How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church
10 best books like How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church (Peter Rollins): Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, Searching for God Knows What, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, The Prophetic Imagination, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership, Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith, Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060628391 |
Richard J. Foster’s Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth is hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality with millions of copies sold since its original publication in 1978.
In Celebration of Discipline, Foster explores the "classic Disciplines,"...
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...
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0061551821 |
In Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, top-selling author and Anglican bishop, N.T. Wright tackles the biblical question of what happens after we die and shows how most Christians get it wrong. We do not “go to” heaven; we are resurrected and heaven...
Searching for God Knows What
| Author | Donald Miller |
| ISBN | 0785263713 |
In Searching for God Knows What, Donald Miller's provocative and funny book, he shows readers that the greatest desire of "every" person is the desire for redemption. Every person is constantly seeking redemption (or at least the feeling of it) in his or her life, believing countless gospels that promise...
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
| Author | Shane Claiborne |
| ISBN | 0310266300 |
Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we’ve made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne...
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...
In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0824512596 |
Henri Nouwen was a spiritual thinker with an unusual capacity to write about the life of Jesus and the love of God in ways that have inspired countless people to trust life more fully.
Most widely read among the over 40 books Father Nouwen wrote is In the Name of Jesus. For a society that measures...
| Author | Diana Butler Bass |
| ISBN | 0060836946 |
For decades the accepted wisdom has been that America's mainline Protestant churches are in decline, eclipsed by evangelical mega-churches. Church and religion expert Diana Butler Bass wondered if this was true, and this book is the result of her extensive, three-year study of centrist and progressive...
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 0061853984 |
“Some books provide us with information about the world, but every once in a while a book appears that enables us to imagine new, more wonderful worlds. [A New Kind of Christianity] is one of these.” —Peter Rollins, Ikon
A New Kind of Christianity is Brian D. McLaren’s much anticipated...
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
| Author | Mike McHargue |
| ISBN | 1101906049 |
From the host of the popular podcasts, The Liturgists Podcast and Ask Science Mike, a story of having faith, losing it, and finding it again through science—revealing how the latest in neuroscience, physics, and biology help us understand God, faith, and ourselves.
What do you do when...
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
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...
There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers.Jesus Wants to save Christians...
Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
In Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell frees us to consider God beyond the picture someone else painted for us in order to find an authentic understanding of the Christian faith. God doesn't have boundaries, and faith doesn't have to be limited to what someone else has told us. God is alive. Faith is alive. Velvet Elvis...
| Author | Phyllis A. Tickle |
| ISBN | 1596445750 |
From the church's birth to the reign of St. Gregory the great, to the Great Schism and through the Reformation, Phyllis Tickle notes that every 500 years the church has been rocked by massive transitions. Remarkably enough, Tickle suggests to us that we live in such a time right now. The Great Emergence...
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0830822577 |
As a society, we are no less obsessed with the immediate than when Eugene Peterson first wrote this Christian classic. If anything, email and the Internet may have intensified our quest for the quick fix. But Peterson's time-tested prescription for discipleship remains the same--a long obedience...
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 0785289364 |
How do the life and teachings of Jesus address the most critical global problems in our world today?
In "Everything Must Change, "you will accompany Brian around the world on a search for answers. Along the way you'll experience intrigue, alarm, challenge, insight, and hope. You'll get a fresh...
| Author | Jonathan Acuff |
| ISBN | 0310319943 |
Sometimes, we fall in love on mission trips even though we know we’ll break up when we get back. Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend’s prayer because she’s asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship. Sometimes, you think, “I wish I had a t-shirt that said ‘I direct deposit...
Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books - The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality - Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw...
