Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism
10 best books like Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism (Deborah Jian Lee): Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Jesus and the Disinherited, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...
What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
| Author | Rob Bell |
| ISBN | 0062194283 |
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep into the Bible to show how it is more revelatory, revolutionary, and relevant than we ever imagined—and offers a cogent argument for why we need to look at it in a fresh, new way.
In Love Wins, Rob Bell...
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0824525434 |
For Christians seeking a way of thinking outside of strict dualities, this guide explores methods for letting go of division and living in the present. Drawn from the Gospels, Jesus, Paul, and the great Christian contemplatives, this examination reveals how many of the hidden truths of Christianity...
| Author | Nadia Bolz-Weber |
| ISBN | 1455527084 |
Foul-mouthed and heavily tattooed, former standup comic-turned-Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber weaves hilarious rants and stunning theological insight into her personal narrative of a flawed, beautiful, and unlikely life of faith.
Bizarre, rich, and remarkable, PASTRIX turns spiritual...
| 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...
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022319 |
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible
If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
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...
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
| Author | Jemar Tisby |
| ISBN | 0310597269 |
In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on all Americans to view others not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Yet King included another powerful word, one that is often overlooked. Warning against the "tranquilizing...
Jesus and the Disinherited
| Author | Howard Thurman |
| ISBN | 0807010294 |
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900–81) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution...
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1476717575 |
Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences.
A freedom song for the church.
Sarah Bessey...
Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
| Author | Austen Hartke |
| ISBN | 0664263100 |
In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached “the transgender tipping point,” suggesting that transgender issues would become the next civil rights frontier. Years later, many people—even many LGBTQ allies—still lack understanding of gender identity and the transgender...
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
| Author | Brian Zahnd |
| ISBN | 1601429517 |
Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love?
In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, - Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both...
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022122 |
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.
Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy,...
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
| Author | Peter Enns |
| ISBN | 0062272020 |
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adam recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God’s Word.
Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion,...
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
| Author | Mike McHargue |
| ISBN | 1101906049 |
From the host of the popular podcasts, The Liturgists Podcast and Ask Science Mike, a story of having faith, losing it, and finding it again through science—revealing how the latest in neuroscience, physics, and biology help us understand God, faith, and ourselves.
What do you do when...
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News
| Author | Peter Enns |
| ISBN | 0062686747 |
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, and author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth by...
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
| Author | Austin Channing Brown |
| ISBN | 1524760854 |
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.
Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future...
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions--so...
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
| Author | Mark Wolynn |
| ISBN | 1101980362 |
A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in...
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate
| Author | Justin Lee |
| ISBN | 1455514314 |
As a teenager and young man, Justin Lee felt deeply torn. Nicknamed "God Boy" by his peers, he knew that he was called to a life in the evangelical Christian ministry. But Lee harbored a secret: He also knew that he was gay. In this groundbreaking book, Lee recalls the events--his coming out to his parents,...
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
| Author | Matthew Vines |
| ISBN | 1601425163 |
As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of most young people: to some-day share his life with someone, to build a family of his own, to give and receive love. But when he realized he was gay, those hopes were called into question. The Bible, he’d been taught, condemned gay...
Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide for Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self
| Author | Hannah Paasch |
| ISBN | 0062872397 |
Buckle up, folks. It’s time to jump in, embrace your inner self, and release the things that are holding you back from wholeness. Enter the Millenneagram.
The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system that has a sneaky way of revealing who we are and why we do the things we do. Using...
Messy Spirituality: God's Annoying Love for Imperfect People
| Author | Michael Yaconelli |
| ISBN | 0310235332 |
'I Guess I'm Not a Very Good Christian . . .'Do you feel like: I don't pray enoughI don't read my Bible enoughI don't share my faith enoughI don't love God enoughI'm not committed enoughI'm not spiritual enoughThen this book is for you. Messy Spiritualtiy was written for the silent majority of us who have...
The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen: Opening Your Eyes to Wonder
| Author | Lisa Gungor |
| ISBN | 0310350433 |
Lisa Gungor thought she knew her own story: small-town girl meets boy in college and they blissfully walk down the aisle into happily ever after. Their Christian faith was their lens and foundation for everything—their marriage, their music, their dreams for the future. But as their dreams began...
The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity
| Author | Soong-Chan Rah |
| ISBN | 0830833609 |
2010 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winnerThe future is now. Philip Jenkins has chronicled how the next Christendom has shifted away from the Western church toward the global South and East. Likewise, changing demographics mean that North American society will accelerate its diversity in terms...
| Author | Elizabeth Alexander |
| ISBN | 1455599875 |
In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose, Alexander tells a love story that is, itself, a story of loss. As she reflects on the beauty of her married life,...
| Author | David Bezmozgis |
| ISBN | 0316284335 |
These incandescent pages give us one momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and...
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
A transgender reporter's narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a senior Daily Beast reporter...
Roadmap to Reconciliation: Moving Communities Into Unity, Wholeness and Justice
| Author | Brenda Salter Mcneil |
| ISBN | 0830844422 |
Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2015We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up. But how, exactly, do we do this? How does one reconcile? What we need is a clear sense of direction. Based on her extensive consulting experience with churches, colleges...
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
| Author | E. Randolph Richards |
| ISBN | 0830837825 |
What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. For example:
When Western readers hear Paul exhorting women to "dress modestly,"...
