Lion and Lamb: The Relentless Tenderness

10 best books like Lion and Lamb: The Relentless Tenderness (Brennan Manning): Perelandra, It Can't Happen Here, Butcher's Crossing, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir, Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas, Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible, Sanctuary, Destiny

Perelandra

Author	C.S. Lewis
ISBN	0007157169

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil...

It Can't Happen Here

Author

Sinclair Lewis

The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression when...

Butcher's Crossing

Author	John Williams
ISBN	1590171985

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.

It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up...

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Author

Jonathan Haidt

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, education, and our democracy.

The generation now coming of age has been taught three Great Untruths: their feelings are always right; they should avoid pain and discomfort; and they should look for...

There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir

Author	Casey Gerald
ISBN	0735214204

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." - Marlon James

"Staccato...

Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas

Author

Thomas Aquinas

Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, there s a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the...

Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society

Author

John Horvat

In times of crisis, we are forced to reexamine our ways and ponder our future. It is in this framework that we need to consider our present economic plight and the charting of our path forward.
In his penetrating analysis of contemporary society, author John Horvat focuses on the present crisis with...

The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

Author	Scot McKnight
ISBN	0310284880

"Why Can’t I Just Be a Christian?”

Parakeets make delightful pets. We cage them or clip their wings to keep them where we want them. Scot McKnight contends that many, conservatives and liberals alike, attempt the same thing with the Bible. We all try to tame it. McKnight’s The Blue Parakeet...

Sanctuary

Author

Matthew Mather

A new world arises from the ashes of the old...but the fight for survival has only begun.

In the Day of the Nomad, oceans flooded the continents, the earth split open and poured darkness into the skies. A mass extinction event as the Earth hadn't witnessed in more than two hundred and fifty million...

Destiny

Author

Matthew Mather

This book was honestly quite a bit of a letdown. Don't get me wrong, it was still fairly exciting and well-paced, but the resolve was honestly just terrible. There's not much worse than finishing a 4-book series and feeling like the ending was sloppy, that it was built up to for a long time and amounted to...

Resistance

Author

Matthew Mather

The fight for the future of humanity begins...
Jessica Rollins has made it to safety inside the Sanctuary system with the help of Ufuk Erdogmus, but is her mysterious savior really who he says he is? What secrets does he hide? And how is he connected to Dr. Muller? 
Jess doesn't have much time...

Fatherless

Author

David C. Riggins

Fatherless is a heartbreaking tale of a young man dealing with the pain of abandonment, finding true love and meeting the tragedy of his ultimate fate.
Abandoned by his father, Danny Braverman struggles to find his way through the confusion of adolescence and developing sexuality. Danny...

St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America's Most Popular Saint

Author

Patricia Appelbaum

How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America? Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embraced as the patron saint of animals, beneficently presiding over hundreds of Blessing of the Animals services on October 4, St. Francis's Catholic feast...

Morning and Evening Prayers for All Days of the Week Together With Confessional, Communion, and Other Prayers and Hymns for Mornings and Evenings, and Other Occasions

Author

Johann Habermann

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Mark Twain: The Complete Novels

Author

Mark Twain

This book contains the complete novels of Mark Twain:

- The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Prince and the Pauper
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The American Claimant
- Tom Sawyer Abroad
-...

Wasteland to Pureland: Reflections on the Path to Awakening

Author	Doug Duncan
ISBN	0998588636

Spiritual awakening goes by many names. It's been referred to as enlightenment, the search for the Holy Grail, the Hero's Journey, Christ Consciousness and more. This experience is the focus of this book. But what does this mean in the 21st Century? Once thought of as the domain of mystics and sages living...

The Winding Path of Transformation: Finding Yourself Between Glory and Humility

Author	Jeff Tacklind
ISBN	0830846506

Jeff Tacklind, pastor of Church by the Sea--a quirky, diverse congregation in Laguna Beach, California--knows from decades of ministry experience that sometimes effective leadership looks like standing in the middle of conflict, holding the tension.

In The Winding Path of Transformation,...

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success

Author	Amy Morin
ISBN	0062391542

Expanding on her viral post that has become an international phenomenon, a psychotherapist offers simple yet effective solutions for increasing mental strength and finding happiness and success in life.

As a licensed clinical social worker, college psychology instructor, and psychotherapist,...

Remembering

Author	Wendell Berry
ISBN	0865473315

Andy Catlett has lost his right hand in a corn picker along with his purpose. In the months following the accident he makes life hard for himself and everyone around him that cares for him--he just can't let the loss of his hand go and forgive himself for the one moment of thoughtlessness that led from his...

Prairie-Town Boy: Taken from Always the Young Strangers

Author	Carl Sandburg
ISBN	0156737000

Nowhere in this book does it actually say that the text is abridged, but since it is "for younger readers" I suspect it is.

Ignoring that, Carl's simple, straightforward language makes this little memoir an enjoyable read. He rarely reveals his emotions, but his story is interesting enough....