Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire
10 best books like Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire (Brian J. Walsh): Year of Wonders, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts., The Prophetic Imagination, Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision, Paul: In Fresh Perspective, A Rule Against Murder, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion, The Meaning of Jesus
| Author | Geraldine Brooks |
| ISBN | 0142001430 |
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition....
| Author | Marlon James |
| ISBN | 0735220174 |
In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy...
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
| Author | Emily Nagoski |
| ISBN | 1476762090 |
An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research and brain science—that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.
Researchers have spent the last decade trying to develop a “pink pill” for...
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brené Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.
Leadership...
The Prophetic Imagination
| Author | Walter Brueggemann |
| ISBN | 0800632877 |
It is almost cliche to say that our world has been numbed into apathy about a great many things, spirituality included. If fact, I believe it would be fair to say that many Christians have found their faith to be drained of mysticism and imagination. Taught that mysticism is evil or somehow against the...
Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision
| Author | Tom Wright |
| ISBN | 0830838635 |
Few issues are more central to the Christian faith than the nature, scope and means of salvation. Many have thought it to be largely a transaction that gets one to heaven. In this riveting book, N. T. Wright explains that God's salvation is radically more than this. At the heart of much vigorous debate...
Paul: In Fresh Perspective
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0800637666 |
Historically, the Apostle Paul found himself at the crossroads of Greek, Roman, and Jewish perspectives. While his writings clearly interact with each of these traditions, Paul must be seen primarily as reworking historical Jewish theology (esp. creation, covenant, messiah, apocalyptic). Wright...
| Author | Louise Penny |
| ISBN | 0312377029 |
"What happened here last night isn't allowed," said Madame Dubois.
It was such an extraordinary thing to say it stopped the ravenous Inspector Beauvoir from taking another bite of his roast beef on baguette.
"You have a rule against murder?" he asked.
"I do. When my husband and I bought...
| Author | Sara Miles |
| ISBN | 0345486927 |
I didn't necessarily "enjoy" reading this book while I was actually reading it. I felt uncomfortable and challenged, not by the language but by some of the opinions and views. This author and I couldn't be more different, and I'm sure she'd strongly disapprove of my LDS religion (even the liberal wing...
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060608765 |
Was Jesus born of a virgin? Did he know he was the Messiah? Was he bodily resurrected from the dead? Did he intentionally die to redeem humankind? Was Jesus God?
In The Meaning of Jesus two leading Jesus scholars with widely divergent views go right to the heart of these questions and others, presenting...
Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
| Author | Bob Goff |
| ISBN | 1400203759 |
Now a New York Times Bestseller!
As a college student he spent 16 days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. As a father he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state. He made friends in Uganda, and they liked him so much he became the Ugandan consul. He...
Anabaptist Essentials: Ten Signs of a Unique Christian Faith
| Author | Palmer Becker |
| ISBN | 1513800418 |
What is the essence of Anabaptism?
Jesus. Community. Reconciliation. These sum up the core values of Anabaptist faith and life, writes pastor Palmer Becker in this concise new resource. In Anabaptist Essentials, Becker introduces readers to the key convictions and practices of Anabaptism,...
“Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; when TV producer Laurie Moran investigates an unsolved murder, she becomes entangled in a web of long-buried secrets and begins to wonder if her own...
Yoga Minds, Writing Bodies: Contemplative Writing Pedagogy
| Author | Christy I Wenger |
| ISBN | 1602356610 |
PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING Series Editor, Susan H. McLeod In YOGA MINDS, WRITING BODIES, Christy Wenger argues for the inclusion of Eastern-influenced contemplative education within writing studies. She observes that, although we have "embodied" writing education in general by discussing the...
Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, they form a fierce team in childhood regardless of their differences. As they grow up, Lark excels at...
Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God
| Author | Mark Batterson |
| ISBN | 1590527194 |
Most of us have no idea where we're going most of the time. Perfect.
Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit–An Geadh-Glas, or ‘the Wild Goose.’ The name hints at mystery. Much like a wild goose, the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability...
| Author | Louise Penny |
| ISBN | 0755328949 |
Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat.
It's spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees and the first flowers are struggling through the newly thawed earth. But not everything is meant to return to life. . .
When some villagers...
Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies
| Author | Linda Adler-Kassner |
| ISBN | 0874219892 |
Naming What We Know examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. The first part of the book defines and describes thirty-seven threshold...
