Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices (The Ancient Practices )
10 best books like Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices (The Ancient Practices ) (Brian D. McLaren): Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination, The Cost of Discipleship, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile, Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction, Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life, Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss.
Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless...
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0684815001 |
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic text on ethics, humanism, and civic duty.
What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman,...
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0824525434 |
For Christians seeking a way of thinking outside of strict dualities, this guide explores methods for letting go of division and living in the present. Drawn from the Gospels, Jesus, Paul, and the great Christian contemplatives, this examination reveals how many of the hidden truths of Christianity...
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
| Author | Shane Claiborne |
| ISBN | 0310266300 |
Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we’ve made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne...
| Author | Winona LaDuke |
| ISBN | 0896085996 |
This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation.LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is born from long years of experience,...
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 1250178266 |
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...
There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers.Jesus Wants to save Christians...
| Author | Lee Gutkind |
| ISBN | 0393065618 |
Writers of memoir and narrative nonfiction are experiencing difficult days with the discovery that some well-known works in the genre contain exaggerations—or are partially fabricated. But what are the parameters of creative nonfiction? Keep It Real begins by defining creative nonfiction....
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0061686158 |
Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life features the wisdom that spiritual leader and counselor Henri J. M. Nouwen brought to the essential question asked by every Christian and seeker: What should I do with my life?
Nouwen emphasizes listening to the Word of God—in our hearts, in...
Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members - revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier sermons, bigger and better auditoriums. But there are still so many people who aren't being reached, who don't want to come to church. And the truth is...
| Author | Kenda Creasy Dean |
| ISBN | 0195314840 |
Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about...
The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth
| Author | Christopher L. Heuertz |
| ISBN | 0310348277 |
For all the ways we live unawakened lives, the enneagram is here to help.
The Sacred Enneagram is a trustworthy, richly insightful guide to finding yourself in the enneagram’s 9-type profiles, and applying this practical wisdom for a life transformed. Far more than a personality test,...
The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church
| Author | Alan Hirsch |
| ISBN | 1587431645 |
Alan Hirsch is convinced that the inherited formulas for growing the Body of Christ do not work anymore. And rather than relying on slightly revised solutions from the past, he sees a vision of the future growth of the church coming about by harnessing the power of the early church, which grew from as few...
Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America
| Author | Mike Yankoski |
| ISBN | 1590524020 |
Mike Yankoski did more than just wonder. By his own choice, Mike's life went from upper-middle class plush to scum-of-the-earth repulsive overnight. With only a backpack, a sleeping bag and a guitar, Mike and his traveling companion, Sam, set out to experience life on the streets in six different...
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
| Author | David M. Halperin |
| ISBN | 0415900972 |
Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous...
The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
| Author | Rebecca Solnit |
| ISBN | 1595341986 |
The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the twenty-nine essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical...
The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church
| Author | Reggie McNeal |
| ISBN | 0787965685 |
In this provocative book, author, consultant, and church leadership developer Reggie McNeal debunks these and other old assumptions and provides an overall strategy to help church leaders move forward in an entirely different and much more effective way. McNeal identifies the six most important...
Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America
| Author | Darrell L. Guder |
| ISBN | 0802843506 |
What would a theology of the Church look like that took seriously the fact that North America is now itself a mission field? This question lies at the foundation of this volume written by an ecumenical team of six noted missiologists—Lois Barrett, Inagrace T. Dietterich, Darrell L. Guder, George...
