 | The Shack (Special Hardcover Edition) by William P. Young
Buy new: $15.74 / Used from: $8.12 The Brittney Spears of controversial books on faith. People love or hate this book. Either way, we can't stop talking about it.
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 | Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith by Rob Bell
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $5.95 Rob Bell makes us ask which of our sacred cows are important and which aren't.
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 | The End Is Now by Rob Stennett
Buy new: $11.24 / Used from: $1.23 The rapture is always a hotbed for controversy. Here's a satire on it.
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 | Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $2.83 Donald Miller has won many fans with his raw honesty and conversational tone.
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 | The Almost True Story of Ryan Fisher: A Novel by Rob Stennett
Buy new: $11.69 / Used from: $0.75 There are few satires on Christianity, church, and evangelicalism written by people of faith. This one is creating a lot of buzz (it's created a whirlwind for me anyway).
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 | Churched: One Kid's Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess by Matthew Paul Turner
Buy new: $12.91 / Used from: $9.25 A memoir from an author who knows fundamentalism inside and out and isn't afraid to share all he's seen.
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 | Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality and Spirituality by Rob Bell
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.00 Come on. The book's called "Sex God." Bell is gluten for punishment. Still, inside are thoughts on God and the essence of spirituality worth reading.
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 | My Beautiful Idol by Pete Gall
Buy new: $11.10 / Used from: $0.94 A completely raw and challenging memoir from an up and coming voice.
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 | A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey by Brian D. McLaren
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $2.06 McLaren paved the way for some significant questions in New Kind Of Christian.
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 | Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace by Cathleen Falsani
Buy new: $15.59 / Used from: $2.74 A gripping title, Falsani get the phrase "Sin Boldly" from Luther and gives a thoughtful exploration of the ways grace manifests itself.
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 | Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile by Rob Bell
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $9.04 From the back cover: "There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers."
Let the debate begin.
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 | unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity... and Why It Matters by David Kinnaman
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $6.20 |
 | Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.32 Can you imagine how controversial this book would be if it were a religious book?
Anyway, I just thought Palahniuk belonged on this list for some reason.
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 | half-life / die already: How I Died and Lived to Tell About It by Mark Steele
Buy new: $12.59 / Used from: $3.86 Mark is uses humor to soften the raw questions he's asking.
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 | Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices by Frank Viola
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $10.95 |
 | Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope by Brian D. McLaren
Buy new: $14.29 / Used from: $3.25 |
 | Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana by Anne Rice
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $1.75 |
 | Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.50 |
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