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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

10 best books like Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith (Anne Lamott): Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, Mudhouse Sabbath, 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, With Open Hands, Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

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,"...
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as...
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
ISBN0060872632
By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments...
Mudhouse Sabbath
AuthorLauren F. Winner
ISBN1557253447
In her groundbreaking book, Girl Meets God, Lauren Winner described her path from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity. Now, with characteristic wit, intellectual sharpness, and passion for authenticity, Winner illuminates eleven spiritual lessons that Judaism taught her. By reflecting deeply...
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,...
With Open Hands
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN1594710643
The quote that went into my bones and will never leave me:

Praying means giving up a false security, no longer looking for arguments which will protect you if you get pushed into a corner, no longer setting your hope on a couple of lighter moments which your life might still offer. Praying means...
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...
Speaking of Faith
AuthorKrista Tippett
ISBN0670038350
The host of public radio’s Speaking of Faith explores the role of faith in the world and in human life today Krista Tippett is the creator and host of public radio’s phenomenally popular program Speaking of Faith, a weekly conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. As a journalist...
Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky But Authentic Spiritual Memoir
AuthorSusan E. Isaacs
ISBN1599950626
Disillusioned, disenfranchised, and disinterested in anything churchy, Susan Isaacs knew of only one thing to do when she hit spiritual rock bottom at age 40. . . . She took God to couples counseling.

In this cuttingly poignant memoir, Susan Isaacs chronicles her rocky relationship with...
A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, fundamentalist/calvinist, anabaptist/anglican, incarnational, depressed-yet-hopeful, emergent, unfinished Christian
AuthorBrian D. McLaren
ISBN0310258030
Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, mystical/poetic, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, catholic, green, incarnational, depressed- yet hopeful, emergent, unfinished Christian....
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