The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
10 best books like The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible (Aviya Kushner): Amnesty, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease, The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News, Learning to Walk in the Dark, The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real, The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen: Opening Your Eyes to Wonder
| Author | Lara Elena Donnelly |
| ISBN | 1250173620 |
The revolution has come and gone, with Amberlough City striving to rebuild itself from the ashes. The Ospies have been ousted, and the very face of the nation has been changed in the process.
Now, a rising politician is determined to bring Amberlough’s traitors to justice.
Including...
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
In...
Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video Sugar: The Bitter Truth, has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years.
In the late 1970s when the government...
The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1629117293 |
Invitation to a Dance
The Trinity is supposed to be the central, foundational doctrine of our entire Christian belief system, yet we're often told that we shouldn't attempt to understand it because it is a "mystery." Should we presume to try to breach this mystery? If we could, how would it transform...
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0061551821 |
In Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, top-selling author and Anglican bishop, N.T. Wright tackles the biblical question of what happens after we die and shows how most Christians get it wrong. We do not “go to” heaven; we are resurrected and heaven...
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1524762091 |
Richard Rohr, one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, delivers his long-awaited book on Jesus. In this radical message of hope, Rohr shows how "Jesus" + "Christ" reveal the divine wholeness at the heart of things--and what that means for every one of us.
In his decades as a globally...
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News
| Author | Peter Enns |
| ISBN | 0062686747 |
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, and author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth by...
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...
The Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces, it is one of the most overtly philosophical movies ever to come out of Hollywood. These thought-provoking essays by the same team of young philosophers...
The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen: Opening Your Eyes to Wonder
| Author | Lisa Gungor |
| ISBN | 0310350433 |
Lisa Gungor thought she knew her own story: small-town girl meets boy in college and they blissfully walk down the aisle into happily ever after. Their Christian faith was their lens and foundation for everything—their marriage, their music, their dreams for the future. But as their dreams began...
| Author | Jack Miles |
| ISBN | 0307269574 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, an erudite, hugely informative portrait of the God of Islam, the world's second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion.
Who is Allah? What makes Him unique? And what does He ask of those who...
Faith in the Shadows: Finding Christ in the Midst of Doubt
| Author | Austin Fischer |
| ISBN | 0830845437 |
"People don't abandon faith because they have doubts. People abandon faith because they think they're not allowed to have doubts."
Too often, our honest questions about faith are met with cold confidence and easy answers. But false certitude doesn't result in strong faith—it results...
| Author | Greg Gilbert |
| ISBN | 1433515008 |
This newest addition to the IXMarks series presents a clear, straightforward statement of the gospel, the third mark of a healthy church.
What is the gospel? It seems like a simple question, yet it has been known to incite some heated responses, even in the church. How are we to formulate a clear,...
Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again
| Author | Roger H. Martin |
| ISBN | 0520255410 |
The idea of reliving youth is a common fantasy, but who among us is actually courageous enough to try it? After surviving a deadly cancer against tremendous odds, college president Roger H. Martin did just that—he enrolled at St. John's College, the Great Books school in Annapolis, Maryland, as a...
Baptism is taught in the Bible and has been practiced for centuries, but understanding of its meaning and respect for its importance is at a low ebb today. Confusion reigns over questions about its mode and its place in the life of the Christian, and as a result, even many evangelical congregations are...
| Author | Saralee Rosenberg |
| ISBN | 0061253774 |
In Mindy's yoga-obsessed, thirty-is-the-new-wife neighborhood, every day is a battle between Dunkin' Donuts, her jaws-of-life jeans, and Beth Diamond, the self-absorbed sancti-mommy next door who looks sixteen from the back. So much for sharing the chores, the stores, and the occasional mischief...
Lift: Fitness Culture, From Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors
| Author | Daniel Kunitz |
| ISBN | 0062336207 |
A fascinating cultural history of fitness, from Greek antiquity to the era of the “big-box gym” and beyond, exploring the ways in which human exercise has changed over time—and what we can learn from our ancestors.
We humans have been conditioning our bodies for more than 2,500 years,...
When One Religion Isn't Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People
| Author | Duane R. Bidwell |
| ISBN | 0807091243 |
An exploration of the gifts and challenges of being part of two or more religious traditions at the same time.
The world sees religious and spiritual identity as pure, static, and singular, but some people regularly cross religious boundaries. These "spiritually fluid" people celebrate...
