Eat with Joy: Redeeming God's Gift of Food
10 best books like Eat with Joy: Redeeming God's Gift of Food (Rachel Marie Stone): A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power, Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure, The Spirit of Food: Thirty-Four Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God, Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth, Do All Lives Matter?: The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long for, The Gospel Comes with a House Key, Party Spirit: Some Entertaining Principles, The Man Who Met God in a Bar: The Gospel According to Marvin: A Novel, To The Table: A Spirituality of Food, Farming, and the Community, Didn't See It Coming: Overcoming the Seven Greatest Challenges That No One Expects and Everyone Experiences
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
| Author | Paul Fischer |
| ISBN | 1250054265 |
"The 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-hee and her ex-husband, the director Shin Sang-ok, in Hong Kong is the true crime at the center of Paul Fischer's gripping and surprisingly timely new book."
-The New York Times
Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator,...
Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure
| Author | Patricia Ellis Herr |
When Trish Herr became pregnant with her first daughter, Alex, she and her husband, Hugh, vowed to instill a bond with nature in their children. By the time Alex was five, her over-the-top energy levels led Trish to believe that her very young daughter might be capable of hiking adult-sized mountains.
In...
| Author | Leslie Leyland Fields |
| ISBN | 1608995925 |
Description: You are invited to a feast for the senses and the spirit! Thirty-four adventurous writers open their kitchens, their recipe files, and their hearts to illustrate the many unexpected ways that food draws us closer to God, to community, and to creation. All bring a keen eye and palette to...
| Author | Fred Bahnson |
| ISBN | 1451663307 |
Part spiritual quest, part agricultural travelogue, this moving and profound exploration of the joy and solace found in returning to the garden is inspiring and beautiful.After he graduated from Duke Divinity School, Fred Bahnson underwent an agrarian conversion. Trading the pulpit for the plough,...
Do All Lives Matter?: The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long for
| Author | Wayne Gordon |
| ISBN | 0801075335 |
Something is wrong in our society. Deeply wrong.
The belief that all lives matter is at the heart of our founding documents--but we must admit that this conviction has never truly reflected reality in America. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have arisen in response to recent displays of violence...
The Gospel Comes with a House Key
| Author | Rosaria Champagne Butterfield |
The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
About The Gospel Comes with a House Key
The word hospitality often invokes a scene of a gracious, impeccably fashioned host welcoming guests into a beautifully appointed home...
Party Spirit: Some Entertaining Principles
| Author | Robert Farrar Capon |
| ISBN | 0688035094 |
Robert Farrar Capon was a lifelong New Yorker and served for almost 30 years as a parish priest in the Episcopal Church. His first book, Bed and Board, was published in 1965 and by 1977 left full-time ministry to devote more time to writing books, though he continued to serve the church in various capacities...
The Man Who Met God in a Bar: The Gospel According to Marvin: A Novel
| Author | Robert Farrar Capon |
Marvin has just missed the last flight home from Cleveland, and wanders morosely into the airport bar. It is deserted except for one young man who engages Marvin in a whimsical, teasing and slightly outrageous conversation leaving Marvin befuddled. He says his name is Jerry, he's a sort-order-cook...
To The Table: A Spirituality of Food, Farming, and the Community
| Author | Lisa Graham McMinn |
| ISBN | 1587433702 |
Part devotional, part (lay-level) sociological study on farming and food, this book challenges us to eat compassionately and hospitably. It confronts us with how our food choices affect others and our own spirituality. While the reality of how most people in the U.S. eat, meaning the food we buy, is...
Didn't See It Coming: Overcoming the Seven Greatest Challenges That No One Expects and Everyone Experiences
| Author | Carey Nieuwhof |
| ISBN | 0735291330 |
An influential pastor, podcaster, and thought leader believes it's not only possible to predict life's hardest moments, but also to alter outcomes, overcome challenges, and defeat your fiercest adversaries.
Founding Pastor of one of North America's most influential churches, Carey...
| Author | Peter Reinhart |
| ISBN | 0738201839 |
For Peter Reinhart there is no clear line between bread making and soul making. In this engaging memoir, he traces the many paths he’s traveled on his journey toward becoming a spiritual adult. Drawing upon both his humility as a seeker and his authority as an internationally known master baker, he...
Ripe: A Cook in the Orchard
| Author | Nigel Slater |
| ISBN | 1607743329 |
Britain’s foremost food writer Nigel Slater returns to the garden in this sequel to Tender, his acclaimed and beloved volume on vegetables. With a focus on fruit, Ripe is equal parts cookbook, primer on produce and gardening, and affectionate ode to the inspiration behind the book--Slater’s...
Tender: Volume I: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch
| Author | Nigel Slater |
| ISBN | 0007248490 |
With over 400 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the cook’s garden, Tender: Volume I – A cook and his vegetable patch, is the definitive guide to cooking with vegetables from the presenter of BBC One’s Simple Cooking.
'I would like to think I know more now than I did before...
Make a Difference: Following Your Passion and Finding Your Place to Serve
| Author | James A. Harnish |
| ISBN | 1501847589 |
Every day we see that things are not right in our world, and as followers of Jesus Christ, we have an impulse to do something about it. We long to connect our passions and gifts with the world's great needs, making a unique contribution for the healing of the world.
In Make a Difference, author James...
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
| Author | Tim Wise |
| ISBN | 0872865215 |
White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects...
Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent
| Author | Enuma Okoro |
| ISBN | 0835811123 |
Contextual background for this review: My wife (a minister) lost her job in August. She has severance through January. We have a one year old child. Needless to say, this Advent has us really struggling, questioning, trying to be faithful, trying to be patient, and trying to be hopeful. That being said,...
Cured But Not Healed: How to Experience Deeper Faith on Your Journey with God
| Author | Kymberley Clemons-Jones |
Can you be cured, but still not be healed? Can you find cures for your ailments and your fears through medicine, self-help disciplines, or even through gained knowledge, and still be in need of a more powerful and long-lasting spiritual healing? The answer is, overwhelmingly, yes!
Just like...
When Did Everybody Else Get So Old?: Indignities, Compromises, and the Unexpected Grace of Midlife
| Author | Jennifer Grant |
| ISBN | 1513801317 |
From writer and veteran columnist Jennifer Grant comes an unflinching and spirited look at the transitions of midlife. When Did Everybody Else Get So Old? plumbs the physical, spiritual, and emotional changes unique to the middle years: from the emptying nest to the sagging effects of aging. Grant...
