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10 best books like Gospel Medicine (Barbara Brown Taylor): Chances Are..., What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Chances Are...
AuthorRichard Russo
ISBN1101947748
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship

One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
AuthorRob Bell
ISBN0062194283
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...
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
AuthorJon Meacham
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.

Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us...
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
AuthorRachel Held Evans
ISBN0310293995
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.

In Faith Unraveled, Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obsessed...
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
AuthorRachel Held Evans
ISBN0718022319
 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...
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
AuthorKate Bowler
ISBN0399592067
A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty.

Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying,...
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
AuthorAnne Lamott
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything

Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life

Readers of all ages have followed...
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
AuthorRichard Rohr
ISBN1524762091
Richard Rohr, one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, delivers his long-awaited book on Jesus. In this radical message of hope, Rohr shows how "Jesus" + "Christ" reveal the divine wholeness at the heart of things--and what that means for every one of us.

In his decades as a globally...
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
AuthorBrian Zahnd
ISBN1601429517
Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love?
In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, - Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both...
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
AuthorRob Bell
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions--so...
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces That Keep Us Apart
AuthorChristena Cleveland
ISBN0830844031
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...
Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family
AuthorKatherine Willis Pershey
ISBN0827200293
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the minister with the baby carriage. In this collection of interrelated personal essays, Katherine Willis Pershey chronicles the story of her life as a young pastor, mother, and wife. At turns hilarious and harrowing, deeply moving and gently instructive,...
Just a Sister Away: Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible
AuthorRenita J. Weems
ISBN0446578940
The "Essence" bestselling author of "Listening for God" reveals the timeless connection between today's women and their biblical sisters—and how to live a better life because of it..
The Orthodox Heretic And Other Impossible Tales
AuthorPeter Rollins
ISBN1557256349
Rollins has already established himself as a major voice and an astute, generative force within the emergence Christianity. The Orthodox Heretic is his most accessible and engaging work to date." - Phyllis TickleIn this bold new book Peter Rollins presents a vision of faith that has little regard...
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
AuthorAnthony Harkins
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion...
Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home
AuthorTraci Smith
ISBN0827211228
A new and expanded version of Seamless Faith, now with more than a dozen new spiritual practices and additional resources for parents, kids, grandparents, and communities that care about families! Add family faith moments to your daily routine with little or no prep, and share meaningful spiritual...
Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation
AuthorAlice Connor
Women in the Bible—some of their names we know, others we've only heard, and others are tragically unnamed. Pastor and provocateur Alice Connor introduces these women and invites us to see them not as players in a man's story—as victims or tempters—nor as morality archetypes, teaching us to...
Chasing The Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
AuthorSamantha Power
ISBN0713998415
"Hey Girl. What you readin? Why you cryin?" says the man sitting on the hood of his car to me.
"Just a book about the UN," I say as I walk briskly home.

When this book started, I could not control my eye-rolls. I have read a few books about aggrandized heroes who often forget that their being male...
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