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The Gay Preacher's Wife: How My Gay Husband Deconstructed My Life and Reconstructed My Faith
Lydia Meredith · Karen Hunter Books-Gallery Books
Pages: 244
Format: Print book
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The deeply personal memoir of Lydia Meredith, a woman who spent almost thirty years married to a preacher - only to have her husband leave her for a MAN - and how her life becomes a testimony of tolerance and a theology of love and acceptance.After being married to Reverend Dennis A. Meredith... |
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He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
Christian Wiman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 114
Format: Hardcover
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A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poetsWhat is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores... |
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
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"A page turner ... We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it." - The New York Times Book Review "Massively learned and electrifying ... magisterial." - The Christian Science Monitor... |
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To Change The Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism
Ross Douthat · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times columnist and one of America's leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis's efforts to change the church he governs.Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, today Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis's stewardship of the Church,... |
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Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century
Marcus J Borg · Harper One
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Showcasing some of his most enduring and insightful writings, including many previously unpublished works, a concise and illuminating introduction to Marcus J. Borg, the late spokesman for progressive Christianity and one of the most revered and influential theologians of our time.In his acclaimed... |
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN · Convergent Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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From a leading new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of what it's like to grow up black, Christian, and female in white America, in this idea-driven memoir about how her determined quest for identity and understanding shows a way forward for us all.Austin Channing Brown's... |
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The Murderous History of Bible Translations: Power, Conflict, and the Quest for Meaning
Harry Freedman · Bloomsbury
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In 1535, William Tyndale, the first man to produce an English version of the Bible in print, was captured and imprisoned in Belgium. A year later he was strangled and then burned at the stake. His co-translator was also burned. In that same year the translator of the first Dutch Bible was arrested... |
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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism
Jemar Tisby · Zondervan
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The Color of Compromise takes readers on a historical journey: from America's early colonial days through slavery and the Civil War, covering the tragedy of Jim Crow laws and the victories of the Civil Rights era, to today's Black Lives Matter movement. Author Jemar Tisby reveals the obvious... |
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The Light Within Me: An Inspirational Memoir
Ainsley Earhardt · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller!The celebrated Fox News star and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a powerful, uplifting look at her life and her spiritual journey, reflecting on her family, her faith, and her successful career.In her bestselling children's book Take Heart, My Child,... |
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The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims
Mustafa Akyol · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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When Reza Aslan's bestseller Zealot came out in 2013, there was criticism that he hadn't addressed his Muslim faith while writing the origin story of Christianity. In fact, Ross Douthat of The New York Times wrote that "if Aslan had actually written in defense of the Islamic... |
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The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion
N T Wright · HarperOne
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The renowned scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author widely considered to be the heir to C. S. Lewis contemplates the central event at the heart of the Christian faith - Jesus' crucifixion - arguing that the Protestant Reformation did not go far enough in transforming our understanding... |
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Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God
Mark Batterson · Multnomah
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Circle Maker, which helped over 2 million people learn to talk to God, now helps readers learn how to listen to God.The voice that spoke the cosmos into existence is the same voice that parted the Red sea, and made the sun stand still in the midday sky. One day,... |
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A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation
Craig Harline · Oxford University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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October 2017 marks five hundred years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation. At least, that's what the legend says. But with a figure like Martin Luther, who looms so large in the historical imagination, it's... |
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Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe
Phillip Gulley · Convergent Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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America's favorite Quaker storyteller explores the terrain of faith and doubt as shaped by family, church, and young love, finding his way to a less convenient but fully formed adult spirituality.Most of us grow up taking in whole belief systems with our mother's milk, only to discover... |
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