Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith
10 best books like Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith (Suzanne Strempek Shea): Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life, The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time, Eat with Joy: Redeeming God's Gift of Food, The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet, Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community, My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith, My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus, A Woman's Path: Women's Best Spiritual Travel Writing
| Author | Susana Herrera |
| ISBN | 1570625727 |
When the Peace Corps sends Susana Herrera to teach English in Northern Cameroon, she yearns to embrace her adopted village and its people, to drink deep from the spirit of Mother Africa—and to forget a bitter childhood and painful past. To the villagers, however, she's a rich American tourist, a nasara...
A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
| Author | Jared Brock |
| ISBN | 1414392133 |
Is Anyone Listening? Do My Prayers Really Change Anything?
Jared Brock sensed that something was missing in his prayer life, so he embarked on a yearlong journey to rediscover the power of prayer (and eat some delicious falafel).
FOLLOW JARED ON A 37,000-MILE TRIP AROUND THE WORLD...
| 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 | 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...
| Author | Amy-Jill Levine |
| ISBN | 0195297709 |
Although major New Testament figures--Jesus and Paul, Peter and James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene--were Jews, living in a culture steeped in Jewish history, beliefs, and practices, there has never been an edition of the New Testament that addresses its Jewish background and the culture...
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 | 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 | Benyamin Cohen |
| ISBN | 0061245178 |
One day a Georgia-born son of an Orthodox rabbi discovers that his enthusiasm for Judaism is flagging. He observes the Sabbath, he goes to synagogue, and he even flies to New York on weekends for a series of "speed dates" with nice, eligible Jewish girls. But, something is missing. Looking out of his window...
| Author | Kelly Barth |
| ISBN | 0980040752 |
Kelly Barth, like many American kids, went to Sunday school, sang songs about Zaccheas, and was tucked in with bedtime prayers. A typical Christian kid, that is, until she developed a searingly deep crush on another little girl playing afterhours in church, and more importantly, until Jesus—a tiny,...
| Author | Lucy McCauley |
| ISBN | 1932361006 |
A Woman’s Path presents inspiring stories of spiritual growth and awakening, written by some of the world’s finest women writers. From New Mexico to Niger, Israel to Ireland, India to Chechnya, the wide range of stories in this enthralling collection touch on common themes—letting go, opening...
| Author | Judith Viorst |
| ISBN | 1416550054 |
Whatever became of Alexander after that famously bad day? And did you know that Judith Viorst is his mother? And what happens to her passion for household neatness and orderliness, her deep devotion to schedules, her compulsive yearning to offer helpful advice when Alexander -- now grown up, married,...
| Author | Michael Schut |
| ISBN | 1889108626 |
Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective is a rich collection of voices that bring clarity to the confusion between our society's ideal of the material "good life" with the "abundant life, " modeled after the person of Jesus, the things he taught, and the way he lived. It invites...
| 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 | 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...
| Author | Brad Newsham |
| ISBN | 0553814486 |
'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.'
Brad Newsham was a twenty-two-year-old travelling through Afghanistan when he wrote this in his journal. Fourteen years later, he's a Yellow Taxi driver working in San Francisco. He's not rich, but...
The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition
| Author | Huston Smith |
| ISBN | 0060858354 |
"I have tried to describe a Christianity which is fully compatible with everything we now know, and to indicate why Christians feel privileged to give their lives to it."
—Huston Smith
In his most personal and passionate book on the spiritual life, renowned author, scholar, and teacher...
Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning
| Author | Kerry Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0307346846 |
I thought this book was really interesting, and have found myself bringing it up in random conversations (always the sign of a good book, I think). The author conducted a series of interviews with a variety of Catholics and former Catholics. The range of Catholics/ex-Catholics interviewed for this...
The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
| Author | Timothy Beal |
| ISBN | 0151013586 |
In this revelatory exploration of one of our most revered icons, a critically acclaimed author and professor takes us back to early Christianity to ask how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and forward to see how the multibillion-dollar business that has brought us Biblezines and Manga...
Stalking God: From Laughing Yoga to Burning Man, My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In
Anjali Kumar was a card-carrying member of a rapidly growing contingent in America: highly spiritual but religiously uncommitted. But then she learned she was pregnant, and became compelled to find God--or at least some kind of enlightenment.
Convinced that traditional religions were...
God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
| Author | Desmond Tutu |
| ISBN | 0385483716 |
Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has long been admired throughout the world for the heroism and grace he exhibited while encouraging countless South Africans in their struggle for human rights. In God Has a Dream, his most soul-searching book, he shares the spiritual message that guided him through those...
The Cuban Chronicles: A True Tale of Rascals, Rogues, and Romance
| Author | Wanda St. Hilaire |
| ISBN | 1440132968 |
In the infancy of Cuba's tourism, Wanda St. Hilaire takes a trip to the tiny island. In spite of her love of all things Latin, she puts herself on a travel ban to Castro's Cuba, one that lasts twenty years. When she is forced to cancel a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico at the last minute, she finds herself in Cuba twice,...
Postcards from Route 66: The Ultimate Collection from America's Main Street
| Author | Joe Sonderman |
| ISBN | 0760346119 |
There is perhaps no better visual record of Route 66’s iconic sites than the thousands of illustrated and photographic postcards that have been produced over the years to promote the Mother Road’s motels, hotels, tourist traps, trading posts, bustling burgs, greasy spoons, and natural wonders....
Finding Ben: A Mother's Journey Through the Maze of Asperger's
| Author | Barbara LaSalle |
| ISBN | 0071431942 |
One mother's remarkable account of raising an Asperger's syndrome child.
Ben seemed to be an extraordinary child.
Born with a superanalytical mind, he was able to store hordes of information like a minicomputer. Yet, lurking beneath this boy genius's amazing, albeit useless,...
All Roads Lead to Jerusalem: A Muslim American Woman Looking for Hope and Answers in the West Bank
| Author | Jenny Lynn Jones |
| ISBN | 0991069951 |
When Jenny Jones and her three children move from their Washington home to that of Jenny's in-laws in the West Bank, the village of Safa seems like a haven. Sheltered from much of the area's troubles, Jenny considers the village to be the ideal place for her children to explore a part of their identity they...
Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
| Author | Jennifer Wilson |
| ISBN | 0312598955 |
A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia
"We can look at this in two ways," Jim wrote, always the pragmatist. "We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They're saying the economy is going...
