Just a Sister Away: Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible
10 best books like Just a Sister Away: Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible (Renita J. Weems): Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything, 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, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, 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, Gospel Medicine, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
| Author | Christopher Moore |
| ISBN | 0380813815 |
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely...
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...
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0310293995 |
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
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022319 |
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
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...
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
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
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1524762091 |
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
| Author | Brian Zahnd |
| ISBN | 1601429517 |
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...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
Gospel medicine is Barbara Taylor's metaphor for the healing power of God seen in the active and ongoing restoration of this broken world. In this new collection of sermons she practices the old-fashioned art of gospel home remedies like a true evangelist, summoning with piercing clarity and wit the...
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...
| 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...
| Author | Katherine Willis Pershey |
| ISBN | 0827200293 |
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,...
| Author | Delores S. Williams |
| ISBN | 1570750262 |
In this landmark work of emerging African American womanist theology, Delores Williams finds in the biblical figure of Hagar -- mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God -- a prototype for the struggle of African-American women. African slave, homeless exile,...
The Orthodox Heretic And Other Impossible Tales
| Author | Peter Rollins |
| ISBN | 1557256349 |
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...
Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home
| Author | Traci Smith |
| ISBN | 0827211228 |
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
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...
The Excellent Wife: A Biblical Perspective
| Author | Martha Peace |
| ISBN | 1885904088 |
Martha Peace, a nouthetic councelor of women, has written an Excellent Volume. Not only does it explain what God "requires" of a Christian wife, but it explaines clearly how to obey God's commandments in order to become that wife. Get it, read it and profit from it.""The Excellent Wife" is an absolute...
