 | Great Emergence, The: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) by Phyllis Tickle
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $9.50 Tons of fun! A historical, sociological jaunt. And finally another mature female voice takes the stage in conversations that MUST be egalitarian.
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 | A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished CHRISTIAN by Brian D. McLaren
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $1.43 McLaren Captures the multiple-personalitied nature of an emerging, postmodern Christian...
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 | The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief by Peter Rollins
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.14 An articulate, beautiful, Christian exercize in postmodern deconstruction...
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 | The Post-Evangelical (EMERGENTYS) by Dave Tomlinson
Buy used from: $1.99 Not as "flashy" as McLaren, Sweet or others, but Tomlinson offers one of the most concise and thoughtful looks at emerging trends I have yet read. A must-read for emerging Christians...
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 | Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $0.87 A genre-buster when first released, chronicling Christianity as an adventure and a mystery, instead of a set of rules...
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 | More Ready Than You Realize by Brian D. McLaren
Buy new: $11.10 / Used from: $0.01 For me, McLaren's most practical book on Emergent approaches to ministry...
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 | The Church of the Perfect Storm by Leonard Sweet
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $9.25 One of the books I contributed to, with Leonard Sweet...
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 | Out of the Ooze: Unlikely Love Letters to the Church from Beyond the Pew by Spencer Burke
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $31.90 One of the books I contributed to, with Spencer Burke...
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 | The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.92 An absolute masterpiece of spiritual fiction! Controversial? Yes. But these pages drip with beauty and poetry that cannot be missed...
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 | SoulTsunami by Leonard Sweet
Buy new: $12.74 / Used from: $0.01 Light, yet vastly detailed in its approach to postmodern culture, Sweet provides an incredible amount of insight, information, and challenge in this LARGE volume...
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 | Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope by Brian D. McLaren
Buy new: $14.29 / Used from: $3.22 Because EVERYTHING must change!
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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: $1.65 The book foundational to the Emergent conversation, along with the other two books in this trilogy...
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 | The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity by Brian D. McLaren
Buy new: $16.46 / Used from: $1.55 The final, and most theologically challenging, of McLaren's "New Kind of Christian" trilogy...
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 | Reaching Out by Henri Nouwen
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.70 Painfully beautiful. Touching the loneliness of life...
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 | No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $7.93 Merton is powerfully challenging!
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 | The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture by N.T. Wright
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $6.44 N.T. Wright. He's brilliant.
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 | The Way Forward?: Christian Voices on Homosexuality and the Church
Buy used from: $0.40 Articulate discussion of a very tough and painful issue!
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 | The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith by Marcus J. Borg
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.99 Marcus Borg's most gentle book, in my opinion. This piece looks at the missional purpose of the church, contrasting that with obsession with inerrency...
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 | Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $1.20 Not as poetic or eloquent as "Blue Like Jazz," but compelling and stretching all the same...
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 | The New Flatlanders: A Seeker's Guide to the Theory of Everything by Eric Middleton
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $0.60 Middleton's fascinating, scientific/spiritual exploration of reality, the universe, and the theory of everything!
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 | Love Trumps Karma, Uncovering the Truth You Know You Know by Karyn Henley
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $2.36 Karyn Henley's book, though valuable for all ages, is especially fitting for Christian youth grappling with issues of postmodernism and pluralism...
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 | The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus by Dalai Lama
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.99 A wonderful glimpse at interfaith conversations, and approaches to the truth of Jesus from outside Christendom...
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 | Occasions of Sin by Thomas Gressler
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $3.54 Gressler delves into problematic, even toxic religion and tradition from an agnostic standpoint. A delicate and vital vantage to understand...
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