My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
10 best books like My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith (Benyamin Cohen): The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University, A Year Without Made in China: One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back, The Jew in the Lotus, Once Upon a Flock: Life with My Soulful Chickens, The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture, In the Land of Believers: An Outsider's Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church, Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community, Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith
As a sophomore at Brown University, Kevin Roose didn't have much contact with the Religious Right. Raised in a secular home by staunchly liberal parents, he fit right in with Brown's sweatshop-protesting, fair-trade coffee-drinking, God-ambivalent student body. So when he had a chance encounter...
| Author | Sara Bongiorni |
| ISBN | 0470116137 |
A Year Without "Made in China" provides you with a thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining account of how the most populous nation on Earth influences almost every aspect of our daily lives. Drawing on her years as an award-winning journalist, author Sara Bongiorni fills this book with engaging...
| Author | Frank Schaeffer |
| ISBN | 0786718919 |
Frank Schaeffer grew up in Switzerland's L'Abri, an idealistic community founded by his parents, the American evangelicals Francis and Edith Schaeffer. By the time he was 19, his parents had achieved global fame as best-selling authors and speakers, l'Abri had become a mecca for spiritual seekers...
| Author | Rodger Kamenetz |
| ISBN | 0060645741 |
While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters Ram Dass and Richard Gere, and dialogues...
| Author | Lauren Scheuer |
| ISBN | 1451698704 |
This delightful memoir about life with a spirited, sometimes reckless flock of backyard chickens—inspired by the author’s popular blog, “Scratch and Peck”—includes color photographs and imaginative illustrations throughout.
When longtime illustrator and lover of power...
| Author | Amy-Jill Levine |
| ISBN | 0060789662 |
Country Western singer Kinky Friedman often performs a song entitled "They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore," and New Testament professor Amy–Jill Levine would agree. In fact, her career is dedicated to helping Christians and Jews understand the Jewishness of Jesus, thereby deepening the...
| Author | Daniel Radosh |
| ISBN | 0743297709 |
For the overly sensitive and easily offended, I feel I need to point out that this book does not make fun of Christianity and the majority of Christians. However, if you are the type of person who will buy a candle because it "smells like Jesus", be prepared to have the stuffing mocked out of you!
Well,...
| Author | Gina Welch |
| ISBN | 0805083375 |
An undercover exploration of the world of evangelicals, offering an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the faithful
Ever since evangelical Christians rose to national prominence, mainstream America has tracked their every move with a nervous eye. But in spite of this vigilance,...
| Author | Enuma Okoro |
| ISBN | 1935205102 |
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...
| Author | Suzanne Strempek Shea |
| ISBN | 0807072249 |
When Pope John Paul II died, Suzanne Strempek Shea, who had not been an active member of a church community for some years, recognized in his mourners a faith-filled passion that she longed to recapture in her own life. Shea, never one to do things in a conventional manner or by halves, set out on a pilgrimage...
| Author | Hannah Faith Notess |
| ISBN | 1606085417 |
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...
| Author | Matthew Paul Turner |
| ISBN | 1400074711 |
He spent his childhood trapped within the confines of countless bizarre, strict rules. And lived to tell about it.
In this first-hand account, author Matthew Paul Turner shares amusing–sometimes cringe-worthy–and poignant stories about growing up in a fundamentalist household,...
| Author | David Plotz |
| ISBN | 0061719951 |
At a time when wars are fought over scriptural interpretation, when the influence of religion on American politics has never been greater, when many Americans still believe in the Bible’s literal truth, it has never been more important to get to know the Bible. Good Book is what happens when a regular...
| Author | William Lobdell |
| ISBN | 0061626813 |
William Lobdell's journey of faith—and doubt—may be the most compelling spiritual memoir of our time. Lobdell became a born-again Christian in his late 20s when personal problems—including a failed marriage—drove him to his knees in prayer. As a newly minted evangelical, Lobdell—a...
| Author | Brett McCracken |
| ISBN | 0801072220 |
Insider twentysomething Christian journalist Brett McCracken has grown up in the evangelical Christian subculture and observed the recent shift away from the "stained glass and steeples" old guard of traditional Christianity to a more unorthodox, stylized 21st-century church. This change raises...
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 0340995459 |
Once again, McLaren has found a way to put words to experiences that one would never think of for the topic of a book. There have been experiences throughout my spiritual formation that I have consciously thought about and assessed without really being able to articulate out loud. Multiple times throughout...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 1561011428 |
As Barbara Brown Taylor reminds us, the Israelites received the bread of angels-- manna--as they made their way through the wilderness. So too is God made known to us in the simple things that sustain our lives. With humor and an eye for human stubbornness, Taylor points to just how much like the people...
| Author | Paula Fredriksen |
| ISBN | 0300084579 |
In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. A new introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on...
Novelist Rodi (Fag Hag, The Sugarman Bootlegs) launches a broadside against the depiction of Jane Austen as a “a woman’s writer…quaint and darling, doe-eyed and demure, parochial if not pastoral, and dizzily, swooningly romantic — the inventor and mother goddess of ‘chick lit.’”...
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0062082108 |
By presenting the New Testament books in the order they were written, bestselling Bible scholar Marcus Borg reveals how spiritually and politically radical the early Jesus movement began and how it slowly became domesticated. Evolution of the Word is an incredible value: not only are readers getting...
Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, Toby Keith, and Beef Jerky
| Author | John Moe |
| ISBN | 0060854014 |
We always hear how everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue. They're permanently conservative or irreversibly liberal. But are we all really that locked in to the left or the right? Is America still a place where it's possible to change someone's mind and get them to cross over to the other side...
Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, the Simpsons, and Other Pop Culture Icons
The term "apocalypse" usually evokes images of mass destruction-burning buildings and nuclear fallout, or even rapture and tribulation. Often, our attempts to interpret the imagery of the book of Revelation seem to carry us far away from our day-to-day existence.
David Dark challenges...
| Author | Martin Thielen |
| ISBN | 0664236839 |
Pastor and author Martin Thielen has compiled a list of ten things Christians need to believe--and ten things they don't--to be Christians. This lively and engaging book will be a help to seekers as well as a comfort to believers who may find themselves questioning some of the assumptions they grew up...
| Author | Michelle Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0393329763 |
Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com, has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an administration marked by cronyism, disregard for the...
