God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved
10 best books like God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved (Sue Monk Kidd): UnClobber, Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace, Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead, Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a Few Scoundrels, The Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things, Seeking Enlightenment... Hat by Hat: A Skeptic's Path to Religion, The Spirit of Food: Thirty-Four Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God, Hidden Inheritance: Family Secrets, Memory, and Faith, Sabbatical Journey: The Diary of His Final Year, Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas
Churches in America are experiencing an unprecedented fracturing due to their belief and attitude toward the LGBT community. Armed with only six passages in the Bible often known as the clobber passages the conservative Christian position has been one that stands against the full inclusion of our...
| Author | Nora Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0375705635 |
In the highly praised memoir Things Seen and Unseen, Nora Gallagher reflected on a year of spiritual renewal and the fact of mortality with uncommon wisdom and grace. We rejoin her in Practicing Resurrection as Gallagher searches for direction in the wake of her brother’s death. A desire to reclaim...
| Author | Sara Miles |
| ISBN | 0470481668 |
"I came late to Christianity," writes Sara Miles, "knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world."In this new book, Sara Miles tells...
| Author | Jennifer Grant |
| ISBN | 1455578827 |
An engaging and hilarious collection that encourages readers to tackle those strange, awkward, worrying, yet endlessly compelling passages of the Bible. The Bible is full of not-so-precious moments, from murder and mayhem, to sex and slavery. Now, an incredible cast of contributors tackles the...
| Author | Leighton Ford |
| ISBN | 0830835164 |
Your attention, please. That's what God wants, Leighton Ford discovered. It's the path to becoming like Christ. Distractions, fear and busyness were keeping Ford from seeing God's work in and around him. He was missing God. So he began a journey of longing and looking for God. And it started with paying...
| Author | Nevada Barr |
| ISBN | 0425196038 |
A refreshingly honest spiritual exploration from the New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon novels.
Actor, adventuress, seeker of truth, and author of the New York Times bestselling Anna Pigeon mystery series, Nevada Barr beckons readers to share her spiritual search for...
| 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 | Heidi B. Neumark |
| ISBN | 1630881244 |
A shocking discovery of hidden family secrets leads to profound revelations of faith.
Heidi Neumark’s life changed when a few computer keystrokes exposed a generation of family secrets. Late one night while her family slept, Neumark discovered her hidden Jewish heritage—and uncovered...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0824518780 |
“Maybe the time has come to let go of my prayer, my effort to be close to God, my way of being in communion with the Divine, and allow the Spirit of God to blow freely in me.” p. 6
A couple of weekends ago, I had a mini-retreat. There was no one else home and I wanted to spend some time with just one book....
Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, there s a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the...
| Author | Sara Maitland |
| ISBN | 1847080421 |
A Book of Silence
Sara Maitland (2008)
At first, I found myself totally immersed in this book – the need for silence, the difficulty in finding it, searching for it, gardening, reading, walking… the darker sides etc. A Book of Silence is full of very practical advice and examples of...
This book is meant to give someone in the process of making a life decision at any age—in early adulthood, at the point of middle-age change and later, when we find ourselves at the crossroads without a name—some ideas against which to pit their own minds, their own circumstances. Its purpose, as...
| Author | David Dark |
| ISBN | 0310286182 |
Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned? The freedom to question is an indispensable and sacred practice that is absolutely vital to the health of our communities.According to author David Dark, when religion won’t tolerate questions, objections, or differences of opinion, and when it only brings...
| Author | Tony Jones |
| ISBN | 0787994715 |
What the "Emergent Church Movement" is all about-and why it matters to the future of Christianity Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like. Writing "dispatches" about...
| Author | Adam Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0687649692 |
Everyone agrees that America is polarized, with ever-hardening positions held by people less and less willing to listen to one another. No one agrees on what to do about it.
One solution that hasn't yet been tried, says Adam Hamilton, is for thinking persons of faith to model for the rest of the...
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060836970 |
Too often, our study of the Bible focuses on searching for specific information or some formula that will solve our pressing needs of the moment. But what if we approached the Bible differently, and instead of transforming the text to meet our needs, allowed it to transform us?
That's exactly...
| Author | Diana Butler Bass |
| ISBN | 0062328549 |
The headlines are clear: religion is on the decline in America as many people leave behind traditional religious practices. Diana Butler Bass, leading commentator on religion, politics, and culture, follows up her acclaimed book Christianity After Religion by arguing that what appears to be a decline...
| Author | Josh Packard |
| ISBN | 1470725924 |
As millions of church members fall into inactivity each year, they've probably also started skipping church on Sunday.
We need answers—not statistics. We need to understand and hear from people who are leaving church so we can find a way to turn around the trend.
This book uses...
Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics
| Author | Jonathan Dudley |
| ISBN | 0385525265 |
Abortion. Homosexuality. Environmentalism. Evolution. Conservative positions on these topics are the current boundaries of mainstream Evangelical Christianity. But what if the theological arguments given by popular leaders on these “big four” were not quite as clear cut as they claim?...
| Author | Deborah Jian Lee |
| ISBN | 0807033472 |
An inside look at the young, diverse, progressive Christians who are transforming the evangelical movement
Most of what we think we know about evangelicals is wrong, or is well on its way to being outdated. Generational changes and the shifting racial make-up of evangelical Christians...
| Author | Mitri Raheb |
| ISBN | 1626980659 |
Growing up in conservative Christian culture, it was taken for granted that we (individuals, Christians, America) need to support Israel. The creation of Israel was a miracle, a herald of the end-times. Israel remains God's chosen people. Any who attack Israel are attacking God and will be punished.
Over...
I started exploring Christianity a few months ago, and have come to this book still very much a newbie. The writing is incredible - Buechner writes with a wonderful fire and passion, which can be hugely inspiring, but sometimes had me hitting back "No, no, no!" He starts each of these sermons with an extract...
