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Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

10 best books like Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (Barbara Brown Taylor): Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, The Irrational Season, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith, Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion, The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days, Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community, This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
AuthorKathleen Norris
ISBN1573227218
Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment," "faith," "dogma," "salvation," "sinner"—even "Christ"—formed what she called her "scary vocabulary,"...
The Irrational Season
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
ISBN0866839461
This is the third Crosswick Journal. It is a walk of thoughts through the church year. It some ways it is a departure from the first two, more abstract, not quite as personal, but in other ways it is very, very personal. The book is scattered with Madeleine's poems. At times reading someone's own poetry...
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
AuthorNadia Bolz-Weber
ISBN1455527084
Foul-mouthed and heavily tattooed, former standup comic-turned-Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber weaves hilarious rants and stunning theological insight into her personal narrative of a flawed, beautiful, and unlikely life of faith.

Bizarre, rich, and remarkable, PASTRIX turns spiritual...
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...
The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith
AuthorMarcus J. Borg
In The Heart of Christianity, world-renowned Jesus scholar and author of the bestseller Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time argues that the essential ingredients of a Christian life—faith, being born again, the kingdom of God, the gospel of love—are as vitally important today as they have...
Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace
AuthorNora Gallagher
ISBN0375705635
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...
Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
AuthorSara Miles
ISBN0345486927
I didn't necessarily "enjoy" reading this book while I was actually reading it. I felt uncomfortable and challenged, not by the language but by some of the opinions and views. This author and I couldn't be more different, and I'm sure she'd strongly disapprove of my LDS religion (even the liberal wing...
The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
AuthorFrederick Buechner
ISBN0060611839
This was insightful, uncommonly honest, and beautiful. I couldn't put the book down, but had to, twice, before finishing the mere 112 pages (3 chapters called "Once Below a Time, Once Upon a Time, and Beyond Time").
I will not share any of the story, so as not to ruin any of it for future readers; however,...
Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community
AuthorEnuma Okoro
ISBN1935205102
If you sometimes feel lost on your spiritual journey, you'll find a trustworthy companion in Enuma Okoro, a purse shopping, tea-drinking, colon-cleansing, shaky follower of Jesus who just wants to find a godly man with good hair. But after her father's unexpected death, her grief seems to morph into...
This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers
AuthorLillian Daniel
ISBN0802864759
This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from most books available on ministry. Two people still pastoring reflect honestly here on both the joys and the challenges of their vocation. Anecdotal and extremely readable, the book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible...
Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery
AuthorRichard Lischer
ISBN0767907442
In the tradition of Garrison Keillor, Open Secrets captures the friendships, rivalries, and rumors of small-town life by chronicling the lives of the citizens of a small Midwestern community through the eyes of a young minister.

Fresh out of divinity school and bursting with enthusiasm,...
Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today
AuthorJoan D. Chittister
ISBN0060613998
I need this type of books so badly. I am reading it slowly taking it all in. Today I am up to page 20 since English is my second language. I kept saying, yes, yes, to almost everything she said. Here are some things I liked in her book:

-The spirituality we develop affects the way we image God.

-The...
Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
AuthorLauren F. Winner
ISBN0061768111
Following up her highly acclaimed Girl Meets God, author Lauren F. Winner has written an engrossing reflection of literary grace and spiritual wisdom with Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis.

As she lives through a failed marriage and the loss of her mother, Winner finds her Christian faith...
Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening
AuthorDiana Butler Bass
ISBN0062003739
Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary...
The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief
AuthorPeter Rollins
ISBN1557255601
"About 30 years ago, I came across the evocative phrase 'religionless Christianity' in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's later writings, and it has stayed with me ever since. In his new book The Fidelity of Betrayal, Peter Rollins has teased out - as Bonhoeffer never had the chance to do - profound possibilities...
Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical
AuthorHannah Faith Notess
ISBN1606085417
Evangelicals are supposed to be experts at telling their story. From an early age you are expected to have a testimony, a story of how God saved you from a life of sin and sadness and gave you a new life of joy and gladness. What happens if you don't have such a testimony? What if your story just doesn't fit the...
Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir
AuthorStanley Hauerwas
ISBN0802864872
A loving, hard-working, godly couple has long been denied a family of their own. Finally, the wife makes a deal with God: if he blesses her with a child, she will dedicate that child to God’s service. The result of that prayer was the birth of an influential -- some say prophetic -- voice. Surprisingly,...
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