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Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery

10 best books like Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery (Richard Lischer): The Preaching Life, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery, This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers, God Laughs & Plays; Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People, Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir, Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx, Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family

The Preaching Life
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
In her bestselling preaching autobiography Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a preacher of the gospel as a priest in the Episcopal Church. In this warm and poignant collection, Barbara Brown Taylor’s humor and wisdom delve into the meaning of Christian symbols and history—both...
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
AuthorKathleen Norris
ISBN1594489963
Kathleen Norris’s masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.

Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself...
Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
AuthorKaren Armstrong
ISBN0312340958
Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on a revelatory adventure that begins with Armstrong's decision in the course of her spiritual training offers a fascinating view into a shrouded...
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...
God Laughs & Plays; Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
AuthorDavid James Duncan
ISBN0977717011
A national bestseller and winner of the PNBA Book Award and Pushcart Prize, God Laughs & Plays is David James Duncan s (The River Why, The Brothers K) profound, original, and exhilarating tour de force.

In this multiple award-winning and bestselling diagnosis of the contemporary American...
Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master
AuthorIrina Tweedie
ISBN0963457454
A friend lent me this book the past week. Sometimes with spiritual books I like to just open them up to a random page and see if the book speaks to me. That’s what I did with this book the past week.

There are so many beautiful paths in the world, and this book reminds me of the commonalities between...
Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People
AuthorDorothy C. Bass
ISBN0787938831
Many Christians are looking for ways to deepen their relationship with God by practicing their faith in everyday life. Some go on retreats but are often disappointed to find that the integrated life they experienced in a place apart is difficult to recreate in their day-to-day world. Many thoughtful,...
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,...
Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx
AuthorHeidi B. Neumark
ISBN0807072575
Breathing Space is the story of Heidi Neumark and the Hispanic and African-American Lutheran church-Transfiguration-that took a chance calling on a pastor from a starkly different background. Despite living and working in a milieu of overwhelming poverty and violence, Neumark and the congregation...
Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family
AuthorKatherine Willis Pershey
ISBN0827200293
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,...
City of God: Faith in the Streets
AuthorSara Miles
Paradise is a garden...but heaven is a city. From the acclaimed author of Take This Bread and Jesus Freak comes a powerful new account of venturing beyond the borders of religion into the unpredictable territory of faith. On Ash Wednesday, 2012, Sara Miles and her friends left their church buildings...
Accompany Them with Singing: The Christian Funeral
AuthorThomas G. Long
ISBN0664233198
Thomas Long begins this fascinating volume by describing how the Christian funeral developed historically, theologically, and liturgically, and then discusses recent cultural trends in funeral practices, including the rise in both cremations and memorial services. He describes the basic pattern...
Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
AuthorFrederick Buechner
ISBN0060611820
Of the three memoirs that Buechner wrote, this was probably my least favorite. I can’t bring myself to give this book less than 4 star. There are some hidden wisdom-gems that spoke especially to my life right now. Buechner writes of his middle life and college teaching career. He compares and contrasts...
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
AuthorReinhold Niebuhr
ISBN0664251641
Renowned theologian Reinhold Niebuhr began his career as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, Michigan, where he served from 1915-1928. Leaves From the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic is Niebuhr's account of the frustrations and joys he experienced during his years at Bethel. Addressed to young...
The Boy Who Saw True: The Time-Honoured Classic of the Paranormal
AuthorCyril Scott
ISBN1844131505
He asked me if I believed in ghosts.
And I said, yes.
Then he wanted to know if I'd ever seen one, and I said, lots.
'Weren't you afraid?'
'Not when they're nice ghosts,' said I, 'but I don't like nasty ones ...'

'The Boy Who Saw True differs from all the hundreds of books I have read...
Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible
AuthorM. Daniel Carroll R.
Immigration is one of the most pressing issues on the national agenda. This accessible book provides biblical and ethical guidance for readers who are looking for a Christian perspective on the immigration issue. As both a Guatemalan and an American, the author has immersed himself in this issue and...
My Guru And His Disciple
AuthorChristopher Isherwood
ISBN0816638640
"My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood’s spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness...
A Royal "Waste" of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World
AuthorMarva J. Dawn
Following up on her best selling Reaching Out without Dumbing Down, Marva Dawn offers biblically grounded, experience-based insights to help churches navigate beyond today's destructive worship wars and to stimulate renewal in the worship and life of congregations.

The first major section...
Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament
AuthorEllen F. Davis
ISBN1561011975
"This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God--what it takes, what it costs, what it looks and feels like, why anyone would want to do it anyway. It is at the same time a book about reading the Old Testament as a source of Good News and guidance for our life with God. The key piece of Good News...
The Leader's Journey: Answering the Call to Personal and Congregational Transformation
AuthorJim Herrington
Many books describe elements of church leadership-- what it is and how to do it-- but very few focus on the process of personal transformation that is central to being able to lead well. The Leader's Journey provides a blueprint and the practical tools needed to transform the lives of pastors and congregational...
The Nature of Doctrine
AuthorGeorge A. Lindbeck
ISBN0664246184
This was a pretty heavy book. Not literally heavy, as its only 120 pages. It was a slow-going and challenging read. And it has been very influential in theology for the last few decades. Lindbeck puts forth a "post-liberal" view of theology. He discusses two different approaches to theology. First is...
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