Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
10 best books like Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale (Frederick Buechner): Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph, Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership, The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
| 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,"...
In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as...
Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060628391 |
Richard J. Foster’s Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth is hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality with millions of copies sold since its original publication in 1978.
In Celebration of Discipline, Foster explores the "classic Disciplines,"...
A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
| Author | Sheldon Vanauken |
| ISBN | 0060688246 |
A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather than of the lovers” about the author’s marriage and search for faith.
Vanauken chronicles the birth of a powerful pagan love borne out of the relationship he shares with his...
Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ
| Author | Dallas Willard |
| ISBN | 1576832961 |
Renovation of the Heart explains the common misunderstandings about human nature and the discipleship process by outlining the general pattern of personal spiritual transformation––not as a formula, but as a systematic process.This bestseller by Dallas Willard explains that as intentional...
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
| Author | Dallas Willard |
| ISBN | 0060693339 |
The Divine Conspiracy has revolutionized how we think about the true meaning of discipleship. In this classic, one of the most brilliant Christian thinkers of our times and author of the acclaimed The Spirit of Disciplines, Dallas Willard, skillfully weaves together biblical teaching, popular...
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0060608528 |
In Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, renowned Christian minister, professor, and author of The Cost of Discipleship recounts his unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years in Germany. Giving practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families...
The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0232521026 |
The Wounded Healer is a hope-filled and profoundly simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways often threatening and ineffective. In this book, Henri Nouwen combines creative case studies of ministry...
In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0824512596 |
Henri Nouwen was a spiritual thinker with an unusual capacity to write about the life of Jesus and the love of God in ways that have inspired countless people to trust life more fully.
Most widely read among the over 40 books Father Nouwen wrote is In the Name of Jesus. For a society that measures...
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0830822003 |
Today a renewed and vigorous scholarly quest for the historical Jesus is underway. In the midst of well publicized and controversial books on Jesus, N. T. Wright's lectures and writings have been widely recognized for providing a fresh, provocative and historically credible portrait. Out of his...
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0060670770 |
This classic, with a new introduction by Madeleine L'Engle, is by turns an entrancing mediation on language; a piercing commentary on the nature of art and why so much of what we read, hear, and see falls short; and a brilliant examination of the fundamental tenets of Christianity. The Mind of the Maker...
| Author | Philip Yancey |
| ISBN | 0385502753 |
Philip Yancey, whose explorations of faith have made him a guide for millions of readers, feels no need to defend the church. "When someone tells me yet another horror story about the church, I respond, 'Oh, it's even worse than that. Let me tell you my story.'I have spent most of my life in recovery from...
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0802828752 |
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places reunites spirituality and theology in a cultural context where these two vital facets of Christian faith have been rent asunder. Lamenting the vacuous, often pagan nature of contemporary American spirituality, Eugene Peterson here firmly grounds spirituality...
Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity
| Author | Lauren F. Winner |
| ISBN | 1587431971 |
Sex Splashed across magazine covers, billboards, and computer screens-sex is casual, aggressive, and absolutely everywhere. And everybody's doing it, right? In Real Sex, heralded young author Lauren F. Winner speaks candidly to Christians about the difficulty—and the importance—of sexual...
Devotional Classics: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060669667 |
Originally, I didn't want to read this book because I thought it was a bunch of dull writings by a bunch of dead white guys (I was in my mid 20's when I read it). While part of that is true (I think they're all dead), I enjoyed it until towards the end. The last few selections aren't quite as interesting to me for...
The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, catapulted Henri Nouwen into a long spiritual adventure. In his highly-acclaimed book of the same title, he shares the deeply personal meditation that led him to discover the place within which God has...
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0830822577 |
As a society, we are no less obsessed with the immediate than when Eugene Peterson first wrote this Christian classic. If anything, email and the Internet may have intensified our quest for the quick fix. But Peterson's time-tested prescription for discipleship remains the same--a long obedience...
The Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives
| Author | Dallas Willard |
| ISBN | 0060694424 |
How to Live as Jesus LivedDallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today's 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to...
