Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives
10 best books like Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (Phyllis Trible): Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Jesus and the Disinherited, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
| Author | Kate Harding |
| ISBN | 0738217026 |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest. Congressman Todd Akin’s “legitimate” gaffe. The alleged rape crew of Steubenville, Ohio. Sexual violence has been so prominent in recent years that the feminist term “rape culture” has finally entered the mainstream. But what, exactly, is it? And...
A Year of Biblical Womanhood
Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment--a year of biblical womanhood. Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles...
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...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...
Jesus and the Disinherited
| Author | Howard Thurman |
| ISBN | 0807010294 |
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900–81) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
| Author | James H. Cone |
| ISBN | 1570759375 |
A landmark in the conversation about race and religion in America.
"They put him to death by hanging him on a tree." Acts 10:39
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian...
How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority
Are you letting your lack of authority paralyze you?
One of the greatest myths of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead. Great leaders don't buy it. Great leaders lead with or without the authority and learn to unleash their influence wherever they are.
With practical...
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022122 |
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.
Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy,...
Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
| Author | Jeff Chu |
| ISBN | 0062049739 |
Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America is part memoir and part investigative analysis that explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality in Christian America.
The quest to find an answer is at the heart of...
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
| Author | Peter Enns |
| ISBN | 0062272020 |
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adam recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God’s Word.
Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion,...
Learning to Walk in the Dark
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062024353 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don’t have all the answers.
Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
In her bestselling preaching autobiography Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a preacher of the gospel as a priest in the Episcopal Church. In this warm and poignant collection, Barbara Brown Taylor’s humor and wisdom delve into the meaning of Christian symbols and history—both...
Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
| Author | Willie Parker |
| ISBN | 1501151126 |
In Life’s Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor to reveal...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0061370460 |
In her critically acclaimed Leaving Church ("a beautiful, absorbing memoir."—Dallas Morning News), Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about leaving full-time ministry to become a professor, a decision that stretched the boundaries of her faith. Now, in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World,...
| Author | Delores S. Williams |
| ISBN | 1570750262 |
In this landmark work of emerging African American womanist theology, Delores Williams finds in the biblical figure of Hagar -- mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God -- a prototype for the struggle of African-American women. African slave, homeless exile,...
| Author | Renita J. Weems |
| ISBN | 0446578940 |
The "Essence" bestselling author of "Listening for God" reveals the timeless connection between today's women and their biblical sistersand how to live a better life because of it..
Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne
Womanist Midrash is an in-depth and creative exploration of the well- and lesser-known women of the Hebrew Scriptures. Using her own translations, Gafney offers a midrashic interpretation of the biblical text that is rooted in the African American preaching tradition to tell the stories of a variety...
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
| Author | Matthew Vines |
| ISBN | 1601425163 |
As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of most young people: to some-day share his life with someone, to build a family of his own, to give and receive love. But when he realized he was gay, those hopes were called into question. The Bible, he’d been taught, condemned gay...
The Excellent Wife: A Biblical Perspective
| Author | Martha Peace |
| ISBN | 1885904088 |
Martha Peace, a nouthetic councelor of women, has written an Excellent Volume. Not only does it explain what God "requires" of a Christian wife, but it explaines clearly how to obey God's commandments in order to become that wife. Get it, read it and profit from it.""The Excellent Wife" is an absolute...
Strategic Planning: An Interactive Process for Leaders
| Author | Dan R. Ebener |
| ISBN | 0809149206 |
Strategic planning here is an interactive process in which leaders, managers, and followers create a common goal together. Ebener and Smith, using their years of experience as consultants and teachers, have distilled their knowledge into a simple step-by-step process that can be used in the three...
| Author | Carol Ochs |
| ISBN | 0847683303 |
Written by an acclaimed scholar to enrich and complete the vision offered by traditional Western spirituality, Women and Spirituality demonstrates that women, as women, have a valuable contribution to make to religion. This new edition is revised and updated in light of thirteen years of feminism,...
Created to be His Help Meet
| Author | Debi Pearl |
| ISBN | 1892112604 |
Somewhere over the passing years and changing culture, women have lost their way. This book is written to lead them back home. Regardless of how you began your marriage or how dark and lonely the path that has brought you to where you are now, I want you to know that it is possible today to have a marriage...
Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk
| Author | J. Dana Trent |
| ISBN | 1935205161 |
"Saffron Cross" is the intriguing love story of Dana, a Baptist minister, and Fred, a devout Hindu and former monk. The two meet on eHarmony and begin a sometimes daunting but ultimately inspiring journey of interfaith relationship and marriage. Trent's compelling vignettes, refreshingly honest...
| Author | Beth Moore |
| ISBN | 1433690527 |
Thirty years in the making, Audacious is a deep dive into the message that has compelled Beth Moore to serve women around the globe. Glancing over the years of ministry behind her and strengthening her resolve to the call before her, she came to the realization that her vision for women was incomplete....
Consider the Women: A Provocative Guide to Three Matriarchs of the Bible
| Author | Debbie Blue |
| ISBN | 0802874290 |
A timely and compelling new look at three key women in the biblical narrative
Among the mostly male-dominated narratives in Scripture, the stories of women can be game-changing. In this book Debbie Blue looks closely at Hagar (mother of Islam), Esther (Jewish heroine), and Mary (Christian...
Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood
| Author | John Piper |
| ISBN | 0891075860 |
My manhood has to be recovered? Once a man always a man. I don't have to stress my manhood to any woman. She should feel safe and secure around me as I lead by example, by being a man of prayer fully devoted to the spiritual life. If she see that, it will be she who will head over with heels for anything going on...
| Author | Linn Marie Tonstad |
| ISBN | 1498218792 |
What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other? Can Christianity be queered? Queer Theology offers a readable introduction to a difficult debate. Summarizing the various apologetic arguments for the inclusion of queer people in Christianity, Tonstad moves beyond inclusion to argue...
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography
| Author | Carlos Eire |
| ISBN | 0691164932 |
The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a confession written...
Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives
| Author | Gale A Yee |
| ISBN | 1506425488 |
This volume provides an introduction and essays on the four key sections of the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of top female biblical scholars:
Part One: Torah/Pentateuch
Part Two: Deuteronomistic History (Joshua 2 Kings)
Part Three: Prophets and Prophecy
Part Four:...
Capture His Heart: Becoming the Godly Wife Your Husband Desires
| Author | Lysa TerKeurst |
| ISBN | 0802440401 |
A truly fulfilling marriage involves two people focusing on each others' needs rather than their own. Lysa TerKeurst, president of The Proverbs 31 Ministry, has written a practical guide for each spouse that will open their eyes to the needs, desires, and longings of the other. She offers eight essential...
