Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?

10 best books like Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said? (Shane Claiborne): To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Interrupted: An Adventure in Relearning the Essentials of Faith, The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers, The Last Word and the Word After That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity, The Furious Longing of God, Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human., Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just, Still Evangelical? Ten Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning

To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

Author	Cris Beam
ISBN	0547999534

"Beam presents both a sharp critique of foster-care policies and a searching exploration of the meaning of family."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in...

Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

Author	Rachel Held Evans
ISBN	0310293995

Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.

In Faith Unraveled, Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obsessed...

Shameless: A Sexual Reformation

Author

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
 
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...

Interrupted: An Adventure in Relearning the Essentials of Faith

Author	Jen Hatmaker
ISBN	1600062172

Not that impressed. The last chapter was the best (although it got a little repetitive) - I absolutely agree that Christians must learn to reach their particular culture and become all things to all people. I also agree that American Christians (including myself) are way too consumeristic...

The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers

Author

Jennifer Serravallo

With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?" Now there is.

"Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible,"...

The Last Word and the Word After That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity

Author	Brian D. McLaren
ISBN	0787975923

For all those seeking more authentic ways to hold and practice Christian faith, Brian McLaren has been an inspiring, compassionate--and provocative--voice. Starting with the award-winning A New Kind of Christian, McLaren offered a lively, wide-ranging fictional conversation between Pastor...

The Furious Longing of God

Author	Brennan Manning
ISBN	1434767507

Imagine a stormy day at sea, your ship yielding to a relentless wind, pummeled by crashing waves, subject to the awesome force of nature. A force that is both fierce and majestic. A power that is nothing short of furious.


Such is God's intense, consuming love for His children. It's a love...

Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.

Author	John Mark Comer
ISBN	0310337313

You’ve heard people say “Who you are matters more than what you do”. Does the Bible really teach that? 

In Garden City, popular pastor and speaker John Mark Comer gives a fresh take on our calling and our purpose, with a surprisingly counter-culture take. Through his creative and...

Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just

Author	Timothy J. Keller
ISBN	0525951903

Author of the New York Times bestseller The Reason for God and nationally renowned pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church Timothy Keller with his most provocative and illuminating message yet.

It is commonly thought in secular society that the Bible is one of the greatest hindrances to doing...

Still Evangelical? Ten Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning

Author

Mark Labberton

Evangelicalism in America has cracked, split on the shoals of the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, leaving many wondering if they want to be in or out of the evangelical tribe. The contentiousness brought to the fore surrounds what it means to affirm and demonstrate evangelical Christian...

The Fall of the House of Usher (graphic novel)

Author	Matthew K. Manning
ISBN	1434230244

Beautiful work for an awesome tale

Poe's narrative is so genius that even though some scenes may look like Standards from so many films and books that were inspired by his works, his texts are creepy and once we focus on reading and meditate on the scenes, they become a beauty sublime.

Usher's...

The Means

Author	Douglas Brunt
ISBN	1476772576

Part Primary Colors, part All The King's Men, The Means follows two complicated presidential candidates--and the equally ambitious rising-star journalist who is learning what it takes to get the story right.

Tom Pauley is a respected trial attorney in Durham, North Carolina, who is tapped...

Girls with Swords: Why Women Need to Fight Spiritual Battles

Author	Lisa Bevere
ISBN	0307457818

What if you discovered you have been entrusted with an invisible, invincible, and incorruptible weapon? Would you use it?  Move beyond only study and begin to wield the Word of God!
   
“If you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one!”
—Jesus
 
If there ever was...

The Dinner Party

Author

Mona Gardner

This story starts out sounding really dated and sexist, with an argument about whether women can stay calm in a crisis, or if flipping out is something that's hardwired into them. By the end of this very short story, however, it becomes clear that it's a little bit of a feminist piece.

Oh, and if...

The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus

Author	Dallas Willard
ISBN	0062114085

When called upon to explain their faith, Christians do not always feel equipped to do so—particularly when some of the most difficult questions arise. In The Allure of Gentleness, esteemed teacher and author Dallas Willard not only assures us of the truth and reasonableness of the Christian faith,...

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel

Author	Ransom Riggs
ISBN	0316245283

When Jacob Portman was a boy, his grandfather regaled him with stories of his fantastic life at Miss Peregrine's home during the Second World War, even sharing photos of the remarkable children with whom he resided. As Jacob grew up, though, he decided that these photos were obvious fakes, simple forgeries...

The Burnout Generation

Author

Anne Helen Petersen

In January 2019, culture writer Anne Helen Petersen set the internet on fire with her viral BuzzFeed essay diagnosing "millennial burnout" - a chronic state of stress and exhaustion that's become a "base temperature" for young people today. Now, she continues this generation-defining conversation...