Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World
10 best books like Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World (Brian D. McLaren): The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan, What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything, The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Maid-sama! Vol. 02, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
| Author | Jenny Nordberg |
| ISBN | 0307952495 |
An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune....
What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal
| Author | E. Jean Carroll |
| ISBN | 1250215439 |
A darkly funny and very personal attempt to answer the question by America's longest running advice columnist
When E. Jean Carroll—possibly the liveliest woman in the world and author of Ask E. Jean in Elle Magazine — realized that her eight million readers and question-writers all seemed...
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...
What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
| Author | Rob Bell |
| ISBN | 0062194283 |
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep into the Bible to show how it is more revelatory, revolutionary, and relevant than we ever imagined—and offers a cogent argument for why we need to look at it in a fresh, new way.
In Love Wins, Rob Bell...
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...
| 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...
Misaki Ayuzawa is the President of the Student Council at Seika High School, formerly an all-boys school. Unfortunately, most of the students are still male and stuck in their slovenly habits, so man-hating Misaki really socks it to them in an attempt to make the school presentable to attract more female...
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything
Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life
Readers of all ages have followed...
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...
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,...
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...
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0470907754 |
A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think...
Churches in America are experiencing an unprecedented fracturing due to their belief and attitude toward the LGBT community. Armed with only six passages in the Bible often known as the clobber passages the conservative Christian position has been one that stands against the full inclusion of our...
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions--so...
| Author | Krista Tippett |
| ISBN | 0670038350 |
The host of public radio’s Speaking of Faith explores the role of faith in the world and in human life today Krista Tippett is the creator and host of public radio’s phenomenally popular program Speaking of Faith, a weekly conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. As a journalist...
| Author | Eboo Patel |
| ISBN | 0807077267 |
With a new afterword"
Acts of Faith" is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States. Eboo Patel's story is a hopeful and moving testament to the power and passion of young people--and...
Why Religion?: A Personal Story
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0062368559 |
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0525537449 |
From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives
"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott...
What We Talk about When We Talk about God
| Author | Rob Bell |
| ISBN | 0062049666 |
Rob Bell's bestselling book Love Wins struck a powerful chord with a new generation of Christians who are asking the questions church leaders have been afraid to touch. His new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, will continue down this path, helping us with the ultimate big-picture issue:...
Messy Spirituality: God's Annoying Love for Imperfect People
| Author | Michael Yaconelli |
| ISBN | 0310235332 |
'I Guess I'm Not a Very Good Christian . . .'Do you feel like: I don't pray enoughI don't read my Bible enoughI don't share my faith enoughI don't love God enoughI'm not committed enoughI'm not spiritual enoughThen this book is for you. Messy Spiritualtiy was written for the silent majority of us who have...
The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage
Beloved nun and social activist Joan Chittister, who appeared on Oprah's
Super Soul Sunday
, offers a soul-stirring and inspiring guide that speaks to all who feel disillusioned and dissatisfied with the power-hungry institutions and systems of this world.
Joan Chittister has been...
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
| Author | Lenny Duncan |
| ISBN | 1506452566 |
Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make all the headlines, but Duncan sees something...
| Author | Hiro Fujiwara |
| ISBN | 1427814066 |
Don't ever lie, even if it's about your feelings.
This is about a girl named Misaki Ayuzawa who is the school president of Seika High. Her family is going through a rough time financially, which leads her to working as a maid in a cafe. This is kept a secret until Usui, one of the most popular boys...
| Author | Natsuki Takaya |
| ISBN | 1591826071 |
Tohru is so sweet and tender-hearted! No wonder so many people love her! The poor Sohma family though. It seems like they all have their personal troubles.
The highlights of this volume:
”What better way to take advantage of this carefree leisure time than by catching up with your...
Kyo and Yuki... I still haven’t decided which one of them I like more. As a teen I loved Kyo but I also couldn’t get enough of Yuki. As an adult it’s still the same. *lol* I really wonder if Tohru will be able to choose one of them. XD
Highlights of this volume:
”If I’m going to...
The Lost Message of Jesus
| Author | Steve Chalke |
| ISBN | 0310248825 |
A fresh—and perhaps controversial—look at Jesus by one of Britain’s most respected Christian authors. Who is the real Jesus? Do we remake him in our own image and then wonder why our spirituality is less than life-changing and exciting? Steve Chalke—a high-profile visionary in the United...
| Author | E.L. Doctorow |
| ISBN | 1400068819 |
This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster.
Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown...
Leap Over a Wall: Earthy Spirituality for Everyday Christians
Leap Over a Wall is Eugene H. Peterson’s vibrant, insightful, and heartfelt exploration of one of the Bible’s most controversial figures: King David. Peterson beautifully elucidates the Old Testament’s rich depictions of David's failures and victories, recapturing their excitement and...
