Lessons in Belonging from a Church-Going Commitment Phobe
10 best books like Lessons in Belonging from a Church-Going Commitment Phobe (Erin S. Lane): Inside Out & Back Again, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles, Arthur Writes a Story, Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, Cozy Minimalist Home: More Style, Less Stuff, The Eternal Current: How a Practice-Based Faith Can Save Us from Drowning, Mythical Me: Finding Freedom from Constant Comparison, Love Anyway: An Invitation Beyond a World that’s Scary as Hell
| Author | Thanhha Lai |
| ISBN | 0061962783 |
For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America,...
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
| Author | Kristin Neff |
| ISBN | 0061733512 |
From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more self-compassionate and achieve your dreams in life
The relentless pursuit of high self-esteem has become a virtual religion—and a tyrannical one at that. Our ultracompetitive culture tells...
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022122 |
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.
Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy,...
The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles
| Author | Michelle Cuevas |
| ISBN | 0803738684 |
The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles, who lives alone atop a hill, has a job of the utmost importance. It is his task to open any bottles found at sea and make sure that the messages are delivered. He loves his job, though he has always wished that, someday, one of the letters would be addressed to him. One day he opens...
| Author | Marc Brown |
| ISBN | 0316111643 |
In this book, Arthur writes a story. And as Arthur shows his story to friends and family, everyone gives him advice. And each time Arthur receives a bit of advice, he makes a change to his story. And in the end, his story doesn't look very much like his story anymore. This is a fabulous book to encourage students...
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
| Author | Ibtisam Barakat |
| ISBN | 0374357331 |
"When a war ends it does not go away," my mother says."It hides inside us . . . Just forget!"
But I do not want to do what Mother says . . . I want to remember.
In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ramallah during the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, Ibtisam Barakat captures what it is like to be...
Cozy Minimalist Home: More Style, Less Stuff
| Author | Myquillyn Smith |
| ISBN | 0310350913 |
More Style, Less Stuff
Cozy Minimalism isn’t about going without or achieving a particular new, modern style. Nope. It’s simply a mindset that helps you get whatever style YOU LOVE with the fewest possible items.
You want a warm, cozy, inviting home, without using more resources,...
The Eternal Current: How a Practice-Based Faith Can Save Us from Drowning
| Author | Aaron Niequist |
| ISBN | 0735291160 |
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...
Mythical Me: Finding Freedom from Constant Comparison
| Author | Richella Parham |
| ISBN | 1094031291 |
Do you ever find yourself stuck in the comparison trap?
Speaker and author Richella Parham knows what this feels like. "I couldn't break free from admiring one person's achievements, someone else's personality, another's skills, yet another's relationships. And don't get me started on...
Love Anyway: An Invitation Beyond a World that’s Scary as Hell
For all who are displaced. For all who are weary of the way things are. For all who long for a more beautiful world.
Preemptive Love founder Jeremy Courtney has seen the very worst of war. He's risked his life saving lives on the front lines. He's come face to face with ISIS, been targeted by...
Life-Giving Choices: 60 Days to What Matters Most
| Author | Lucinda Secrest McDowell |
| ISBN | 1563092794 |
Don't Settle for Good Enough. Reach for the Best! Embrace a life filled with peace and serenity.
Someone once told me, "Don't settle for the good when you can choose the best." And so began my lifelong quest for that which brings life, joy, and meaning. And the courage to choose it. Of course, I have...
I'll tell you why this one is special to me: I have no idea of the genders of the parent and child. The illustrations use a soft androgyny for both main characters, and I loved being free to imagine any genders I wished. And their skin tones are a light caramel, with tan curly hair, which rooms for a number of...
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0060564830 |
I'm not exactly sure how to evaluate this book. I found it in a library I was working in this week. Anita Lobel's art makes me very happy. I could spend hours perusing her illustrations. Others have written that it is as if Van Gogh painted the desert, and I agree. The text is very simple with three story lines...
On the Other Side of the Garden
| Author | Jairo Buitrago |
| ISBN | 1554989833 |
ISabel debe dejar atrás su ciudad y su familia e irse a vivir con su abuela. En este nuevo lugar no conoce a nadie, y pronto comenzará a echar de menos su antiguo hogar. Sin embargo, allí no estará sola: pronto, una lechuza, un sapo y un ratón se convertirán en sus nuevos amigos y confidentes, y gracias...
| Author | Rachel Bright |
| ISBN | 1408331594 |
This is such a great read! An inspiring book which could most certainly inspire so many children to face their fears and 'find their roar'. A little mouse is tired of being looked down upon and not being seen as tough enough, so wants to learn how to ROAR to be as big and scary as the lion. He seeks the help of...
| Author | Sarah Ashman |
| ISBN | 0972922504 |
The luminous garden scenes and playful language in this tale of late-blooming self-discovery tell the story of Holly Bloom, a girl who wants nothing more than to be a great gardener, but simply doesn’t seem to have the knack. Despite suggestions and support from her green-thumbed mom and siblings,...
| Author | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| ISBN | 0062570668 |
From Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. Poet Laureate and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize, and Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist Jan Spivey Gilchrist comes We Are Shining. Marking the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks, this powerful picture book is a celebration of the diversity...
The Berenstain Bears and the Big Question
| Author | Stan Berenstain |
| ISBN | 0679889612 |
The Big Question deserves a better answer.
For a book that's supposed to be about what God is, this book is very vague. But I guess that's the kind of answer you get when you ask that question.
Sister Bear is wondering what God is. They say Grace and stuff, but apparently the bears have never...
