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Belonging to Borders: A Sojourn in the Celtic Tradition
Bonnie B. Thurston Liturgical Press, 2011 978-0814633670 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0814633676 "When the scholar and the poet wrestles in you," Bonnie Thurston was once asked by a friend at Tymawr, "who wins?" The poems in Belonging to Borders are her response. In these poems, Thurston reverences the borders, literal and…
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O Taste and See: A Biblical Reflection on Experiencing God
Bonnie Thurston Paraclete Press, 2013 978-1612614076 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1612614078 If you have always been troubled by the image of God as a punitive judge, this book will show you why this view is so mistaken. Psalm 34:8’s “O taste and see how good the Lord is” contains in miniature the whole process of coming to…
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Religious Vows, The Sermon On The Mount, And Christian Living
Bonnie B. Thurston Liturgical Press, 2006 978-0814629291 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0814629296 The Sermon on the Mount in St. Matthew's Gospel is a good synopsis of Jesus ' teaching and the Beatitudes summarize the Sermon on the Mount. Bonnie Thurston reflects on the Beatitudes and their focus on the kingdom of heaven. She…
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For God Alone: A Primer on Prayer
Bonnie Thurston Darton Longman & Todd, 2009 978-0232527605 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0232527601 Bonnie Thurston is the author of many books and articles about spirituality and prayer. In For God Alone she shows us, clearly and practically, how to pray. The result is a unique introduction to prayer that will encourage all…
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To Everything a Season: A Spirituality of Time
Bonnie Thurston Crossroad, 1999 978-0824517847 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0824517849 Rediscover the Christian understanding of time as God's sacred and bountiful gift. A main selection of the Spiritual Book Associates.
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Renita Weems: Just a Sister Away
https://www.amazon.com/Just-Sister-Away-Womanist-Relationships/dp/0931055520/ref=sr_1_2 Years ago, this was a required text for a class on Christian involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. I still consider it an essential classic for women and black rights. Amazon blurb: Writing with African American women in mind,…
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The Spiritual Landscape of Mark
Bonnie B. Thurston Liturgical Press, 2008 978-0814618646 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0814618642 2009 Catholic Press Association Award Winner! To read the Gospel of Mark is to embark on a journey that begins in a desert and ends with a boulder rolled away from the tomb. In between, Jesus teaches his disciples, calls them to…
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Maverick Mark: The Untamed First Gospel
Bonnie B. Thurston Liturgical Press, 2013 978-0814635520 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0814635520 Somewhere along the way, says Bonnie Thurston, the wild unlikelihood of the Christian message has been reined in and made to fit more conventional categories of thought. That it is good and moral to be Christian we understand.…
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The Widows: A Women's Ministry in the Early Church
Bonnie Bowman Thurston Fortress Press, 1989 978-0800623173 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0800623177 This book begins by giving a sense of the socioeconomic position of widows in the biblical world. It examines the primary New Testament texts on widows, paying special attention to 1 Tim. 5:3-16. Next it discusses the references…
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Women in the New Testament: Questions and Commentary
Bonnie Thurston Wipf & Stock, 2004 978-1592445585 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1592445586 Bonnie Thurston examines the personalities, place, and power of women in the New Testament. She provides a cultural and religious context for them by briefly outlining the position of women in the Greco-Roman world. The aim is to reveal…
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Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes: Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible (second edition)
Westminster John Knox Press, 2007 Alice Ogden Bellis 978-0664230289 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0664230288 This best-selling book, now revised and updated, shares the work of many feminist biblical scholars who have examined women's stories for several years. These stories are powerful accounts of women in the Old…
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Clothed with the Sun: Biblical Women, Social Justice, and Us
Joyce Hollyday Westminster John Knox Press, 1994 978-0664255381 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0664255388 The Bible holds a great treasure of amazing women. They are judges and prophets, caregivers and teachers, prominent matriarchs of large clans or quiet disciples, women who suffered alone or sang joyous praises to God amid…
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The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
Jonathan Kirsch HarperOne, 2008 978-0060816995 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060816996 The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual by nationally bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch is a provocative popular history of the Inquisition, the 12th century reign of church-sanctioned terror. Ranging from the Knights Templar to the first…
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An author I've recently discovered and would like to see Logos expand their offerings of her wor
Bonnie Thurston is an experienced retreat leader, New Testament scholar, and poet. She is a founding member and past president of the International Thomas Merton Society. A frequent contributor to popular and scholarly periodicals, she is author or editor of twenty-three theological books and seven collections of poetry.…
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Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World
Richard J. Foster HarperOne, 2005 978-0060759711 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060759712 ...the manifesto that shows how simplicity is not merely having less stress and more leisure but an essential spiritual discipline for the health of our soul. You have the audio edition of this…
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Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner HarperOne, 1992 978-0060698645 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060698640 Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and preacher who has articulated what he sees with a freshness and clarity and energy that hails our stultified imaginations.
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Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
Lauren F. Winner HarperOne, 2013 978-0061768286 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061768286 As she lives through a failed marriage and the loss of her mother, Winner finds her Christian faith slipping away. Through reading religious works and tomes and being counseled by leaders of the church, she learns she must find the courage…
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Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning
James W. Fowler HarperOne, 1995 978-0060628666 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060628669 "The classic book on the subject of faith development....An extremely important work, integral to the understanding of the human condition and our sense of meaning."--M. Scott Peck
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A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith
Brian D. McLaren HarperOne, 2011 978-0061853999 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061853992 In this much anticipated book, McLaren examines ten questions facing today's church—questions about how to articulate the faith itself, the nature of its authority, who God is, whether we have to understand Jesus through only an ancient…
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Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
Henri J.M. Nouwen HarperOne, 2006 978-0060663599 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060663596 Intimately personal and inspiring, Bread for the Journey is a daily feast of fresh insight into the challenges and deep joys of a life lived in close communion with God.
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The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
Dallas Willard HarperOne 2009 (Kindle ed.; print ed. is 2014 by Harper Collins, 978-0007596546) ASIN: B001RS8KRO https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001RS8KRO The Divine Conspiracy has revolutionized how we think about the true meaning of discipleship. In this classic, one of the most brilliant Christian thinkers of our times and…
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Spiritual Classics: Selected Readings on the Twelve Spiritual Disciplines
Richard J. Foster & Emilie Griffin, editors HarperOne, 2007 978-0060628727 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060628723 St. Augustine, Thomas Merton, Fredrick Buechner, Evelyn Underhill, A.W. Tozer, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas More, Martin Luther King, Jr., Amy Carmichael, Simone Weil, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hildegard of Bingen,…
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Devotional Classics: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups (Revised Edition)
Richard J. Foster & James Bryan Smith, editors HarperOne, 2005 978-0060777500 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060777508 Devotional Classics: Revised Edition is an updated and expanded edition of Renovaré's companion to the devotional life. Edited by Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, this version incorporates all six…
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Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith
Richard J. Foster HarperOne, 2001 978-0060628222 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060628227 In this landmark work, Foster examines the "streams of living water" –– the six dimensions of faith and practice that define Christian tradition. He lifts up the enduring character of each tradition and shows how a variety of practices,…
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A Year at the Catholic Worker: A Spiritual Journey Among the Poor (The Making of the Christian Imagi
Marc H. Ellis Baylor University Press, 2000 978-0918954749 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0918954746 Sixty-six years ago the Catholic Worker movement began with the opening of a shared aprtment as a house of hospitality and the selling of the Catholic Worker newspaper for a penny a copy in Union Square. It began amidst the…
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Betjeman: Writing the Public Life (The Making of the Christian Imagination)
Kevin J. Gardner Baylor University Press, 2010 978-1602582545 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1602582548 A household name in Great Britain, John Betjeman was a public literary figure who openly declared his Christian faith and championed the social and aesthetic joys of Anglicanism as unique to English identity. Through poetry…
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The Novel as Church: Preaching to Readers in Contemporary Fiction (The Making of the Christian Imagi
David Dickinson Baylor University Press, 2013 978-1602586826 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1602586829 Reading the likes of Updike, Dickens, and Faulkner with a preacher's eye, David Dickinson offers an instructive examination of the role of the sermon as a literary element and, most strikingly, of literature as a modern…
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The Devil as Muse: Blake, Byron, and the Adversary (The Making of the Christian Imagination)
Fred Parker Baylor University Press, 2022 978-1602584730 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1602584737 Does the Devil lie at the heart of the creative process? In The Devil as Muse, Fred Parker offers an entirely fresh reflection on the age-old question, echoing William Blake's famous statement: "the true poet is of the Devil's…
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Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy: Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imaginat
Simon Haines Baylor University Press, 2023 978-1602587809 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1602587809 A biblical understanding of redemption requires the sacrificial death of Jesus. In the post-Christian world envisioned by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Enlightenment contemporaries, the Christ-centric source of redemption…
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George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity (The Making of the Christian Imagination)
Daniel Gabelman Baylor University Press, 2023 978-1602587830 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1602587833 The Scottish poet, author, and Christian minister George MacDonald is widely known as an inspiration for the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Lewis Carroll, among others. Nineteenth century photographs of MacDonald…
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Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (The Making of the Christian Imagination)
Rowan Williams Baylor University Press, 2011 978-1602583733 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1602583730 Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature's most complex, and most complexly misunderstood, authors. Williams' investigation focuses on the four…
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Effective Christian Leaders in the Global Workplace
Peter Shaw IVP, 2012 (Kindle ed; the paperback was Christian Focus, 2010) ASIN: B00CXMNQ5Y https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CXMNQ5Y Amazon.com lists thousands of books dealing with Christian leadership. That begs the question, Why do we need another one? It's a good question but the answer is simple. Getting to the bottom of…
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A Severe Mercy
Sheldon Vanauken HarperOne, 2009 (reprint edition) 978-0060688240 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060688246 A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather than of the lovers” about the author’s marriage and search for faith. Vanauken chronicles the birth of a powerful pagan…
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Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II (Lives of Faith)
Darlene Deibler Rose HarperCollins, 1990 (reprint edition) 978-0060670207 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060670207 The True Story of One Woman's Triumph of Faith Newlywed American missionary Darlene Deibler Rose survived four years in a notorious Japanese prison camp set deep in the jungles of New Guinea. Thinking she was…
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The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist (Lives of Faith)
Dorothy Day HarperOne, 2009 978-0060617516 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0716GZWMG The compelling autobiography of a remarkable Catholic woman, sainted by many, who championed the rights of the poor in America’s inner cities. When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as “a nonviolent social radical of…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis
Douglas H. Gresham HarperOne, 2003 (reissue edition) 978-0060634476 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060634472 Including the True Story of the Remarkable Love Affair between Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis There has probably never been a less likely couple: she, an American divorcee and the mother of two young boys; he, an Oxford…
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Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot (Lives of Faith)
Elisabeth Elliot HarperOne, 2009 9780060622138 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QQ7PG0A https://www.amazon.com/dp/006062213X https://www.harpercollins.com/products/shadow-of-the-almighty-elisabeth-elliotelisabeth-elliotelisabeth-elliot Shadow of the Almighty is one of the great missionary stories of modern times. It is the…
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A Simple Life: Roland Walls & The Community of The Transfiguration
John Miller St. Andrew Press, 2014 978-0861537136 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0861537130 For 50 years, a unique and courageous group of people have quietly opted for a life of poverty and the discipline of prayer. Always with the time and care to understand people's hidden pains, their permanently open meal-table usually…
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Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
Mary Daly Beacon Press, 1993 978-0807015032 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807015032 "Certainly one of the most promising theological statements of our time." --The Christian Century "Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself." --The Village Voice Mary Daly (1928–2010)…
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Readings from the Ancient Near East
A similar work by the authors for the New Testament is already in Logos, but this work I am suggesting is for the Old Testament. see EBS link below: URL: http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/readings-from-the-ancient-near-east/228230
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The One Year Book of Discovering Jesus in the Old Testament
Nancy Guthrie Tyndale Momentum, 2010 978-1414335902 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1414335903 We tend to look to the New Testament to tell us about Jesus, yet it was the Old Testament about which Jesus said, “the Scriptures point to me!” In The One Year Book of Discovering Jesus in the Old Testament, Bible teacher Nancy Guthrie…
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The One Year Book of Hymns: 365 Devotions Based on Popular Hymns
Tyndale Momentum, 2017 978-1496428264 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1496428269 Experience daily the timeless truths contained in the many celebrated songs of the Christian faith. Each day's devotional includes the text of a classic hymn or song, the inside story about the author or origin of the song, and a related Scripture…
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The One Year Book of Psalms
Tyndale House Publishers, 1999 978-0842343725 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0842343725 This devotional contains all 150 Psalms and 20 other songs in Scripture, divided into daily readings. The readings include helpful background information on the psalm, a related hymn stanza, and an application thought. Biweekly “Interludes”…
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The One Year Bible & The One Year Chronological Bible
These are both published by Tyndale in different print editions for different translations of the Bible. There is introductory material particular to each, as well as the readings being chunked out by day so you can get through the whole bible in a year, either in canonical order or chronological order. These are just…
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The One Year Christian History
E. Michael Rusten & Sharon Rusten Tyndale House, 2003 978-0842355070 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0842355073 What happened on this date in church history? From ancient Rome to the twenty-first century, from peasants to presidents, from missionaries to martyrs, this book shows how God does extraordinary things through ordinary…
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When A Jew Rules the World: What the Bible Really Says about Israel in the Plan of God
Joel Richardson WinePress Media, 2015 (Kindle, 2018) 979-8321909171; ASIN: B07M62F3M4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07M62F3M4 You have the audio edition of this (https://www.logos.com/product/220293/when-a-jew-rules-the-world-what-the-bible-really-says-about-israel-in-the-plan-of-god). Please get the ebook.
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David Livingstone: Missionary, Explorer, Abolitionist
Vance Christie Christian Focus, 2023 978-1527110076 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1527110079 Amazon blurb: This gripping in–depth biography is a must–read insight into a fascinating man. David Livingstone was one of the most consequential individuals who lived in the nineteenth century. An unpretentious Scottish missionary…
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History Makers Series (published by Christian Focus)
I'd like to see this entire series in Logos: Richard Baxter: The Pastor's Pastor (autobiography) Richard Baxter, 2001 (Kindle, 2016) 978-1857923803 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1857923804 Robert Murray McCheyne: A Burning Light Alexander Smellie, 2001 (Kindle, 2016) 978-1857921847 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1857921844 John…
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Routes and Radishes: And Other Things to Talk about at the Evangelical Crossroads
Mark Russell, Allen Yeh, Michelle Sanchez, Chelle Stearns, and Dwight Friesen Zondervan, 2010 978-0310324683 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0310324688 Self-identifying as “evangelical” is risky business these days. What is Evangelicalism? Is it a historical artifact? A political philosophy? A set of doctrines? A litmus test for…
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Reimagining the Bible: The Storytelling of the Rabbis by Howard Schwartz
https://www.amazon.com/Reimagining-Bible-Storytelling-Howard-Schwartz/dp/0195115112/ref=sr_1_11 Amazon blurb: Reimagining the Bible collects a dozen essays by Howard Schwartz. Together the essays present a coherent theory of the way in which each successive phase of Jewish literature has drawn upon and reimagined the…