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BookC. Baxter Kruger
C. Baxter Kruger presents a relational and participatory account of salvation grounded in the Trinity and Christ's union with humanity. Sin appears as alienation, wounded perception, and life inside fear rather than actual separation from God; Christ enters human darkness to reveal and restore participation rather than persuading a distant or hostile Father.
BookDavid P. Gushee
David Gushee addresses readers who can no longer inhabit white American evangelicalism but have not necessarily abandoned Christianity. After diagnosing evangelical identity, authority, politics, and moral formation, he proposes a post-evangelical path organized around Jesus, the kingdom of God, Christian humanism, responsible interpretation, and a different public ethic. The book therefore moves beyond departure: it is a concise constructive proposal for what Christian faith might become afterward.
BookN. T. Wright
N. T. Wright presents Christian ethics as the formation of character for God’s promised new creation. Rejecting both rule-only morality and the idea that authentic action should simply feel spontaneous, he retrieves virtue language: repeated choices, communal practices, worship, Scripture, and the Spirit gradually form people able to act with wisdom. The Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love orient this training toward humanity’s vocation within renewed creation.
Podcast ShowAnderson Cooper
A journalist grieving his own family creates room for public figures and listeners to speak without making grief a problem to solve.
Community / DestinationAlpha
A finder for local or online Alpha courses that introduce core Christian claims through a hosted series of talks and discussion.
BookRichard Kearney
Philosopher Richard Kearney proposes anatheism—a return to the question of God after both inherited theism and confident atheism have been disrupted. Through philosophy, biblical stories, literature, art, hospitality, and interreligious reflection, he explores encounters with the stranger in which the divine may be received again without restoring the sovereign, certain, or coercive God that critique has made untenable.
BookRobert Alter
A landmark demonstration of how Hebrew Bible stories create meaning through repetition, dialogue, type-scenes, and narrative craft.
BookPriya Parker
Facilitator Priya Parker argues that meaningful gatherings begin with a specific purpose and require intentional choices about invitation, boundaries, authority, conflict, beginnings, and endings. Through examples from meals, meetings, conferences, and civic life, she challenges hosts to stop relying on convention and design around what people are actually gathering to do.
BookJohn of the Cross
John’s extended account of detachment, prayer, spiritual perception, and the path toward union with God.
Podcast EpisodeBlake Chastain
An exvangelical conversation turns belonging toward actual neighborliness and place rather than another identity label. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
BookJohn Polkinghorne
Physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne argues that science and theology are distinct but intellectually related searches for truth. Drawing on the intelligibility and relational structure of the physical world, quantum theory, cosmology, divine action, and critical realism, he proposes that Christian belief can be rationally warranted without competing with scientific explanation or being reducible to a proof derived from nature.
BookCharles Marsh
A history of how theology, organizing, interracial community, and institutional conflict shaped the American civil-rights movement.
BookRod Dreher
Rod Dreher argues that Christians who hold traditional doctrines should respond to secularization not chiefly by winning elections but by building communities capable of sustaining belief and practice. Inspired loosely by Benedictine life, he urges thicker formation through worship, education, family, work, discipline, hospitality, and local institutions so that orthodox Christianity can endure what he sees as an increasingly hostile cultural environment.
BookTara K. Soughers
A transgender priest’s theological exploration of gender, embodiment, Scripture, and images of God beyond simple binaries.
BookMatthias Roberts
A therapist offers an affirming Christian approach to sexual shame, desire, values, and embodied wholeness.
Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington
Three biblical scholars—a Jew, a Protestant, and a Catholic—describe how their communities can receive scripture religiously while also using historical and literary criticism. Their essays clarify where the traditions share problems, where their interpretive authorities differ, and how each author personally negotiates tensions between inherited belief and modern scholarship.
BookAmos Yong
Theologian Amos Yong develops a Christian theology of disability by bringing biblical interpretation, disability studies, Pentecostal experience, and ecclesiology into conversation. He revisits healing narratives, creation, the image of God, the body of Christ, hospitality, and the Spirit, challenging churches that define normalcy too narrowly or imagine disabled people chiefly as recipients of cure, care, or charitable ministry.
BookJames V. Brownson
James Brownson compares 'gender complementarity' and 'kinship' frameworks across Scripture, then applies the larger biblical moral logic to same-sex relationships. It adds a dense theological map for readers who have outgrown introductory arguments.
Podcast ShowHelen Bond; Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Working historians make current biblical scholarship approachable without pretending historical method resolves theology.
BookJohn Pavlovitz
John Pavlovitz draws on pastoral experience, personal stories, and the welcome he sees in Jesus to imagine Christian community around four practices: radical hospitality, total authenticity, messy diversity, and agenda-free relationship. The book is less a technical account of church structure than an accessible invitation to notice who receives a chair, who controls the guest list, and whether belonging is being offered as care or as a strategy for changing people.
BookNancey Murphy
Philosopher and theologian Nancey Murphy argues for ‘nonreductive physicalism’: human beings are wholly physical creatures whose complex capacities for reason, morality, relationship, and spirituality need not require an independently separable soul. Engaging neuroscience, philosophy of mind, biblical interpretation, and Christian theology, she asks how agency, identity, ethics, resurrection, and divine action can remain meaningful without substance dualism.
Podcast EpisodeGod In All Things
Somatic noticing makes discernment audible and immediately testable in nine minutes. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
Podcast EpisodeMike Cosper
The series steps sideways from one church to rootlessness, loneliness and the institutional conditions that reward charisma. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
BookThe Episcopal Church
The authorized Episcopal liturgical book of daily prayer, Eucharist, rites, psalms, and pastoral offices.
BookMargery Kempe
A medieval laywoman’s account of visions, tears, pilgrimage, family negotiation, conflict with clergy, and public devotion.
Podcast ShowGinger Campbell
BookRobert Chao Romero
Historian Robert Chao Romero traces a five-hundred-year tradition of Latino Christian social justice across colonization, missions, labor, civil rights, immigration, and contemporary church life. He names this tradition Brown Church, centering figures, movements, and theologies through which Latina and Latino Christians have resisted racial hierarchy while drawing on Scripture, Catholic and Protestant faith, community memory, and public action.
BookOs Guinness
A Christian account of calling as response to God rather than career fit, achievement, or self-expression.
BookIan Hutchinson
MIT nuclear scientist Ian Hutchinson answers questions students commonly ask about Christianity, science, evidence, miracles, natural law, prayer, consciousness, Genesis, evolution, and the resurrection. Written in a conversational question-and-response form, the book argues that modern science does not require scientism and that belief in divine action can be intellectually responsible when miracles are understood as unusual acts of God rather than violations caused by ignorance.
Podcast ShowSociety of Catholic Scientists
Working scientists describe how research, vocation and Catholic belonging coexist, adding lived professional voice to concept-heavy science shelves.
BookRichard J. Foster
A modern ecumenical map of inward, outward, and corporate Christian disciplines.
BookCynthia Bourgeault
Cynthia Bourgeault teaches Centering Prayer as a Christian practice of consent, surrender, and interior silence. Alongside practical instruction, she describes attention, the sacred word, emotional programs, false-self patterns, and the way contemplative practice may alter one's relationship to thought and identity rather than simply produce calm.
BookDavid P. Gushee
Christian ethicist David Gushee narrates and defends his movement from traditional evangelical teaching toward full LGBTQ inclusion. He engages Scripture, sexual ethics, covenant, church practice, pastoral consequences, and responses from critics, presenting change as a matter of Christian discipleship rather than departure from biblical or ecclesial concern.
BookJ. Philip Newell
Scottish theologian J. Philip Newell draws on Celtic Christian figures and themes to present Christ as the disclosure of a divine presence already woven through creation. Emphasizing John rather than separation, he explores incarnation, the sacredness of Earth, the goodness beneath distortion, contemplation, and reconciliation. The book invites a Christianity that listens for wisdom within nature and the human soul while remaining oriented toward Christ.
BookE. Stanley Jones
A missionary reflects on presenting Christ in India without making Western civilization the container of the gospel.
BookDiana Butler Bass
Writing amid the early-2010s rise of religious disaffiliation, Diana Butler Bass interprets declining institutional loyalty alongside growing interest in experience, relationship, practice, and spiritual awakening. She places contemporary change within a broad history of American religious awakenings and asks whether Christianity might be moving from inherited patterns of believing, behaving, and belonging toward a more experiential form of faith.
Podcast EpisodeSean Carroll's Mindscape
A leading consciousness researcher and a physicalist host expose live evidentiary disagreement inside science rather than pushing the traveler toward a spiritual metaphysics. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
BookScot McKnight; Laura Barringer
New Testament scholar Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer describe how church cultures become toxic and contrast them with a ‘tov’ culture shaped by goodness, empathy, grace, truth, justice, service, and Christlike leadership. Using institutional patterns and the aftermath of abuse, they focus less on identifying a single bad leader than on the habits, incentives, loyalties, and silences that allow harm to be protected.
BookStephanie Spellers
A church leader’s call for institutional surrender, solidarity, and re-formation after racial injustice and institutional decline expose old arrangements.
BookJemar Tisby
Historian Jemar Tisby traces white Christian complicity in American racism from slavery and segregation through the civil-rights era and contemporary institutions. Written as a narrative history with an explicit Christian moral call, it shows how churches and leaders repeatedly chose compromise, silence, paternalism, or active support for racial hierarchy.
Podcast ShowEmily Nagoski
Listener questions and sex research make embodied consent, desire and pleasure discussable without purity-culture assumptions.
BookShane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and Enuma Okoro
A year-round collection of daily prayer, song, Scripture, saints, and justice-oriented remembrance for communities and individuals.
BookJean Vanier
Jean Vanier reflects on communal life through the founding vision and daily experience of L’Arche, where people with and without intellectual disabilities share life. He writes about belonging, vulnerability, conflict, forgiveness, celebration, authority, growth, and the movement from idealism toward receiving actual people. The book’s spiritual account of community is now inseparable from documented findings that Vanier sexually abused and manipulated women.
BookHadewijch
Poems, visions, and letters from a thirteenth-century Beguine whose language of divine Love shaped Christian mysticism.
Podcast EpisodeEmily Nagoski
A real couple tests consent language where desire is willing but not emphatic, adding nuance beyond slogans. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
Podcast EpisodeGod In All Things
A compact explanation lets listeners recognize movement over time before attempting a major decision. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
BookMatthew Fox
Creation-spirituality theologian Matthew Fox retrieves the ancient language of the cosmic Christ to describe divine presence filling creation rather than being confined to the historical Jesus or the institutional church. Drawing from Christian mysticism, art, science, Indigenous references, ecology, and justice, he argues that recovering creation’s sacredness can unite contemplation with prophetic resistance to anthropocentrism, oppression, and ecological destruction.
BookJames H. Cone
James H. Cone places the crucifixion of Jesus beside the lynching of Black Americans, arguing that the two symbols interpret one another and expose white Christianity's failure to confront racial terror. Through theology, history, spirituals, blues, literature, and the witness of figures including Ida B. Wells and Martin Luther King Jr., he asks what the cross can mean when Christians ignore crucified people.
BookJürgen Moltmann
A major twentieth-century theology of divine suffering, abandonment, and hope centered on the crucifixion.
BookFleming Rutledge
Fleming Rutledge treats the crucifixion as God's action against sin, death, and enslaving powers, drawing together biblical motifs rather than reducing the cross to one formula. It gives the Jesus shelf serious theological depth.
BookJohn of the Cross
A Carmelite account of the purifying “nights” of sense and spirit through which attachment and familiar spiritual consolation are transformed.
BookGerald G. May
A psychiatrist and contemplative interprets John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila as guides through spiritual darkness and transformed desire.
Podcast ShowAndrew Nemr; Mike Freeman
A bounded series reads John of the Cross slowly while one artist tests the text against lived spiritual disorientation.
Lenny Duncan
Lenny Duncan writes a love letter and prophetic manifesto to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the wider white mainline church. Drawing on his life as a Black, queer Lutheran pastor, he confronts white supremacy, institutional self-protection, respectability, tokenism, policing, and the distance between public welcome and actual redistribution of power.
BookLeo Tolstoy
A short novel in which an ordinary successful life is exposed by illness, fear, isolation, and death.
BookCurt Thompson
A Christian psychiatrist connects suffering, hope, attachment, and community through interpersonal neurobiology.
BookAlvin F. Kimel
This collection develops a Christian case for universal salvation through figures including Isaac the Syrian, Julian of Norwich, George MacDonald, Sergius Bulgakov, and David Bentley Hart.
BookGeorges Bernanos
A novel of an ill, isolated young priest whose apparent failure and hidden grace expose the loneliness of vocation.
BookNancy L. Eiesland
Nancy Eiesland's foundational disability theology begins with the image of the resurrected Christ as a disabled God whose wounds remain. Drawing on sociology, Christian theology, interviews, Eucharist, and disability activism, she critiques ideals of cure, passive suffering, inaccessible worship, and churches that treat disabled people only as recipients of care.
BookHenri J. M. Nouwen
Drawn from Henri Nouwen’s writings and course materials after his death, this volume presents Christian discernment as sustained attention to God through Scripture, prayer, community, desire, memory, relationships, suffering, and events. Rather than promise a private code for extracting divine instructions, it asks readers to notice recurring interior movements and to interpret a life’s direction within practices of patience, gratitude, compassion, and faithful action.
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