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The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love

10 best books like The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love (John Shelby Spong): We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Journey to the End of the Night, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, The Mermaid Chair, The Invention of Exile, The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse, Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor, The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
AuthorSamra Habib
How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?

Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous....
Journey to the End of the Night
AuthorLouis-Ferdinand Céline
ISBN0811216543
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty...
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
AuthorRobert M. Sapolsky
ISBN1594205078
Why do we do the things we do?
More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful...
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
ISBN0060872632
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...
The Mermaid Chair
AuthorSue Monk Kidd
ISBN0143036696
An alternate cover edition exists here.

Sue Monk Kidd's phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Times bestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent...
The Invention of Exile
AuthorVanessa Manko
ISBN1594205884
Through the unforgettable character of Austin Voronkov, Manko explores the little-known period in American history of the Palmer Raids and the far-reaching implications of exile and loss.

Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport,...
The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology
AuthorJürgen Moltmann
ISBN0800628225
"This is Jürgen Moltmann's best and therefore most important book. He has substantially changed the central thrust of his theology without sacrificing its most vital element, its passionate concern for alleviation of the world's suffering."
-Langdon Gilkey

"The Crucified God rewards,...
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse
AuthorElizabeth A. Johnson
ISBN0824519256
I read this during theology studies, though not as part of the curriculum. (I took it with me to West Virginia while doing mission work with church youth groups.) I wish I'd read it sooner. It's changed the way I think about God and the way I think about the institutional church. It helps me that Elizabeth...
Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor
AuthorJana Riess
ISBN1557256608
This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Riess begins with great plans for success (“Really, how hard could that be?” she asks...
The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
AuthorKaren Armstrong
ISBN0345391691
In our supposedly secular age governed by reason and technology, fundamentalism has emerged as an overwhelming force in every major world religion. Why? This is the fascinating, disturbing question that bestselling author Karen Armstrong addresses in her brilliant new book The Battle for God....
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally
AuthorMarcus J. Borg
ISBN0060609192
Many Christians mistakenly believe that their only choice is either to reconcile themselves to a fundamentalist reading of scripture (a "literal-factual" approach) or to simply reject the Bible as something that could bring meaning and value into their lives. In Reading the Bible Again for the First...
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
AuthorSue Monk Kidd
The acclaimed spiritual memoir from the author of The Secret Life of Bees.

I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised and, in fact, a little terrified when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening.

Sue...
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
AuthorGlenn Greenwald
By Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through...
Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
AuthorSue Monk Kidd
ISBN0143117971
The New York Times–bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and metamorphosis by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings (Viking, January 2014) and her daughter

Sue Monk Kidd has touched the hearts of millions of readers with her beloved novels and acclaimed nonfiction....
The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
AuthorFrederick Buechner
ISBN0060611839
This was insightful, uncommonly honest, and beautiful. I couldn't put the book down, but had to, twice, before finishing the mere 112 pages (3 chapters called "Once Below a Time, Once Upon a Time, and Beyond Time").
I will not share any of the story, so as not to ruin any of it for future readers; however,...
Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening
AuthorDiana Butler Bass
ISBN0062003739
Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary...
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
AuthorKathleen Norris
ISBN0618127240
A beautiful meditation on life in the Great Plains from award-winning author and poet Kathleen Norris.

 

Kathleen Norris invites readers to experience rich moments of prayer and presence in Dakota, a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate...
Holy the Firm
AuthorAnnie Dillard
ISBN0060915439
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth...
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why
AuthorPhyllis A. Tickle
ISBN1596445750
From the church's birth to the reign of St. Gregory the great, to the Great Schism and through the Reformation, Phyllis Tickle notes that every 500 years the church has been rocked by massive transitions. Remarkably enough, Tickle suggests to us that we live in such a time right now. The Great Emergence...
Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church
AuthorKenda Creasy Dean
ISBN0195314840
Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about...
Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists
AuthorCourtney E. Martin
ISBN1580052851
When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan bring us a range of women—including Jessica Valenti,...
Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power - And How They Can Be Restored
AuthorMarcus J. Borg
Modern Christians are steeped in a language so distorted that it has become a stumbling block to the religion, says internationally renowned Bible scholar Marcus J. Borg. Borg argues that Christianity's important words, and the sacred texts and stories in which those words are embedded, have been...
Every Last One
AuthorAnna Quindlen
ISBN1400065747
The latest novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Anna Quindlen

In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times" bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential...
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Small Band of Outcasts Conquered an Empire
AuthorBart D. Ehrman
ISBN1508238332
From the New York Times bestselling authority on early Christianity, the story of how Christianity grew from a religion of twenty or so peasants in rural Galilee to the dominant religion in the West in less than four hundred years.

Christianity didn’t have to become the dominant religion...
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
AuthorBart D. Ehrman
ISBN0062285203
The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition and its role in shaping the stories about Jesus we encounter in the New Testament—and ultimately in our understanding of Christianity.

Throughout...
The Invention of Wings: Exclusive Free Chapter Sampler
AuthorSue Monk Kidd
An exclusive free sample chapter from THE INVENTION OF WINGS…


From the celebrated author of the international bestseller THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.


Sarah Grimké is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls...
What is Contemplation?
AuthorThomas Merton
ISBN0872431037
From the back cover:

“The only way to find out anything about the joys of contemplation is by experience,”’ writes Thomas Merton. “We must test and see that the Lord is sweet.” In this early writing, unavailable for years, Thomas Merton sets forth the basics of Christian contemplation...
When Katie Met Cassidy
AuthorCamille Perri
ISBN0735212813
From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another gutsy book about the importance of women taking the reins—except this time, when it comes to finding sexuality, pleasure, and love sometimes where you least expect it.

Katie Daniels is a perfection-seeking 28-year-old lawyer...
The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Risk Management, and Record-Keeping
AuthorAlexander Elder
ISBN1118443926
The best-selling trading book of all time--updated for the new era"The New Trading for a Living" updates a modern classic, popular worldwide among both private and institutional traders. This revised and expanded edition brings time-tested concepts in gear with today's fast-moving markets, adding...
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
AuthorStephen R. Prothero
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, dizzying scientific and technological advancements, interconnected globalized economies, and even the so-called New Atheists have done nothing to change one thing: our world remains furiously religious. For good and for evil, religion is the single greatest...
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