A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today
By: Bonnie Kristian
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
BONNIE KRISTIAN shows that a vibrant diversity within Christian orthodoxy-which is simply to say a …
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1. What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
By: Rob Bell
4.32
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep … read more
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2. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
By: David Platt
4.18
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
What is Jesus worth to you? It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followe… read more
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"I had the faith of a sermon, but not the faith of his son. – John Wesley"-David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
"We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate."-David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
"God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are."-David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
"My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. "-David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
3. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
By: Joe Barrett , Peter Enns
3.63
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adamrecounts his transformative spir… read more
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4. The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic... or Awesome?
By: Tripp Fuller
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Recognizing that the battle over Jesus is no longer a public debate between the skeptic and believe… read more
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5. A History of the World in 6 Glasses
By: Tom Standage
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more
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6. Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hell, Hope, and the New Jerusalem
By: Bradley Jersak , None
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Description: Everlasting hell and divine judgment, a lake of fire and brimstone--these mainstays of… read more
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7. 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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8. An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
By: Barbara Brown Taylor
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."--Dallas Morning News), … read more
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9. A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23
By: W. Phillip Keller
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want..." Travel the shepherd's path to the green pastur… read more
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10. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
By: Rob Bell
3.66
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God… read more
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"You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn’t waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up - God has already done it."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. "What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
11. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
By: John Mark Comer
4.53
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
"Who am I becoming?" That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. Outwardly, he… read more
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"Hurry is violence on the soul."-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
"In the cruciform kingdom, only the bad things die: image and status and bragging rights, all vanity."-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
"The point of a trellis isn’t to make the vines stand up straight in neat rows, but rather to attain a rich, deep glass of wine. It’s to create space for the vine to grow and bear fruit."-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
"The Hebrew word Shabbat means ‘to stop.’ But it can also be translated ‘to delight.’ It has this dual idea of stopping and also of joying in God and our lives in his world. The Sabbath is an entire d…"-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
12. 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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13. Measure What Matters
By: John Doerr
3.99
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. With a f… read more
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"For anyone striving for high performance in the workplace, goals are very necessary things."-John Doerr, Measure What Matters
"Acute focus, open sharing, exacting measurement, a license to shoot for the moon—these are the hallmarks of modern goal science."-John Doerr, Measure What Matters
"If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside. It gives us an environment for risk…"-John Doerr, Measure What Matters
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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15. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more
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"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
16. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
By: Richard Rohr
4.45
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more
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17. 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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18. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
By: Austin Channing Brown
4.38
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian,… read more
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"I am not a priest for the white soul."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"Rare is the ministry praying that they would be worthy of the giftedness of Black minds and hearts."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"This is the shadow of hope. Knowing that we may never see the realization of our dreams, and yet still showing up."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"Reconciliation is the pursuit of the impossible - and upside-down world where those who are powerful have relinquished that power to the margins"-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
19. 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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"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
20. How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News
By: Peter Enns
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal P… read more
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21. 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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22. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
By: Sarah Bessey
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more
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"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
23. That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
By: David Bentley Hart
4.26
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Chri… read more
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"As far as I am concerned, anyone who hopes for the universal reconciliation of all creatures with God must already believe that this would be the best possible ending to the Christian story; and such…"-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
"Really, on the whole, Christians rarely pay particularly close attention to what the Bible actually says, for the simple reason that the texts defy synthesis in a canon of exact doctrines, and yet mo…"-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
24. 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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25. The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
By: Kaitlyn Schiess
4.29
Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition
A generation of young Christians are weary of the political legacy they've inherited and hungry for… read more
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"Perhaps our kitchens can be outposts of the kingdom of God, as well as our churches."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
"It might be the most common perversion of God's people: to expect our religious devotion to excuse our injustice."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
"The line between our political beliefs, our moral beliefs, and our theological beliefs is blurry, if not entirely invented."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
"Our religious activities are worthless if they aren't causing us to live and act justly. God does not divide between justice and worship."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
26. After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity
By: David P. Gushee
4.18
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
A building crescendo of developments, culminating in evangelical support for the Trump presidency, … read more
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27. Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness
By: Jennifer Berry Hawes
4.46
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME chur… read more
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28. The Diabolical Trinity: Healing Religious Trauma from a Wrathful God, Tormenting Hell, and a Sinful Self
By: Mark Gregory Karris
3.95
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
Are you grappling with the aftermath of religious trauma, particularly the fear of Hell indoctrinat… read more
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29. A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today
By: Bonnie Kristian
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
BONNIE KRISTIAN shows that a vibrant diversity within Christian orthodoxy-which is simply to say a … read more
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30. The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
By: Sharon McMahon
4.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
America’s favorite government teacher offers thrilling, heartfelt stories of ordinary American hero… read more
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31. Religious Refugees: (De)Constructing Toward Spiritual and Emotional Healing
By: Mark Gregory Karris
4.05
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Hurt by the church. Healed by the journey. Questioning one's faith and spiritual beliefs, while le… read more
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