Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent
10 best books like Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent (Richard Rohr): Kampung Boy, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, A Way Other Than Our Own: Devotions for Lent, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem, Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith, How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living
| Author | LAT (Mohammad Nor Khalid) |
| ISBN | 1596431210 |
Kampung Boy is a favorite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia. With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the life of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia in the 1950s: his adventures and mischief-making, fishing trips, religious study, and work on his family's rubber...
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 | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1590304519 |
In this practical guide to enlightened living, Chögyam Trungpa offers an inspiring vision for our time, based on the figure of the sacred warrior. In ancient times, the warrior learned to master the challenges of life, both on and off the battlefield. He acquired a sense of personal freedom and power—not...
A Way Other Than Our Own: Devotions for Lent
| Author | Walter Brueggemann |
| ISBN | 0664261698 |
Lent recalls times of wilderness and wandering, from newly freed Hebrew slaves in exile to Jesus temptation in the desert. God has always called people out of their safe, walled cities into uncomfortable places, revealing paths they would never have chosen. Despite our culture of self-indulgence,...
| 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...
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022319 |
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible
If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the...
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...
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060872608 |
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan reveal a radical & little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to & responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during...
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1476717583 |
From the popular blogger and provocative author of Jesus Feminist comes a riveting new study of Christianity that helps you wrestle with—and sort out—your faith.
In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey—award-winning blogger and author of Jesus Feminist, which was hailed as “lucid, compelling,...
How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living
| Author | Rob Bell |
| ISBN | 0062356291 |
The popular pastor and New York Times bestselling author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God shows us how to pursue and realize our dreams, live in the moment, and joyfully do the things that make us come alive.
Each of us was created for something great—we just need to figure...
The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, catapulted Henri Nouwen into a long spiritual adventure. In his highly-acclaimed book of the same title, he shares the deeply personal meditation that led him to discover the place within which God has...
The Journals of Jim Elliot
| Author | Elisabeth Elliot |
| ISBN | 0800758250 |
Jim Elliot was part of a team of young missionaries murdered in Ecuador in 1956 by the Auca Indians to whom they were witnessing. At the age of 29, he left behind a young widow, a baby daughter, and volumes of personal journals written over many years.
In 1978, Revell published the complete and unabridged...
344 Questions: The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment
| Author | Stefan G. Bucher |
| ISBN | 0321733002 |
The secret to creative success lies not in knowing the right answers, but in knowing how to ask the right questions-and this little book is full of them! A veritable therapy session on paper, 344 Questions is composed entirely of questions designed to help you determine where you are in your life and career,...
| Author | Caroline Myss |
| ISBN | 1401941087 |
Have you ever wondered why you are drawn to certain people, ideas, or products and turned off by others? Are you constantly searching for something you can’t put your finger on, or wondering whether you are living a life that truly fits?
In Archetypes, New York Times best-selling author...
| Author | Jean Vanier |
| ISBN | 0809144093 |
In this timely book, Jean Vanier provides a spiritual roadmap toward peace and understanding among people from different religious, ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds; with diverse gifts and disabilities.
For Vanier the whole question of peacemaking is centered on trust. He...
Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0824513533 |
My wife and I read this for Lent this 2019. It is the best book of Lent devotionals we have read. Nouwen is profound and sometimes, perhaps, beyond my full comprehension. But his unique takes on some of the topics was so meaningful to us. One star is deducted for the terrible misspellings and non-sequiturs...
The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering
| Author | Daniel P. Horan |
| ISBN | 1616364092 |
Much has been written on the last words of Jesus, the traditional phrases taken from Scripture that depict the final moments of Jesus’s life as he dies on the cross. In this new take on the last words, author Dan Horan brings a fresh perspective to this time-honored meditation as he challenges readers...
| Author | Jimmy Carter |
| ISBN | 1508248974 |
In this powerful and personal reflection, a New York Times bestseller, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment and considers how we may find it in our own lives.
All his life, President Jimmy Carter has been a courageous exemplar of...
