Speaking of Sin
10 best books like Speaking of Sin (Barbara Brown Taylor): The Heiress Effect, A Mercy, Thunderstruck, Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía, Trade Me, The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Italian: Recipes from the New and Old Worlds, Simplified for the American Kitchen, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Aspects of the Novel, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook
| Author | Courtney Milan |
| ISBN | 1937248151 |
Miss Jane Fairfield can’t do anything right. When she’s in company, she always says the wrong thing—and rather too much of it. No matter how costly they are, her gowns fall on the unfortunate side of fashion. Even her immense dowry can’t save her from being an object of derision.
And...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0307264238 |
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic...
| Author | Erik Larson |
| ISBN | 1400080665 |
The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time - Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication.
A true story of love, murder, and the...
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía
| Author | Chris Stewart |
| ISBN | 0953522709 |
No sooner had Chris Stewart set eyes on El Valero than he handed over a check. Now all he had to do was explain to Ana, his wife, that they were the proud owners of an isolated sheep farm in the Alpujarra Mountains in Southern Spain. That was the easy part.
Lush with olive, lemon, and almond groves,...
Listening length: 7 hours, 45 minutes
Tina Chen just wants a degree and a job, so her parents never have to worry about making rent again. She has no time for Blake Reynolds, the sexy billionaire who stands to inherit Cyclone Technology. But when he makes an off-hand comment about what it means...
The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Italian: Recipes from the New and Old Worlds, Simplified for the American Kitchen
| Author | Jeff Smith |
| ISBN | 0688075916 |
This is a great, simple cookbook of basic pasta and antipasto dishes that won't break the bank. I would recommend it for the average Joe pasta fanatic. If you are living on a budget, as most of us are, it's kind of nice to have an everyday kind of cookbook that enables one to dine with tasty food but not expensive....
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...
| Author | E.M. Forster |
| ISBN | 0156091801 |
E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Oliver Stallybrass, and features a new preface...
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
| Author | Tish Harrison Warren |
| ISBN | 0830846239 |
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present to us in surprising ways through our everyday routines. Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices and habits that form us. Each chapter looks...
Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook
The long-awaited memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant.
When Alice Waters opened the doors of her "little French restaurant"...
New Seeds of Contemplation
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0811217248 |
New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, while others have...
| Author | Jean Vanier |
| ISBN | 0809139006 |
Jean Vanier, a man I thoroughly respect, the founder of L'Arch, a community for the intellectually disabled. Such a thought-provoking book. I could not possibly say enough about it.
Some quotes to give you a feel for Vanier's perspective on humanity:
"I also believe that those we most...
| Author | Martin Laird |
| ISBN | 0195307607 |
Sitting in stillness, the practice of meditation, and the cultivation of awareness are commonly thought to be the preserves of Hindus and Buddhists. Martin Laird shows that the Christian tradition of contemplation has its own refined teachings on using a prayer word to focus the mind, working with...
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...
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
| Author | LaTasha Morrison |
| ISBN | 0525652884 |
A leading advocate for racial reconciliation offers a clarion call for Christians to move toward relationship and deeper understanding in the midst of a divisive culture.
With racial tensions as high within the church as outside the church, it is time for Christians to become the leaders...
| Author | Jeff Littlejohn |
| ISBN | 0738571334 |
Huntsville is one of the oldest and most revered cities in the Lone Star State. Founded in the mid-1830s as Texans won their independence from Mexico, Huntsville became the home of Sam Houston--the first president of the Republic of Texas and later governor of the state. Nestled among the lakes and trees...
| Author | Richard Surman |
| ISBN | 0007235631 |
This appealing little book forms a group portrait of some of the most privileged cats in Britain that make their home in and around the grandeur of Britain's cathedrals. There is hardly a door or window that is closed to them—they have the run of roofs and vaults, nooks and crannies, cloisters...
The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for a Third-Culture Church
| Author | Dave Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0310276020 |
Our world is marked by unprecedented degrees of multiculturalism, ethnic diversity, social shifts, international collaboration, and technology-driven changes. The changes are profound, especially when you consider the unchecked decline in the influence, size, and social standing of the church....
