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Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity by Alisa Childers, Lee Strobel
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA Movement Seeks to Redefine Christianity. Some Think that It Is a Much-Needed Progressive Reformation. Others Believe that It Is an Attack on Historic Christianity.Alisa Childers never thought she would question her Christian faith. She was raised in a Christian home, where she had seen her mom and dad feed the hungry, clothe the homeless, and love the outcast... -
![King: A Life by Jonathan Eig]()
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times. Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files...Categorized as:
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![Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel, Kofi Klu]()
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel, Kofi Klu
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause: capitalism. Our economic system is based on perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: degrowth... -
![Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.]()
Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs a wave of violent riots protesting the death of a black man at the hands of police shook the nation in the summer of 2020, most Americans were shocked. Christians nationwide, eager to fulfill their God-given calling to bring peace and reconciliation, took to pulpits and social media in droves to affirm that “black lives matter” and proclaim that racial justice “is a gospel issue...Categorized as:
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![Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism by Sarah Hurwitz]()
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism by Sarah Hurwitz
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA renowned political speechwriter rediscovers Judaism, finding timeless wisdom and spiritual connection in its age-old practices and traditions... -
![Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot]()
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly in one of the directions we must travel. I learned something on every page." --Bill McKibbenFor the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world...Categorized as:
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![One Day at a Time in Al-Anon by Al-Anon Family Groups]()
One Day at a Time in Al-Anon by Al-Anon Family Groups
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne Day at a Time in Al-AnonAl-Anon Family Group... -
![Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates]()
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book AwardWinner of the Christopher AwardA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearBy the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates's prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin Luther King, Jr...Categorized as:
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![The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks]()
The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully reasoned book from one of the most admired religious thinkers of our time that argues not only that science and religion are compatible, but that they complement each other—and that the world needs both...Categorized as:
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![They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh]()
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award–winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Southlake podcast... -
![Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé]()
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of... -
![Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare? by James H. Cone]()
Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare? by James H. Cone
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsReexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the...Categorized as:
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![The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein]()
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding reminder of what’s true: we are all connected, and our small, personal choices bear unsuspected... -
![Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama]()
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition...Categorized as:
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![The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann]()
The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this challenging and enlightening treatment, Brueggemann traces the lines from the radical vision of Moses to the solidification of royal power in Solomon to the prophetic critique of that power with a new vision of freedom in the prophets. Here he traces the broad sweep from Exodus to Kings to Jeremiah to Jesus...Categorized as:
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![The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell]()
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis... -
![One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins by Emmy Kegler]()
One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins by Emmy Kegler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe stories of Scripture are for everyone. No exceptions.Emmy Kegler has a complicated relationship with the Bible. As a queer woman who grew up in both conservative Evangelical and progressive Protestant churches, she knows too well how Scripture can be used to wound and exclude... -
![The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya]()
The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPalden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18 — just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture... -
![How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach by Tobias Leenaert]()
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach by Tobias Leenaert
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives, and communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. He argues that, given our present situation, with entire societies dependent on using animals, we need a very pragmatic approach...Categorized as:
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![When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough: A Shooting Survivor's Journey into the Realities of Gun Violence by Taylor S. Schumann]()
When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough: A Shooting Survivor's Journey into the Realities of Gun Violence by Taylor S. Schumann
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTaylor Schumann never thought she'd be a victim of gun violence. But one spring day a man with a shotgun walked into her workplace and opened fire on her. While she survived, she was left with permanent wounds, both visible and invisible. In When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough, Taylor invites us to see what it means to be a survivor after the news vehicles drive away and the media moves on...Categorized as:
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![David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince, Wm Robert Wright]()
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince, Wm Robert Wright
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOrdained as an apostle in 1906, David O. McKay served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970. Under his leadership, the church experienced unparalleled growth—nearly tripling in total membership—and becoming a significant presence throughout the world.The first book to draw upon the David O. McKay Papers at the J... -
![Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice by Thaddeus Williams, John M. Perkins]()
Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice by Thaddeus Williams, John M. Perkins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGod does not suggest, he commands that we do justice. Social justice is not optional for the Christian. All injustice affects others, so talking about justice that isn't social is like talking about water that isn't wet or a square with no right angles. But the Bible's call to seek justice is not a call to superficial, kneejerk activism...Categorized as:
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![Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship by Pope Francis]()
Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship by Pope Francis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis powerful encyclical is Pope Francis' cry from the heart to all people of the earth to see beyond their differences-indeed to work with their differences-and begin to grow together to build a new and peaceful world...Categorized as:
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![Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation by Miroslav Volf]()
Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation by Miroslav Volf
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLife at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other...Categorized as:
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![Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf]()
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDespite the explosion in work on African American and religious history, little is known about Black Muslims who came to America as slaves. Most assume that what Muslim faith any Africans did bring with them was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu. But, surprisingly, as Sylviane Diouf shows in this new, meticulously researched volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale... -
![How to Heal Our Racial Divide: What the Bible Says, and the First Christians Knew, about Racial Reconciliation by Derwin L. Gray]()
How to Heal Our Racial Divide: What the Bible Says, and the First Christians Knew, about Racial Reconciliation by Derwin L. Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhy must everything be so black and white? Like many of us, Derwin Gray is weary of the racial divide in our society. He longs to see hurts healed, wrongs corrected, and trust replace distrust.The good news is that the Bible has a lot to say about how to heal our persistent racial divides... -
![Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness by W. Paul Reeve]()
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness by W. Paul Reeve
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteenth century. Yet, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have struggled for status and recognition. In this book, W... -
![The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert]()
The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon... -
![Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality by Gloria E. Anzaldúa]()
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWritten during the last decade of her life, Light in the Dark represents the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy...Categorized as:
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![Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity by Abraham Joshua Heschel]()
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis first collection of Heschel's essays - compiled, edited and with an introduction by his daughter Susannah Heschel, is a stunning reminder of the virtuosity of one of the most well respected minds in Judaic studies...
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