City of God: Faith in the Streets
10 best books like City of God: Faith in the Streets (Sara Miles): A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Growing Up, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Rich in Love, Learning to Walk in the Dark, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
| Author | Timothy Egan |
| ISBN | 0735225230 |
Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity,...
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062406582 |
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
| Author | Russell Baker |
| ISBN | 0451168380 |
I found a paperback edition of this book, yellow with age. A note from my mother, age 97 and suffering from dementia fell out from between the pages. She said it was full of charm and humor and recommended it. She was right. Russell Baker had a hardscrabble childhood. His father's people were Virginians;...
| Author | Nadia Bolz-Weber |
| ISBN | 1455527084 |
Foul-mouthed and heavily tattooed, former standup comic-turned-Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber weaves hilarious rants and stunning theological insight into her personal narrative of a flawed, beautiful, and unlikely life of faith.
Bizarre, rich, and remarkable, PASTRIX turns spiritual...
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022319 |
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible
If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the...
Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
| Author | Melissa Anelli |
| ISBN | 1416554955 |
THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS WERE JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY... During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary people made history: they became the only ones who would remember what it was like when the Harry Potter saga was still unfinished. What is was like to seek...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...
| Author | Josephine Humphreys |
| ISBN | 0140296107 |
It's been a while since I read this, but I remember really liking it, and have kept a copy on my personal real life bookshelf ever since it came out. I have a fondness for local authors and books about the but don't uniformly sing all their praises. However Josephine Humphreys deserves my praise and even...
Learning to Walk in the Dark
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062024353 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don’t have all the answers.
Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0061370460 |
In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."—Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry to become a professor, a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World,...
| Author | Thomas Cahill |
| ISBN | 0385483724 |
Cahill's most daring and provocative subject yet: Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of Western civilization.
In Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Thomas Cahill takes up his most daring and provocative subject yet: Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of Western civilization.
Introducing...
| Author | Margaret Sartor |
| ISBN | 1596912014 |
Margaret Sartor, a fiercely determined girl from rural Louisiana, who is equal parts "Holden Caulfield and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (Atlanta Journal Constitution), presents a poignant portrait of American life during the 1970s. Crafted from diaries, notebooks, and letters, this deeply personal...
Why Religion?: A Personal Story
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0062368559 |
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...
Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World
| Author | John O'Donohue |
| ISBN | 0525575286 |
With a Foreword by Krista Tippett-a poignant and beautiful collection of conversations and presentation from John O'Donohue's work with close friend and former radio broadcaster John Quinn
John O'Donohue, beloved author of To Bless the Space Between Us, is widely recognized as one of the...
Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
| Author | Titania McGrath |
| ISBN | 1472130847 |
In Woke, Titania McGrath demonstrates how everybody can play their part in the pursuit of social justice. As a millennial icon on the forefront of online activism, Titania is uniquely placed to guide her readers through the often bewildering array of terminology and concepts that constitute twenty-first-century...
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
| Author | Nancy Milford |
| ISBN | 0375760814 |
Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and married), flouted convention sensationally,...
Vintage Saints and Sinners: 25 Christians Who Transformed My Faith
| Author | Karen Wright Marsh |
| ISBN | 0830845135 |
Saints are people too. The wordsaint conjures up images of superstar Christians revered for their spectacular acts and otherworldly piety. But when we take a closer look at the lives of these spiritual heavyweights, we learn that they also experienced struggle, doubt, and heartache. In fact, we learn...
Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption
| Author | Ed Levine |
| ISBN | 0525533540 |
"A hilarious and moving story of unconventional entrepreneurialism, passion, and guts." --Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder of Shake Shack; Author of Setting the Table
Original recipes by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt of The Food Lab and Stella Parks of BraveTart
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