The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
10 best books like The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection (Robert Farrar Capon): The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, Till We Have Faces, Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, To My Children's Children, Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes, The Book of the Dun Cow, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Thomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures
The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical...
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction. This is the story of Orual, Psyche's embittered and ugly older sister, who posessively and harmfully loves...
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
| Author | Theodore Dalrymple |
| ISBN | 1566635055 |
Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. Yet in listening to and observing his patients, he is...
| Author | Sindiwe Magona |
| ISBN | 1566566495 |
Exceptionally written. Made up of words which had my emotions all over the place.
Mama Sindiwe emptied herself. She poured all which she wanted her grandchildren and great-grandchildren to know. About her beginnings. Her dreams as a girl, young lady, mother, wife and grandmother.
The...
Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
| Author | Shauna Niequist |
| ISBN | 0310328179 |
This book is a collection of essays about family relationships, friendships, and the meals that bring us together. Written by well-loved writer and blogger, Shauna Niequist, this mix of Girl Meets God and the Food Network is a funny, honest, and vulnerable spiritual memoir. Bread & Wine is a celebration...
| Author | Walter Wangerin Jr. |
| ISBN | 0060574607 |
This unique book, written in 1978, is grisly, gritty, earthy, painful, and beautiful. I have never read anything like this book before. It is a creation of great courage. Wangerin has taken stark good and evil and played them out in an almost predictable manner, unafraid of arrangements that could be...
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 Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
| Author | Jemar Tisby |
| ISBN | 0310597269 |
In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on all Americans to view others not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Yet King included another powerful word, one that is often overlooked. Warning against the "tranquilizing...
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
| Author | Tish Harrison Warren |
| ISBN | 0830846239 |
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present to us in surprising ways through our everyday routines. Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices and habits that form us. Each chapter looks...
Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
| Author | A.J. Baime |
| ISBN | 0618822194 |
By the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Young Henry Ford II, who had taken the reins of his grandfather’s company with little business experience to speak of, knew he had to do something to shake things up. Baby boomers...
Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1501155466 |
In her most personal book yet, popular speaker and bestselling author Sarah Bessey invites us into her long—and sometimes miraculous—road to recovery after a terrible accident and shares how it changed everything she believed about God.
Sarah Bessey was in her sweet spot: a popular...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1582431604 |
"This is a book about Heaven," says Jayber Crow, "but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell." It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber.
Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow's acquaintance with...
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
| Author | Karen Swallow Prior |
| ISBN | 1587433966 |
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires...
The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place
| Author | Andy Crouch |
| ISBN | 0801018668 |
Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using internet filters and determining screen time limits for our children. It's about developing wisdom, character, and courage in the way we use digital media rather than accepting technology's promises of ease,...
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
| Author | Andy Crouch |
| ISBN | 0830833943 |
2009 Christianity Today Book Award winner! Named one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 2008 (religion category).
It is not enough to condemn culture. Nor is it sufficient merely to critique culture or to copy culture. Most of the time, we just consume culture. But the only way to change culture...
We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits―and devices―that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor...
You Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal With It
| Author | Rachel Jankovic |
| ISBN | 1947644475 |
If "Who am I?" is the question you're asking, Rachel Jankovic doesn't want you to "find yourself" or "follow your heart." Those lies are nothing to the confidence, freedom, and clarity of course that come with knowing what is actually essential about you. And the answer to that question is at once less...
Harrow County, Vol. 8: Done Come Back
| Author | Cullen Bunn |
| ISBN | 1506706630 |
The dramatic conclusion to the series about Emmy--the Good Witch of much haunted and harrowing Harrow County, her friend Berenice, the Skin Boy, and a bunch of scary, sometimes bloody creatures. The last volume focuses, not surprisingly, on the mortal combat between Emmy and the original hanged witch,...
