Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth
10 best books like Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth (Fred Bahnson): The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time, The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture, Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us, Eat with Joy: Redeeming God's Gift of Food, Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace, 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, Stalking the Divine
| Author | Judith Shulevitz |
| ISBN | 1400062004 |
“Everyone curls up inside a Sabbath at some point or other. Religion need not be involved.”
The Sabbath is not just the holy day of rest. It’s also a utopian idea about a less pressured, more sociable, purer world. Where did this notion come from? Is there value in withdrawing from the world...
| Author | Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove |
| ISBN | 1557256233 |
Discussion around the bestseller The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher has led many people to want to know more about Benedictine principles.
In an age where we might email a friend in Africa, Skype a co-worker in Brazil, and teleconference with people in different time zones–all in one...
| Author | Christine D. Pohl |
| ISBN | 0802849857 |
“This book will focus on several practices that are basic to human life. IN families, communities, and congregations that are vibrant and sturdy, we notice certain patterns in relationships. We see folks making and keeping promise, living and speaking truthfully, expressing gratitude, and offering...
| Author | Rachel Marie Stone |
| ISBN | 0830836586 |
Food is the source of endless angst and anxiety. We struggle with obesity and eating disorders. Reports of agricultural horror stories give us worries about whether our food is healthy, nutritious or justly produced. It's hard to know if our food is really good for us or for society. Our relationship...
Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet
| Author | Jonathan Merritt |
| ISBN | 0446557250 |
In GREEN LIKE GOD, Jonathan Merritt gently and insightfully observes that the bible has a lot to say about environmental problems like unclean water, material waste, over consumption, air pollution, and global warming. In fact, Jonathan writes that in the book of Genesis, God went green and never...
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 1594489963 |
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...
| Author | Nora Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0375705635 |
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...
| 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 | Kristin Ohlson |
| ISBN | 0452286409 |
I picked up this book because I recently read an interesting essay written by Kristin Ohlson and thought I'd like to see what else she had written. (The essay, by the way, about memories in childhood, is here:
http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/wh... )
From the cover, I see that this...
| Author | MaryAnn McKibben Dana |
| ISBN | 0827235216 |
“Life felt like a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle with 600 pieces.” So writes MaryAnn McKibben Dana in the introduction of her book. As she considered her family’s frenetic suburban existence—a relentless list of work, errands, carpool, dishes, e-mail, bills, yardwork—she knew something had...
| Author | Kimberlee Conway Ireton |
The seasons tell a story. Are you listening? The church year is a uniquely Christian way of marking time. When Kimberlee Conway Ireton began to understand this, even the most ordinary incidents of her life began to resonate with the stories of Scripture. In this book, Kimberlee follows the structure...
| Author | Diana Butler Bass |
| ISBN | 0061448702 |
For too long, the history of Christianity has been told as the triumph of orthodox doctrine imposed through power and hierarchy. In A People's History of Christianity, historian and religion expert Diana Butler Bass reveals an alternate history that includes a deep social ethic and far-reaching...
| Author | Norman Wirzba |
| ISBN | 0521195500 |
This book provides a comprehensive theological framework for assessing eating's significance, employing a Trinitarian theological lens to evaluate food production and consumption practices as they are being worked out in today's industrial food systems. Norman Wirzba combines the tools of...
| Author | Miroslav Volf |
| ISBN | 1579106412 |
Since the rise of modern industrial society, work has come to pervade and rule the lives of men and women. Although there have been many popular books on the Christian understanding of work, this is the first scholarly effort to articulate a developed Protestant theology. Volf interprets work from...
| Author | Ellen F. Davis |
| ISBN | 0521732239 |
This book examines the theology and ethics of land use, especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, in light of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essays explore the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the care of arable land against the background of the geography,...
| Author | Mary Gordon |
| ISBN | 0375424571 |
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she had “invented...
The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
| Author | Jamie Arpin-Ricci |
| ISBN | 0830836357 |
Blessed are the poor in spirit . . .So begins the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' great message to everyone with ears to hear. St. Francis of Assisi heard its message and challenged the church and empire of his day by ordering his life around it--giving up his power, wealth and privileges; claiming the poor...
The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
| Author | Paul Sparks |
| ISBN | 0830841156 |
2015 Christianity Today Award of Merit (The Church/Pastoral Leadership)
2014 Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention
2014 Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
"When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood,...
Practicing the Way of Jesus: Life Together in the Kingdom of Love
| Author | Mark Scandrette |
| ISBN | 0830836349 |
Take a casual survey of how people practice their faith, and you might reasonably conclude that Jesus spent his life going door to door offering private lessons, complete with chalkboard and pop quizzes. We think about God in the comfort of our own minds, in isolation from one another; meanwhile the...
The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith
| Author | Walter Brueggemann |
| ISBN | 0800634624 |
The land was one of the most vibrant symbols for the people of ancient Israel. In the land-gift, promise, and challenge-was found the physical source of Israel's fertility and life, and a place for the gathering of the hopes of the covenant people. In this careful treatment, Walter Brueggemann follows...
Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land
| Author | David Mas Masumoto |
| ISBN | 1416599304 |
David Mas Masumoto works a family farm, growing organic peaches, nectarines, and grapes. When Mas’s father had a stroke on the fields of their 80-acre farm, Mas confronted life’s big questions: what do his and his father’s lives mean? What have they lived and worked for? “A fiercely tender...
The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
| Author | Leon R. Kass |
| ISBN | 0226425681 |
The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and taboos surrounding it, relate to universal and profound truths about the human animal and its deepest yearnings.
"Kass...
We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 1455514004 |
From critically acclaimed author Brian McLaren comes a brilliant retelling of the biblical story and a thrilling reintroduction to Christian faith.
This book offers everything you need to explore what a difference an honest, living, growing faith can make in our world today. It also puts...
