By: Rachel Held Evans
Format: None pages,
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought…
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By: Rob Bell
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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By: Richard Rohr
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
For Christians seeking a way of thinking outside of strict dualities, this guide explores methods f… read more
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"When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting...you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic."-Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
By: Sarah Bessey
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From the popular blogger and provocative author of Jesus Feminist comes a riveting new study of Chr… read more
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By: Joe Barrett , Peter Enns
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adamrecounts his transformative spir… read more
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By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
Format: 6 pages, ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grac… read more
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By: Rachel Held Evans , Sarah Bessey
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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By: Rob Bell
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
We have to test everything.I thank God for anybody anywhere who is pointing people to the mysteries… read more
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By: Rob Bell , Don Golden
Format: 28 pages,
There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building.… read more
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By: Rob Bell
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Rob Bell's bestselling book Love Winsstruck a powerful chord with a new generation of Christians wh… read more
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By: Rachel Held Evans
Format: None pages,
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought… read more
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By: Peter Enns
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more
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By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
Foul-mouthed and heavily tattooed, former standup comic-turned-Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber wea… read more
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By: Brian Zahnd
Format: None pages, Paperback
Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love? In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hand… read more
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By: Richard Rohr
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
By: Glennon Doyle Melton , None
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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By: John Ramirez
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
If there's one spiritual weapon Satan doesn't want you to use, it's prayer. This book will show you… read more
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"We see the pain and the misery around the world and what the demonic kingdom and the devil and demons have done to mankind."-John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms
"Because he that lacks knowledge about his enemy will find himself sitting in total defeat where bondage and misery reigns and rules."-John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms
"Before you pray these prayers, you must first be in right standing with Jesus Christ. In other words, you must truly be a born-again believer, sanctified and washed in the blood of Jesus Christ."-John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms
"Renunciation is the spiritual scissors or act that cuts things to the root out of your life, in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It’s time to shame the devil and make Jesus Christ proud."-John Ramirez, Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms
By: Rob Bell
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
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
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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By: Beth Allison Barr
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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"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
By: Richard Rohr
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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By: Barbara Brown Taylor
Format: 256 pages, ebook
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to… read more
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"Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can."-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
"I had lived so long in the mainstream that I never even though about how I sounded from the margins"-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
"The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor... Jesus never commanded me to love my religion."-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
"...religion is more than a source of conflict or a calculated way to stay out of hell. Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millen…"-Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
By: Peter Enns
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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By: Peter Enns
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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"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)
By: Jared Byas
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
For years, Christians have argued, debated, and fought one another while "speaking the truth in lov… read more
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By: Sarah Bessey
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
By: Jamie Wright
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
Wildly popular blogger "Jamie the Very Worst Missionary" delivers a searing, offbeat, often hilario… read more
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By: Brian D. McLaren
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world … read more
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By: Amena Brown
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the weary, the angry, the anxious, and the hopeful, this collection… read more
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By: Sarah Bessey
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In her most personal book yet, popular speaker and bestselling author Sarah Bessey invites us into … read more
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"And part of why books matter and writing matters and storytelling matters is because the best writers go first: the best writers say the unsaid and unspoken, the secret truths we all feel but can't q…"-Sarah Bessey, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
"I remember hearing a preacher once claim the miracle of a good parking spot. As in, she taught a church full of people how to pray for a good parking spot, how to claim it, and how to rejoice when it…"-Sarah Bessey, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more
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"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
By: Ami Loper
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Many believers in Jesus Christ are living life against the backdrop of disenchantment. They have a … read more
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"A God-given longing must have a God-given fulfillment"-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
"I feel his love most strongly when I am confident in his love."-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
"Be willing to be a place where God can let His dreams for you grow."-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
"Since the moment of the Fall, God has never stopped searching us out."-Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God