Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating
10 best books like Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (Norman Wirzba): Eating Animals, The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything, Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, Estado y revolución, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0316069906 |
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others,...
| Author | Andrew Yang |
| ISBN | 0316414247 |
From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy...
What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
| Author | Rob Bell |
| ISBN | 0062194283 |
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep into the Bible to show how it is more revelatory, revolutionary, and relevant than we ever imagined—and offers a cogent argument for why we need to look at it in a fresh, new way.
In Love Wins, Rob Bell...
Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home
On Care for Our Common Home (Laudato Si') is the new appeal from Pope Francis addressed to "every person living on this planet" for an inclusive dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. Pope Francis calls the Church and the world to acknowledge the urgency of our environmental challenges...
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...
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
| Author | Jemar Tisby |
| ISBN | 0310597269 |
In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on all Americans to view others not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Yet King included another powerful word, one that is often overlooked. Warning against the "tranquilizing...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
| Author | James H. Cone |
| ISBN | 1570759375 |
A landmark in the conversation about race and religion in America.
"They put him to death by hanging him on a tree." Acts 10:39
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian...
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
| Author | Tish Harrison Warren |
| ISBN | 0830846239 |
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present to us in surprising ways through our everyday routines. Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices and habits that form us. Each chapter looks...
If you happen to get the version which has a forward by Richard Pipes, I strongly suggest reading the text of Vladimir Lenin first, maybe Google or Wikipedia some of the historical references, and draw your own conclusion. Richard Pipes is your classical establishment propaganda clerk who's job is...
| Author | Ellen F. Davis |
| ISBN | 0521732239 |
This book examines the theology and ethics of land use, especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, in light of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essays explore the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the care of arable land against the background of the geography,...
On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
| Author | Parker J. Palmer |
| ISBN | 1523095431 |
From beloved and bestselling author Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, Healing the Heart of Democracy), comes a beautiful book of reflections on what we can learn as we move closer to "the brink of everything."
Drawing on eight decades of life -- and his career as a writer,...
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...
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
| Author | Arthur C. Brooks |
| ISBN | 0062883771 |
Now a National Bestseller.
To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?
Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against...
A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission Around the Table
| Author | Tim Chester |
| ISBN | 1433521369 |
The meals of Jesus represent something bigger. They represent a new world, a new kingdom, a new outlook.
Tim Chester brings to light God's purposes in the seemingly ordinary act of sharing a meal--how this everyday experience is really an opportunity for grace, community, and mission. Chester...
A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
Publisher's Summary
Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all the tongue-twisting names, picking favourites based on ferocity, armour, or sheer size. For many kids this love of ‘terrible lizards’ fizzles out at some point between starting and leaving primary school. All...
Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
"In Standing at the Edge, Joan Halifax weaves together scientific research and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom. Standing at the Edge is essential reading for our time." — Arianna...
The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice
| Author | Mark Labberton |
| ISBN | 0830833161 |
Worship is the dangerous act of waking up to God and God's purposes in the world. But something has gone wrong with our worship. Too often, worship has become a place of safety and complacency. It can be a narrowly private experience in which solitary individuals express their personal adoration. Even...
Good Food: Grounded Practical Theology
| Author | Jennifer R. Ayres |
| ISBN | 1602589844 |
Everything about food and eating is broken. At the public policy level, legislation has increasingly favored mass-produced products in order to provide the largest amount of food to the greatest number of people at the lowest possible prices--regardless of the consequences. Public policy decisions...
The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0062643517 |
Available from HarperOne, now the exclusive publisher of all of C. S. Lewis’s adult religious books, a repackaged edition of the revered author’s anthology of satirical yet serious essays on evil.
In these spirited essays, C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian,...
The Daniel Dilemma: How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture of Compromise
| Author | Chris Hodges |
| ISBN | 0718091531 |
We have real hope we’re called to share. But how we share it makes a difference.
Christians today face a dilemma: in a world that seems to reject everything we believe, how do we walk closely with God without caving to pressure or alienating those we hope to reach?
In this eye-opening...
The New Worship: Straight Talk on Music and the Church
| Author | Barry Wayne Liesch |
| ISBN | 0801063566 |
Ok, so a few things. First off, as is common for books on worship, the author takes a loosely related verse and builds a theory onto it that isn't necessarily not true, just not necessarily true either. Then, they build another theory that is based on that theory, and another theory that is based on the second...
The Worship of God: Some Theological, Pastoral, and Practical Reflections
| Author | Ralph P. Martin |
| ISBN | 0802819346 |
Ralph Martin (1925-2013) was a distinguished New Testament scholar and a significant figure in the post-World War 2 resurgence of British evangelical scholarship. Born in Anfield, Liverpool, England, his early education was interrupted in 1939 by the war, and he was conscripted to work in the coal...
Worship Evangelism: Inviting Unbelievers into the Presence of God
In Worship Evangelism, Sally Morgenthaler calls the church to consider the remarkable, untapped potential of worship as an opportunity of those who aren't yet followers of Jesus Christ as well as those who are to encounter the presence of God. Combining the best of traditional and contemporary worship...
The In Touch Study Series: Becoming Emotionally Whole
| Author | Charles F. Stanley |
| ISBN | 0785272755 |
Dr. Charles Stanley's new series of Bible study guides feature insights and wisdom of this beloved pastor and author. Small groups and individuals who want a Bible study that's spiritually sound and practical will find a wealth of ideas to help them understand and apply the Scriptures to the real world....
The Worship Pastor: A Call to Ministry for Worship Leaders and Teams
| Author | Zac M. Hicks |
| ISBN | 0310525195 |
Modern worship leaders are restless. They have inherited a model of leadership that equates leading worship with being a rock star. But leading worship is more than a performance, it's about shaping souls and making disciples. Every worship leader is really a pastor.
The Worship Pastor is...
False Alarm: The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear
| Author | Marc Siegel |
| ISBN | 0471678694 |
In this provocative book, Siegel identifies three beneficiaries. The media hype fear because it swells ratings and profits. Government agencies fuel the frenzy because it justifies their budgets and leaves them blameless if anything bad does occur. And pharmaceutical companies push fear because...
| Author | D.A. Carson |
| ISBN | 0310216257 |
'What is at stake is authenticity. . . . Sooner or later Christians tire of public meetings that are profoundly inauthentic, regardless of how well (or poorly) arranged, directed, performed. We long to meet, corporately, with the living and majestic God and to offer him the praise that is his due.'---D....
The Green Psalter: Resources for an Ecological Spirituality
| Author | Arthur Walker-Jones |
| ISBN | 0800663020 |
Concern for the earth and biblical faith have had an uneasy relationship: ecological theologians have often cited biblical themes of dominion or "mastery" over the land as contributing to our present environmental crisis. Walker-Jones explores Psalm genres and important metaphors in the Psalms...
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation
| Author | Zoé Samudzi |
| ISBN | 1849353166 |
The Democratic Party and the church—two institutions that rest on their spotty legacies on behalf of the disenfranchised—cannot save us. Arguing that Blacks have always been considered non-citizens in the United States, Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative...
Prayers of Boundless Compassion
| Author | Joyce Rupp |
| ISBN | 1932057161 |
Compassion was the center of Jesus' ministry and his mission for his disciples—and for us. Bestselling and award-winning author and retreat leader Joyce Rupp gives you the words to develop compassion in yourself as never before and to reenergize your ability to offer loving kindness to those around...
