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Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times
Greg Boyle

The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi

My Religion - What I Believe
Leo Tolstoy

The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine

Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire

The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment
Philip Kapleau Roshi

God Is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human
Dominic Johnson

The Great Philosophers: Spinoza
Roger Scruton

The Antichrist
F. W. Nietzsche

The Collected Letters of Alan Watts
Alan Watts

Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy

The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe
Richard Rohr

I Want You to Be: On the God of Love
Tomáš Halík

Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self
Richard Rohr

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer

The Showings of Julian of Norwich: A New Translation
Mirabai Starr

The Mystical Element of Religion: As Studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and Her Friends
Friedrich von Hügel

Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
Gregory Boyle

Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams

What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
Rob Bell

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Richard Rohr

Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
Soong-Chan Rah

The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
Richard Rohr

Honest to God
John A. T. Robinson

Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Praying With Icons
Henri J. M. Nouwen

Heart and Mind: The Four-Gospel Journey for Radical Transformation
Alexander John Shaia

Christianity and Evolution
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Gregory Boyle

Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi
Richard Rohr O.F.M.

The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind—A New Perspective on Christ and His Message
Cynthia Bourgeault

The Wisdom Way of Knowing: Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart
Cynthia Bourgeault

The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
Peter Enns

Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
Alan W. Watts

How Big Is Your God?: The Freedom to Experience the Divine
Paul Coutinho SJ

The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
Richard Rohr

The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality
Kyriacos C. Markides

Sacred Darkness: Encountering Divine Love in Life's Darkest Places
Paul Coutinho SJ

Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Alain de Botton

The Cloud of Unknowing
Anonymous

Liberating Tradition: Women's Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective
Kristina LaCelle-Peterson

The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
James Martin

What We Talk About When We Talk About God
Rob Bell

Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
Amy-Jill Levine

Awakening: Conversations With the Master
Anthony de Mello

Is God to Blame? Moving Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering
Gregory A. Boyd

Healing the Gospel: A Radical Vision for Grace, Justice, and the Cross
Derek Flood

Where God Was Born: A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories
Bruce Feiler

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
Peter Rollins

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brené Brown

New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton

Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith
Marvin R. Wilson

To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking
Harold S. Kushner

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore

The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition
Huston Smith

How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
N. T. Wright

The Devil Wears Nada: Satan Exposed
Tripp York

A Better Atonement: Beyond the Depraved Doctrine of Original Sin
Tony Jones

On Freedom, Love, and Power
Jacques Ellul

The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture
Christian Smith

Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis
William J. Webb

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Rob Bell

It's Really All About God: How Islam, Atheism, and Judaism Made Me a Better Christian
Samir Selmanovic

The Myth of a Christian Religion: Losing Your Religion for the Beauty of a Revolution
Gregory A. Boyd

Sensual Orthodoxy
Debbie Blue

A Gentler God
Doug Frank

The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello
Anthony de Mello

Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination
Walter Wink

Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross
Mark S. Heim

Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard

Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
Rob Bell

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Kevin Roose

Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals
Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw

Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
Rob Bell

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Brennan Manning

Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church
Philip Yancey