Speaking of Faith
10 best books like Speaking of Faith (Krista Tippett): Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality, Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People, Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening, Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith, The Art of Letting Go: Living the Wisdom of St. Francis, Die Freiheit, frei zu sein, A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation, Wer wir waren, Humanity, Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World
| Author | Barbara Bradley Hagerty |
| ISBN | 1594488770 |
From the award-winning NPR religion correspondent comes a fascinating investigation of how science is seeking to answer the question that has puzzled humanity for generations: Can science explain God?
Is spiritual experience real or a delusion? Are there realities that we can experience...
| Author | Dorothy C. Bass |
| ISBN | 0787938831 |
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,...
| Author | Diana Butler Bass |
| ISBN | 0062003739 |
Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary...
| Author | Nora Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0679775498 |
"Gracefully written and moving ... Things Seen and Unseen starts with Nora Gallagher entering the labyrinth of her life ... and ultimately it leads to the center of her being."--The Boston Globe
It started with an occasional Sunday, a "tourist's" visit to a local church. Eventually Nora Gallagher...
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1591797527 |
We often think of saints as rare individuals whose gifts far exceed our own, and St. Francis is no exception. But for Fr. Richard Rohr, a prolific author and renowned speaker, the life and teachings of this beloved figure offer an authentic spirituality we can all embody. On The Art of Letting Go,, Fr....
»Mein Thema heute, so fürchte ich, ist fast schon beschämend aktuell.«
Was ist Freiheit, und was bedeutet sie uns? Begreifen wir sie nur als die Abwesenheit von Furcht und von Zwängen, oder meint Freiheit
nicht vielmehr auch, sich an gesellschaftlichen Prozessen zu beteiligen,...
| Author | Diana L. Eck |
| ISBN | 0060621591 |
Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today
The 1990s saw the U.S. Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque.
There are presently more than three hundred temples in Los Angeles, home to the greatest variety...
| Author | Roger Willemsen |
| ISBN | 3103972857 |
Roger Willemsens letztes Buch sollte 'Wer wir waren' heißen. Es sollte die Versäumnisse der Gegenwart aus der Perspektive derjenigen erzählen, die nach uns leben werden. Dieses Buch werden wir nie lesen können. Umso stärker wirkt eine Rede, die Roger Willemsen noch im Juli 2015 gehalten hat:...
| Author | Ai Weiwei |
| ISBN | 0691181527 |
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a powerful documentary filmmaker. His work and art call attention to attacks on democracy and free...
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 1455513962 |
When four religious leaders walk across the road, it's not the beginning of a joke. It's the start of one of the most important conversations in today's world.
Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious...
Selected by Newsweek as one of “14 nonfiction books you’ll want to read this fall”
Fifty years after it first appeared, one of Noam Chomsky’s greatest essays will be published for the first time as a timely stand-alone book, with a new preface by the author
As a nineteen-year-old...
| Author | Robert D. Putnam |
| ISBN | 1416566716 |
American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America.
Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation's religious landscape has been reshaped.
America...
| Author | Jimmy Carter |
| ISBN | 1578562902 |
For Jimmy Carter, Holy Scripture has been a constant companion, a source of inspiration and strength in both good times and bad. A lifetime of devoted Bible reading has taught him that the truths of Scripture have the power to enrich and transform our daily lives in unexpected ways. Sources of Strength...
| Author | Peter J. Gomes |
| ISBN | 0060000732 |
Jesus came preaching, but the church wound up preaching Jesus. Why does the church insist upon making Jesus the object of its attention rather than heeding his message? Esteemed Harvard minister Peter J. Gomes believes that excessive focus on the Bible and doctrines about Jesus have led the Christian...
| Author | Huston Smith |
| ISBN | 0060671025 |
I picked this up off my uncle's shelf thinking that it would be some kind of fundamentalist Christian argument for why people should be Christian. But upon seeing that it was written by Huston Smith, I decided to check it out - and it's amazing! It's more about why what we commonly think of as spirituality...
| Author | Marshall B. Rosenberg |
| ISBN | 1892005123 |
The tenets of Nonviolent Communication are applied to a variety of settings, including the classroom and the home, in these booklets on how to resolve conflict peacefully. Illustrative exercises, sample stories, and role-playing activities offer the opportunity for self-evaluation, discovery,...
| Author | Christa Wolf |
| ISBN | 0374534292 |
The stunning final novel from East Germany’s most acclaimed writer
Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two...
Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0938077635 |
Love In Action is unique among the books of Thich Nhat Hanh that I have read. It is a collection of essays written between the time of the war in Vietnam and the book's publication in 1993. Many of the essays vary in character from one another, some very topical and, unlike most of Thay's writings that I have...
Frank Schaeffer has a problem with Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, Dennett, and the rest of the New Atheists—the self-anointed “Brights.” He also has a problem with the Rick Warrens and Tim LaHayes of the world. The problem is that he doesn’t see much of a difference between the two camps. As Schaeffer...
| Author | Eboo Patel |
| ISBN | 0807077267 |
With a new afterword"
Acts of Faith" is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States. Eboo Patel's story is a hopeful and moving testament to the power and passion of young people--and...
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0664234291 |
"There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ."
"No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian...
