The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief
10 best books like The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief (Peter Rollins): The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi, Why Religion?: A Personal Story, Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide for Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine
Author | Jennifer Gunter |
ISBN | 0806539313 |
OB/GYN, writer for The New York Times, USA Today, and Self, and host of the show Jensplaining, Dr. Jen Gunter now delivers the definitive book on vaginal health, answering the questions you've always had but were afraid to ask--or couldn't find the right answers to. She has been called Twitter's resident...
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
Author | Victor LaValle |
ISBN | 0525508805 |
What if America's founding ideals finally became reality? A future of peace, justice, and love comes to life in original speculative stories that challenge oppression and embrace inclusiveness--from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, and more.
For many Americans, imagining a bright...
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many ways normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world...
What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
Author | Rob Bell |
ISBN | 0062194283 |
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep into the Bible to show how it is more revelatory, revolutionary, and relevant than we ever imagined—and offers a cogent argument for why we need to look at it in a fresh, new way.
In Love Wins, Rob Bell...
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
An enchanting journey into history, recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions that are still felt today.
The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchanting...
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...
Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
Author | Amy-Jill Levine |
ISBN | 0061561010 |
The renowned biblical scholar, author of The Misunderstood Jew, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament interweaves history and spiritual analysis to explore Jesus’ most popular teaching parables, exposing their misinterpretations and making them lively and relevant for...
Why Religion?: A Personal Story
Author | Elaine Pagels |
ISBN | 0062368559 |
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...
Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide for Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self
Author | Hannah Paasch |
ISBN | 0062872397 |
Buckle up, folks. It’s time to jump in, embrace your inner self, and release the things that are holding you back from wholeness. Enter the Millenneagram.
The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system that has a sneaky way of revealing who we are and why we do the things we do. Using...
Author | Paul Tillich |
ISBN | 0300084714 |
I first started reading this book because I want answers to the existential angst that plagues me and others aware of the implications of post-modern ideas. I don’t mean to say that I wanted an alternative to post-modernism; I don’t believe that is any more realistic than saying that I want an alternative...
Trans Figured: My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man
“A thrilling read…. One of the most mercilessly candid and outspoken memoirs in years. If Holly Golightly existed, this might have been her true story. I couldn’t put it down.”—Scott Wittman, Tony and Grammy award-winning lyricist of Hairspray
Imagine experiencing life not...
We Too: How the Church Can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis
Author | Mary E. DeMuth |
ISBN | 0736979182 |
"Timely and necessary...This book is not only a warning. It is an opportunity. An opportunity to live out the gospel we so passionately proclaim. And it starts with listening."—J.D. Greear, President of the Southern Baptist Convention
Time’s Up: Addressing the Unspoken Crisis...
Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor
Author | Margot Starbuck |
ISBN | 0830838171 |
Margot Starbuck is back with as much passion and energy as ever. In thirty brief chapters, she invites you to choose the adventure that fits who you are in authentically loving those around you.Yes, she knows: just the thought of adding something more to your life sounds exhausting. But here's the fantastic...
Four Gifts: Seeking Self-Care for Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength
Author | April Yamasaki |
ISBN | 1513803344 |
Sarah Bessey's Field Notes Book Club January 2019 Selection
Is self-care different from being selfish or self-indulgent? Is it the same as caring for your soul? And what does self-care look like in light of following Jesus, who called his followers to deny themselves?
In...
Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack
Author | Alia Joy |
ISBN | 0801093341 |
As a girl, Alia Joy came face to face with weakness, poverty, and loss in ways that made her doubt God was good. There were times when it felt as if God had abandoned her. What she didn't realize then was that God was always there, calling her to abandon herself.
In this deeply personal exploration...
The View from Rock Bottom: Discovering God's Embrace in our Pain
I had found my rock bottom,
and instead of pulling me out,
the God of the universe met me there in the rubble.
What is your response when your life turns upside down? When you lose your job? When you receive a difficult diagnosis?
Do you blame God or beg Him for a way out of your...
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day.
When Death...