From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World

10 best books like From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World (Norman Wirzba): Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Richard II, Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, Manifest Destiny, Vol. 2: Amphibia & Insecta, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, The Prophetic Imagination

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Author	Anne Lamott
ISBN	0385480016

"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...

Much Ado About Nothing

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743482751

Much Ado About Nothing, abridged.

CLAUDIO: So, um, Hero, I sorta maybe like you a whole lot will you go to the prom with me?

HERO: We should get married! Squeeeeeee!

BEATRICE: Pfft. Love is for stupid losers who are stupid.

BENEDICK: You know, you might get laid more...

Twelfth Night

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743482778

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

Onto...

As You Like It

Author

William Shakespeare

Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the...

Richard II

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0198320043

Tragedy of King Richard II , William Shakespeare
King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some...

Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna

Author	Chris Dingess
ISBN	1607069822

Did I just meet my new favorite graphic novel? Yes . . . I think I did!



Holy cow! Volume one of Manifest Destiny was so freaking entertaining I cannot wait for more. I gobbled this up faster than any graphic novel volume I can remember. If the future volumes are even half as entertaining,...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Author	Donald Miller
ISBN	0785263705

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0785263705 here.

"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened." ―Donald MillerIn Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely...

Manifest Destiny, Vol. 2: Amphibia & Insecta

Author	Chris Dingess
ISBN	1632150522

In the immortal words of the celebrated thespian, Keanu Reeves . . .

"Woah"



This series continues to impress with volume two. It is the perfect mix of historical fiction and sci-fi horror. It is suspenseful. It is funny. It is gruesome. A little part of me really wishes the exploration...

Shameless: A Sexual Reformation

Author

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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...

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...

Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces That Keep Us Apart

Author	Christena Cleveland
ISBN	0830844031

Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present. We cluster in theological groups, gender groups, age groups, ethnic groups, educational and economic groups. We criticize freely those who disagree with us, don't...

Faitheist: How An Atheist Found Common Ground With The Religious

Author	Chris Stedman
ISBN	0807014397

The stunning popularity of the "New Atheist" movement--whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens--speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists as well as their vehement disdain for religion. In Faitheist, Chris Stedman challenges the orthodoxies...

The Great Divorce

Author

C.S. Lewis

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3

C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that...