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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
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