UnClobber
10 best books like UnClobber (Colby Martin): Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole, and Living Free from Shame, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It, The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062406582 |
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060872632 |
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...
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0310293995 |
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.
In Faith Unraveled, Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obsessed...
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...
Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole, and Living Free from Shame
| Author | Vicky Beeching |
| ISBN | 0062439944 |
Vicky Beeching, called “arguably the most influential Christian of her generation” in The Guardian, began writing songs for the church in her teens. By the time she reached her early thirties, Vicky was a household name in churches on both sides of the pond. Recording multiple albums and singing...
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...
Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
| Author | Austen Hartke |
| ISBN | 0664263100 |
In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached “the transgender tipping point,” suggesting that transgender issues would become the next civil rights frontier. Years later, many people—even many LGBTQ allies—still lack understanding of gender identity and the transgender...
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022122 |
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.
Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy,...
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
| Author | Peter Enns |
| ISBN | 0062272020 |
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adam recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God’s Word.
Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion,...
The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me So explains how Christians mistake “certainty” and “correct belief” for faith when what God really desires is trust and intimacy.
With compelling and often humorous stories from his own life, Bible scholar...
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...
Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community
In 2001, Kathy Baldock, a straight conservative evangelical Christian, met Netto Montoya, a lesbian Native American, on the local hiking trails near her home in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Their friendship challenged Baldocks cultural and religious beliefs about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and...
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate
| Author | Justin Lee |
| ISBN | 1455514314 |
As a teenager and young man, Justin Lee felt deeply torn. Nicknamed "God Boy" by his peers, he knew that he was called to a life in the evangelical Christian ministry. But Lee harbored a secret: He also knew that he was gay. In this groundbreaking book, Lee recalls the events--his coming out to his parents,...
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
| Author | Matthew Vines |
| ISBN | 1601425163 |
As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of most young people: to some-day share his life with someone, to build a family of his own, to give and receive love. But when he realized he was gay, those hopes were called into question. The Bible, he’d been taught, condemned gay...
Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships
| Author | James V. Brownson |
| ISBN | 0802868630 |
Grapples conscientiously with biblical texts at the heart of the church's debate over same-sex relationships
This thought-provoking book by James Brownson develops a broad, cross-cultural sexual ethic from Scripture, locates current debates over homosexuality in that wider context,...
Refocusing My Family: Coming Out, Being Cast Out, and Discovering the True Love of God
| Author | Amber Cantorna |
| ISBN | 1506418791 |
In 2012, at the age of twenty-seven, Amber Cantorna came out to her family as gay. As the daughter of a Focus on the Family executive, that transparency cost her everything.
Refocusing My Family is Amber's journey from the suffocating expectations of Focus on the Family to the liberating joy...
Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships
| Author | Karen R. Keen |
| ISBN | 0802876544 |
WHEN IT COMES TO SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS, this book by Karen Keen contains the most thoughtful, balanced, biblically grounded discussion you’re likely to encounter anywhere. With pastoral sensitivity and respect for biblical authority, Keen breaks through current stalemates in the debate...
A Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community
| Author | John Pavlovitz |
| ISBN | 0664262678 |
No one likes to eat alone; to approach a table filled with people, only to be told that despite the open chairs there isn't room for you. The rejection stings. It leaves a mark. Yet this is exactly what the church has been saying to far too many people for far too long: "You're not welcome here. Find someplace...
