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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

Linda Kay Klein · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity's purity culture has had on a generation of young women - in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.In the 1990s, a "purity industry"...
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Pope Francis and the New Vatican

Robert Draper · National Geographic
Pages: 253
Format: Print book

Pope Francis' appointment to the papacy in 2013 electrified the world and injected a new energy into the Catholic Church. His message of mercy and humility resonates the world over, with people of every faith. For this extraordinary book, National Geographic photographer Dave Yoder spent...
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Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

Barbara Brown Taylor · HarperOne
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerThe 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,...
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Perfectly Human: Nine Months with Cerian

Sarah C. Williams · Plough Publishing House
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

She knew they would only have a few fleeting months together, but in that time Sarah's unborn daughter would transform her understanding of beauty, worth, and the gift of life.Happily married and teaching history at the University of Oxford, Sarah Williams had credentials, success,...
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Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church: The findings of the investigation that inspired the major motion picture Spotlight

Boston Globe. · Back Bay Books, 2015.
Pages: 282
Format: Print book

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public ServiceThe story behind this groundbreaking book--one of the most significant works of investigative journalism since Woodward and Bernstein's reporting on Watergate--has been brought brilliantly to life on the screen in the major new movie Spotlight.Here...
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Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

BOB GOFF · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

What happens when we stop avoiding difficult people and simply love everyone? In his wildly entertaining and inspiring follow-up to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Love Does, Bob Goff takes readers on a life-altering journey into the secret of living without fear, care, constraint,...
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Ave Maria: The Mystery of a Most Beloved Prayer

Pope Francis · Image
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

This important new work by Pope Francis provides an enlightening new vision of the importance of women in the Church and the world, seen through the lens of Mary, the mother of Jesus."At the beginning of the re-creation of the world, there is a dialogue between God and a single woman,"...
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

KATE BOWLER · Random House
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying,...
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Hello mornings : how to build a grace-filled, life-giving morning routine

Kat Lee · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 227

Are you ready to wake up for your life and not just to your life? Don't worry; you don't have to be a morning person to start each new day well. Join Kat Lee and thousands of women from countries around the world who have learned to maximize their mornings. In Hello Mornings, Kat introduces...
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Madison Park: A Place of Hope

Eric L. Motley · Zondervan
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determination, hope, and unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he needed...
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Unlock Your Dream: Discover the Adventure You Were Created For

Philip Wagner · WaterBrook
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Discover a clear path for reaching beyond ordinary to achieve God's purpose and dreams for your life. Pastor and speaker Philip Wagner believes every person has been given a God-size dream to pursue, but too many have become entangled by lesser goals, losing sight of their true...
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Flipped: The Provocative Truth That Changes Everything We Know About God

Doug Pagitt · Convergent Books
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback

We all have stories in our heads about God, humanity, life, and the meaning of it all. One of the most common - and misleading - stories is "If I'm faithful in doing this, then God promises to do that." Jesus didn't believe it and neither should you. God does not insist that you play...
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All Things New: Heaven, Earth, and the Restoration of Everything You Love

John Eldredge · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge offers readers a breathtaking look into God's promise for a new heaven and a new earth. This revolutionary book about our future is based on the simple idea that, according to the Bible, heaven is not our eternal home--the New Earth is. As Jesus...
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Christians in the Age of Outrage: How to Bring Our Best When the World Is at Its Worst

Ed Stetzer · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Are you tired of reading another news story about Christians supposedly acting at their worst?Today there are too many examples of those claiming to follow Christ being caustic, divisive, and irrational, contributing to dismissals of the Christian faith as hypocritical, self-interested,...
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A Prairie Girl's Faith: The Spiritual Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder

STEPHEN HINES · WaterBrook
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The beloved author of the Little House books was not only one of America's great pioneer storytellers but a woman of vibrant faith.A Prairie Girl's Faith provides the first extended, in depth discussion of the Christian faith of one of America's most beloved pioneer women--Laura Ingalls...
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