused by the homosexuality debate raging in the US are looking for resources … read more
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9. 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
- memoir
"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
10. Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
By: Tori Dunlap
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K… read more
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- nonfiction
"Feminism that isn't intersectional, that doesn't help others and work to change systemic inequality, is not feminism."-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"…the culture [had]…a manipulative but disingenuous 'we're not coworkers, we're family' mind-set. (Always be wary of a company that says seemingly well-meaning shit as this. We share a cubicle, not a …"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"But when you confuse shames emotional alarm (I feel disconnected from money, what do I want to do about that?) with who you are (I’ll never get my shit together, I’m just bad with money), you’ve been…"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"We live in a patriarchal world—a system that aids and abets inequality. In this system that has gatekept financial information and tools from marginalized groups, it is an act of protest to be financ…"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
11. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
12. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
13. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
By: Michael Easter
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more
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- nonfiction
"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
14. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
15. 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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- nonfiction
"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
16. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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- nonfiction
18. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Laura E. Anderson
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more
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- nonfiction
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
19. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
By: Susan Page
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a wo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
20. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
By: Peter Enns
4.36
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more
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- nonfiction
"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
21. The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy)
By: Yung Pueblo
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this thir… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Heavy Burdens: Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church
By: Bridget Eileen Rivera
4.50
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Foreword INDIES 2021 Finalist for Religion Religious faith reduces the risk of suicide for virtu… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
"It would seem counterintuitive for Christians to embrace a word that prioritizes sex as the focal point of identity (homosexual) over a word that intentionally decenters the importance of sex (gay). …"-Bridget Eileen Rivera, Heavy Burdens: Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church
24. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy
By: Brian Stelter
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of HOAX, “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships
By: Karen R. Keen
4.37
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
WHEN IT COMES TO SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS, this book by Karen Keen contains the most thoughtful, bala… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
26. Love Makes Room: And Other Things I Learned When My Daughter Came Out
By: Staci Frenes
4.41
Format: 240 pages, ebook
When Christian singer and speaker Staci Frenes learned her teenage daughter was gay, she found her … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
27. Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith
By: April Ajoy
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and eye-opening account of leaving Christian Nationalism behind to follow Jesus better.… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
28. The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story
By: Christopher B. Hays
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, deeply biblical account of God’s expanding grace and mercy, tracing how the Bible’s narrat… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
29. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more
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- nonfiction
30. Why Churches Need to Talk about Sexuality: Lessons Learned from Hard Conversations about Sex, Gender, Identity, and the Bible
By: Mark Wingfield
4.36
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
Journalist and pastor Mark Wingfield describes how the congregation he serves undertook a detailed … read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
31. Winter's Gifts: An Indigenous Celebration of Nature
By: Kaitlin B. Curtice
4.22
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A vibrantly illustrated children’s book about an Indigenous girl who finds awe in the resting and w… read more
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