Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
10 best books like Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion (Sara Miles): Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith, Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace, Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us, This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers, O Me of Little Faith: True Confessions of a Spiritual Weakling, Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 1573227218 |
Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment," "faith," "dogma," "salvation," "sinner"—even "Christ"—formed what she called her "scary vocabulary,"...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060872632 |
By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments...
| Author | Diana Butler Bass |
| ISBN | 0060836946 |
For decades the accepted wisdom has been that America's mainline Protestant churches are in decline, eclipsed by evangelical mega-churches. Church and religion expert Diana Butler Bass wondered if this was true, and this book is the result of her extensive, three-year study of centrist and progressive...
| 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 | Rita Nakashima Brock |
| ISBN | 0807067970 |
Rebecca Parker was a young minister in Seattle when a woman walked into her church and asked if God really wanted her to accept her husband's beatings and bear them gladly, as Jesus bore the cross. Parker knew, at that moment, that if she were to answer the woman's question truthfully she would have to rethink...
| Author | Lillian Daniel |
| ISBN | 0802864759 |
This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from most books available on ministry. Two people still pastoring reflect honestly here on both the joys and the challenges of their vocation. Anecdotal and extremely readable, the book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible...
| Author | Jason Boyett |
| ISBN | 0310289491 |
In O Me of Little Faith, author Jason Boyett brings you a transparent and personal account of his own of struggles with doubts and unbelief in living out his faith. With humor and frankness, Boyett uses personal anecdotes and a fresh look at Scripture to explore the realities of pursuing Christ through...
| Author | Richard Lischer |
| ISBN | 0767907442 |
In the tradition of Garrison Keillor, Open Secrets captures the friendships, rivalries, and rumors of small-town life by chronicling the lives of the citizens of a small Midwestern community through the eyes of a young minister.
Fresh out of divinity school and bursting with enthusiasm,...
| Author | Lauren F. Winner |
| ISBN | 0061768111 |
Following up her highly acclaimed Girl Meets God, author Lauren F. Winner has written an engrossing reflection of literary grace and spiritual wisdom with Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis.
As she lives through a failed marriage and the loss of her mother, Winner finds her Christian faith...
| Author | Peter Rollins |
| ISBN | 1557255601 |
"About 30 years ago, I came across the evocative phrase 'religionless Christianity' in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's later writings, and it has stayed with me ever since. In his new book The Fidelity of Betrayal, Peter Rollins has teased out - as Bonhoeffer never had the chance to do - profound possibilities...
| Author | Hannah Faith Notess |
| ISBN | 1606085417 |
Evangelicals are supposed to be experts at telling their story. From an early age you are expected to have a testimony, a story of how God saved you from a life of sin and sadness and gave you a new life of joy and gladness. What happens if you don't have such a testimony? What if your story just doesn't fit the...
| Author | Tony Jones |
| ISBN | 0787994715 |
What the "Emergent Church Movement" is all about-and why it matters to the future of Christianity Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like. Writing "dispatches" about...
| Author | Heidi B. Neumark |
| ISBN | 0807072575 |
Breathing Space is the story of Heidi Neumark and the Hispanic and African-American Lutheran church-Transfiguration-that took a chance calling on a pastor from a starkly different background. Despite living and working in a milieu of overwhelming poverty and violence, Neumark and the congregation...
| Author | Nadia Bolz-Weber |
| ISBN | 1596270861 |
A book for every person who's ever flipped past the religious channel on cable and thought, -I haven't the faintest clue what's going on there, - or -that church doesn't seem like my church at all, - or even, -wow, so that's what happened to Kirk Cameron.- With the personalities of Christian broadcasting...
| Author | Kaya Oakes |
| ISBN | 1593764316 |
As someone who clocked more time in mosh pits and at pro-choice rallies than kneeling in a pew, Kaya Oakes was not necessarily the kind of Catholic girl the Vatican was after. But even while she immersed herself in the punk rock scene and proudly called herself an atheist, something kept pulling her back...
