14 must-read religion books like The Whitewashing of Christianity: A Hidden Past, A Hurtful Present, and A Hopeful Future by Jerome Gay

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The Whitewashing of Christianity: A Hidden Past, A Hurtful Present, and A Hopeful Future

By: Jerome Gay

4.32

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A timely narrative of how the Christian faith has presented in a culturally monolithic manner and t…

If you liked the religion plot in The Whitewashing of Christianity: A Hidden Past, A Hurtful Present, and A Hopeful Future by Jerome Gay , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

By: Dallas Willard , Richard J. Foster

4.22

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Conspiracy has revolutionized how we think about the true meaning of discipleship. In th… read more

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"Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious."

-Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

"The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said."

-Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

"Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him."

-Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

"(God's) nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual human beings are not. This does not dimin…"

-Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

2. Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

By: Nabeel Qureshi

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An Unexpected Journey from Islam to Christianity In Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, Nabeel Qureshi de… read more

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3. How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity

By: Thomas C. Oden

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of t… read more

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4. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

By: Isabel Wilkerson

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more

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5. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

By: Esau McCaulley

4.43

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despai… read more

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"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."

-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"

-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

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6. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

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"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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7. Dangerous Jesus: Why the Only Thing More Risky than Getting Jesus Right Is Getting Jesus Wrong

By: Kevin "KB" Burgess

4.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

No one was more dangerous than the Lord Jesus. From the moment He arrived on the scene, Jesus pose… read more

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8. Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

By: Craig Groeschel

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

MORE THAN 500,000 COPIES SOLD! Are your thoughts out of control--just like your life? Do you long t… read more

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9. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

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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10. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

By: Michael Harriot

4.59

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more

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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. 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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13. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

By: Jemar Tisby

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on… read more

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"Throughout the course of US history, when Christians had the opportunity to decisively oppose the racism in their midst, all too often, they chose silence. They chose passivity. The refusal to act…"

-Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

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14. The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended

By: Sheila Wray Gregoire

4.56

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

What if it's not your fault that sex is bad in your marriage? Based on a groundbreaking in-depth s… read more

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15. The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong

By: Karen González

4.34

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Meet people who have fled their homelands.Hagar. Joseph. Ruth. Jesus. Here is a riveting story of s… read more

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16. Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

By: Adriana Valerio

3.76

Format: 128 pages, ebook

From one of Italy's most renowned historians of religion, an exciting new portrait of one of Christ… read more

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Cover of Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists by Janina Fisher

17. Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists

By: Janina Fisher

4.61

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Traumatic experiences leave a “living legacy” of effects that often persist for years and decades a… read more

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Cover of Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist by Elle Dowd

18. Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist

By: Elle Dowd

4.66

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

For years Elle Dowd considered herself an advocate for justice, but her well-meaning support always… read more

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19. Urban Apologetics: Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel

By: Eric Mason

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Urban Apologetics examines the legitimate issues that Black communities have with Western Christian… read more

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20. The Whitewashing of Christianity: A Hidden Past, A Hurtful Present, and A Hopeful Future

By: Jerome Gay

4.32

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A timely narrative of how the Christian faith has presented in a culturally monolithic manner and t… read more

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21. Urban Apologetics: Cults and Cultural Ideologies: Biblical and Theological Challenges Facing Christians

By: Eric Mason

4.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

We know that Urban isn't just a place but a culture now. Followers of Jesus face many challenges to… read more

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