Thank you for the list! Looking forward to digging in. I recommend anything by Kate Bowler--Everything Happens for a Reason. Love Matters More by Jared Byas. The following is not a book--but the Eat Right Now program has a great practice of learning to find your own wisdom through experience--not just learning things with your mind--an in-depth mindfulness practice. That along with yoga have been so so helpful.
Anything by Rachel Held Evans, all of Peter Enns (the sin of certainty in particular and the Bible tells me so), love wins by rob bell, torn (can’t remember the author), Jesus and John Wayne. I could go on and on. I want to read When God Was a Woman this year. It’s the first book on faith/religion that’s peaked my interest in a while.
Original Blessing by Matthew Fox (there's another book with the same title by Danielle Shroyer) which counters the church's emphasis on being born sinners and instead, focuses on how God called us good when he created us and before sin entered, we were good and that is our inherent state. This perspective helped remove shame and guilt as the driving force behind faith.
Thank you for the list! Looking forward to digging in. I recommend anything by Kate Bowler--Everything Happens for a Reason. Love Matters More by Jared Byas. The following is not a book--but the Eat Right Now program has a great practice of learning to find your own wisdom through experience--not just learning things with your mind--an in-depth mindfulness practice. That along with yoga have been so so helpful.
Thanks for the additions! The eating program sounds fascinating.
Anything by Rachel Held Evans, all of Peter Enns (the sin of certainty in particular and the Bible tells me so), love wins by rob bell, torn (can’t remember the author), Jesus and John Wayne. I could go on and on. I want to read When God Was a Woman this year. It’s the first book on faith/religion that’s peaked my interest in a while.
I just had to look that up... that is so fascinating. Esp the part about the Eve story being huge in the shift...???
I’m definitely intrigued!
Original Blessing by Matthew Fox (there's another book with the same title by Danielle Shroyer) which counters the church's emphasis on being born sinners and instead, focuses on how God called us good when he created us and before sin entered, we were good and that is our inherent state. This perspective helped remove shame and guilt as the driving force behind faith.
A New Kind of Christian by Brian McLaren was really reflective for me, in addition to Pete Enns’ Curveball and Hot the Bible Actually Works :)