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A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism

10 best books like A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism (John A. Buehrens): The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them, Jesus Land: A Memoir, The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses, The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, The Case for God

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
AuthorMichael Shermer
ISBN0805091254
The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished.

In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's...
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
AuthorKevin Roose
As a sophomore at Brown University, Kevin Roose didn't have much contact with the Religious Right. Raised in a secular home by staunchly liberal parents, he fit right in with Brown's sweatshop-protesting, fair-trade coffee-drinking, God-ambivalent student body. So when he had a chance encounter...
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
AuthorJeff Sharlet
ISBN0060559799
A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful.

They are the Family—fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of...
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
AuthorJeff Sharlet
ISBN0316091073
C Street - where piety, politics, and corruption meet

Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside the C Street House, the Fellowship residence known simply by its Washington, DC address. The house has lately been the scene of notorious political scandal, but more crucially...
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
AuthorBart D. Ehrman
ISBN0061173932
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches—& it's not what most people think. Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed:
•The authors...
Jesus Land: A Memoir
AuthorJulia Scheeres
ISBN1582433542
For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David, "Jesus Land" stretched from their parents' fundamentalist home, past the hostilities of high school, and deep into a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic. For these two teenagers - brother and sister, black and white - the 1980s were a...
The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses
AuthorJoy Castro
ISBN1559707879
"The personal account of a young girl who endured abuse and the disturbing effects of religious hypocrisy within one of the most enigmatic sects of Christian fundamentalism." "Joy Castro is adopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovah's Witness family. As a child, she is constantly told to always...
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
AuthorN.T. Wright
ISBN0830822003
Today a renewed and vigorous scholarly quest for the historical Jesus is underway. In the midst of well publicized and controversial books on Jesus, N. T. Wright's lectures and writings have been widely recognized for providing a fresh, provocative and historically credible portrait. Out of his...
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
AuthorBertrand Russell
ISBN0671203231
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom,...
The Case for God
AuthorKaren Armstrong
ISBN0307269183
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam,...
Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
AuthorDale McGowan
ISBN0814474268
Foreword by Michael Shermer, Ph.D.



Contributors include Richard Dawkins, Penn Jillette, Julia Sweeney, and Dr. Donald B. Ardell



It's hard enough to live a secular life in a religious world. And bringing up children without religious influence can be even more...
Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
AuthorDavid Plotz
ISBN0061719951
At a time when wars are fought over scriptural interpretation, when the influence of religion on American politics has never been greater, when many Americans still believe in the Bible’s literal truth, it has never been more important to get to know the Bible. Good Book is what happens when a regular...
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
AuthorDan Barker
ISBN1569756775
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR GODLESS

“Valuable in the human story are the reflections of intelligent and ethical people who listen to the voice of reason and who allow it to vanquish bigotry and superstition. This book is a classic example.”
—CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS author of God is Not Great

“The...
Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
AuthorJohn W. Loftus
ISBN1591025923
For about two decades John W. Loftus was a devout evangelical Christian, an ordained minister of the Church of Christ, and an ardent apologist for Christianity. With three degrees-in philosophy, theology, and philosophy of religion-he was adept at using rational argumentation to defend the faith....
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
AuthorMatt Taibbi
ISBN0385520344
A revelatory and darkly comic adventure through a nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown--from the halls of Congress to the bases of Baghdad to the apocalyptic churches of the heartland.

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush's America in the post-9/11...
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
AuthorRichard Bauckham
ISBN0802831621
I have thumbed through this book many times before, skimmed chapters, and recommended it to many people. It's about time I finally dove in and worked through this masterpiece. And it really is a masterpiece. Bauckham's book is jaw-dropping in its scope and the force of the argument Bauckham puts forward.

Bauckham's...
Treasure island
AuthorMarty Ross
Audible Originals takes to the high seas to bring to life this timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps and mutiny, starring BAFTA-nominated Catherine Tate (The Catherine Tate Show, The Office, Doctor Who), Philip Glenister (Outcast, Life On Mars), Owen Teale (Game of Thrones, Pulse, Last Legion)...
Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide
AuthorPeter Morales
ISBN1558966064
"The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide" is one of the most complete introductions to Unitarian Universalism available, covering ministry, worship, religious education, social justice, and history. The 2012 edition is the most complete revision in over a decade. Contributors include Kay Montgomery,...
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