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Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

10 best books like Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks (Diana Butler Bass): Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians, The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian, How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
ISBN0062406582
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
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...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
AuthorNadia 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...
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,...
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...
Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
AuthorAusten Hartke
ISBN0664263100
In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached “the transgender tipping point,” suggesting that transgender issues would become the next civil rights frontier. Years later, many people—even many LGBTQ allies—still lack understanding of gender identity and the transgender...
The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
AuthorBrian D. McLaren
ISBN1601427913
The Christian story, from Genesis until now, is fundamentally about people on the move—outgrowing old, broken religious systems and embracing new, more redemptive ways of life.

It’s time to move again.

Brian McLaren, a leading voice in contemporary religion, argues that—...
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News
AuthorPeter Enns
ISBN0062686747
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, and author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth by...
Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
AuthorSarah Bessey
ISBN1501155466
In her most personal book yet, popular speaker and bestselling author Sarah Bessey invites us into her long—and sometimes miraculous—road to recovery after a terrible accident and shares how it changed everything she believed about God.

Sarah Bessey was in her sweet spot: a popular...
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
AuthorAustin Channing Brown
ISBN1524760854
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.

Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future...
On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
AuthorParker J. Palmer
ISBN1523095431
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,...
Why Religion?: A Personal Story
AuthorElaine Pagels
ISBN0062368559
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
AuthorAnne Lamott
ISBN0525537449
From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives

"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott...
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
AuthorLenny Duncan
ISBN1506452566
Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make all the headlines, but Duncan sees something...
The Eternal Current: How a Practice-Based Faith Can Save Us from Drowning
AuthorAaron Niequist
ISBN0735291160
A call for Christians to move past the shallows of idealized beliefs and into a deeper, more vibrant, beatitude-like faith rooted in sacred practices and intimate experiences with God.

When the limits of his own faith experience left him feeling spiritually empty, Niequist determined...
How to Survive a Shipwreck: Help Is on the Way and Love Is Already Here
AuthorJonathan Martin
ISBN0310347971
Life is turbulent. On that, we can all agree. Disappointed dreams, broken relationships, identity crises, vocational hang-ups, wounds from the past—there are so many ways life can send us crashing up against the rocks.

In this deeply personal book, Jonathan Martin draws from his own stories...
Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory
AuthorTod Bolsinger
ISBN0830841261
Explorers Lewis and Clark had to adapt. While they had prepared to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean, instead they found themselves in the Rocky Mountains. You too may feel that you are leading in a cultural context you were not expecting. You may even feel that your training holds you back more often...
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