Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
10 best books like Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back (Frank Schaeffer): Jesus the Christ, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Straight Man, Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Everyday Zen: Love and Work, The Essential Ginsberg, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
| Author | James E. Talmage |
| ISBN | 0875793266 |
First published in 1915, Jesus the Christ is the classic Latter-day Saint presentation of the life and ministry of the Savior. Elder Marion G. Romney said, "One who gets the understanding, the vision, and the spirit of the resurrected Lord through a careful study of the text Jesus the Christ by Elder...
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...
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0060859512 |
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0375701907 |
In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's...
| Author | Ted Andrews |
| ISBN | 0875420281 |
Open your heart and mind to the wisdom of the animal world.
Animal Speak provides techniques for recognizing and interpreting the signs and omens of nature. Meet and work with animals as totems and spirit guides by learning the language of their behaviors within the physical world.
Animal...
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...
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
| Author | Chris Hedges |
| ISBN | 1400034639 |
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student,...
| Author | Charlotte Joko Beck |
| ISBN | 0060607343 |
DOES A DOG HAVE BUDDHA NATURE?
Maybe - for Zen is Nothing Special. Skimming thru this little miracle of a book again this morning for the umpteen zillionth time, I read:
"My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit...
| Author | Allen Ginsberg |
| ISBN | 0062362283 |
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem “Howl,” this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg’s poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs.
One of the Beat Generation’s most renowned...
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0470907754 |
A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think...
| Author | David Plotz |
| ISBN | 0061719951 |
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...
Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging
| Author | Alex Wagner |
| ISBN | 0525494545 |
A journalist travels the globe searching for answers to the mystery of her own ancestry, along the way raising deeper questions about the American experience of race, immigration, exile, and identity.
The daughter of a Burmese mother and a white American father, Alex Wagner grew up thinking...
| Author | Robert Hilburn |
| ISBN | 0316194751 |
The national bestseller celebrated as "the ultimate Johnny Cash biography....Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep." -- Rolling Stone
In this, the definitive biography of an American legend, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical superstar. Johnny Cash's...
The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick
| Author | Gene Stone |
| ISBN | 0761158146 |
I don't know. Another book that sounds like a series of Ladies Home Journal articles. I picture the author eating oreo truffles and drinking red wine "because chocolate and wine are full of antioxidants" while he is writing. Sure, there is some good stuff in here, but I already read this month's LHJ "Seven...
Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
| Author | Mary Eberstadt |
| ISBN | 1599474115 |
Who am I? The question today haunts every society in the Western world.
Legions of people—especially the young—have become unmoored from a firm sense of self. To compensate, they join the ranks of ideological tribes spawned by identity politics and react with...
The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
| Author | Gregory Zuckerman |
| ISBN | 1591846455 |
Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters - who risked their careers to prove the world wrong.
Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep decline...
The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond
| Author | Randall Balmer |
| ISBN | 1602582432 |
With impressively clear prose and a superb command of history, best-selling author Randall Balmer offers a spirited history of evangelical Christianity in the United States. Effortlessly situating developments in evangelicalism in their wider historical context, he demonstrates the ways American...
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
| Author | Tom Holland |
| ISBN | 0465093507 |
From the crucifixion of Jesus to the birth of modern morals, this "marvelous" account from an award-winning historian shows how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination (The Economist).
Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable. It was this that rendered...
