The Skeptical Believer: Telling Stories to Your Inner Atheist
10 best books like The Skeptical Believer: Telling Stories to Your Inner Atheist (Daniel Taylor): Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Concrete Island, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News, Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty, The Furious Longing of God, How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee, Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical, A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
| Author | Dava Sobel |
| ISBN | 0802714625 |
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon...
On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament in Concrete Island soon turns into horror as...
The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
| Author | Tyler Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0345530411 |
The Secret Race is a definitive look at the world of professional cycling—and the doping issue surrounding this sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong—by former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle.Over the course of two years, Coyle...
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1476717575 |
Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences.
A freedom song for the church.
Sarah Bessey...
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
| Author | Brian Zahnd |
| ISBN | 1601429517 |
Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love?
In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, - Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both...
Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty
| Author | Gregory A. Boyd |
| ISBN | 0801014921 |
In Benefit of the Doubt, influential theologian, pastor, and bestselling author Gregory Boyd invites readers to embrace a faith that doesn't strive for certainty, but rather for commitment in the midst of uncertainty. Boyd rejects the idea that a person's faith is as strong as it is certain. In fact,...
The Furious Longing of God
| Author | Brennan Manning |
| ISBN | 1434767507 |
Imagine a stormy day at sea, your ship yielding to a relentless wind, pummeled by crashing waves, subject to the awesome force of nature. A force that is both fierce and majestic. A power that is nothing short of furious.
Such is God's intense, consuming love for His children. It's a love...
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.
The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...
Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
| Author | Timothy J. Keller |
| ISBN | 0525954155 |
Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical, is a prequel to The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism.
We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone...
A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
| Author | Brian Zahnd |
| ISBN | 0781411181 |
We know Jesus the Savior, but have we met Jesus, Prince of Peace? When did we accept vengeance as an acceptable part of the Christian life? How did violence and power seep into our understanding of faith and grace? For those troubled by this trend toward the sword, perhaps there is a better way. What...
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings--and Life
Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. We wake up in a haze—often after hitting snooze a few times. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee, dashing off...
Music Theory: From Beginner to Expert - The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding and Learning Music Theory Effortlessly
Discover The Beauty of Music Theory and Become a Better Musician Through The Power of Understanding!
Have you ever wanted:
To unlock the mysteries of notes, intervals, music scales, modes, keys, circle of fifths, chords and chord progressions and other important concepts in music?
To...
In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 1586174894 |
G.K. Chesterton was a master essayist. But reading his essays is not just an exercise in studying a literary form at its finest, it is an encounter with timeless truths that jump off the page as fresh and powerful as the day they were written.The only problem with Chesterton's essays is that there are too...
Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship
| Author | Lesslie Newbigin |
| ISBN | 0802808565 |
Looking to end the divisive conflict that has raged between Christians who attack each other either as "liberals" or as "fundamentalists," Newbigin here gives a historical account of the roots of this conflict in order to begin laying the foundation for a middle ground that will benefit the Christian...
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
| Author | Sam Harris |
| ISBN | 1439171211 |
Sam Harris' first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to non-believing scientists - agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed,...
Science's Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion Of Scientific Naturalism
| Author | Cornelius G. Hunter |
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Apollo: The Race To The Moon
| Author | Charles Murray |
| ISBN | 0976000806 |
This book is, by far, my favorite book about the early days of America's space program and about the Apollo missions. Unlike most books which are largely narrative of the missions and that focus on the launches, landings, and activities of the astronauts, this book focuses on the development of the launch...
| Author | John Gardner |
| ISBN | 0465052266 |
On Moral Fiction set off a firestorm of controversy when it was first published in 1978. With a daring not obscured by the author’s extraordinary humaneness of spirit, the book argued that contemporary literature suffers first and foremost from a basic failure of the test of “morality.” By “moral...
